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14 hours ago
14 hours ago
I posted this yesterday, but on the wrong podcast, so here it is where it belongs!
Thank you, black people, for everything you have contributed to our our country, culture, and the world, despite all the racist bullshit you deal with every day. And here's to my first real-life hero and the greatest ball player of all time, Willie Mays, as well. May he rest in peace.
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories, Part Two
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Part Two of a couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were always reminders of good and benevolent forces in the universe.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories Part One
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
A couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the hippie days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were reminders of the good and benevolent forces in the universe.
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Ken Kesey's Novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion"
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Arguably one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, "Sometimes A Great Notion" far surpassed Kesey's first novel, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."
We will certainly be revisiting Ken Kesey, his adventures, his place in our culture, and, of course, his bonafides as a True Hippie, in future episodes.
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Saturday Jun 01, 2024
#10 ~ Hunter Thompson’s Lament
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
Saturday Jun 01, 2024
My favorite quote from the good doctor’s body of work.
Friday May 31, 2024
The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I
Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
Inspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week.
I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this photo of them on the stoop of their apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966. I've always thought it hilarious that Pigpen is holding a rifle.
Saturday May 25, 2024
David Bowie Was Always A True Hippie
Saturday May 25, 2024
Saturday May 25, 2024
David almost joined a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Scotland after the failure of his 1969 Album, David Bowie, failed to chart. One of the monks told him that his path was music, not shaving his head and leaving the world behind.
Saturday May 25, 2024
David Bowie's Album, "Diamond Dogs," Turned Fifty Today
Saturday May 25, 2024
Saturday May 25, 2024
David was a True Hippie, always, but the album was dark and dystopian as the cocaine took over. As he sang in "Sweet Thing," "It's a street with a deal, and a tasteIt's got claws, it's got me, it's got you."
More on David, the True Hippie, next episode and "Memory of a Free Festival."
Thursday May 23, 2024
Campbell Coe, Not A Berkeley Hippie, But He Fixed All Their Guitars
Thursday May 23, 2024
Thursday May 23, 2024
Campbell Coe was a legend around Berkeley, having graduated from UC in the mid-fifties. He was a musician, luthier, raconteur supreme, journalist, photographer, the list goes on. For some reason, he let me hang around his cluttered little shop down a narrow alley of Haste St. just above Telegraph Avenue, where I would listen to him tell stories and banter with friends and customers who dropped by for hours a few a times a week. Decades away now, I wonder what he thought of me. I was eighteen or nineteen. I guess he liked me.
He was definitely a man of that time and era in Berkeley, as in only-in-Berkeley.
Sunday May 19, 2024
Song in progress for my next album: "Baby Knows"
Sunday May 19, 2024
Sunday May 19, 2024
Starting this new podcast has been concurrent with getting songs ready for my next album, or ready to go into the studio and do the actual recording. Right now, i'm establishing tempos, doing arrangements. Vocals and guitars parts are all just what we call scratch at this point, i.e., placeholders.
It still matters today.
As we entered the Sixties, the promise of twentieth-century America was coming to fruition with the election of John Kennedy as President. The Old Dark Forces retaliated with his murder. America’s children rose up to fight back—anti-war, civil rights, women’s rights, environment—in a swirling explosion of music, politics, literature, film, media, and style.
The Old Dark Forces, with their assassinations, money, wars and drugs, won the first round.
It isn’t over, yet.
The True Hippie does not forget. Or give up.