Thanks for bringing up the good times ! In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel. Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
It all happened so very fast. That's the way it seemed to me at the age of 14 in 1967. In 68 I joined my first successful band and psycodelia was reflected in the musicthat year By 1969 it was all about the blues for me and the whole psychedelic thing had pretty much come and gone. I believe that young people at that time had a wide range of experiences during that psychedelic period. I was on the youngest end of the age range for the whole thing but because of my playing music, got to partake in it non the less. (and managed to survive)
In October 1967 "Death of Hippie" a mock funeral was organized by The Diggers (a community action group) in San Francisco, to convince the media to stop exploiting the scene.
Of course, this only fed the idea. The Diggers were the pre-eminent activists in the Haight. They named themselves after a radical 17th-century Protestant commune in England called The Diggers because of their commitment to use no advanced farming methods, such as plows. They were spoofed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. In the Haight, the Diggers were the ones that gathered food up from any source, including dumpsters and got permission to use a church kitchen to cook food that they gave away free at the famous Panhandle Feeds. Their motto was "It's Free Because it's Yours." They were mostly made up of college theater actors from the East Coast. They pulled stunts at City Hall, etc., that got the SF Police harassing them, and other 'hippies." A good read on all of this and more is "Acid Dreams, The Compleat Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond," by Lee and Schlain.
This is just my own personal view: Something wonderful [in the true sense of the word] happened in the mid 60`s. There was a bunch of magical dust that was floating around in the air that infected some people who were open to it. It seems like the artists were more open to it than your average Joe. By the time that the summer of love came around, it was already milked out because so many people wanted to be a "hippie". because it became a fashion statement. I have always felt that Woodstock was a celebration of the end of hippiedom. Well, I`m still alive & still damn near broke. Some things never change.
Well, l think we will find that the 60's ended in 1969 but Psych bands turned into progressive rock which is still popular today. All music changes, 60's Soul turned into boring plastic homogenised so-called R 'n' B which is sung by 'Singers' who sound like they are singing underwater or through some vocal machine. The 1960's were a peak for music where everything seemed possible. Nothing lasts forever.
Very impressive compilation of the psychedelic music of the times. Sad that many of the artists were lost due to excess of the same dreams they sang about.
60s Psychedelic sound was meant as a short-lived experiment - an often LSD-fueled fragmented mirror which was held up to a post-WWII generation. The 1960s was just the right time for combining different styles of sound. Younger folks who were brought up listening to their parents' music wanted something so entirely different. They got it -- in spades! The music took on a life of its own -- even influencing sound today. "Dance the Night Away" (Cream) was (and remains) my favourite Psychedelic tune. My friends who lived in the North Beach district of SF moved to Colorado shortly after The Monterey Pop Festival. They read the writing on the wall. Many thanks, Freewheeling.
I was a huge fan of Psychedelia. It all seemed like a musical escape from reality, as though it was all from another planet. But unfortunately, all good new explosive deveopments, no matter how exciting, way out and advanced, have to come to an end eventually. The novelty of everything wears off after a while, even if there is nothing new to replace it. By the mid seventies, everything had quietened, and we were well and truly into this Osmonds/Bay City Rollers governed era, and everything was back under law and order. It wasn't until later when we got hit with Punk Rock that everything started to liven again, as it completely out-fashioned all the Bubblegum Pop that accumulated before it. But during the second half of the sixties when musical trends were shifting fast and furious, there was always this 24 hour a day rush hour in the air, and the whole atmosphere was filled with Psychedelic and hallucinary effects, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. But nowadays, everything is just completely quiet. The youngsters of today just listen to this thump thump thump type stuff. But there is no actual music anymore. Most of those who created the loudness and liveliness in the air back in the sixties are just not with us anymore. But was was that track you played in the background between snippets of tracks by The Doors from about 6.05 to 6.20? It sounded very familiar, but I just couldn't figure it out. If you were to reply, I might think "Oh yes".
Psychedelic music continues to this day, allbeit not to the same degree. The legacy of the counterculture was & is massive, Eastern philosophies, alternative medicine, self-development, humanistic & transpersonal psychologies, a resurgence in occultism & esotericism. It's impossible to think how we might be now if it hadn't occurred.
yeah, i dont think there was ever a so intense cultural and social change in just a few years. and the art that was created those days still reverberates today and inspires people. It may have seen to fade, but fading would be like if things went back to the way they were before, which they didnt
A bit too glib rehash of why an experiment in alternate lifestyles was doomed to failure. It wasn’t all about drugs, partying and music. Serious questioning of post war societal norms was going on. Sadly, many of the middle class kids barely knew what they were doing and were flooded with others who just took advantage of situations. Maybe humans are just too selfish and evil to create a better world. Recent events seem to bear this out.
To those who lived through the 1960’s, we wish those days would never end. We were indestructible, we were changing the world. A new age had come. Turned on tuned in and dropped out….. 5 years later there was Disco…. My God what had happened.
The assassinations of MLK & RFK & consequent election of Nixon helped slow the movement & the calamity at Altamont ended it. The Dream had become a Nightmare.
@@michaelcraig9449 I'm not sure, Michael. Was only 12 in '69, and 67 1/2 in Nov. 2024. At 22 in 1979, any traces of this era were long gone into the dark shadows of the past.
Look up the concept of "Libido dominandi" (freedom as a form of political control), or read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" for a more populist take on the idea.
Nice video - using original songs and not some generic free "sixties" instrumental. I was born in the seventies, and appreciate the comments made by folks who were there saying it wasn't that great, but I am seeing it through rose-tinted glasses! About half of the music I listen to is from before I was born, and think it will never be equalled. Among others, I own Monterey, Woodstock and Isle of Wight on DVD, and they are played often! Edit : the festivals, not the places 😂
i loved the 60's....but hard drugs and selfishness destroyed the brilliant creative vibe that we felt around at that time...those of us who discovered and pursued a spiritual path in the 60's were the only winners from this experimental time period...I tried LSD TM Eastern philosophy OBE trips etc... it eventually opened me up to my true self....now i am AWAKE and free...I left the illusion of this Earth life long ago...i am detached from the drama, and have found peace and tranquility
I was there I saw Floyd and the doors at the roundhouse and i totally agree with you total fashion following ass holes talking about not being interested in fashion and material possessions. It was another fashion in clothes and must came and it went like any other people try to make out that it was something more
It was a window that opened up briefñy which showed the possibilities of an alternative lifestyle but it wasnt an answer that many had pinned their hopes and dreams on, which many always fall to romanticize the Summer Of Love as some ultimate Utopía.of sorts.
George Harrison, one of the genuinely inspired and inspiring artists of that era visited San Fransisco in the late 60s and simply said afterword ""... I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids..."" Not too inspiring.
You can’t dismiss the role drugs played, and in particular, LSD and other psychotropics in introducing fresh perspectives on life and its meaning along with questioning societal norms. Similarly, coffee, with its drug caffeine, some historians say may have sparked The Age of Enlightenment.
😈🔱👿.. Who put the last nail in the 60s psychedelic Rock coffin ???... Led Zeppelin... you can't go back hippie Rock after hearing Kashmir baby 🤘🤘🤘.. it's just not as satisfying anymore after that
Regular Heavy Drug use as well as Alchohal leads to intense introversion and eventually Loneliness or even Madness ! Born in 63 I saw many great talents destroyed in this way !
I think if you are going to include the Velvet Underground, you make it gross error in omitting the Mothers of Invention. Both bands were very influential but both hated Hippie culture. What you're really describing is the increasingly liberal approach to music that included Joe Meek's Freak Beat, to be sure, but the Kinks See My Friends was influenced by Indian singers (no sitar, though), the influence of blues guitar (Clapton, Beck and Hendrix, among many others), increasing flexibility using the studio, and the influence of musicians like John Coltrane and electronic instruments. Drugs like speed, marijuana and of course, LSD, all played a role. Not only suburban teens were drawn to it, but the mass media coverage of the music, a huge record buying class and leisure time and record labels' increasing willingness to flood the market with new sounds were all critical to the spread of a movement. But a lot (not all) psychedelic music lacked depth, so there was a trend towards simpler things. It became kind of a cliche...and mass culture does turn on a dime. It's no surprise it dominated for a while, then the drugs petered out and major acts changed their direction. In the U.S., AM radio stopped playing it in 1969. But it lingered for a bit into Prog Rock. But fast rise means fast decline. The Mothers We're Only In It for the Money was essentially a pre-obituary. But the cracks in something energized by drugs will inevitably show. It doesn't mean the music was bad-a lot of it was brilliant-but it was almost a classic example of the principle of acceleration collapsing an art, which would not have occurred as quickly if people had been more sober and less trendy. But that's our way...
Thanks. Not too burdensome. Artists through the centuries have always reacted against the easy comforting life choices of the masses. It's impossible to gain a way to creative expression if you want to wallow on the couch desire version of life. Have to leap into the ditch and become a Jimi Hendrix or Mussorgsky fanatic who refuses the driving wheel suck ass version of secular comforting.
truth is - most didn't want to work... watch the film about a series of rock concerts. ( including Joplin & Dead 0 on train across Canada . fans crying they weren't ' free' ( like woodstock turned out....)
Our politically correct narrator has tremendous difficulty enunciating words like drugs, weed, dope, and LSD. The 60's were anti-political correctness while the 20's embrace censorship with a passion. Art cannot be created in such repressive conditions which denies the populace of admiring its beauty, revelations and creativity while the counter-culture of the 60's freed itself from societal constraints and created great art on a daily basis. Art so fantastic it is alive and well even in the dismal year of 2024.
When the newpaper about the CIA was shown, did you notice that LSD was censored out (the D was covered up) . In my opinion, this wasnt much of a documemtary on psychedelia
in answer to the question at the end of this, "can a structured society truly nurture creative freedom?" yes. it just requires tolerance. something western christian civilization is notably lacking in. intolerance (and greed) also answers the question that is the title of this video.
In a word.. naivety. But a lot of em shook it off and thought, instead of expanding our minds we need to zero in on one thing.. capitalism. That said, they created arguably the greatest music of all time. Certainly the most influential.
I never took the hippies seriously. They were hanging out at our university, but they disappeared even faster than I predicted, probably since they realized they can't get anywhere with hardly a roof over their heads and only a few dollars in the bank account.
@michaelcraig9449 I agree. I don't need "stuff". If there is something I have to buy and it says: "made in China" I won't buy it. Think about the "3 R's" Reuse, Recycle + Reduce.
What it really sounds like? Somebody put something in their drinks. Someone pushed them too hard. Hey, a little more will make you a little better. RIP, grave or retirement home. Someone said that to all of them. Then... "You're all that counts." ...and we have Boomers.
I was young in the 60s haltering your mind had no idea was lsd herroine ect i dressed hippiish but was never really in the hippy culture good music those that say they miss the 60s forget all the termoil was here too some of it was a excuse for doing drugs so glad i didnt im sure people who din long term lsd died young or had effectct or cancers years later
The Velvets sound went on to evolve into creating a whole new universe during the 70s and 80s, which still holds up today with young and experimental bands, carrying the torch. Such vision, who would have thought at the time!?
So, what does psychedelia mean today? It means microdosing to fight depression. It means that detatching from reality through drugs is not only irresponsible but can be outright dangerous resulting in injury or death. It means that if you don’t learn from the lessons of the past, you get to repete them. 😮
was it a drugs side effect? pop music as sex foreplay evolved into psychedelic music taken with drugs that triggered higher chakras that should be opened in a more natural way
So there's this feastival and the people there gathered to hear some speeches, listen to some impromptu musicians and to become so inspired by one orator imparticular, that they sponteneously shared what they had with each other that such a beautiful day might be enjoyed by all. Afterwards, the ordinary aspects of life returned, perhaps sadder but wiser. Still, there are those who looked back, noticing the remnants of discarded bread as the flies landing on fishbones of a once lovely lunch, recallng as if to commit to memory what was said on that hill. ...and similarly, there were high points 2000 years later that connoted the life's blood of a Renaissance that would crest within five years.
It was a social fad. All fads go away with time. People tire and have to support themselves, often have to support children. It was not a productive fad. It was an expense. Most music stars died before they were 30. They were the only ones that made a living from the fad. It was drug based movement. Many wound up in jail. Some stayed so wasted they stopped eating food and died. You are glorifying the commercial aspect of the time. You are ignoring the persons that made it happen. They suffered because of it. Shame on you.
Sorry but you have taken isolated incidents and pretended they are a whole. It was simpler than that. The Marine act killed off radio stations and all that was left was Radio one and their minny mes playing fresh garbage. Payola from the major record companies ensured their disinfected artists got all the airplay. What next Fred West, the Falklands and Ian Curtis's death killed off punk.
The Sixties, particularly the late Sixties, will always be of interest. The clothes, the films, the music, the art, etc. A mad, experimental time.
Thanks for bringing up the good times !
In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel.
Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
They Psychedelic 60s gave way to the Psychedelic 70s. They're not gone, they've evolved.
That's Right !
@BrainWorm-b9w USA is hooked on juice, speed, and smack. It's a death trip man.
It all happened so very fast. That's the way it seemed to me at the age of 14 in 1967. In 68 I joined my first successful band and psycodelia was reflected in the musicthat year By 1969 it was all about the blues for me and the whole psychedelic thing had pretty much come and gone. I believe that young people at that time had a wide range of experiences during that psychedelic period. I was on the youngest end of the age range for the whole thing but because of my playing music, got to partake in it non the less. (and managed to survive)
In October 1967 "Death of Hippie" a mock funeral was organized by The Diggers (a community action group) in San Francisco, to convince the media to stop exploiting the scene.
The Diggers had a Free Store where you could get what you need.
Of course, this only fed the idea. The Diggers were the pre-eminent activists in the Haight. They named themselves after a radical 17th-century Protestant commune in England called The Diggers because of their commitment to use no advanced farming methods, such as plows. They were spoofed in Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. In the Haight, the Diggers were the ones that gathered food up from any source, including dumpsters and got permission to use a church kitchen to cook food that they gave away free at the famous Panhandle Feeds. Their motto was "It's Free Because it's Yours." They were mostly made up of college theater actors from the East Coast. They pulled stunts at City Hall, etc., that got the SF Police harassing them, and other 'hippies." A good read on all of this and more is "Acid Dreams, The Compleat Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond," by Lee and Schlain.
67 was the "Summer of Love"...a small brief flash of love in a World of HATE and GREED
@mustangmikep51 Not the world. That's Amerkkkan propaganda.
@mustangmikep51 hate, greed and war
I remember the 1967 poster :
🌻war is not healthy for children
and other living things 🦋
This is just my own personal view: Something wonderful [in the true sense of the word] happened in the mid 60`s. There was a bunch of magical dust that was floating around in the air that infected some people who were open to it. It seems like the artists were more open to it than your average Joe. By the time that the summer of love came around, it was already milked out because so many people wanted to be a "hippie". because it became a fashion statement. I have always felt that Woodstock was a celebration of the end of hippiedom. Well, I`m still alive & still damn near broke. Some things never change.
The party was winding down, and people had to go back to work.
Well, l think we will find that the 60's ended in 1969 but Psych bands turned into progressive rock which is still popular today. All music changes, 60's Soul turned into boring plastic homogenised so-called R 'n' B which is sung by 'Singers' who sound like they are singing underwater or through some vocal machine. The 1960's were a peak for music where everything seemed possible. Nothing lasts forever.
"R&B" PRECEDED so-called "Soul". It's all labels mistaken for actual "genre".
Thanks, Freewheeling for this
little look back at an epic time.
You’re welcome 🙏
Very impressive compilation of the psychedelic music of the times. Sad that many of the artists were lost due to excess of the same dreams they sang about.
Cultural and political mass leaders were offed by the CIA.
60s Psychedelic sound was meant as a short-lived experiment - an often LSD-fueled fragmented mirror which was held up to a post-WWII generation. The 1960s was just the right time for combining different styles of sound. Younger folks who were brought up listening to their parents' music wanted something so entirely different. They got it -- in spades! The music took on a life of its own -- even influencing sound today. "Dance the Night Away" (Cream) was (and remains) my favourite Psychedelic tune. My friends who lived in the North Beach district of SF moved to Colorado shortly after The Monterey Pop Festival. They read the writing on the wall. Many thanks, Freewheeling.
You're very welcome!
@@freewheelingideas ✌🙏
I was a huge fan of Psychedelia. It all seemed like a musical escape from reality, as though it was all from another planet. But unfortunately, all good new explosive deveopments, no matter how exciting, way out and advanced, have to come to an end eventually. The novelty of everything wears off after a while, even if there is nothing new to replace it. By the mid seventies, everything had quietened, and we were well and truly into this Osmonds/Bay City Rollers governed era, and everything was back under law and order. It wasn't until later when we got hit with Punk Rock that everything started to liven again, as it completely out-fashioned all the Bubblegum Pop that accumulated before it.
But during the second half of the sixties when musical trends were shifting fast and furious, there was always this 24 hour a day rush hour in the air, and the whole atmosphere was filled with Psychedelic and hallucinary effects, and anarchy had seemingly hit the world. But nowadays, everything is just completely quiet. The youngsters of today just listen to this thump thump thump type stuff. But there is no actual music anymore. Most of those who created the loudness and liveliness in the air back in the sixties are just not with us anymore.
But was was that track you played in the background between snippets of tracks by The Doors from about 6.05 to 6.20? It sounded very familiar, but I just couldn't figure it out. If you were to reply, I might think "Oh yes".
It was "Time of the season" by the Zombies.
@@hardyharhar9 That was the one, great track. Many thanks.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Mind-expansion is not an escape from reality. It is seeing reality.
Everything runs out of steam eventually.
Everything good under capitalism.
Psychedelic music continues to this day, allbeit not to the same degree. The legacy of the counterculture was & is massive, Eastern philosophies, alternative medicine, self-development, humanistic & transpersonal psychologies, a resurgence in occultism & esotericism. It's impossible to think how we might be now if it hadn't occurred.
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yeah, i dont think there was ever a so intense cultural and social change in just a few years. and the art that was created those days still reverberates today and inspires people. It may have seen to fade, but fading would be like if things went back to the way they were before, which they didnt
A bit too glib rehash of why an experiment in alternate lifestyles was doomed to failure. It wasn’t all about drugs, partying and music. Serious questioning of post war societal norms was going on. Sadly, many of the middle class kids barely knew what they were doing and were flooded with others who just took advantage of situations. Maybe humans are just too selfish and evil to create a better world. Recent events seem to bear this out.
The holier than thou woke movement built on lies is dying as we speak. What will the next fad be?
To those who lived through the 1960’s, we wish those days would never end. We were indestructible, we were changing the world. A new age had come. Turned on tuned in and dropped out….. 5 years later there was Disco…. My God what had happened.
You changed nothing...they changed you.
People just got tired of blowing their minds and decided to get down and boogie.
The Manson Family stopped the hippy movement in its tracks, on August 9th 1969.
Can’t mention Manson in 69 without mentioning the Symbionese Liberation Army in 74
The Family was an op.
The assassinations of MLK & RFK & consequent election of Nixon helped slow the movement & the calamity at Altamont ended it. The Dream had become a Nightmare.
This is what the bad guys tried to force upon us. Did you fall for it?
@@michaelcraig9449 I'm not sure, Michael. Was only 12 in '69, and 67 1/2 in Nov. 2024. At 22 in 1979, any traces of this era were long gone into the dark shadows of the past.
Look up the concept of "Libido dominandi" (freedom as a form of political control), or read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" for a more populist take on the idea.
thAT WAS NOT THE DAY THE SIXTIES DIED , THERE STILL ALIVE AND WELL SQUARE DADDY !
Nice video - using original songs and not some generic free "sixties" instrumental. I was born in the seventies, and appreciate the comments made by folks who were there saying it wasn't that great, but I am seeing it through rose-tinted glasses! About half of the music I listen to is from before I was born, and think it will never be equalled. Among others, I own Monterey, Woodstock and Isle of Wight on DVD, and they are played often! Edit : the festivals, not the places 😂
i loved the 60's....but hard drugs and selfishness destroyed the brilliant creative vibe that we felt around at that time...those of us who discovered and pursued a spiritual path in the 60's were the only winners from this experimental time period...I tried LSD TM Eastern philosophy OBE trips etc... it eventually opened me up to my true self....now i am AWAKE and free...I left the illusion of this Earth life long ago...i am detached from the drama, and have found peace and tranquility
Because most of them were assholes and hypocrites. Take it from someone who was there.
I was there I saw Floyd and the doors at the roundhouse and i totally agree with you total fashion following ass holes talking about not being interested in fashion and material possessions. It was another fashion in clothes and must came and it went like any other people try to make out that it was something more
@@michaelharrison3602 Agree 100%
Eventually everybody has to grow up and mature. At least to some extent in order to live and thrive.
most today are as well. probably always
It was a window that opened up briefñy which showed the possibilities of an alternative lifestyle but it wasnt an answer that many had pinned their hopes and dreams on, which many always fall to romanticize the Summer Of Love as some ultimate Utopía.of sorts.
It’s all fun and games ‘til you have to pay the rent and utilities and the grocery bill. Parties lead to hangovers and all weekends end in Mondays.
It started as a scene, then got picked up by the mainstream media, then it wasn't cool anymore. Like every other scene in Rock history.
It is VERY cool! Modern commercial music SUCKS! It was forced on us by huge corporations
It is still here, but it is slightly underground, because of videos like this, which say it is gone.
Don't tell any one, th-cam.com/video/4in0wKB1jRU/w-d-xo.html
George Harrison, one of the genuinely inspired and inspiring artists of that era visited San Fransisco in the late 60s and simply said afterword ""... I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids..."" Not too inspiring.
LSD, I have heard no mention of it, that is the catalyst
And peyote and mescaline
You can’t dismiss the role drugs played, and in particular, LSD and other psychotropics in introducing fresh perspectives on life and its meaning along with questioning societal norms. Similarly, coffee, with its drug caffeine, some historians say may have sparked The Age of Enlightenment.
Glad to have survived this period
😈🔱👿.. Who put the last nail in the 60s psychedelic Rock coffin ???... Led Zeppelin... you can't go back hippie Rock after hearing Kashmir baby 🤘🤘🤘.. it's just not as satisfying anymore after that
Charlie Manson and his crazy crew did not help matters .
Awesome video freewheeling have a great weekend also I feel sad to be honest ❤😢
The demise of the 60s was reality. We woke up and found out that 8f we didn't conform then we didn't get jobs.😊
The Cowsills
Regular Heavy Drug use as well as Alchohal leads to intense introversion and eventually Loneliness or even Madness ! Born in 63 I saw many great talents destroyed in this way !
Every war ends with peace
Why do you mention the 27 club without talking about Pigpen, the first lead singer for the Grathful Dead who, died at 27 years old. ????
Ron was trying to get healthy when he died , He didn't OD.. The 27 club is reserved for the method of their demise..
I think if you are going to include the Velvet Underground, you make it gross error in omitting the Mothers of Invention. Both bands were very influential but both hated Hippie culture.
What you're really describing is the increasingly liberal approach to music that included Joe Meek's Freak Beat, to be sure, but the Kinks See My Friends was influenced by Indian singers (no sitar, though), the influence of blues guitar (Clapton, Beck and Hendrix, among many others), increasing flexibility using the studio, and the influence of musicians like John Coltrane and electronic instruments. Drugs like speed, marijuana and of course, LSD, all played a role. Not only suburban teens were drawn to it, but the mass media coverage of the music, a huge record buying class and leisure time and record labels' increasing willingness to flood the market with new sounds were all critical to the spread of a movement. But a lot (not all) psychedelic music lacked depth, so there was a trend towards simpler things.
It became kind of a cliche...and mass culture does turn on a dime.
It's no surprise it dominated for a while, then the drugs petered out and major acts changed their direction.
In the U.S., AM radio stopped playing it in 1969. But it lingered for a bit into Prog Rock. But fast rise means fast decline. The Mothers We're Only In It for the Money was essentially a pre-obituary. But the cracks in something energized by drugs will inevitably show. It doesn't mean the music was bad-a lot of it was brilliant-but it was almost a classic example of the principle of acceleration collapsing an art, which would not have occurred as quickly if people had been more sober and less trendy. But that's our way...
I really wanted to go to Woodstock unfortunately I was 13 years old at the time
Apparently if Radio doesn't play it and the Press doesn't write about it, it ceases to exist.
Good analysis.
Thanks. Not too burdensome. Artists through the centuries have always reacted against the easy comforting life choices of the masses. It's impossible to gain a way to creative expression if you want to wallow on the couch desire version of life. Have to leap into the ditch and become a Jimi Hendrix or Mussorgsky fanatic who refuses the driving wheel suck ass version of secular comforting.
Exactly!
truth is - most didn't want to work... watch the film about a series of rock concerts. ( including Joplin & Dead 0 on train across Canada . fans crying they weren't ' free' ( like woodstock turned out....)
Our politically correct narrator has tremendous difficulty enunciating words like drugs, weed, dope, and LSD. The 60's were anti-political correctness while the 20's embrace censorship with a passion. Art cannot be created in such repressive conditions which denies the populace of admiring its beauty, revelations and creativity while the counter-culture of the 60's freed itself from societal constraints and created great art on a daily basis. Art so fantastic it is alive and well even in the dismal year of 2024.
It’s the platform. Not the channel.
When the newpaper about the CIA was shown, did you notice that LSD was censored out (the D was covered up) . In my opinion, this wasnt much of a documemtary on psychedelia
beauty? everything is all brutalist socialist everything
It’s A.I.
in answer to the question at the end of this,
"can a structured society truly nurture creative freedom?"
yes.
it just requires tolerance.
something western christian civilization is notably lacking in.
intolerance (and greed) also answers the question that is the title of this video.
What is the song at 4:10 pls, and anyone know if it is sampled in 'Setting Sun' by the Chemical Brothers?
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Setting Sun samples 7 different songs but not the Beatles song Tomorrow Never Knows. Setting Sun is more of an homage to that Beatles track.
@@johnknapik Sampling sucks.
In a word.. naivety.
But a lot of em shook it off and thought, instead of expanding our minds we need to zero in on one thing.. capitalism.
That said, they created arguably the greatest music of all time. Certainly the most influential.
That would be the cocaine 70's.
I never took the hippies seriously. They were hanging out at our university, but they disappeared even faster than I predicted, probably since they realized they can't get anywhere with hardly a roof over their heads and only a few dollars in the bank account.
There are more hippies now than ever. Who needs a lot of money and stuff? Get off the hamster wheel!
@michaelcraig9449 I agree.
I don't need "stuff". If there is something I have to buy and it says: "made in China" I won't buy it. Think about the "3 R's" Reuse, Recycle + Reduce.
The 70's.
Love and greetings from Germany.
Great times...
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@@freewheelingideas All restrictions are tyranny not freedom.
The Young People got older and got married. Their Children wanted something Different. So The Sixties Died Out !
In a small sentence, people stopped taking LSD en masse.
What it really sounds like? Somebody put something in their drinks. Someone pushed them too hard. Hey, a little more will make you a little better. RIP, grave or retirement home.
Someone said that to all of them. Then... "You're all that counts." ...and we have Boomers.
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I was young in the 60s haltering your mind had no idea was lsd herroine ect i dressed hippiish but was never really in the hippy culture good music those that say they miss the 60s forget all the termoil was here too some of it was a excuse for doing drugs so glad i didnt im sure people who din long term lsd died young or had effectct or cancers years later
Too many bad vibes and a reaction from the establishment that shut it down.
Psychedelic music survives in shoegaze.
Reality ended the "hippie movement"... DUUUHHH?
Reality is for people that cant handle drugs
@gerrylambert5225 fair enough, lol
The Velvets sound went on to evolve into creating a whole new universe during the 70s and 80s, which still holds up today with young and experimental bands, carrying the torch.
Such vision, who would have thought at the time!?
JIMI rules!
The year clicked by one, and Hawkwind came along, and absolute heaven.
So, what does psychedelia mean today? It means microdosing to fight depression. It means that detatching from reality through drugs is not only irresponsible but can be outright dangerous resulting in injury or death. It means that if you don’t learn from the lessons of the past, you get to repete them. 😮
Maybe to you it does. A lot of people just want to have fun, be creative, and get away from the evil gov't and corporations.
Humans are inherently violent too... i dont see u promoting that as a"necessity"
was it a drugs side effect? pop music as sex foreplay evolved into psychedelic music taken with drugs that triggered higher chakras that should be opened in a more natural way
So there's this feastival and the people there gathered to hear some speeches, listen to some impromptu musicians and to become so inspired by one orator imparticular, that they sponteneously shared what they had with each other that such a beautiful day might be enjoyed by all.
Afterwards, the ordinary aspects of life returned, perhaps sadder but wiser. Still, there are those who looked back, noticing the remnants of discarded bread as the flies landing on fishbones of a once lovely lunch, recallng as if to commit to memory what was said on that hill.
...and similarly, there were high points 2000 years later that connoted the life's blood of a Renaissance that would crest within five years.
Bad acid man. 🤪
There was "NO SUMMER OF LOVE" in 1967. What about all of those riots? Detroit? Newark, NJ, Cincinnati? Many others.
same in 2024.
Rebellion against an oppressive system, just in different forms.
1970.
Thats when the hippies ruined san francisco and ever since than san francisco has went down hill
It was a social fad. All fads go away with time. People tire and have to support themselves, often have to support children. It was not a productive fad. It was an expense. Most music stars died before they were 30. They were the only ones that made a living from the fad. It was drug based movement. Many wound up in jail. Some stayed so wasted they stopped eating food and died.
You are glorifying the commercial aspect of the time. You are ignoring the persons that made it happen. They suffered because of it. Shame on you.
it’s complicated
Much like the woke movement of today , people just got sick of it.
Because weed and drugs make you dumb
Music from Big Pink
Acid ain’t that great
It really is., until it isn’t?
"Stay away from the brown acid" -Chip Monck at Woodstock 1969
The government 😂
The government sucks, in every nation.
Yep, didn't like us, not one bit.
@ so I became a punk😂 Weed is legal in Canada. We can replace the government with cell phones ✌️
Narrator is damned poor. All good things come to an end . Celebrate, you fool.
Sorry but you have taken isolated incidents and pretended they are a whole. It was simpler than that. The Marine act killed off radio stations and all that was left was Radio one and their minny mes playing fresh garbage. Payola from the major record companies ensured their disinfected artists got all the airplay. What next Fred West, the Falklands and Ian Curtis's death killed off punk.