hippies, yippies, freaks, heads, flower children, diggers . . .

1. LSD2. Music3. Vietnam

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Albert Hoffmann

16th April 1943

“Turn on, tune in, drop out” (Timothy Leary).

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Interview with Timothy Leary

“The danger of LSD is not physical or psychological, but social-political. Make no mistake: the effect of consciousness-expanding drugs will be to transform our concepts of human nature, human potentialities, existence. . . . Present social establishments had better be prepared for the change” (Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, 1965).

“The acid experience is so concrete. It draws a line right across your life - before and after LSD - in the same way you felt that your step into radical politics drew a sharp division. . . . It’s not necessarily that the actual content of the LSD experience contributed to politically radical or revolutionary consciousness - it was just that the experience shared the structural characteristics of political rebellion, and resonated those changes so that the two became independent prongs of an over-arching transcending rebellion that took in the person and the State at the same time” (Carl Oglesby, President of Students for a Democratic Society).

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Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)

Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream It is not dying, it is not dying Lay down all thought, surrender to the void It is shining, it is shining That you may see the meaning of within It is being, it is being That love is all and love is everyone It is knowing, it is knowing That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead It is believing, it is believing But listen to the colour of your dreams It is not living, it is not living Or play the game existence to the end Of the beginning . . .

The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (1964), Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner.

Bob Dylan

Mr Tambourine Man (1965)

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,My senses have been stripped . . . .

Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)

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“Don’t trust anyone over thirty” (Jerry Rubin, co-founder of the Yippies (Youth International Party).

“I accept this Tom Paine Award on behalf of James Forman of the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and on behalf of the people who went to Cuba.  . . . First of all because they're all young and it's took me a long time to get young and now I consider myself young. And I'm proud of it. I'm proud that I’m young” (acceptance speech, The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee).

“I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” (My Back Pages).

America against Amerika

“We are outlaws in the eyes of Amerika” (We Can Be Together)

“We are volunteers of America” (Volunteers)

America’s War in Vietnam (1965-73)

Country Joe MacDonald, I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag (1965)

“The revolutionaries are on Columbia”“The Man can’t bust our music” (Columbia)“It’s happening on Capitol”“Psychedelia – the sound of the NOW generation” (MGM)

1968 ABC Distributors Conference: “Turn on to profit power”

$800m to $1600m

“We found out, and it wasn’t for years that we did, that all the bread we made for Decca was going into making black boxes that go into American Airforce bombers to bomb fucking North Vietnam. They took the bread we made for them and put it into the radar section of their business. When we found that out, it blew our minds. That was it. Gaddam, you find out you’ve help kill God knows how many thousands of people without even knowing it” (Keith Richards; quoted in John Storey, “Rockin’ Hegemony: West Coast Rock and Amerika’s War in Vietnam” in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, 4th edition).

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Michael Lang (music promoter)Artie Kornfeld (Capitol Records executive)

John Morris and Joel Rosenman (venture capitalists):

"Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legitimate investment opportunities and business propositions” (New York Times).

“Is Manson a Hippie?” (Rolling Stone Magazine)

Meredith Hunter murdered at Rolling Stones concert, Altamont Speedway

Almost cut my hair (David Crosby)

Almost cut my hair It happened just the other day It was getting kind of long I could have said it was in my way

But I didn't and I wonder why I feel like letting my freak flag flyAnd I feel like I owe it to someone

Must be because I had the flu for Christmas And I'm not feeling up to par It increases my paranoia Like looking into a mirror and seeing a police car

But I'm not giving in an inch to fear Cos I promised myself this year I feel like I owe it to someone

When I finally get myself together I'm gonna get down In some of that sweet summer weather I'm going to find a space inside to laugh Separate the wheat from the chaff

Cos I feel like I owe it, yeah

Ohio (Neil Young)

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drumming,Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to itSoldiers are gunning us downShould have been done long ago.What if you knew herAnd found her dead on the groundHow can you run when you know?

Gotta get down to itSoldiers are gunning us downShould have been done long ago.What if you knew herAnd found her dead on the groundHow can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drumming,Four dead in Ohio.

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final scenes from Easy Rider (1969)