Favorite Hippie Music

What's your favorite Hippie music?

I'm listening to "Atlantis" by Donovan right now.

Inna Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly

the Dead.

I've got a peaceful, easy feeling...

P,P & M

The Doors

John B. Sebastian, Lovin' Spoonful, Mamas and the Papas, Country Joe Fish, Joni Mitchell...

Puff the Magic Dragon?

Carly SImon

Janice Joplin (not a personal fan, just sayin)
Pink Floyd
Jimi Hendrix

Loved Country Joe and the Fish....but my favorite song from that era has to be White Rabbit by Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane...

Drivin' that train....high on cocaine...

My parents were dead heads in my early years but I don't remember much of the music.

Not sure what else woudl classify as hippie music separate from oldies and classic rock...?

The 5th Dimension

A few examples of hippie music folks for dip:

The Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin (although she also qualifies as blues rock)
Jefferson Airplane
Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Stephen Stills (solo)
Neil Young (solo)
Buffalo Springfield
The Byrds (possibly more folk than hippie)
Donovan (also folk, but definitely hippie too)
Bob Dylan (covers a lot of ground, has his hippie moments)
Joan Baez
The Allman Brothers (like Dylan, but lots of hippies love them)
Jimi Hendrix
The Doors
Richie Havens (of course)
John Lennon (wrote the greatest hippie song of all time)

And lets not forget the pre-hippies:

Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger
Phil Ochs
Bob Dylan (I said he covered a lot of ground)

If you want to define hippie music, ask yourself: Did the group or performer appear at Woodstock?

renniks, that's one way, but I personally don't consider The Rolling Stones as playing hippie music. Kinda like The Allman Brothers, they played music that hippies liked.

Almost any CCR.

Hippie music?
Has to be "White Rabbit" and "Eve of Destruction"
Thats about as hippie as it gets!

Arlo Guthrie

"You can have anything you want at Alice's Restaurant ('ceptin' Alice)."

Mouth & McNeal qualify as hippies? They have one of my favorite songs from that era (or near that era).

How old are you?

Not nearly old enough for this thread, but i do enjoy some of the music from back then.

:SNORT: OK...

Norman Greenbaum (Spirit in the Sky)
Canned Heat
Ten Years After

The theme song from Up in Smoke.

Was there one?

"Natures Way" by Spirit.
"Fresh Air" by Quicksilver Messenger Service. Have another hit of sweet California sunshine.

Ultimate hippie song: San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair), by Scott McKenzie, who died last summer.

Anyone see Stevie Nicks on Oprah's Life Class last night? She ws pretty upfront with all that went on in both her life and in Fleetwood Mac.

They would qualify as hippie musicians.

Signs - 5 Man Electric Band
Live for Today - The Grass Roots
Summertime - Mungo Jerry

My granddad thought Dean Martin was pretty racey....

The Band
Widespread Panic
Phish
Allman Brothers
Polyphonic Spree - do yourself a favor and google this one(more of a colorful cult than a band!)
The Dead!
String Cheese Incident
Keller Williams

I would think 10 Years After was one of the better British fusion of Rock and Blues, not hippies. Sad to see that Alvin Lee died a few days ago. Very few guitar players had fingers as fast as Alvin Lee.

Keller Williams is great! (Love his Kidney in the Cooler song.)

How about:

Melanie
I've got a brand new pair of roller skates
You've got a brand new key

John Prine
Blow up your TV throw away your paper
Go to the country, build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lot of peaches
Try an find Jesus on your own

And my all time forever favorite, Joan Baez
10 years ago I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust

Stan from Southpark: This music is really bad.

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
The Association - Cherish
The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin
Three Dog Night - Mamma Told Me Not to Come
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Dylan (then Hendrix)- All Along the Watchtower
CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair
Buffalo Springfield - For What it's Worth
Jesus Christ Superstar (the whole thing)
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

I thought of Ten Years After since they had one of the better performances at Woodstock. Very sad that Alvin Lee passed.

Loved all these and I was one of those "hippie girls"
Just picked up a CD of California 60's bands from Starbucks we listened to on the way down to visit grandkids - lord almighty all of this post dates me for sure

^^^^ I can testify that this wonderful person is younger than I am!!!

After Woodstock, being a hippie became very dangerous and passe'. Most of us from the Berkely of the midwest did not like hippies.

I think I am with Cartman.

It is pretty bad, that's what makes it so good.

And let's not forget, "Basketball Jones," by Cheech and Chong.

LOL - I just heard that yesterday for the first time.

Traffic

He was pretty racy for his time.

Did you ever hear some of the Lewis and Martin outakes? If so you'll see what I mean. There have always entertainment "bad boys" around, they just kept a lower profile. Before guys like Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, there was Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby, and before them there others, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Bellamy Bros = He's an ole Hippie

Oh, here's a good one:

Charlie Daniels Band - Uneasy Rider (you wouldn't think it would be a hippie song, but the lyrics show otherwise!)

I was takin' a trip out to L.A.
Toolin' along in my Cheverolet
Tokin' on a number and diggin' on the radio

Just as I crossed the Mississippi line
I heard that highway start to whine
And I knew that left rear tire was about to blow

Well the spare was flat and I got uptight
'Cause there wasn't a filling station in sight
So I just limped on down the shoulder on the rim

I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car
It was right in front of this little bar, a
Kind of a red-neck lookin' joint called the "Dew Drop Inn"

Well I stuffed my hair up under my hat
And told the bartender that I had a flat
And would he be kind enough to give me change for a one

Well there was one thing I was sure proud to see
There wasn't a soul in the place except for him and me and
He just looked disgusted and pointed toward the telephone

I called up the station down the road a ways and
He said he wasn't very busy today
And he could have somebody there in just about 10 minutes or so

He said," Now, you just stay right where yer at!"
And I didn't bother to tell the dern fool
That I sure as [censored] didn't have anyplace else to go

I just ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar
When some guy walked in and said, "Who owns this car
With the peace sign, the mag wheels and the four on the floor?"

Well he looked at me and I damn near died
And I decided that I'd just wait outside
So I laid a dollar on the bar and headed for the door

Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin
These 5 big dudes come strollin' in
With this one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth

Now I was almost to the door when the biggest one
Said, "You tip your hat to this lady, son!"
And when I did, all that hair fell out from underneath

Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight
In Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night
Especially when there was three of them and only one of me

They all started laughin' and I felt kinda sick
And I knew I better think of something pretty quick
So I just reached out and kicked old green teeth right in the knee

Now he let out a yell that'd curl yer hair
But before he could move I grabbed me a chair
And said "Now watch him Folks cause he's a furly dangerous man!"

"Well you may not know it but this man is a spy.
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

He was still bent over holdin' on to his knee
But everybody else was lookin' and listenin' to me
And I laid it on thicker and heavier as I went

I said "Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars
And he voted for George McGovern for President."

"Well he's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he's even got a commie flag
Tacked up on the wall inside of his garage."

"He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys
He may look dumb but that's just a disguise
He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage"

They all started lookin' real suspicious at him and
He jumped up and said "Now just wait a minute Jim!
You know he's lyin' I been livin' here all of my life!"

"I'm a faithful follower of Brother John Birch
And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church.
And I ain't even got a garage, you can call home and ask my wife!"

Then he started saying somethin' 'bout the way I was dressed
But I didn't wait around to hear the rest
I was too busy movin' and hopin' I didn't run outta luck

And when I hit the ground I was makin' tracks
And they were just taking my car down off the jacks
So I threw the man a twenty and jumped in and fired that mother up

Mario Andretti woulda sure been proud
Of the way I was movin' when I passed that crowd
Comin' out the door and headed toward me at a trot

And I guess I shoulda gone ahead and run
But somehow I just couldn't resist the fun
Of chasin' them all just once around the parking lot

Well they're headed for their car but I hit the gas and
Spun around and headed 'em off at the pass
I was slingin' gavel and puttin' a ton o' dust in the air

Well I had them all out there steppin' and fetchin'
Like their heads was on fire and their asses was catchin'
but I figgered I'd better go ahead and split before the cops got there

When I hit the road I was really wheelin'
Had gravel flyin' and rubber squeelin'
And I didn't slow down till I was almost to Arkansas

Well I think I'm gonna reroute my trip
I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped
If I went to L.A., via Omaha

Listen to "Long Haired Country Boy" too rainman.

The Doors. Jim.

The Age of Aquarius

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

California Dreaming Mamas and papas

Great choice. Love that song.

I was a fan of a lot of their music.

The rock opera, "Hair." The rock opera "Jesus Christ, Super Star."

^^^^^ anything that includes the beautiful sound of violins.

Anyone playing a sitar better be wearing a turban. Just sayin...

TJ and I went to see Clapton last weekend. It was awesome.

Which version of Layla did he do? Love the original version; the acoustic version, not so much.

Seen Clapton 3 or 4 times, once even went backstage and met him (friend of a friend works for Beaver Productions which is a concert promoter that did the show)...last time he had Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame singing with him...was an awesome show...

Promises one of his best and most underrated songs IMO.

I saw him on that tour also . . . that was a long time ago! I also saw him when Phil Collins played drums for him. He is simply an amazing artist.

They are Sultans of Swing!

they're the sultans that play creole