Tag Archives: Hippie

The Birth of Psychedelic London

Posted on April 8, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“There’s a clip that gets shown on British TV every time there’s some news item about ‘Swinging London.’ It starts with some turned-on teens perusing a rack of Chelsea Pensioner-meets-Hendrix military jackets on Portobello Road, and ends a few frames … Continue reading →

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The Fort Hill Community

Posted on April 3, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… It was his relationship with Judy Silver that brought him to Boston in 1963. Again, Lyman became acquainted with many artists and musicians in the vibrant Boston scene, including Timothy Leary‘s group of LSD enthusiasts, International Foundation for Internal … Continue reading →

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The White Negro – Norman Mailer (1957)

Posted on March 4, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster is a 9,000-word essay by Norman Mailer that connects the ‘psychic havoc’ wrought by the Holocaust and atomic bomb to the aftermath of slavery in America in the figuration of the Hipster, … Continue reading →

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The Counterculture Hippie Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on January 27, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A new identity was born at the start of the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. This youth movement criticized consumerism, promoted peace, and yearned for individualism. The 1960s and ‘70s revolutionized pop culture and encouraged social reform. This 20-year … Continue reading →

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Rolling Stone

Posted on November 10, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Jann Wenner and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its … Continue reading →

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Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action – Nadja Millner-Larsen

Posted on September 23, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Black Mask protesting on Wall Street, New York, 1960s “There are many paths through the radical arts of the 1960s. Nadja Millner-Larsen’s Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action takes one back alley and turns it into a … Continue reading →

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Druid Heights

Posted on September 7, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Druid Heights was a bohemian community in Marin County, California, U.S., founded in 1954 by poet Elsa Gidlow, her partner Isabel Quallo, and carpenter Roger Somers. The community was a popular retreat for various countercultural movements and a meeting place … Continue reading →

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The Birthplace of American Vintage: East Village – Ada Calhoun

Posted on September 1, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A couple in retro clothing embraces on St Marks Place. “On a recent afternoon at the vintage shop Search & Destroy, teens browsed plaid skirts, ripped jeans, and band T-shirts near a Bin Laden poster, Gremlin head, and pornographic props. … Continue reading →

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The Detroit Artist’s Workshop: Roots And Branches A Tenth Anniversary

Posted on July 9, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Archie Shepp: “On November 1st, the Detroit Artist’s Workshop, now defunct, celebrated its tenth anniversary . Not exactly an earth-shattering event, this anniversary, but one with great significance for those of us whose daily cultural practice sterns largely from that … Continue reading →

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Sunset Strip curfew riots

Posted on April 11, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the ‘hippie riots’, were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California in 1966. … In 1966, the … Continue reading →

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“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” – Richard Brautigan (1967)

Posted on April 3, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’ is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It presents an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which … Continue reading →

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Fillmore Bill: Bill Graham’s Legacy

Posted on January 6, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

During the 1965 Mime Troupe arrest: from left to right: Bill Graham, Ron Davis, Luis Valdez, Paul Jacobs. “Bill Graham’s rise to fame coincided with (and is partly owed to) the heyday of late 60s counterculture movement and its music … Continue reading →

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Ed Sanders – Tales of Beatnik Glory

Posted on December 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… Foremost, it was [Ed] Sanders’s time, most certainly—Tales of Beatnik Glory proves it. As the owner of the Peace Eye bookstore, publisher of the legendary Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, and founding member of The Fugs, Ed Sanders was … Continue reading →

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Turtle Island – Gary Snyder (1974)

Posted on November 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Turtle Island is a book of poems and essays written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions in 1974. Within it, Snyder expresses his vision for humans to live in harmony with the earth and all its creatures. The … Continue reading →

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Bob Weir on Psychedelic San Francisco and the Birth of the Grateful Dead

Posted on November 14, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Fillmore West at Van Ness and Market, 1970, with marquee advertising upcoming Grateful Dead shows. “Bob Weir’s long, strange trip with the Grateful Dead began on New Year’s Eve, 1963, when he followed the sound of a banjo into a … Continue reading →

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“American Pie” – Don McLean (1971)

Posted on September 10, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘American Pie’ is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. … The repeated phrase ‘the day the music died‘ refers to a plane crash in 1959 that killed early rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, … Continue reading →

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Paul Krassner

Posted on May 15, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Paul Krassner, right, in 1969 with, from left, Ed Sanders of the rock group the Fugs and Abbie Hoffman. Mr. Krassner helped start the Yippie movement and was the founder of The Realist magazine. “He was a prankster, a master … Continue reading →

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The Decline and Fall of the Democratic Party – Murray Kempton (Nov. 1968)

Posted on April 9, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“… We had arrived at 18th and Michigan, where the [national] guard and the police waited to say we could not go farther. The delegates had all found us and efficiently lined up behind Rev. Richard Neuhaus and me, since, … Continue reading →

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Quicksilver Times

Posted on March 7, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Quicksilver Times was an antiwar, counterculture underground newspaper published in Washington, DC. Its first issue was dated June 16, 1969, with Terry Becker Jr., a former college newspaper editor and reporter for the Newhouse News Service, the main instigator in … Continue reading →

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The Digger Concept of ‘Free’ by Peter Coyote

Posted on February 16, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Diggers Free City News proclaiming the “Death of Hippy” on October 6, 1967 “The original Digger movement began in England in April of 1649. Oliver ‘Ironsides’ Cromwell, executioner of King Charles I, was now the protector of the empire. Cromwell … Continue reading →

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Jajouka Or Joujouka? The Conflicted Legacy Of The Master Musicians

Posted on January 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Telephone Man’ was a gimbri player who used to play in the village of Joujouka (just as often spelled Jajouka), decades before mobile phones finally connected the hilltop base to the outside world around ten years ago. He would visit … Continue reading →

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Oz

Posted on December 17, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Oz was an independently published, alternative/underground magazine associated with the international counterculture of the 1960s. While it was first published in Sydney in 1963, a parallel version of Oz was published in London from 1967. The Australian magazine was published … Continue reading →

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Nathan Gelgud – Unconventional, Part 1: Ed Sanders and the Liberal Puritan

Posted on November 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions later this summer, Nathan Gelgud, one of the Daily’s new correspondents, will be posting a regular weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 DNC.  …” The Paris … Continue reading →

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Hip Capitalism Fails

Posted on September 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

March 14, 1968: Selling the underground press on Haight and Clayton. “By 1971 the original 1967 ambivalence among one element of hippie culture with the urban setting manifested itself in what I call the Long March to Tennessee, led by … Continue reading →

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Stewart Brand

Posted on May 19, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations, including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. He is the … Continue reading →

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Debunking ’60s Myths and Catchphrases

Posted on May 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Crossing street at Masonic and Haight, 1967. “… The system not only referred to capitalism or to economics. The system represented the constellation of forces that dominated and controlled all aspects of social life from sexual mores to the oppression … Continue reading →

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Something Else Press

Posted on May 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Wolf Vostell, dé-coll/age happenings (1966). Translated by Laura P. Miller. Wooden box with sliding plexiglass panel as cover. Contents include book plus 15 folded posters, silk-screen print, one package of Bromo-Seltzer mounted on mirrored Mylar, and one piece of matzoh. … Continue reading →

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The Psychedelic Poster Craze of the 1960s

Posted on April 18, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“For centuries, the poster has been a useful tool for advertising coming attractions, warning of dangers both physical and spiritual, and publicly calling for political change. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that the idea of using posters for decoration … Continue reading →

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Forever Changes – Love (1967)

Posted on April 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Forever Changes is the third studio album by the American rock band Love, released by Elektra Records in November 1967. It was the final album recorded by the original band lineup; after its completion, Bryan Maclean left the group acrimoniously … Continue reading →

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Coffee, Confusion and Jim Morrison: The Forgotten History of Hip Coffee Houses and Beatnik Poets in the Nation’s Capital

Posted on March 9, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Cafe Rienzi, opened by painter David Grossblatt, was one of the first coffee shops in New York. Located on MacDougal Street, 1957. “The Beat Generation emerged in the 1950s as a bohemian-fueled movement of visionary literary heroes, passionate poets and … Continue reading →

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The Great Art Behind Hunter S. Thompson’s Run for Sheriff

Posted on March 7, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Hunter S. Thompson giving his concession speech at Hotel Jerome. “If you’re going to curate an exhibition of vintage artwork related to the unorthodox and self-described gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, prepare for the process itself to become a bit, … Continue reading →

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The strange history of the East Village’s most famous street

Posted on February 15, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The corner of Second Avenue and St. Mark’s Place in 1968. “St. Marks Place—the three blocks of East Eighth Street that run from Astor Place to Tompkins Square Park—has become a symbol of the East Village. Head shops serve as … Continue reading →

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Access to Success – Whole Earth Catalog

Posted on February 13, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Bookstore managers didn’t know quite what to make of the oversized 64-page volume that showed up in their stores in the fall of 1968. It was called the ‘Whole Earth Catalog‘ and subtitled ‘Access to Tools.’ For $5, buyers got … Continue reading →

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John Sinclair: ‘We wanted to kick ass – and raise consciousness’

Posted on February 5, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I meet John Sinclair in a canalside coffeeshop in Amsterdam, where the vibes are mellow, the air perfumed, and the soundtrack a stream of vintage rock songs of the more laidback kind. Compared to slightly self-conscious young pot tourists skinning … Continue reading →

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1968: Art and Politics in Chicago

Posted on January 28, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the weeks leading up to the convention, the city prepared for battle, even surrounding the site of the convention, the International Amphitheater, with barbed wire. It appeared Daley intended to make good on his promise: ‘[a]s long as I … Continue reading →

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Remarks on Timothy Leary’s Politics of Ecstasy by Allen Ginsberg (December 12, 1968)

Posted on November 23, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“By the late ’40s of this memory Century the people I knew best and loved the most had already broken through the crust of old Reason & were dowsing for some Supreme Reality, Christmas on Earth Rimbaud said, Second Religiousness … Continue reading →

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Diane di Prima

Posted on November 9, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima authored nearly four dozen books. … She edited … Continue reading →

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Wanna-Beats: In 1959, Café Bizarre Gave Straights an Entree Into Beatnik Culture

Posted on November 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A poet gives a reading on stage at The Bizarre coffehouse on West 3rd St., Greenwich Village, New York City, 1961. “America hit peak hippie in 1967, thanks to the avalanche of media hype that accompanied the Summer of Love. … Continue reading →

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The Things We Knew Then: Vivid Then, Fading Now?

Posted on August 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1. James Forman was a. ’68 Olympic heavyweight champion b. national director of the Congress of Racial Equality c. a Czechoslovakian film director d. executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 2. In Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, … Continue reading →

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The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love

Posted on August 19, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Young hippies straddle the sidewalk as an elderly woman, a long-time resident of the Haight-Ashbury district, walks by in San Francisco, Calif., on April 25, 1967. “The posters began to appear around the city just after New Year’s, 1967. ‘A … Continue reading →

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