Category Archives: youth

SLEEP Ill Wind (1968)

May 6, 2011 – 10:47 pm

My favorite webradio station is www.techwebsound.com The playlist on Technicolor Web of Sound on is mostly obscure hippie rock rangning from obscure to one-hit wonders to classic acid trips. Here is the most recent sound from the station # Blue Cheer – Feathers From Your Tree # Tony Hazzard – Fade Away Maureen # The […]

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WANDERLUST by Peter Nolan Smith

April 7, 2011 – 11:43 pm

The 60s were a time of rebellion. My father was straight. I was a hippie. His politics and mine were in conflict for most of our lives and I swore that I would not be my father. He was no fan of my lifestyle. We were worlds apart from the 60s into the 90s. A […]

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Over 40 a la Brooklyn

April 3, 2011 – 8:30 pm

From LA at Frank’s Lounge. Where the truth is the truth. OVER 40 VERSUS THE NOW 1) When I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog. 2) There was no email!! […]

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GODLESSNESS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 27, 2011 – 12:36 pm

East of Albuquerque the interstate switchbacked up the Santia Heights out of the Rio Grande Valley. The summer lost its heat, as the rusted pick-up climbed toward the pass and the cooler temperature revitalized AK and me. Late-August temperatures were murder on longhaired hitchhikers crossing the Far West. Rides were few and distances were far. […]

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Truth – Archimed’s Pad

March 24, 2011 – 10:14 pm

I’m an old hippie for a reason and this is one of them. No one I know has heard of this band. At all. Groove on, motherfuckers.

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