#117

Yeah he went through a “horror of the human condition” phase, and then came back we We Are the Best.

#118

Although idk if Gerry Rafferty is/was a hippy but this is the second time he’s been mentioned in the thread, my dad’s band supported his band with Billy Connelly (the Humblebums maybe?) on a little Scottish tour back in the day.

I remember asking which bands he saw in the 60s and 70s when growing up and he basically just said none

#119

oh cool thanks this looks worth a watch :+1:

#120

Lilya Forever is great too, but really depressing. About a Russian girl tricked into coming to Sweden by people traffickers. They used it in an schools education programme in that region though.

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#121

I didn’t get that from your first post at all

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#122

Fucking love Papa K.

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#123

There’s an overlap in the two parent threads atm because the most important of my dads rules were:

  1. Never trust a hippy

  2. Don’t vote Tory

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#124

most trustworthy subculture:

  • Hippies
  • Punks
  • Goths
  • Beatniks
  • E-kids
  • Furries
  • Metalheads
  • Junglists
  • Mods
  • New Romantics
  • Rude Boys
  • Emos
  • Trekkies

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#125

regional neckbeards

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#126

Does a lot of that just cross over into furry territory?

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#127

Why does the most massive hippy parent not simply eat the other smaller hippy parents?

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#128

I think it might well have been on DiS that someone pointed out that the way history is written is that in 1967 everyone was just sitting in a field getting stoned and having a good time when actually, it was a small number of middle class students who had the connections for the drugs and the financial freedom to not work who were doing that. Most people were just getting on with their life of doing average, normal things. Then eventually the look got moved in to mainstream culture, thus the flares as mentioned.

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#129

Same with punk, innit?

#130

Juggalos

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#131

Absaloutely not

#132

I think it might actually be juggalos

#133

Probably say the same for any “counter culture” movement since the 60s. It’s certainly arguable that the impact they had reached beyond the very small group of people that were involved originally though. Did they bring about any lasting change or would the world be largely the same place without them having existed? Dunno.

#134

El Hopaness New Romtic

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#135

i love that film

#136

There are some examples where you can say that yes, they massively did.
The Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales, for example, was founded by hippies on communal living principles, and drove a lot of development of solar panels and wind turbines. It was considered ludicrous by the mainstream energy sector at the time, but many of the people went on to establish very successful renewable energy businesses and had a massive influence on the development of the sector.
Or you could look at festivals as an outgrowth of new-age travellers, that’s a massive part of our culture and economy now that has grown out of the counterculture.
There’s others but I got a meeting in 30 seconds :frowning:

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