I'm the most nostalgic person alive. HELP!

"If you remember the sixties you weren't really THERE"!

I understand that as a humorous line. But only in the joking sense. Plenty of people who were "there" (Vietnam, Haight-Ashbury, the Civil Rights fights, the '68 DNC, etc.) not only remember it, but can talk about it in great detail; many have written very outstanding literature about it.

And also you must have forgotten about 'Altamount' When the whole concert got trashed

No, your mention of that just underscores my point, an example of how in some respects things really are better now. Most really gigantic festivals featuring hippie bands and non-conforming hordes of 100,000+ people are without major incidents, and nothing like the scene that went down at Altamont.

I've watched America become the "ME FIRST, and scr*w you, Nation"

I absolutely agree that mainstream culture is exactly that.

 

You weren't even alive when Woodstock 69' happen....So how would you know if it was boring?

 

i don't remember woodstock.but i'm not sorry.because i live now,and it's just as good.
let me share to you a memory from 2 years ago,woodstock child:

we were about 50.000
we made our tents on the beach,but everybody slept where sleep got them,on the beach,on the field,on the side of the road,in stranger's tents.
a friend of mine went barefoot all day and his feet were full of mud.while he slept,somebody came and washed his feet.
during the night,you could see campfires all along the beach.
we sat at a campfire,about 100 people.some played guitars,tambourines,violines,flutes.we all sang in one voice.i was leaning on some dude i never saw before,and a girl who never saw me before was leaning on me.
i took out my ciggarette pack,took one and passed the pack on,along with some steak i had.it never got back to me,but that was ok.soon a bottle of wine arrived from another side,followed by food and more ciggarettes.we ate,we drank,we smoked,we passed on.we all felt good together and we were complete strangers.

that was vama veche a couple of years ago.
now the place has become "trendy" and all sorts of screwed up people are coming.we still have our fires and communing,but the odd looks and comments we get give us an edge.so this year we're moving on another deserted beach.

the point is,now it's just as good.

 

Hi all I'm new here and I just had to add my 2 cents, the 60's and 70's was good and bad. Thank God for the drugs, which made the bad times better and the the good times much better. I really don't sit back and recall, but there are those times I'll be in some bar, the band plays that song and it's like magic. You go back, remember that time, that girl, oh the place in time and I'm sitting there with that big GRIN on my face. Boy O Boy was that good but I live for today. I do love the music from that time and it's about all I listen to now days......oh this will be the day that I die.......fallin fast.......we all got up to dance............the day the music died.......Bye Bye ........a generation lost in space.............Oh those songs they bring a tear to my eye and I remember Boy o Boy did I live or what? So Remember The Days Of Future Past..... But Live For Today It Just May Be Your LAST ......Another Day Closer To.....Death

 

you say thank god for the drugs, i say god i never got addicted to anything.

i say thank god there was a mood created, that we were able to experience, whatever the drugs may or may not have contributed to it. and i think the only thing they really contributed to was the idea people had in their heads doing them that it was doing so.

you say false hope. i say not false at all. just a real hope that people gave up on or simply got distracted from too soon.

people always get tired of the same things so everything chainges. sometimes this is good. sometimes this is silly. sometimes this is disasterous.

the knee jerk swing away from peace and love, because people went back to putting trying to impress each other ahead of us, is what created a market for the tyranny raygun and khomani conspired to create and under which we all live now.

yet the hope has not died. can never die. will never die.

the fix may be in. the corporate mafia may rule the planet. but just like peace and love, people get tired of too long the same thing.

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Maybe you're feeling that way because you were there in another lifetime and have been reincarnated. Some folks believe that, some don't.

 

"you say false hope. i say not false at all. just a real hope that people gave up on or simply got distracted from too soon."

Hey Man I never said that and I never said I was Addicted to anything WTF was that a Flash Back you're having ?

Hey man you off the Meds today, or is that really you in there? Like I said My 2 cents.....

 

Aphrodite_pretty, I love that song quoted in your signature. It's my favorite Stevie Nicks song. Actually I saw her twice in concert, one solo and once with Fleetwood Mac
It's just that whole idea of rock 'n roll doesn't exist anymore. It just disintegrated. When they died, the whole lifestyle died with them. I just want one day to feel what it was like. Just one day.

 

Why weren't I with you??!

Anyway,I'm nostalgic too sometimes,but i suggest you 'd better try to live your life Now,not just Let her pass through you...I now how you feel,and i'd really like to go back to the 60's too sometimes,but don't forget that they had their problems too!! Have fun,and enjoy life the best you can,Now ''cause we may not be here tomorrow''-Janis-

 

It's just that whole idea of rock 'n roll doesn't exist anymore. It just disintegrated. When they died, the whole lifestyle died with them. I just want one day to feel what it was like. Just one day.

Wood, child I don't know where you've parked the Yellow subbut if I'm dead how can I be here trying to soothe you're fevered brow?:H And there are a lot of woodstock rockers still around, obviously not where the yellow sub is docked, but we're here! We just got old and the bands broke up for various reasons, the world speeded up so the music had to also, up until a few weeks ago I could have said "at least your generation didn't live under the threat of of the 'Abomb' or being forced to fight and die for a war on the other side of the globe" but can't use that argument now!

Well I said all that to say all this! rock is still alive you just can't hear it through all the thumping bumping and grinding thats so popular today

 

I feel so much better when I'm listening to music. Right now I'm listening to "Cool Change" by the Little River Band and before I was listeining to Mr. Tambourine Man by Bob Dylan. It's just such peaceful and inspiring music. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival is such a calming song too.

 

i listen to "get along" by the peaceful panthers

also "love is the issue" and "rock the pot house"

 

Right now i'm listening to the sweet sounds of Celine Dion

 

the turtles <3 my heart will go on

 

I love the Turtles "It Ain't Me Babe"

 

I think that the whole peace and love thing was an excuse to get high and screw. Things really haven't changed that much, as people still find excuses to get high and screw.

A few people actually did something important in the 60s, but it had nothing to do with going to a music festival. I mean, that's just silly.

 

misty, if you feel that way why did you migrate to a hippy forum in the first place?

 

True. Don't get me wrong, I love 60's music, 60's clothes, etc, but I would never want to live in the 60's. And it does kind of piss me off when I keep hearing people spout off about how it was so much better in the 60's, and how the present day sucks because of rap music, Bush, whatever. Well, it wasn't that much better in the 1960's, if anything, it was worse. Just because the music was better doesn't mean the quality of life was any better. Discrimination was still rampant, typical gender rolls were still in place, etc. Yes, we still have those now, but people didn't have the same amount of freedoms as they do now. It was only though the hard work from Civil rights groups, women's groups, student's groups, etc, was there any change, and not from dirty teenagers dancing around in fields on acid.

 

If it weren't for "dirty teenagers dancing around in fields on acid" you probly wouldn't enjoy some of the freedom you enjoy today! Such as before the revolution women thought that the way to a mans heart was through his tummy, so they became suzie home makers, during The REV. they found out that a better way to control their man was farther south, AY? Which led to all kinds of new avenues of freedom.

And men found out women weren't made of porcelin and want to have fun too, actually the 60's was good for everybody, you should thank us
dirty hippys oterwise you might have to look forward to, how did they used to say it? Keep her bare foot and pregnant, to her home, and out of trouble. Yeah that sounds about right.

 

I bumped into this old hippie lady selling flowers on the beach the other night and she gave me a wealth of stories from the old days when flower children were everywhere. It was amazing the shit she told me. I love old nostalgic stories . ooooo yea