What kind of music do the "old" hippies listen to now?

I really hate to use the term "old", but I mean the real hippes of the 60s?

I am just really interested in finding out what you guys listen to. What kind of music really resonates with you nowadays....are you still listening to the (what I like to call) glory days of rock n roll, or have you mellowed? Are there any modern bands that you dig?

Just for the record, I think the White Stripes are the best thing to come out in 12 years.

 

I listen to everything from the 60s-Quicksilver-Janis-Right now in my car I made some cds of Love-Canned Heat-Van Morrison-The Birds-Bob Dylan-Steely Dan-Spirit--but no Hendrix or Doors-I just heard too much of them for many years-The groups I listen to from today are Collective Soul-Natalie Merchant-u2--no White Stripes-I just don't hear that great of musicianship in their stuff-Jack;s ok but those licks have been done a million times before him-Listen to Lynard Skynard or the Almann Bros.-whatever ya like is ok-it's your eardrums-which I damaged sitting in front of stacks of Marshalls when I was much younger-Blue Cheer at 5 feet is damaging!-say what????

 

Unfortunately for me, a hearing loss makes it necessary to crank up a stereo too much for where I live so I don't listen to music as often as I once did (the hearing loss is from being a miner moreso than loud music). I also no longer have the income to stay on the bleeding edge of music. All that said, I like:

Scandinavian folk/rock/fusion (Vasen, Garmarna, Hoven Droven)
Marilyn Manson
Tool and APC
Audioslave
Gretchen Wilson (especially the retro stuff she does)
Sugarland
Gov't Mule
Dread Zeppelin
Allison Kraus
Plato's Halo (wish they had more than the one CD)
Johnny Winter
Reggae (now and then)
Beausoleil

Mostly, I'll listen to nearly anything that's done well and shows artistry and talent. No "cookie monster" rock or speed metal, definitely no rap (waaaay too angry), and no hokie "hook line" country or pop. Although I almost never go to concerts, I'd say that almost any live music is better than most anything recorded.

 

I bet seeing Blue Cheer was something!!!

 

Beside of the good old stuff mostly this, what was the so called Underground in the 60s/70s, mostly bands, which are not aired much (like Pavlo's Dog, Carolyn Mas, a Band called O, Wigwam, Albertos Y Lost Trios Paranoias, Hawkwind, Zomby Woof....), the old Krautrockers, some of them are still or again on the road, (Kraan, Broeselmaschine, Epitaph, Amon Duul,......), a lot of new ones, you've never heared about on the other side of the ocean (Zone 6, Electric Orange, Rev. Rusty, .....), Scandinavian Bands like Seid from Norway, Celtic Rockers like Alan Stivell or Tri Yann (the Sound of bag pipes mixed with Stratocasters and Rock Drums, wow), Reggae (Black Uhuru, Wailers, Bayaman Sistem) and and and. I'm visiting still Open Air Festvals like Herzberg or FreakWEEKnoEND and two weeks ago I saw Johnny Winter again live on stage after more than 25 years.

 

I have heard alot about these scandinavian bands lately....I am just so fed up with the music scene nowadays to the point where I'm just stickin' to what I know and like. But the problem lies where everyone I like and listen to are either dead or defunct....so I dont get anything new! If anyone wants to point out a band that I should check out, please do so!!

 

I'm into Steeleye Span, U2, Richard Thompson, and lots of socially conscious singer-songwriters like Rod McDonald, David Massengill, Magpie and Dar Williams. The current Dylan pales compared to his classic work and I NEVER listen to the mainstream stuff...most of it isn't even music in my opinion.

 

sadly i find alot of what was popular then much better than most of the shit that has been done in recent years,,, most everything style wise and music wise has been done somewhere long ago only new thing is the words n how they are screeched,,,,
there are a few i like around now,,, but none that i listen to enough to recall at the moment,,,, other than damien marley

 

down on congress street,it was 1968 and i was young and at that time we were wild and drunk,so we would always go,go down to ,the far out light shows,and see some really different girls,from what you knew in most of the high schools,and they began to change me at the Vulcan Gas Company.On a little sign outside,it read,playing every wednesday night Johnny Winter.Thanks for the rush!

 

Music nowadays SUCKS. Even underground stuff is hard for me to find something substantial. I really hate to say this, but I think music has reached a plateau. What's next?? What else is there for us to take and cultivate and turn into something new???

 

I listen to the same stuff I always have. Peter,Paul & Mary:: John Denver:: Jim Croce.

 

Geez, I like so much the range in hard to describe, but some are:

Tool
SOAD
NIN
Queens of the Stone Age
Godsmack
Offspring
Grateful Dead
Santana
CSN (&Y)
Tom Petty
Bob Marley
Triumph
Black Sabbath and Ozzy
AC/DC
Metallica
Alice in Chains
Nirvana

I love old Motown: Marvin Gaye, The Temptations! (love em! Ball of Confusion! Cloud Nine!), The Four Tops, The Supremes. The first record I ever bought was a 45 of Aretha Franklin's Respect.

last, but never least..........JIMI HENDRIX

 

I dunno, I listened to so much music it plays automatically in my head! Thats what I listen to, whatevers in my head at the time! Bustramp

 

I agree, music sucks and for a couple of reasons I think, The times have changed and the musicians have run out of ideas, the successful musicians are more into being millionaires than musicians and none of them have had a hit in over twenty years. Maybe just apathy or the scene is over!



Bustramp

 

Speaking of Blue Cheer, I just saw them a few weeks ago. My ears are still bleeding.

 

Old Hippyman-Yes-It has been since 67-since I saw Blue Cheer at Winterland-Here's a funny story for ya about them-(I got a million of them from them daze)-Anyway I play the sax and flute and one night in San Francisco me and a couple of our group were gettin drunk in North Beach-The Coffee Gallery-thats the little funky coffee house where Janis started out-Any way it;s strickly an acoustic place; small and a little stage-I had my flute with me an out of the blue Nick Gravenities from Electric Flag -member them?-goes on with just an acoustic guitar and starts playing some great stuff-mostly non blues; I asked him if he minded if I could sit in with him He said sure-We jammed back and forth for an hour or so and it came out real nice-We thanked each other and I sat back down with my buds-I felt fantastic as he told me that I was a real good player and to me that was such a major compliment-Here's the guy who co-wrote most of Janis Joplins songs and played with Mike Bloomfield ; Paul Butterfield and some of the greatest blues people in the world giving me a nice compliment and allowing me to stay up there and play-As a musician this was a great honor-He worte and sang the song Born In Chicago-!I asked him why he didn't sing the blues anymore and he said ?cause I don;t have the blues no more''-Well-this was 71 and Janis had just died so as they were so close I thought that kinda different--Well-after sitting back down in the audience-which was about 40 people-the guy behind me said it sounded good and I looked and it was one of the members of the original Blue Cheer-I said aren't you in Blue Cheer?-He said ya and so was all the guys with him-They were going to do an acoustic set!0Can you imagine-Summertime Blues unplugged!?-Well we had to take off before they played but I have some great memories of that night-One last note-I asked the guitar player how he could handle the volume he said thats why they were trying the unplugged thing tonight to give their ears a rest!-lol-fun night that was!-Blue Cheer had some talent but mainly alot of amps-high shock value!-And on good acid they were amazing to watch-In thoses days the bottom line was instant gratification -none of these groups ever figured on fame and fortune-just hoped-but to their credit they worked alot with bad equipment stoned roadies and very little money-Jimi Hendrix made sounds come out that were inpossible to duplclicate-Today with the technologuy we have 'his sound can be copied fairly easy-But for 66; he was way ahead of his time at guitar sound effects-Todays musicians have a world of toys to chose from to create different effects-Back then about the only toys guitar players had was the wa-wa petal and the echo plex-maybe a little fuzz box-( o-yea that one too)

 

Ah! Good old Winterland! I remember it well! We used to pay about $4 to see 3 or 4 name bands. The show would start about 8 pm and last until after midnight.

 

I listen to:
Bob Marley
Leftover Salmon
Drew Emmitt
Peter Rowan
John Cohen
String Cheese Incident
Yonder Mountain String Band
Keller Wiliams
Gibb Droll
Steel Pulse
Soldiers of the Jah Army
Jackie Gino
G-love
Beastie boys
Tool
Primus
Janes addiction
Grateful Dead
Allman Bros
Government Mule
Bela Fleck
Davidson Bros
Led Zeppelin
The Doors

...in short not too much has changed except that Bluegrass is a much larger part of the remaining hippy scene. Also, some of us allow ourselves to appreciate some of the harder stuff (tool etc...), than we used to back in the day.

 

well what i've got in the my music directory are anime themes, a bunch of vulpyro's stuff, including a whole bunch of his works in progress, some ian body's stuff, mostly whatever's free and mostly tecno ambient i can bum off the web, or listent on kvmr, which plays some interesting stuff you don't get on clear channel, like some of the jam bands who'se names i can never seem to remember half of.

oh and a few old filks that were free samples including the all time clasic ballad 'horse tamer's daughter'. i think promethius has a couple of samples from minus ten and counting i haven't downloaded yet.

then there's some hindu bagrams, a couple of little samples from some kind of pop country sounding guy in nepal, and some baha'i stuff from when they dedicated the rebuilt terraces at the shrine of the bab in haifa, like nine houses and humminging bird and queen of carmel.

then there's some actual sounds of telemetry data translated into/played as audio that sound really trippy, and incidental pads and samples that are royalty free and intended for doing background sounds to accompany video productions

other then the bagrams, nepalese, seals and crofts, and the filkers, oh and a couple of french pop samples, the rest is all instrumentals, mostly electronic.

not much into vocals unless the're politicaly counter-culture or filk. (filk = real music of immaginary folk from fantasy and science fiction)

i've always liked things that are a bit too spacey and out there ever to become top 40. like klaus shultze, ian body, and so on. tangarene dream was the closest most of what i like ever got to crossing over into anything resembling a popular mainstream, although moody blues, jefferson airplane, jethro tull, were among my favorites 'in the day' and still essentialy are. there's a local native flute player who'se really good you may have heard of, mary youngblood, who'se someone i especialy like these days.

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Yep, that says it all... well, maybe a little more Jazz.

Peace,
poor_old_dad