You know you're an aging hippie when...

Ummmm... Whut?

 

You know you're an aging hippy when current dance music sounds like 37 drunken monkeys banging away at 37 different keyboards hooked up to 37 different processors in 37 different keys.......

 

You mean it's not?

 

I WAS trying to be polite. I actually think my intoxicated simians would have a better chance of producing something even vaguely musical.

 

If only the simians would remember to pay their union dues.....

 

.....when you can remember The Beatles as The Quarrymen.

 

I do lean toward the guitar driven rock of my youth but there is great modern music. The only problem is that the 4 or 5 money making multi nationals own 80% or so of all music distribution so all we hear are the drunken monkeys

The DM's appeal to a very large population of tweenies whose parents are spending big coin to buy that stuff

I choose not to buy it or listen to it

 

at the Woolten Village fete

 

....and Pete Best was the drummer......

 

I remember knowing that but when they got to the US they were the Beatles.

 

you're an aging hippy when you know who the Sons of the Pioneers were...

 

Use to listen to them as a kid on the various TV shows of the day. Was reading that Roy Rogers was one of the first sons.

 

I met one of them in Douglas City (pop: +or-60 says the sign) in the Trinity Alps of N. Cal about 1980. His bitch in life was his grandson wouldn't let him play his electric guitar. lol

 

When the NZ Government announces a programme to erncourage homeowners to install solar water heating (2006) and you know all about it from 1974 or when you attend a Permaculture course and know as much as the tutor and when a demonstration of solar cooking is given you say I remember this from the NZ Whole Earth Catalogue and someone says what was that.

 

When you could apply for land out west with the homestead act.

 

Hey puggybear; I remember Pete Best. I also remember meeting him in the mid '60s, at a club called The Cave in Buffalo, NY. I was in a group called Just Us Five (later to become The Road), and we opened a gig there for The McCoys (remember Hang On Sloopy, Fever, etc.?); Pete Best was touring, doing his bitching about not being part of The Beatles anymore, and he sat in on our drummers set for a couple numbers. He was OK, but Ringo was more original, I think.

 

When you can remember seeing ration stamps for butter and other products sitting on your grampas -desk.

When you could go to the movies for 12 cents and get 2 features ,several short subjects and a cartoon,while munching your 5 cent candy bars.

 

Yeah to both of the above and what about those thrilling news reels?

 

Yup. Pre-TV the war news was shown in the theaters.

If you can remember Joe Doakes-Behind the Eight-Ball.

Or if you know where -"plunk your magic twanger--FROGEE!! came from.

 

I remember FROGEE!