FREAKIN' OUT

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HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY

THERE WERE NO HIPPIES, BABY
ONLY FREAKS

You Were Either Cool, Or You Weren't

Anybody who called himself or herself a hippy back in the day was either joking or a narc. We were heads, stoners, freaks, or just plain cool. "Hippy" was one of those derogatory Time Magazine labels that tired old useless -ssh-les with no imagination and no clue used to slap on people who were younger, smarter and hipper than them. The same d-ckheads called the Beats "beatniks," and feminists "women's libbers." All they were really saying was that they were very very angry that they were missing all the fun, all their lives. And the music.

They were people like Pat Buchanan and Gordon Liddy. They hated everything and everybody, and they made a pretty good living at it. Of course, they weren't welcomed by decent people anywhere. They pretty much had to hang with -ssh-les like themselves. Nixon. Agnew. Reagan. Bush. We all knew what foul things they did to get where they were, which was nowhere. Things like labeling people, stirring up hatred and fear, dividing & conquering, ripping us all off. -ssh-les.

They missed the whole Revolution. The music, the art, the books, the films, the sex, the drugs, the gods & goddesses. They never played cops & robbers for real. Never explored the universe, inner or outer. Never rebelled or protested, never changed anything for the better. Never knew peace, love or understanding. And now it's too late for them.

Now they're old, bitter and alone. They're still on the tee-vee labeling people. But no one pays them any mind. Because they're not cool. And they never were, man. Peace, freaks.



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YOUTUBE: THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
"Frank Zappa - 01 - Hungry freaks, daddy"
Frank Zappa, Freak Daddy.




YOUTUBE: LARRY "WILD MAN" FISCHER
"Wild Man Fischer - Circle"
Larry fit right in, back then... And he wasn't even trippin'.




YOUTUBE: CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND
"Captain Beefheart - Click Clack"
See, beef heart is like... mm... Let him explain it...




YOUTUBE: HOWARD KAYLAN & MARK VOLMAN
"Flo & Eddie (Keep It Warm)"
The Turtles' last incarnation.



YOUTUBE: CSN&Y
"Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair (Wembley Stadium '74)"
The Flight Of The Freak Flag.




YOUTUBE: COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH
"Country Joe McDonald - "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die""
"Next stop is Vietnam..." Or Canada.




YOUTUBE: THE GRATEFUL DEAD
"Grateful Dead - Truckin'"
Coke, cops & cross-country cruisin'.




YOUTUBE: THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
"Somebody To Love/White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane"
Gracie!




YOUTUBE: JANIS JOPLIN
"Janis Joplin - Get it while you can"
And she did.




YOUTUBE: THE NEW YORK DOLLS
"New York Dolls - Jet Boy"
The band that discovered sexual ambiguity. Except for, you know, Little Richard. OK, the WHITE band that...




YOUTUBE: JIMI HENDRIX
"Jimi Hendrix May this be love"
Floating along with Hendrix.




YOUTUBE: GEORGE HARRISON
"George Harrison My Sweet Lord"
George calls ahead.



(cross-posted at CoffeeHouseStudio by cosanostradamus)


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