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Re: the 60's



Well... the hippies also used hard core civil disobedience to express our anger!  It was a thrilling time. 
The free love and drugs was just a bonus for some of us.  For some it was the core of the experience.  They're the ones who went on to Wall Street and commerce. Truth is, they missed the most glorious boat of the time. 


On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:17 AM, Rick Walker wrote:

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, mark francombe wrote:
The absolute joy and freedom that I felt as a young radical anarchist (If only I had known what that meant) was something that I cannot report as being negative in anyway. Questions we were asking, were the exact same questions that the hippy movement were asking 10 to 12 years earlier, just that we chose aggression and chaos to rebel, where the hippys used free sex and drugs. (Note I don't use the terms peace and love here... we had that too!!!)
Yeah, come to think of it,  you are right, Mark.
I , too , remember the early punk days and the joy there was in being angry and creative and just letting it out.

I missed the Rave culture entirely because I was doing world fusion music for almost 20 years before I reentered
pop music at the turn of the millenium, but that's an amazing story about the DJ and the track, Killer.

thanks for the perspective and the cool story.

rick walker