Sticks, please. There are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. Its all related. The psychedelics and the war, the protesting. Im planning on having a good time as long as i can. Smoke pot with your kids and then youll understand why the kids are happier. Its a giant lovein. People should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. You cannot ignore it, a change in morality. Theyre fascist. They dont like hippies and they dont like the things we do. We do have to maintain law, order, and decency on the streets. What were thinking about is a peaceful planet. Were not thinking about anything else. They are trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. Fors america in the early 60s, it was a real good time of prosperity, but it was also kind of a stagnant time in terms of spiritual growth. Things were kind of at a standstill. The Baseline Culture was materialism and also the feeling that the culture itself didnt honor the human spirit and didnt honor creativity. In the early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called The Beat Generation. A novel titled on the road became a bestseller. When kerouacs book comes out, it became a revolution. It defined a new generation of what being beat means. And it defined it as a spiritual revolution. That if were living in an age of conformity, if everybodys trying to work for the corporation, that youre losing a sense of self. I was traveling west one time at the junction of the state line of colorado. I saw in the clouds huge and massed above the theory golden desert of even fall, a great image of god with four fingers pointed straight at me. Come on, boy, go thou across the ground. Go moan for man. Go moan. Go groan. Go groan alone. Go roll your bones alone. Jack kerouac became like a godfather for the counterculture. The village has a life and language all its own. If you dig it, youre hip. If you dont, man, youre square. Coffee houses, the Neighborhood Bars of bohemia. Where the strongest potion is coffee, and the Coffeehouse Poet is the specialty of the house. To find a place where the eyes can rest beatniks, they had these coffeehouses they would go in and play chess and read poetry, and those same coffeehouses became kind of a Proving Ground for folk singers. And all the young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. Standing down in new york town one day folk music, it gives me a lot more than the Popular Music of our own time does. My outlook is that topical songs should be sung because we dont do anything about say the bombs, you know, the whole situation comes to an end. Theres gotta be an alternative to whatever ways of life are offered to them, you know. I mean democrat, republican, and i would like to offer some kind of alternative, somehow, you know . Folk revival scene had a big part of politics. You cant get left politics out of Woody Guthrie or pete seger. And so the Greenwich Village movement was there to celebrate peoples culture. If you like the music, you really were signing on for their ways of looking at the world too. And then eventually one guy emerges as being special. A bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers blood during that time in the 60s as that cultural revolution was slowly bubbling and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country, theyre looking for answers. Bob dylan thought that folk music was poetry. He took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture, and its more a lyrical intensity than anybodys put to song before. And the negros name is used, it is plain for the politicians gain as he rises to fame up until the time of bob dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. Dylan started writing his own music. He says, i am going to comment on the world, im going to comment on the nature of this human experience. Bob dylan was in this sort of whitehot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. On a pawn in their game after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. Go where you want to go and do what you want to do wherever you want to do it Laurel Canyon becomes the epicenter of the rock revolution. The music scene was not happening in new york anymore. It was now l. A. Everybody moved to Laurel Canyon. Actors, musicians, artists. And so it was kind of a whole community, very open. If youre driving over Laurel Canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, you just automatically pull over hey brother get in, you know, where you going . Laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. I lived on Lookout Mountain with joni mitchell. Crosby was close, stephen was close. 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During the past year, it has become a playground for southern californias mobile restless teenagers. It is the place to go. People would meet down at clubs on the sunset strip, and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whiskey a go go. It was a real happening. They changed from a culture of grownups that sort of looked down on kids to kids leading. It is the creation of the teenager, and the revolution begins. I got a light on you, babe the Los Angeles CountySheriffs Office has begun foot patrol on the sunset strip to cope with the growing influx of youngsters. The notion of teenagers who had a culture of their own, that werent listening to their parents music, kind of opens up this giant space for rebellions large and small. At least 10 of the students have used and are using marijuana. Also probably a very significant thing is that acceptance is gaining steadily, and the usage is really increasing very rapidly. In l. A. , we were all kind of smoking gods herb, whereas up in San Francisco it seemed like they were experimenting more with mind expansion, you know. Ken kesey took classes of writing at stanford university, and he writes the great novel one flew over the cuckoos nest, and this makes kesey a celebrity. While at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the Stanford Hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. Kesey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government sponsored test. Lsd was isolated by Stolan Hofmann in a sandos Pharmacy Company of basel, switzerland. Do you feel happy . Yes. cause you have tears in your eyes. Oh. Is that a beautiful experience, would you say . I would say yes. Some people think its when kesey discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he becomes a promoter of it. Kesey created a drug commune at la honda, which is an hour from San Francisco. Great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best kesey was doing that. Everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. Tom wolfe would write the electric koolaid acid test about it. People were constantly slipping drugs into my food. The number of times i would get up and i dont know what had happened. They thought they were doing me a favor. They were having the worlds fair in new york so a bunch of us were gonna go. But the bunch of us were too big to fit in a station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. Kesey, he was gonna put the bus in day glow bright colors and then go what he called unsettling america, blowing peoples minds. The whole idea of blowing peoples minds was that you have to present something to them that is so different theres a crack comes open where something new can come in. And the reaction of all these people was wonderful, because what it was in 1964, there was no other thing like this happening. Its part of a kind of cultural revolution going on making the squares pay notice to this underground of america. When we got to new york city, which is the home of the beats, where kerouac lived, and picked him up because we were in his presence, we were just acting as goofy as we could, playing music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts, and stuff like that. And then kerouac sat on the couch drinking a big tall budweiser. He was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. Those beats, they had done their thing, you know . I really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. Kesey in many ways was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. And they started saying, lets get as many people to try lsd as you can. And so we started renting halls. We called the thing the acid test, and the band, of course, was known as the warlocks. As time went on they changed their name to the Grateful Dead. Country garden in the wind and the rain wherever he goes, the people all complain lsd was not an illegal drug. When kesey held these acid tests as they were known, theyd have two vats, one was punch and one was punch with lsd. The acid tests were like a party. The scene is a lot of light shows and music and people dancing. When the dead were playing, it was a way to feel that acid in waves. And i looked down, and i saw kids in front of me moving to the music. They looked up at me and i said, yeah. The drug culture really took hold, and thats where artists whether it was the Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane were able to embrace it and put it in their music. The counterculture in california is born because more and more people then want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he became kind of the grand poobah of the carnival of San Francisco in the 60s. Theres nothing grown up or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. Theyre just being complete fools. 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We moved up and lived right down the street from the psychedelic shop, and people were growing their hair long, theyre wearing beads, theyre playing music on the street. It was just an incredible environment at that point, at the beginning. Thats when it was just like one big giant family. Before you knew it, it was a Congregating Place for artists, and the Dividing Line seemed to be the psychedelic experience. You couldnt understand the posters, you couldnt understand the fashions, you couldnt understand anything if you hadnt gotten high. The Diggers Group Scrounges food and money to feed free those who arrive in Panhandle Park with a bowl and an appetite. Diggers are people who share, says their manifesto, and their aim is a society where everything is shared, everything free. The diggers were one of the first groups that were into social consciousness about what was needed to take care of this huge group of people that were coming into the haightashbury. Their free shop looks more like a playground at first sight. Here they make sheets and clothes for other hippies who can come and take what they want without paying anything for it. Everything in the store was free tools, clothing, televisions. And so we were inviting people to imagine a way of life that would please them and then to make it real by doing it. What were thinking about is a peaceful planet. Were not thinking about anything else. Were not thinking about any kind of power, were not thinking about any of those kind of struggles, were not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. Thats not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life, you know. And like think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps. We wanted to learn more about the real meaning of life. Why are we here . Certainly not to kill each other. But here to celebrate life, to make music and do art and love each other. These people are hippies. They represent a new form of social rebellion. It is hard to figure out what positive things they are in favor of. The reason we can no longer identify with the kinds of activities that the older generation are engaged in is because those activities are, for us, meaningless. They have led to a monstrous war in vietnam for example. We did want change from war, from rigid ideas of what the sexes ought to be doing, a change from black people ought to be here and white people ought to be here. No, why cant we try and make that work . The haightashbury community has created a council for a Summer Of Love in San Francisco. The council is calling for creative love happenings for every weekend throughout the summer. We ask all who come here to come here in love, and we ask all who live here to greet all men with love. They at their best are trying for a kind of group sainthood, and saints running in groups are likely to be ludicrous. They depend on hallucination for their philosophy. This is not a new idea, and it has never worked. There was sort of a divide of generations, a lot of mistrust. Young people didnt trust old people, old people didnt understand young people. Whats so offensive about long hair . It looks sloppy. [ laughter ] [ applause ] it doesnt differentiate the boys from the girls enough. We didnt call ourselves hippies. The hippies are a fabrication. They were an attempt to diminish young adults and infantilize us, and it certainly serves to exclude the people that were deeply thoughtful about the world, that were ready to dedicate their lives to making change, and question the paradigm of materialism. Look around you. Nothing works. The only thing the kid is presented with is when you grow up, look, you know, you can join the army, you can go to war, you can get a gig working as an engineer, become a vegetable, and drive to work in your own car, your own big metal box. You know, just it looks absurd. You know, people in their metal boxes like this going all over from job to job, frustrated, uptight. What joy is there in life . Life should be life is and should be ecstasy. The counterculture had the arrogance to tell everybody else what they were doing is wrong, and nobody likes that. Its estimated that anywhere from 10,000 to 200,000 youngsters may pour into haightashbury this summer. Many people ar