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I said, right. They acknowledged the hippie generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. They were still your parents. But the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. Its sock it to me time. Hey, she socked it to herself. We knew that sock it to me didnt mean sock it to me. Right . So we thought, oh. Sock it to me. Sock it to me. Sock it to me . It wasnt as subversive as it sounds. Yes, it was. It was fun. Sock it to me . Was the first time president ial candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show. And that may have got him elected, and ive had to live with that. Anyway. The family that watches laughin together really needs to pray together. Just seemed like its happening right now and its about right now that is the greatest thing ever. A fusion of politics and comedy and Everything Else into one show. When we take over, im going to look out for you. The subjects that were verboten, we dont talk about these things, were starting to come up in tv. And because it was well executed, it changed everything. This is the smothers brothers comedy air. Take one. Production 124 air, take one. Good evening and welcome to the smothers brothers show. If rowan and martin and the smothers brothers are the new stars of tv comedy, it is the comedy itself rather than the comedians which is more often in the spotlight. These two programs have consciously tried to influence people by comedy techniques that break through the traditional song and skit routines and by subject matter that is often on the cutting edge of what is new. Our government is asking us as citizens, good citizens, to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. Okay. All you guys in vietnam, come on home. Times were changing so quickly in the 60s. And we didnt change them. We just reflected them. I cant hear you. What are you doing . Im getting ready to go to college. Cbs gave the smothers brothers that show because they were cleancut folk satirists. You know, they wore blazers. They could sing well. They were funny. Mom liked you best you lower your voice. Mom liked you best. They told us what they thought we could do and what we should do, and it was totally wrong. And tommy came in saying, i would like a show where we can be relevant. If we could get a war without blood and gore i would be the first to go but until then mr. Mcnamara im only 18 and i always carry a purse the people in the counterculture started making these shows and they dont want to play by the rules that other people did before then. But who would expect the smothers brothers of all people to be raising this much of a fuss . Good script. I held my breath every time they did the show. Because i knew the Network People were befouling their trousers with fear. Nothing funny in this. Yeah, boys, were through censoring your show. They said that the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9 00 family viewing hour. They came up with any excuse to make it difficult. And i came up with any excuse to push it. Yeah. Cbs would like to give us notice and some of you dont like the things we say but were still here oh yeah were still here they were going to speak truth to power. And they were not compromising. You have something important . Something very important to say on american television. A lot of times we dont have the opportunity to say anything important because on american television, every time you try to Say Something important [ cheers and applause ] well, whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it. Thats whats important. You get that . Theres no way in the world if anything is meaningful and truthful that youre not going to offend someone. Youve got to be able to say what it is. Say how it is. And take the consequence. Cbs announced today that the smothers brothers comedy hour will not return to the Cbs Television network next season. Network president robert woods said it became evident that brothers, quote, were unwilling to accept the criteria of taste established by cbs. Cbs news efforts to reach the brothers for comment have been unsuccessful. I was angry. But we never regretted it. We never did regret it. What do you think television, honestly, do you think its good . Yes, i do. I think particularly for what it is. For the amount of hours that it gives you for enjoyment. Either in education or for pure entertainment, its remarkably good. What television did in 60s was to show the American People to the American People. Until then, we did not truly know much about each other. We knew only what we had seen, which was very little, and what we had read, which was even less. A few years ago i thought it was the end of the world. No, its just the beginning. I think people looked at television for answers, maybe. That the worlds just confusing, its going to hell all over the place. Maybe something on here will help. There was no denying the shift in attitudes towards sex, towards race relations, towards politics. It was all televised. Execute the office. Ithfully that i will faithfully execute the office. When it works, television conveys impressions and evokes memories. When it works well, television makes us feel. Good morning. Its tminus 1 29 53 and counting. Television created a sense of National Unity around cultural events. Okay, neil, we can see you coming down the ladder now. You could turn on a machine and be somewhere else. Youre looking good. Boy. Television changed absolutely everything. Beautiful view. Isnt that something there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. Its all related, the psychedelics, the war, the protesting. Im planning on having a good time as long as i can. Smoke pot with your kids, then youll understand why the kids are happy. Its a giant lovein. People should be uninhibited in their sexual expression. You cannot ignore it, a change in morality. Theyre fascists. 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 of anything else. Theyre trying to do what no one else has ever done before, find a new way for humanity. 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. The early 1950s, the nation recognized in its midst the social movement called beat generation. A novel titled on the road became a bestseller. When kerouacs book comes out, it became a revolution, 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 golden desert of even fall, the 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. [ applause ] 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 coffee house poet is the speciality 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. All young kids were running out to buy guitars and banjos. Folk music gives me a lot more than the popular music of our own time does. Popular songs should be sung because we dont do anything about say the bomb, you know. The whole situation come to an end. Theres got to 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 seeger. So the Greenwich Village movement was there to celebrate peoples culture. If you like the music, you were really 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 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 sort of in this whitehot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. Only a pawn in their game [ cheers and applause ] after the revolution of bob dylan, the music world moves west. Got to go where you wanna go, do what you wanna do with whoever you wanna do royal 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 a kind of whole community, very open. If you were driving over Laurel Canyon and you saw somebody hitchhiking, youd just automatically pull over. Hey, brother, get in, you know . Where are you going . Laurel canyon was an incredibly interesting place to live in those days. I lived on Lookout Mountain with joanie mitchell. Crosby was close, stephen was close. Now it was all these artists singing this truth, and their truth was this idyllic sense of freedom. There was a Thriving Community of kids that were discovering their new life and couldnt wait to play the new song they had written. It was a lot of freedom. There was a lot of drugs. This was a lot of beautiful women. 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Let me take you, baby down to the riverbed these are students at a suburban high school in los angeles. They reflect the sudden sensuality and affluence which dominate life in southern california. The latest fad is the sunset strip. During the past year, it has become a playground for southern californias mobile, restless teenagers. It is the place to go. People would meet at clubs on the sunset strip and they would go to the trip or they would go to the whisky a go go. It was a real happening. We 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, i got a light i got a light on you, babe i, i got a light 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, you know, 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 i was 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 governmentsponsored test. Lsd was isolated in a Pharmaceutical Company in switzerland. Do you feel happy . Yes. 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 wolf would write the electric koolaid acid test about it. People were constantly slipping drugs into my food. Id wonder what happened. They thought they were doing me a favor. They were having the worlds fair in new york, so a bunch of us were going to go. But the bunch of us were too big to fit in his station wagon, so he bought this converted school bus. Kesey, he was going to put the bus in dayglow, bright colors and then go with what he called unsettling america, blowing peoples minds. The whole idea of blowing peoples minds was you have to present something that is so different, theres a crack comes open where something new can come in. And the reaction to 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 was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would start to let you see a larger truth and thought he wanted to get as many people to try lsd as they can. So we started renting halls. We called the thing the acid test. The band of course was known as the warlocks. As time went on, they changed their name to the grateful dead. St. Stephen with a rose, in and out of the garden he goes 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 want to try to experience what kesey experienced, and he kind of became the grand poobah of the carnival of San Francisco in the 1960s. Theres nothing a grownup or sophisticated in taking an lsd trip at all. Theyre just being complete fools. paul great. Another wireless ad. So many of them are full of this complicated, tricky language about their network and offers and blah blah blah. Look. Sprints