Seven minute uminations on music, history, art, books, and events from a far away time, another dimension, why they matter today. Plus my music and whatever other weird shit I am working on right now.
As Withnail said on the way back to London, I'm making time.
20 Jun 2024
The True Hippie Celebrates and Salutes Juneteenth
I posted this yesterday, but on the wrong podcast, so here it is where it belongs!
Thank you, black people, for everything you have contributed to our our country, culture, and the world, despite all the racist bullshit you deal with every day. And here's to my first real-life hero and the greatest ball player of all time, Willie Mays, as well. May he rest in peace.
13 Jun 2024
An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories, Part Two
Part Two of a couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were always reminders of good and benevolent forces in the universe.
11 Jun 2024
An Excerpt From "The Gentlemanly Art of Spanking" ~ Cloud Stories Part One
A couple of LSD cloud stories, harkening back to the hippie days of the late Sixties, a darkening time, when it was getting harder to be a True Hippie. Luckily there were reminders of the good and benevolent forces in the universe.
7 Jun 2024
Ken Kesey's Novel, "Sometimes A Great Notion"
Arguably one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, "Sometimes A Great Notion" far surpassed Kesey's first novel, "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."
We will certainly be revisiting Ken Kesey, his adventures, his place in our culture, and, of course, his bonafides as a True Hippie, in future episodes.
What was the noti
1 Jun 2024
#10 ~ Hunter Thompson’s Lament
My favorite quote from the good doctor’s body of work.
31 May 2024
The True Hippie Guidelines For Living, Vol. I
Inspired by the rules for living from the fake gangster of the YouTube channel Grim.Hustle, I thought I'd share some of my own rules. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy Grim.Hustle and agree with a lot of what he says. As I've always told my sons, any True Hippie can kick any OG butt any day of the week.
I'm not a Deadhead, but I love this photo of them on the stoop of their apartment building in the Haight-Ashbury in 1966. I've always thought it hilarious that Pigpen is holding a rifle.
26 May 2024
David Bowie Was Always A True Hippie
David almost joined a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Scotland after the failure of his 1969 Album, David Bowie, failed to chart. One of the monks told him that his path was music, not shaving his head and leaving the world behind.
25 May 2024
David Bowie's Album, "Diamond Dogs," Turned Fifty Today
David was a True Hippie, always, but the album was dark and dystopian as the cocaine took over. As he sang in "Sweet Thing," "It's a street with a deal, and a taste
It's got claws, it's got me, it's got you."
More on David, the True Hippie, next episode and "Memory of a Free Festival."
23 May 2024
Campbell Coe, Not A Berkeley Hippie, But He Fixed All Their Guitars
Campbell Coe was a legend around Berkeley, having graduated from UC in the mid-fifties. He was a musician, luthier, raconteur supreme, journalist, photographer, the list goes on. For some reason, he let me hang around his cluttered little shop down a narrow alley of Haste St. just above Telegraph Avenue, where I would listen to him tell stories and banter with friends and customers who dropped by for hours a few a times a week. Decades away now, I wonder what he thought of me. I was eighteen or nineteen. I guess he liked me.
He was definitely a man of that time and era in Berkeley, as in only-in-Berkeley.
19 May 2024
Song in progress for my next album: "Baby Knows"
Starting this new podcast has been concurrent with getting songs ready for my next album, or ready to go into the studio and do the actual recording. Right now, i'm establishing tempos, doing arrangements. Vocals and guitars parts are all just what we call scratch at this point, i.e., placeholders.
18 May 2024
Episode #4 ~ Surprise Is 4 Walls & No Floor
Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, between Dwight and Haste, in the sixties and seventies, was its own universe, a microcosm of that was weird and wonderful, & uniquely Berkeley, in the world. Hells Angels, nine-ball at the Blue Cue, Pepe's Pizza, Moes Books, Yarmo, The Mediterraneum Caffé.
16 May 2024
Ep. 3 ~ Zorro, Planting Seeds For the Future Revolution
Walt Disney created, for television, the seminal trickster archtype, Zorro, who battled the forces of oppression in the Spanish colonies in mid-coast California. Let us give Walt his due.
15 May 2024
My song, "Pop Down The Years," a very rare recording
"Pop Down The Years" is a love song to the music of my youth, to the times, and to a girl of course, all of whom seem to inhabit another dimension now, but one worth visiting.
So they told the tale of the golden sun
And the shining girl who lived within
So pretty
I'll go now
I know now
Just where to find her
So the story goes we wore the clothes
To make it seem all possible
The hope it was
All gone now
So long now
But not forgotten
Chorus:
We tried so hard to make it come true
A perfect dream, sun bouncing, sky blue
Pop down the years, still shining on you
Translucent songs that made the world new
Those summer days, your sweet perfume
Just filled the air with magic
A symphony
So bright now
All light now
They watched us dancing.
A slip of time, a ray of sun
A floating song of a perfect world
And endless love
How softly
How sadly
Young hearts were broken
We tried so hard to make it come true
A perfect dream, sun bouncing, sky blue
Pop down the years, still shining on you
Translucent songs that made our love new
14 May 2024
First episode, bare bones mission statement, True Hippie Chronicles=THC not intentional, the White Butterfly makes an appearance.
Pretty much says it all in the title. I'm getting this new podcast, The True Hippie Chronicles, off the ground. Talking a little bit about the Sixties, some of the good stuff and alll the dark part that never gets talked about: the Boomers who heard the JFK/RFK/MLK/Malcolm murders as a clarion call: with the do-gooders out of the way they would be able to make some moves, all about the $.
Also, the White Butterfly made an appearance and I took that as a nudge to do a quick first episode. Many more to come.
Next stop: the Zorro TV Series, 1957.
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