‘Hair’: the Broadway smash that was illegal in London
Too much for the big smoke to handle.
Hippie
Before Ziggy: David Bowie’s beautiful, flower-powered farewell to the 1960s
A psychedelic, almost religious hymn to lost innocence.
Grateful Dead seen in San Francisco local news footage at famous ‘Death of a Hippie’ ceremony, 1967
In the spring of 1967 a tourist bus to transport curious gawkers through the new “hippie” district of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco sprang into existence.…
Rarely seen film footage of hippie bard Richard Brautigan
Photo: Baron Wolman The following is an edited version of an article I wrote on Dangerous Minds back in 2012 when Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life…
Rabies-infected acid-head hippie-gore Satanist masterpiece ‘I Drink Your Blood’ splats again!
“Let it be known, sons and daughters, that Satan was an acid head. Drink from his cup. Pledge yourselves, and together we’ll all freak out.”…
There’s a new perfume called ‘Hippie Shit’
I haven’t actually smelled this, so I can’t attest to whether or not “Hippie Shit” smells good or not. But it certainly has me curious.…
‘1001 Ways to Live Without Working,’ Tuli Kupferberg’s prescient pre-hippie book of mindfuckery
Several years before the Fugs formed, Tuli Kupferberg was running around Greenwich Village as a poet and pamphleteer. His most successful effort was a 1961…
Meet lost San Francisco hippie-era band Marvin Gardens
The storied San Francisco Bay Area music scene of the late ‘60s produced mountains of enduring albums by the likes of the Jefferson Airplane, Moby…
‘You Are What You Eat’: Bonkers hippie-era relic featuring Tiny Tim
Given how widely-beloved disjointed counterculture films like 200 Motels and Head are, it’s kind of surprising that Peter Yarrow’s insane You Are What You Eat…
More young people–especially young women–need to know the music of hippie princess Laura Nyro
Although Laura Nyro is rightfully considered to be one of America’s greatest 20th century songwriters, most people who know her music probably don’t know her…