Help.. Turning into a Hippy

I know precisely dick about the Grateful Dead but my big sis had 'american Beauty'????

One lush and beautiful album man. Check track called 'Box of Rain'

A lost world we should treasure it.

What a very very good album that is. Lorca is in my opinion a weak (if not the weakest) moments in Buckley's too short production. Get Blue Afternoon and Happy Sad as well if you don't have them already.

Carl

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Originally posted by Lo Fi Si:
Remember, I grew up on a diet of punk and American hardcore, so am conditioned to kill all hippies, having said that I do own (and listen to) quite a bit of prog.
On Saturday I got the following (among others) from the local second hand vinyl shop:
Incredible string band: "5000 spirits"
Soft Machine: "Third"
Jefferson Airplane: "Long John Silver" & "Crown of Flames"? (I already have Surrealistic pillow)
Tim Buckley: "Goodbye and hello" & "Lorca"
The only one I have not got to grips with yet is Lorca. The rest I reckon are pretty damn good.
The Soft Machine stuff was more jazz oriented than I expected (not a bad thing) The ISB and Buckley were amazingly good and had real presence, I think both are original pressings (Elektra) which probably helps.
Any other recommendations in a similar vein? I do plan to follow up the Grateful Dead recommendations.

I'll get me (Afghan) coat then.

Simon

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Welcome! Just find your own tree to hug, OK? ANd don't bogart that joint...

If you liked "Third", try "Seven" (shoter tracks, melodocally more inventive)

If you liked "5000 Spirits", try "Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" and/or "Wee Tam and the Big Huge"

If you liked "Goodbye & Hello" (and album that can bring tears to my eyes), try "Happy Sad" and "Blue Afternoon" (both bluesier and jazzier but not as bleak as "Lorca"), and "Greetings From LA" (rockier, ruder). Don't try "Star Sailor" unless you're tripping - he was way out on a jazzy/weird jag. Despite the warning, it does contain the definitive version of "Song To The Siren", one of the most beautiful songs written....ever. So I guess if you see it cheap enough, buy it for that one song.

If you liked "Crown Of Creation", try "After Bathing At Baxters" and "Volunteers" (crap production but some great rabble-rousing songs).

And finally, though there are dozens of hippie classics out there that would merit recommendations, from a personal point of view you must try either of the first two Quicksilver Messenger Service LPs (self-titled and "Happy Trails").

you also need to experince cosmic rough riders.

dozy

oh and Love's 'Forever Changes', Hawkwind's 'In Search of Space' and 'Do ray mi', Pink Fairies 'Never never land', Man's 'Back into the Future' and 'Be Good to yourself at Least Once a Day'. Pink Floyd's 'Ummagumma', Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow in Curved Air', Beatles 'Revolver' ...and there's more..

turning into a hippy

Young Man, turn yourself in and get a Hair Cut before it's too late.

However, if it's too late already, you could of course check out Moby Grape (I remember a concert of theirs with one of them wearing a fur coat in the stage lights), and how about Country Joe & the Fish?

Always rstrict yourself to the first two albums. And don't come complaining: I haven't heard this stuff in thirty years.

Herman

Nick's Quicksilver Messengers is an excellent idea, too. And Jez's Love, too - but then you'd need the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, too, and those crazy Elektra sample LPs with psychedelic vinyl...

Herm, Herm,

You're ruining your image here you know. Next thing you'll be saying is that you wander down to the Melk Weg with a bag of E and a bottle of Ribena on a Friday night!

Still you're right about the Grape and Country Joe albums...

My Image?

Melk weg was way beyond my time, Nick. I went to the Paradiso once (Wally Tax of the Outsiders was strumming a guitar, disconsolately) and that was it, for me. This was 1970 or something. So I'm totally clean, man.

herman

Herm, I wasn't even going to mention David Crosby's 'Almost Cut My Hair', but I feel like letting my freak flag fly...

..not that I've got any hair to cut anymore.

Si

while you're at it, you should get a listen to Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie, to set the hippy scene, and all.

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

PS - and talking of CSNY, this from a friend in a recent e-mail: "Saw Crosby Still Nash and YOUNG. They are almost dead. Niel Young is still a rock star but the others are pathetic. Need wheelchairs and talk about guts .... "