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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:21 AM Jun 2014

Vinyl Records Excavated at Famous ’60s Commune Challenge ‘Hippie’ Stereotype, Study Says

http://westerndigs.org/vinyl-records-excavated-at-famous-60s-commune-challenge-hippie-stereotype-study-says/

Among the artifacts found at the commune ruins were nearly 100 vinyl records, pictured here in situ in 1991. (Photo by Margaret Purser)

The Grateful Dead once lived there, apparently taken with the acoustics of the living room.

Its bucolic grounds were featured on the back cover of the Dead’s 1969 album Aoxomoxoa.

And the crush of musical luminaries who passed through it include Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, and a 5-year-old girl named Courtney Love.

But the country estate known as Rancho Olompali in Marin County, California was best known as the site of a social experiment that lasted all of 600 days: a commune called The Chosen Family, where at one point nearly 90 people sought refuge from the tumult of San Francisco street life in the late 1960s.

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Vinyl Records Excavated at Famous ’60s Commune Challenge ‘Hippie’ Stereotype, Study Says (Original Post) xchrom Jun 2014 OP

K&R! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2014 #1

Headline could have been The Onion mudy waters Jun 2014 #2

LOL: Time to poke the baby boomers! You guys are dinosaurs, they're FSogol Jun 2014 #3

And some day they'll dig up a thumb drive... Atman Jun 2014 #5

^^^^THIS^^^^ Lochloosa Jun 2014 #7

in a deeper hole. Crabby Appleton Jun 2014 #9

LOL. trumad Jun 2014 #10

The difference is the thumb drive will still work snooper2 Jun 2014 #14

I wouldn't count on it. Atman Jun 2014 #17

But what type of stereo did they have? Atman Jun 2014 #4

Jimmy Castor Knew the Answer to That CBGLuthier Jun 2014 #6

Vinyl is not dead! RoverSuswade Jun 2014 #8

Crimson & Clover ...over & over misterhighwasted Jun 2014 #12

Yes! I owned a music store then RoverSuswade Jun 2014 #16

Children change everything.. even "hippies" SoCalDem Jun 2014 #11

I had no idea Courtney Love was in this photo, G_j Jun 2014 #13

Those were like, the records you left behind when you had to split fast, man. blogslut Jun 2014 #15

RKP5637

(67,088 posts)

1. K&R! n/t

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:28 AM

Jun 2014

mudy waters

(41 posts)

2. Headline could have been The Onion

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:37 AM

Jun 2014

FSogol

(45,448 posts)

3. LOL: Time to poke the baby boomers! You guys are dinosaurs, they're

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:38 AM

Jun 2014

digging up your culture in archeological digs!

Atman

(31,464 posts)

5. And some day they'll dig up a thumb drive...

Reply to FSogol (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:42 AM

Jun 2014

...that will contain your playlist -- and promptly bury it again!

Lochloosa

(16,061 posts)

7. ^^^^THIS^^^^

Reply to Atman (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:01 AM

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Crabby Appleton

(5,231 posts)

9. in a deeper hole.

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:30 AM

Jun 2014

trumad

(41,692 posts)

10. LOL.

Reply to Atman (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:40 AM

Jun 2014

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

14. The difference is the thumb drive will still work

Reply to Atman (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:09 AM

Jun 2014

LOL

Atman

(31,464 posts)

17. I wouldn't count on it.

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #14)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:39 AM

Jun 2014

BTW, vinyl still works, too.

Atman

(31,464 posts)

4. But what type of stereo did they have?

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:39 AM

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CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

6. Jimmy Castor Knew the Answer to That

Reply to Atman (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:53 AM

Jun 2014

RoverSuswade

(641 posts)

8. Vinyl is not dead!

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:29 AM

Jun 2014

Record sales are getting stronger every year. Labels such as Atlantic and Columbia Legacy are churning out best-selling LPs form the 60s & 70s. Check out eBay.
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So what was the first 12" LP you ever bought? Mine was the 'Carousel' Soundtrack (1956)

misterhighwasted

(9,148 posts)

12. Crimson & Clover ...over & over

Reply to RoverSuswade (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:55 AM

Jun 2014

Tommy James & the Shondells 1968. Wiki has a good bio. Bought the album with my birthday money in my junior year of high school. Whoa. Flashback!

here's a great read on the band: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1883

RoverSuswade

(641 posts)

16. Yes! I owned a music store then

Reply to misterhighwasted (Reply #12)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:38 AM

Jun 2014

and that record was on our demo record player for about 2 months. I recall that we just played the 'Crimson and Clover' side. I don't think we ever turned the record over.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)

11. Children change everything.. even "hippies"

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 09:50 AM

Jun 2014

Many of the counter-culture were young, footloose types, but once they paired up and had kids, they (like MOST people) craved a safe, serene, bucolic place for their kids to live..not dirty streets & frenetic lifestyles they craved before the kids.. ..

This is why most movements die.. the energy needed to start them resides in the young & idealistic, but once they start families, their focus naturally changes, and they must figure out a way to support & raise those kids..leaving less time for the movement.

G_j

(40,366 posts)

13. I had no idea Courtney Love was in this photo,

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:07 AM

Jun 2014

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The photo on the back cover of The Grateful Dead’s 1969 “Aoxomoxoa” was shot at Olompali, with some members of the Chosen Family commune, and a young Courtney Love, lower right. (Courtesy E. Breck Parkman)

blogslut

(37,984 posts)

15. Those were like, the records you left behind when you had to split fast, man.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:24 AM

Jun 2014

Somewhere, there's a landfill with all the decaying vinyl that I bought or pinched from my parent's/sibling's collections. It's under the melted goo that used to be my cassettes because I'm generation Jones and those endless yards of tape were the medium of my youth.

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