been having a senior hippy day

listening to some old music when I tuned the tv to cnn and they had latest breaking news, where was the pedophile, how disgusting. Its not like there is a lot of news happening in the world that we need to know about so we can keep abreast of whats going on in our world. I would like to know a little more about what is happening in the middle east, what with all the killing, destruction and regime changes happening through out the world. With our administrations greedy and nasty fingers in it all. Guess I'll have to try me a Jimi Hendrix experience. I refuse to let anything ruin my senior hippy day.

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG lyrics - "Teach Your Children"

You, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by.
And so become yourself because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well, their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

And you, of the tender years can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth, they seek the truth before they can die.
Teach your parents well, their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams, the one they fix,the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

:hippie:PJ

Its been years since I've wanted to immerse myself in the music of my youth, its almost surreal and a most pleasant experience.

"25 top Protest Songs"

Some surprises, some easy to guess -- but a very good show that I hope they repeat a bit to get the juices flowing again. They did a good job covering all eras, not just 60's.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/68962/episode_countdown.jhtml

Which reminds me.... CCR! Love that John Fogerty.

Then back to "Where have all the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger-

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone for husbands everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone, long time passing?
Where have all the husbands gone, long time ago?
Where have all the husbands gone?
Gone for soldiers everyone
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls have picked them everyone.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

But there are many I picked that weren't there -- mainly because I didn't include the newer stuff.

If you can catch it, do, the background on the songs is pretty good and tends to awaken the mood really well.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/68962/episode_countdown.jhtml

ps - GREAT photo! :hippie:

http://www.benfrank.net/nuke/Free_Peace_mp3s.html
I love this site!



<snip>
A Better World is Possible
Envision waking up to it someday
Awesome, Inspiring, Motivating Songs
All FREE
Just
Spread the word
Send these songs to friends
Burn 50 CDs and pass 'em out
Enlighten Yourself and Friends Today ! - ))
Peace

AWESOME!

The poster is worthy of framing and I'm gonna.

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Looks like there are many across the USA, and THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD
http://amigaphil.planetinternet.be/cgi-bin/show.cgi?nowar33


I am hoping for a HARMONIC CONVERGENCE!

www.notinourname.net

could you tell me how to find information about the events of that day? Thanks :)

somewhere there are links to see if something is happening near you - OR - so you can START something near you!

www.notinourname.net

:hi:
http://www.notinourname-seattle.net/
and http://www.karikas.com/mar19/

I'm writing media outlets to cover this event. I know world news will but US coverage may SUCK.

Thanks for the planetinternet site -

:hippie: PJ

...can actually alter the quantum foam. "Bark", for instance. LOUD.
"In nineteen hundred and seventy-five, all my people rose from the countryside. Locked together hand in hand, they're coming for you government man, do you understand?"

Maybe they meant 2005.

i was looking for pre-hippie 1950s CLASSIC DELLA (Della Reese) which I found -- but also found another delightable CD by Ms. Della Reese called ANGEL SINGS. I am ordering both--in the meantime I go the barnes and noble homepage to listen to the half minute samples of the songs in those records.

(there is just so much bad news, spin, disinformation, and misinformation a human soul can take).

While channel surfing today, caught a 1988 concert honoring Chuck Berry...also appearing were Eric Clapton, Linda Rondstadt, Roy Orbison and Keith Richards. The music was outstanding, and took me back in time (a hazard with us old folks.)

It made me wonder if DU has space for yet another forum or lounge...sorta a "sexy senior citizens' room" or something like that!! The DU lounge always seems full of "youngsters"...we could use our own. Whatcha think?

The New York Times
THE POP LIFE

A Call to Guitars as War Looms
By NEIL STRAUSS

LOS ANGELES February 27, 2003


The first time Barbara Dane recalls performing was at a demonstration outside a segregated restaurant in Detroit, her hometown, in the 1940's. In the 50's she sang for civil rights and workers' rights. In the 60's she sang in North and South Vietnam during the war, was one of the first American musicians to tour post-revolutionary Cuba and performed at clandestine meetings of soldiers resisting the war.


Wherever history was unfolding, Ms. Dane seemed to be there. Along the way, she accumulated fans like Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden, Jane Fonda (naturally) and Lightnin' Hopkins, with whom she recorded.

"Music doesn't desert you, and musicians don't desert music," she said yesterday, speaking by telephone. "It will take you through your whole life in fine style."


Now as a war with Iraq looms, Ms. Dane, at 75, is being called into action again. On Saturday evening at Joe's Pub at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in Manhattan, she and other musicians are scheduled to play songs from "The Vietnam Songbook," a collection of protest music she compiled in 1969 with her husband, Irwin Silber, who edited the influential folk magazine Sing Out! The songbook collected compositions from all over the world, making the case that the protest movement was universal.


Ms. Dane recalled performing songs like the "Ballad of Ho Chi Minh," Ewan MacColl's sympathetic ode to the president of North Vietnam, to soldiers who had just returned from the war. "They'd be a bit stunned, but they'd just sing along," she said. "In those days I had strategies for introducing their own history to them. Most of them were 18-to-20-year-old guys who didn't know that we had a history of struggle and songs that go with that. So you would have to get them to see that nothing is new. You have to stand up for what you believe in. If you don't, what are you?"


The tribute at Joe's Pub is Ms. Dane's first performance in Manhattan since the 70's. The event was organized by two New York musicians and producers, Kim Rancourt and Don Fleming, both in their late 40's. Though both were obsessive music fans, neither was very familiar with Ms. Dane or her work. This is partly because Ms. Dane rejected the path to stardom. Long before she made records with titles like "I Hate Capitalism" she was courted by the rock manager Albert Grossman. In 1960, before he represented Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin or Peter, Paul and Mary, he came to Ms. Dane.



"There are moments when you're making a choice that you know is going to influence the future," she said. "One of those moments was when Albert Grossman asked me to join his stable."

>>>>>>>lots more at this site, WRT show mentioned above. I remember hearing about it at the time, wishing I could've seen....
http://www.vietnamsongbook.org/show_press.htm

It made me cry!

That's what we are! Our grandkids told us so!

Magic Carpet Ride. The cd deteriorated into CaptainPlanet to Boy Named Sue so I kept replaying #1 Magci Carpet Ride (long version), ahhhhh