Hippies From A to Z Their Sex, Drugs, Music and Impact on Society from the Sixties to the Present. by Skip Stone A to Z Page 1 Hippies From A to Z Their Sex, Drugs, Music and Impact on Society from the Sixties to the Present. Copyright 1999, 2008 by Skip Stone All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. Published by Hip, Inc. PO Box 2993, Silver City, New Mexico 88062 To order this book online, view our catalogue or purchase an electronic version visit our website at: http://hippy.com Written by Skip Stone Editing, Page Layout and Book Design by Martin Trip ISBN Number: First Edition: November 1999 Digital Edition: January 2008 Digital Edition created by Chris Thompson Page 2 Hippies Table of Contents Deadication ..................................................................... 5 Preface ............................................................................. 7 Forward ........................................................................... 9 Introduction................................................................... 11 Part I The Way of the Hippy ..................................................13 Sex, Love & Hippies ...................................................... ? Hippies and Drugs .......................................................... ? Hippy Fashions & Lifestyles ......................................... ? Hippy Activism ................................................................ ? The Astrology of the Hippy Movement........................... ? Hippy Philosophy and the Hippy Dream......................... ? The Old Hippies .............................................................. ? The Young Hippies .......................................................... ? Conclusion ....................................................................... ? Part II Landmark Hippy Events .................................................. ? Hippy Timeline ................................................................ ? Music With A Message .................................................... ? Hippy Havens .................................................................. ? Hippy Names ................................................................... ? Hippie Books and Videos ................................................ ? Hippies, their Friends and Enemies................................. ? Hippy Glossary ................................................................ ? A to Z Page 3 Deadication This book is dedicated to those hippie saints whose light brought us so much joy through the years by opening our hearts and minds. May they REST IN PEACE! Carlos Castaneda Our Inspiration Our Beat Brethren Mama Cass Elliot Gautama Buddha William S. Burroughs Jerry Garcia Jesus Christ Neal Cassady Jimi Hendrix Lao Tsu John Coltrane Abbie Hoffman Mahatma Gandhi Miles Davis Janis Joplin Abraham Lincoln Allen Ginsberg Timothy Leary Henry David Thoreau Aldous Huxley John Lennon Bertrand Russell Jack Kerouac Jim Morrison Rev. Martin Luther King Jerry Rubin Jr. Andy Warhol Dr. Benjamin Spock John F. Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy And the thousands of other Beautiful People no longer with us who marched, sang, shouted, shared, and lived their lives in testimony to Peace and Love. Page 4 Hippies Preface: About the Term “Hippie” Beatniks and politics, nothing is new. Strawberry Alarm Clock (Incense and Peppermints) The term hippie is derived from “hip” or “hipster” used by the Beats to describe someone who was part of their scene. It literally means to know, so someone who’s “hip” is “in the know”, or wise. Hippies never adopted this term for themselves. They preferred to be called the “beautiful people”. However the media played up “hippy” as the catch-all phrase to describe the masses of young people growing their hair long, listening to rock music, doing drugs, practicing free love, going to various gatherings and concerts, demonstrating and rejecting the popular culture of the early 60s. The first recorded use of the word hippie was on Sept 5, 1965. San Francisco writer Michael Fallon used the term “hippie” while referring to the SF counterculture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) & the Sexual Freedom League met, and in reference to hippie houses. During the Summer of Love, in 1967, the media played up the phenomenon in San Francisco, using the term “hippies” to describe the people who were flocking there. As the hippy scene progressed, and the media started reporting the negative side of hippy poverty, living in the streets, drug overdoses, teen pregnancies, and the antiwar movement that split the country, hippie came to mean something negative to a great many Americans. ...we condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives. - June Jordan Today the term still generates anger, fear, hostility and resentment among many people. Unfortunately, this bigotry has been passed down to the younger generations. Yet many young hippies have adopted the term as theirs, and they are trying to give it a positive meaning again. After all what’s so bad about Peace, Love and Freedom? Anyone who feels threatened by this really should take a look at their own life and find the source of their fears. For my definition of hippy, please read the first chapter of this book, The Way of the Hippy. We all need to get beyond the stereotype and accept that there is a common belief system that defines hippies. In this book, I use the term hippies to describe those who participated in the counterculture of the ’60s and early ’70s as well as those who subscribe to the philosophy of that movement. This includes old hippies, young hippies and anyone else who has lived and espoused these values whenever or wherever that was. By the way, the three accepted spellings are “hippy”, “hippie” and the plural, A to Z Page 5 “hippies”. The correct contraction for the 1960s is ’60s. If any words in this book are unfamiliar please check the glossary for the definition. Page 6 Hippies Forward I wasn’t yet a hippie (or hippy, spell it any way you wanna) when I started the first American rock music magazine (Crawdaddy!) in January 1966. One year later, when Jim Fouratt, Susan Hartnett, Claudio Badal and I started organizing the first New York Be In, I was vaguely aware that this “hippie” creature the newspapers and TV were starting to talk about was me. I had scraggly, unwashed long hair, and I’d recently started smoking marijuana, and I believed rock and roll would change the world. And now...this guy Fouratt had called me up when he read about me and Crawdaddy! in the Village Voice’s Scenes column and had invited me to a meeting at which Richard Alpert would describe the recent (1/1/ 67) San Francisco “Be-In,” and representatives of the NYC Parks Dept and the rest of us (representatives of “the community”) would discuss the possibility of doing something similar here. Gosh, ME a member of the “hip” community?? I just moved here from Boston last month, and I’m only 18, and my magazine isn’t even in the Underground Press Syndicate yet... That’s how it went in those days. Two years later, when I’d quit the rock magazine business and was living in a commune in the woods in Mendocino, California, I certainly was a hippie (my hair had gotten longer, and I believed in dropping out of civilization and its industrialized economic system altogether), and I knew it, and would probably have admitted it, even though I’d written an article in The Village Voice in October 1967 called “The Hippies Are Gone. Where Did They Go?” in which I complained about the label and told the following story about a popular TV program which had recently corralled Abbie Hoffman and me and a dozen other dubious-looking characters for a discussion of “The Hippies”: “Abbie Hoffman was on the David Susskind show a little while back, and about when it was beginning to get dull, at the start of the program, he let the duck out of the box. The duck had a little identifying plaque—HIPPIE—and it squawked and ran all over the place and finally vomited out in the audience. Susskind didn’t want to run the segment. “But you said it was okay...” “Yes, Abbie,” said David, “but the duck freaked out. You let him get out of control.” “That’s what you get for miscasting.” “The point is, it IS a hippie if it has the sign around its neck. That’s what hippie is. It’s a word for the people who read about hippies, and talk about hippies, and fret about hippies; it isn’t anything real enough to hang a string of beads on.” I’m pleased to have been asked to write a Forward (even if it seems to be more looking Backward, so far) to Skip Stone’s Hippy book, because on every page he puts his and our attention on the spirit of the hippy movement, rather than on the label. The label is a historical accident. But the spirit is as enduring and fresh as Abbie’s playful and challenging laughter, whereas the label and its sociological history is as transient as Susskind’s discomfort at the duck’s vomit. Skip asked me if I think the hippies succeeded in any of their goals. Well, we definitely did drop out and turn on. And I think we were rather successful at A to Z Page 7 revealing America as the big fool and bully we saw it as. The more we taunted it and played pied piper to its children (ourselves), the