a dream weavers syndicate
paisley underground
worshipping at the altar
mental aberrations
a lunatic
too young to explore the dark side of the moon
mysterious nooks & crannies
composition through going to the library,
& listening to records,
earning a living by playing electric guitar.
stupidity raises one to respect the valued & traditions,
in which their parents hold sacred.
an arbiter for the music taste of the entire nation.
early 70s
orange sunshine
she burned candles & incense,
swirling paisley indian tapestries,
flowery teacups,
a portal to Alice in Wonderland.
War Is Not Healthy For The Children & Other Living Things
celestial teenage girls
playing card games, tarot & chess,
tinkering with harmonicas & kazoos.
airy fairy visionaries
embodying the mystical nonsense of the 60s
death of rock icons
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix
but the music never died
transcending all boundaries of age & society.
post war gloom,
rainy grey, dirty old town, 1966
yearning to forge an identity
searching for something edgier than pop music served by the BBC
falling under the spell of the wild, exotic sounds
rock n roll, country, blues & soul
“land of the free”
in the right place & right time.
jazz & blues records began to capture the imagination of thousands.
the untamed youth,
rebels without a cause.
sultry teens from LA to London,
risking both lives & limbs to produce a culture of being free
in the 50s & 60s
turning their backs on academia & carving their own identities
autumn ‘63
low budget filmmakers
rock n roll
the doors of perception
moonshine
sin & misery
flower children on the street,
dead heads on the road,
scarlet begonias in their hair
magic buses on a destination
leading to nowhere.
strangers stopping strangers just to shake their hands
ship of fools on an endless ocean
sailing a lonely path towards destiny
the sky was yellow & the sun was blue
the groove of soul
mother nature worship
kaleidoscopic fractals,
colors swirling up to the skies above
each melody strung a painting on the universes canvas
a moonage daydream of love and light
forgotten memories
leaving traces of mystery
as to why and how our minds are constantly shifting
atoms & molecules
UFOs and religious ridicule
Give the Anarchist a Cigarette
Cabernet Voltaire
with a little moonshine
sin & misery
a sonic palette
of dulcimers, sitars, vibraphones, moogs
smoking hash, dropping acid, gobbling mandrax
violent femmes
pretty things
the blues allowed you to do your own thing
music that was spontaneous & played with love
or was it simply stoned forgetfulness?
a zippo lighter
in her fur coat, high heels, cheetah printed curly blonde
with razor scars running down her cheeks
long before david bowie fell to earth
a generation of grunge rockers
the antithesis of cheerful fluff
liberated women rocked with unbridled passion and soul
provoking the crowd to ponder their own identity.
Twiggy
the face of ‘66
with her skinny legs resembling a flapper
creating a new standard of British femininity
dedicated followers of fashion
along the Kings Road in Chelsea
hair flowed freely, falling over eyes & ears
blurring the borders of sexual identity
paisley & polka dots, turtlenecks & wide belts
blossoming overnight like strange wildflowers
double decker buses trundled along
its passengers seeking sanctuary from a society in which they would never fit.
artists in bohemian atmospheres
drinking wine, smoking hash, drawing nudes & exploring sexuality all in a days work.
with a steady diet of LSD
soaking up french existentialism & beat poetry, I ching & zen philosophy.
the history of rock n roll is filled with legendary doomed stoner iconoclasts
“men who died and rebirthed every day”
the spontaneous underground
strange sunday-afternoon happenings
visionaries & ESP
home to free jazz & anarchism hippie bands
London ‘65
a child’s eye view of madness
girls stripped to the waist
poetry olympics & literature magazines
a crash course in cultural consciousness
UFO Club’s weekly revelries
a psychedelic dungeon
poetry readings & experimental art films by Andy Warhol
groupies in the “womb of make believe”
people who didn’t know what year it was, let alone what time it was
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn
organ chords from a submerged cathedral
slid into fairy land from outer space
challenging accepted norms of what designated “entertainment”
exploring inner landscapes
an internal shakespearean theater
sex, dancing, vaguely aristocratic bohemians, musicians, crusaders, poets, dropouts, & psychotropic adventures.
give the anarchists a cigarette,
an alternative society coming to pass.
dissidents with a flair for absurdity
how does one achieve eternal bliss?
with a noble gesture & delicate propriety.
til one goes crazy. til one loses consciousness.
a flock of social misfits who advocated free speech & free love
political revolutionaries
recreational druggies
publishers & purveyors of the obscene
all done up in paisley & velvet
brilliantly demented
summer of love
a cultural renaissance
enhanced by colorful hallucinatory projections of oil & water slides
the buddhist society on church street
hosting the 14 hour technicolor dream
thousands of tripsters were told to randomly reset their watches & create a new alternative dimension where time was irrelevant
cinema verité of the rolling stones 1965 tour
1967 film - let’s all make love in london
as charming and odd as it seemed, it didn’t take long for the hippie honeymoon to spiral out of control
from dropping acid to doing heroin instead.
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