My hippie contributions in pictures

Fred Bova · Post by **Fred Bova** » 4 Feb 2008 9:41 pm

Hey Marc, I'm blessed to have been there right with you thru a lot of those years. Maybe you remember me in this phase.

Love, Peace, and Joy.

Freddy (the Tin Man) Bova

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 5 Feb 2008 7:36 am

1977 Lovell Street Art Fair, Kalamazoo, MI.

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 5 Feb 2008 6:43 pm

Hey Fred -

What's the make of that guitar?

Also, a picture from my Neil Young "After The Gold Rush" phase ca. 1971.

Fred Bova · Post by **Fred Bova** » 5 Feb 2008 10:16 pm

Hi Frank,
That was a Wright Custom.
Very sweet sounding psg, I wish I still had it.

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 6 Feb 2008 6:01 am

Wow, there's a lot of hair and swanky outfits in this topic!!

Keep'em coming guys!!

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 6 Feb 2008 6:17 am

Jussi , are you sure you have the right topic ?

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 6 Feb 2008 8:56 am

here's some of me in Texas mid 70's...I had hair!

Michael Lee Allen · Post by **Michael Lee Allen** » 6 Feb 2008 9:45 am

Removed.

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 6 Feb 2008 10:18 am

Olli Haavisto wrote:Jussi , are you sure you have the right topic ?

Sure, but don't tell my bandmates!!!

And besides, I just got back from San Fransisco, I'm kinda reminiscing here...

P Gleespen · Post by **P Gleespen** » 6 Feb 2008 10:51 am

I had hair!

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

WOW! Some of you guys were flyin' the freak flag pretty high! I'm havin' flashbacks just looking at you, and I've never even dropped acid! (rimshot!)

Michael Johnstone, you must have been a chick MAGNET!

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 6 Feb 2008 9:15 pm

editted out of respect for those who have passed to the other side.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 7 Feb 2008 1:19 am

Michael Johnstone, you must have been a chick MAGNET!

Yeah them were the days. And it was a good time for them to be the days too,cause you didn't have so much on your mind - especially in my case.

But yeah - free love and Orange Sunshine.For a lead guitar player in a touring rock band in the mid 60s,the road was a conveyor belt of sex,drugs,rock & roll and I got away with murder.All that went out the window somehow in the early 70s when I stopped dropping acid and started drinking liquor and playin steel in country bands.The beautiful young hippie chicks morphed into bar skanks and all the free stuff began to cost money. I can't explain it....

Like Dylan said: "The good old days are gone forever and the new ones ain't far behind"

P Gleespen · Post by **P Gleespen** » 7 Feb 2008 5:03 am

Michael Johnstone wrote:
Yeah them were the days. And it was a good time for them to be the days too,cause you didn't have so much on your mind - especially in my case.

But yeah - free love and Orange Sunshine.For a lead guitar player in a touring rock band in the mid 60s,the road was a conveyor belt of sex,drugs,rock & roll and I got away with murder.

VANESSA: Mr. Powers, my job is to acclimate you to the Nineties.
You know, a lot's changed since 1967.

AUSTIN: Well, as long as people are still
having promiscuous sex with many
anonymous partners without protection,
while at the same time experimenting
with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment,
I'll be sound as a pound.

All that went out the window somehow in the early 70s when I stopped dropping acid and started drinking liquor and playin steel in country bands.The beautiful young hippie chicks morphed into bar skanks and all the free stuff began to cost money. I can't explain it....

Ahh, the things we do for the love of steel guitar! Too funny!

Steve Morley · Post by **Steve Morley** » 24 Apr 2008 12:15 pm

Nice memories, Marc. I remember Joy, or as sharply as I can remember anything from that period, between living in NYC and traveling back home to CT.

Thanks,

Steve

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 24 Apr 2008 6:20 pm

I just found these. Aug 1969. All my friends went to Woodstock that weekend. I couldn't go cause I had a gig.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 25 Apr 2008 3:40 am

MJ... Dolly Parton called, she wants her shirt back.

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 25 Apr 2008 5:49 am

Tell her to come and get it.

Pete Conklin · Post by **Pete Conklin** » 8 Nov 2008 9:11 am

These photos are CLASSIC! Thanks guys! Things really were simplier back then...sigh.

Mark Durante · Post by **Mark Durante** » 8 Nov 2008 9:54 am

I guess I gotta embarrass my self too. I'm on the left early 1968

Bob Knetzger · Post by **Bob Knetzger** » 8 Nov 2008 1:39 pm

Circa 1973..Milwaukee WI, at the Lake Front "Alternate Site.'

I'm trying to do my best Sneaky Pete impersonation while sitting in with the Hound Dog Band.

I'd gladly trade some extra body weight now for some of that hair from back then--haha.

Chris Bauer · Post by **Chris Bauer** » 8 Nov 2008 4:18 pm

Hey Bob K - I don't know about "Sneaky Pete impersonations" but, assuming it's the same guitar and tuning you still had in Arizona a couple of years later, I thought you knocked it out of the park on that Fender each and every time I heard you play.

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 8 Nov 2008 7:44 pm

Little Bear, Evergreen Colorado 1977...

Thanks (I think) to Chip Fossa for the photo

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 8 Nov 2008 8:37 pm

Hey, John, I heard a LOT about Little Bear, from an old girlfriend---I think she used to date the drummer for Timoth P. and R.R. 3. We used to play up in Cheyenne (Cheyenne Club) about the same time.

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 9 Nov 2008 5:47 am

Excellent, dude!
You gotta love the Coconut Conspiracy.

Keep the faith. Onward through the fog.
Only surviving picture; letting my freak flag fly:

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 9 Nov 2008 7:49 am

Ah yes, the smelly sixties ....
I was proud of my Del Vecchio.

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