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We need your help here at "BBR&R" ! This site was started as a Hippie friendly site and was planned to be a site where an old hippie could come and reminisce about the music and bands from back in the day. It has morphed into much more than that. BBR&R is now officially a HIPPIE WEBSITE with anything hippie related. It is much more than this poor ol hippie can handle.
Send us a hippie related article that you have wrote. Please don't copy someone else's work, as your name and email address will be used to credit the work to you. And who knows maybe someday we will even be able to pay you for helping us ! You may even be able to have a weekly (daily,monthly, occasionally?) column, credited to you.
Send us anything, your own writings, jokes, pictures, advice, contribute to the current events section, even items (hippie related of course) that you have for sale. If you think it would be a good fit on our pages send it. I cannot promise we will use it but there is a good chance we will.
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We asked for help and we got it !
C.M. Barons is our newest contributor, or as I
like to call him, unpaid staff member. He has agreed to write an
occasional column for us. He is an accomplished writer and an old
Hippie among many other things.While we are not sure what to expect
from him, after you read the excerpt from his new book "In The Midst
Of" I think you will agree, whatever he writes will be worth the wait
(read the excerpt HERE) or score a copy HERE
C. M. Barons was born in Rochester, New York, October 26, 1953. He studied journalism at SUNY New Paltz, graduating in 1976 with a BA in Communication Arts. During his time at New Paltz, he served as Photographic Editor for the student newspaper the Oracle and reported. Upon graduation, he was hired by The Daily News of Batavia. He started as a proofreader and rose to the position of Sports Editor. He resides in a small village in Western New York. His interests aside from writing and literature include politics, history, theater, art, international/ independent film and Egyptology. He has traveled to Russia and Egypt. He is a frequent contributor to blogs, letters columns and e-groups. Supporting his reputation as a Renaissance Man, he currently manufactures blood products for the American Red Cross. His resume reflects additional diversity: educational technology, live sound technician, cemetery caretaker, wedding photographer, food processing quality control, dock foreman, cable installer, electrician, youth employment counselor...
This website was started as a way to remember the "underground, counter culture hippie music" of the 60's and 70's. Politics were to play a small part or no part at all. However It has become clear that it would be impossible to discuss the music of those years without examining the politics of the era also. The music of that time of course included some traditional love songs, but a larger part of the music had a clear political message, and it cannot be ignored. Hippies were all about peace and love. Anti-war was big. Anti-marijuana prohibition was big. We are here to celebrate the music of the era . Weather you were in Viet Nam with bullets flying and agent orange in the air ,or you were inHaight - Ashbury with your long hair gently flowing in the breeze and marijuana smoke in the air . We all loved the underground rock music and still do . Hippie music will live on forever !
Those born after 1980 , don't even know what to call their generation (the wired generation, gen y, the Millenials, net gen). Will they look back at the music and times of the 2000's the same way as Boomers look back at the music and times of the 60's & 70's ? I don't think so . The 60's & 70's were special.I was born in the middle of the Baby Boomer years of 1946 - 1964 . Too young to be drafted , then the draft ended when I was older. But , I was old enough to love the music and the whole Hippy culture . My hair is a little thinner and shorter (actually i have a Mohawk now) . But my stereo is still playing classic rock . My thing now is to find underground classic rock n' roll , that even I have forgotten about , The really cool thing about building this site is that I get to re-discover a lot of bands that have been gone from my head for a long time.
No animals or children were harmed while creating this site...
CURRENT EVENTS
Reverend Michael Baldasaro received two years in a Federal Penitentiary and Reverend Tucker one year in Hamilton jail
A Hamilton judge has hammered Church of the Universe founders Reverend Brother Walter Tucker and Reverend Brother Michael Baldasaro, sentencing them to hefty jail terms and ordering the seizure of their east-Hamilton headquarters. In a strongly worded decision, Superior Court Justice John Cavarzan said, "544 Barton Street East is a marijuana convenience store that operates for profit like a prohibition-era speakeasy, but disguised as a church." Cavarzan sentenced Baldasaro, 58, to two years in a federal penitentiary on two counts of marijuana trafficking, involving about 2.5 grams worth $30. He handed Tucker, 75, a 12-month jail sentence for three counts of trafficking, involving $40 worth of pot.
The spiritual leaders of a rag-tag group of followers were convicted by a jury in November after selling small quantities of marijuana to an undercover police officer. Church members call marijuana the Tree of Life and smoke it as a sacrament. The female officer took out a $25 membership in the church and bought the sacrament five times from May 2003 to February 2004.
Cavarzan ordered their church headquarters forfeited to the Crown as "offence-related property" under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The jailed pair have 30 days to remove their personal effects from the building, comprising a storefront and four upper-floor apartments. Tucker and Baldasaro established the Church of the Universe in 1969 at a former quarry in Puslinch, which they called Clearwater Abbey. Since that time, they have ceaselessly advocated for the legalization and recognition of marijuana as a socially beneficial and and health-giving herb. But Cavarzan stressed this was not a case of simple possession, but of drug trafficking, which the Supreme Court of Canada has stated is a serious offence. He noted that the pair ran a commercial enterprise that had attracted violent crime in the past, including the attempted robbery of Tucker by two armed men looking for his cache.
Tucker, who is hard of hearing, told the judge he was disappointed at being sent to a provincial jail while Baldasaro would be serving federal time. Placing his arm around his longtime friend, Tuckers asked, "Why don’t you sentence me to the same time as Reverend Baldasaro? Because if he deserves two years, then I deserve it too."
LOS ANGELES- Just days after her release on parole, a former 70's radical was headed back to prison after corrections officials said a clerical error resulted in her early release. Criticism over the early release from prison Monday of Sara Jane Olson, who lived as a fugitive for years in Minnesota, spurred a review of her sentence and the timing of her parole, said Scott Kernan, the chief deputy secretary for the California department of Corrections. The review revealed that a 2004 miscalculation led to the former Symbionese Liberation Army member being released a year too early, he said. "The department is sensitive to the impact such an error has had on all involved in this case and sincerely regrets the mistake," Kernan said. He said the review was ordered "after many concerns raised in the media".The union that represents Los Angeles police officers and the son of a woman killed in a decades old botched robbery at a bank near Sacramento opposed Olson's release. Olson, 61, was detained at Los Angeles Airport on Friday night and told her right to leave the state had been rescinded. She was sent to stay with family in Palmdale, where authorities kept watch outside the house overnight, and was arrested Saturday and imprisoned in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Kernan said.
Sara Jane Olson was born in 1947 as Kathleen Ann Soliah, she now uses her old alias (Sara Jane Olson) as her legal name. After graduating from the University of California her and her boyfriend, Jim Kilgore moved to Berkley California where she met Angela Atwood, an active member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Atwood tried to sponsor Olson into the group, however Olson declined to join the SLA. Later, after Atwood and other SLA members were killed in a standoff with police (after they murdered the Oakland school superintendent) , Olson began to support the group. She provided supplies for their hideout and fake id's. In August 1975 a bomb was discovered under an LAPD patrol car, and another bomb was found in front a police department about a mile away. Sara Jane Olson was accused of planting the bombs to avenge the deaths of her friends. She was arrested, but went underground before the trial started. In 1976 a grand jury indicted Olson. She remained underground, a fugitive for 23 years.
In March and again in May 1999 Olson was profiled on America's Most Wanted tv show. The show generated a tip in June 1999 and Olson was arrested in St. Paul, Minnesota. She had built a life with her husband (who was/is ? a doctor), and three daughters in St. Paul using her alias Sara Jane Olson. She was active in St. Paul community issues, and human rights campaigns, and was a semi-pro stage actress. Her husband described the family as active in progressive social causes.
Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.
THE FIRST DAY: Richie Havens / Sweetwater / Bert Sommer / Tim Hardin / Ravi Shankar / Melanie / Arlo Guthrie / Joan Baez .
THE SECOND DAY: Quill / Country Joe McDonald / John B. Sabastian / Keef Hartley Band / Santana / Incredible String Band / Canned Heat / Grateful Dead / Creedence Clearwater Revival / Janis joplin / Sly & The Family Stone / The Who / Jefferson Airplane .
THE THIRD DAY: Joe Cocker / Country Joe & The Fish / Lesley West / Mountain (fact: Mountain played "Blood Of The Sun" and "Theme From An Imaginary Western" at the festival, however the versions of these songs that are on the Woodstock LP's were recorded at another venue and not at Woodstock.) / Ten Years After / The Band / johnny Winter / Blood sweat And Tears / Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young
THE FOURTH DAY: Paul Butterfield Blues Band / Sha-Na-Na / Jimi Hendrix . Source "Woodstock 69"
BACKTOMENU
Box of Pearls The Janis Joplin Collection Bonus Tracks CD (JanisJoplin)
WOODSTOCK FACTS
Q - Price of Woodstock Festival tickets ?
A - $ 8 per day
It took 10 years for the promoter to pay off the debts incurred for those 3 days 600 acres of the land owned by Max Yasgur's rented for $50,000 At 5:07 pm, Friday, August 15, 1969, Richie Havens kicked off the festival by performing "Minstrel From Gault Q" 1300 pounds of food was brought in by helicopter Hot Dogs cost $1, Acid & mesc $4 per hit It is believed that about 350 people ate the bad brown acid The stage was 80 feet wide 30 minutes to 2 hour wait between acts 6000 people who were hurt, sick, or having bad trips were treated by 18 doctors, and 36 nurses 3 people died, 2 people were born (wonder where they are now) Only 30 - 80,000 of the festival goers stayed to watch Jimi Hendrixs' closing performance. Within 14 months of the concert Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix were both dead.
For more about Woodstock, check out The Woodstock ProjectBACK TOMENU
SEDALIA , MO , JULY 19-21 1974
I looked for pictures of this concert for a long time and came up with only a few. Then Ronald Fiene sent me a bunch of cool pictures and newspaper clippings. Ronald is a researcher of the "OMF" and collected these pictures from other concert goers. To see the Ronald Fiene collection of OMF pictures click HERE
My friend had a Ford Pinto that we loaded up for the journey (a few hundred miles). A couple changes of clothes, head bands, a lot of 8 track tapes, and a lid of golden brown Columbian.
When we were about 75 miles from Sedalia the traffic was getting heavier, hippie vans , and car loads of hippies . We all were going to the same place, and waved at each other. With just a few miles left to go the Pinto died, it just got to hot and tired to go any farther. We pushed it the last miles. The traffic now was bumper to bumper, and stop and go a few feet. So it was not hard to push the little Pinto, we had plenty of rest breaks.
We got to the main fair ground gate, and pushed the dead Pinto threw ,and into some bushes right inside the gate, right next to a tent with a sign hanging on it advertising opium for sale,
While "Woodstock" was no doubt the most well known festival . The Ozark Mountain Music festival was one of the largest music festivals ever held anywhere on Earth. Some say it was larger than "Woodstock", but most estimates put the figure at 350,000 festival goers.
This festival may have ruined chances for promoters in later years of trying to put on another concert of this magnitude. The promoters of "The Ozark Mountain Music Festival" (Musical Productions of Kansas City) assured the Missouri Department of Agriculture (people in charge of the fair grounds) and the little town of Sedalia that the three day concert would be a blue-grass and "pop rock" festival with only 50,000 tickets sold.
What happened was not what the town expected. The people of Sedalia woke up that first morning to find hippies ,bikers, and groupies in their yards , and traffic glogging all the roads into town. Most could not get to work that day.
The stage was inside a open air stadium and was double sided with one band performing on one side while the next band was getting ready on the other side. "Wolfman Jack" was mc for the event . He would have to continually warn the crowd to "stay cool" and to "clear the light towers of people before they fell"
I spent maybe 3 or 4 hours inside while at the festival (it was very hard to get in through the crowd at the entrances . But I was inside when The Eagles dedicated "Already Gone " to Richard Nixon and his last days before being impeached . Needless to say the crowd went crazy.
It is believed that NBC filmed the entire concert (I did see cameras) and this would explain The Wolfman Jack being the mc. But it is said that the courts confiscated the footage because of the large amount of damage done to the town and fair grounds .
The advertisements for the concert said "No Hassles Guaranteed", which of course the hippies took to mean it would be a wide open drug event with no police . And it was , I don't remember seeing any police in the fair grounds. And I do remember seeing wide open drug use . The only law enforcement ,if you can call it that was provided by The Hells Angels , they were everywhere. It was reported that they set up brothels in buses which they ran. I don't remember seeing any.
The people that were hurt or drug overdosed were carried away by National Guard helicopters .And helicopters were used to carry bands in and out.
There is almost no history of the festival published. What I have written here is what I personally witnessed and from Wikipedia . If I have left anything out or you have pictures of the event than please contact me .
I know there were more bands than at Woodstock, but I have not found any offical list. As I add bands to this page , I will mention if this band was at the Ozark Music Festival, if it can be verified .
You may now find the most informative, believable account of this great event written by Rod Sievers rightHERE
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Message: I was 17 when I attended the concert and still have my ticket stub. If you would like a picture of it, I will send you one. Anyway, nice website and I sure do wish there were more pictures available for people to view. It was an unforgetable experience.
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Marijuana's Cousin
HEMP
In the early 70's while growing up in Douglas county Illinois, my buddies and I heard about local farmer's bean field that had "marijuana" growing along a fence roll. We all hopped in a friends van and went to investigate it one night. It was a very warm late summer night, and as we got close we could smell that wonderful sweet smell of fresh marijuana. We were so excited, we couldn't wait to follow our noses out there into that field, we would all be high all winter. We found the marijuana and we pulled all those green plants and stuffed them into pillow cases and bags we had broughtwith us.
There was 5 or 6 of us and after our stash was dried we all had a good amount. We smoked and smoked and about all we achieved was getting sore throats and our heads hurt. We decided what we had heard about "Illinois Green" being shit weed was true. My older brother found out what my buddies and me had and just laughed his ass off. He told me he knew about this field of marijuana and that it was in fact not really marijuana but hemp. Turns out that farmer's grandfather had grown hemp during World War 2 for the military to use forrope, when the government encouraged farmers to grow it in the "Hemp For Victory" program (see Hemp For Victory video). However now that that war is over and hemp is now NOT legal to grow in the U.S. But it is legal to import billions of dollars worth of hemp products into the United States. That is money that American farmers could have in their pockets. But the Bush white house is worried that if they allow farmers to grow this valuable product it may encourage lawmakers to legalize marijuana.Hemp is cannabis grown specifically for industrial use and thus contains very low levels of cannabinoids (THC). The use of hemp dates back many thousands of years. Properly grown hemp has virtually no psychoactive (intoxicating) effects when consumed. With a relatively short growth cycle of 120 days, hemp is an efficient and economical crop for farmers to grow.
You may have to return to the music player at the top and turn it off so you can hear the video. Sorry ,we are working on this problem!
H.R. 1009 Introduced in Congress
Bill Would Allow States to Legally Grow Hemp
Click Hereand ask your Member of Congress to Support it
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