<p>Sometimes I wonder where the evangelicals who are my age (52) came from. I never knew conservative religious people growing up (do Catholics count?) but maybe that was because I was from tne Northeast? When everyone was hippying it up, were Evangelicals fighting the trend (staying conservative) or are religious conservatives former hippies? I’m not making myself clear, I’m sure! Does anyone know what I mean? Where were they in the 60’s and 70’s is what I mean!</p>
<p>I think the evangelical movement has been growing independent of the hippies. Hippies seem to soften their edges a bit or morph into corporate types on occasion, but I don’t think we’ll the pool for the evangelical movement.</p>
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No, it sold 4x platinum=4,000,000 total by 1993, which includes the CD which came out in 1990). Diamond certification is more than 10,000,000 units sold and Inna Gadda Da Vida never achieved that sales figure. In fact, the Eagles 1971-5 comp is the #1 selling album of all time at 29 million.</p>
<p>If Sgt Peppers (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds anyone?) isn’t hippie music, I don’t know what is. How about CSN&Y, The Doors, The Doobie Brothers, Pink Floyd or Simon & Garfunkle? They all had albums that outsold Inna Gadda Da Vida.</p>
<p>And then there were The Fugs. Anybody remember them? Monday nothing, Tuesday nothing, Wednesday nothing… Those were the days before Prozac, hence all the self-medication.</p>
<p>Reading this thread is going to make me pull out my audiophile (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs) vinyl version of “Woodstock”</p>
<p>No rain, no rain…</p>
<p>Radical chic. Levitated the White House and Pentagon once or twice.</p>
<p>Someday we gotta do some MFSL trading, audiophile…</p>
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<p>Now you’re talking my language!!</p>
<p>Circa 1968-69 14-year-old high school sophomore. We thought we were so cool walking on 8th Street in the Village, buying copies of The Voice. Hanging in Central Park listening to WNEW-FM. Wearing Fred Braun shoes. Was that just a NY thing? I remember seeing Country Joe up at Columbia and Santana at the Fillmore East. I went to Queens Flushing Meadow Park the weekend of Woodstock for a great concert. Some of the acts came down from there to perform for those of us whose parents would NEVER have let us travel. Anybody remember The Incredible String Band, or am I the only one? I can remember RFK’s murder like yesterday, having to go in to take a Social Studies final exam and how we cried through the entire thing.</p>
<p>Yes, that was a very bad Spring. Ditto about 8th St., The Voice, WNEW and Fred Braun shoes.</p>
<p>I had a number of those albums, audio. Still classic, even today.</p>
<p>I was just listening to “Concert for Bangladesh” a few days ago. (sort of hippyish, yes?) Part of our vinyl collection… I used to listen to the records on a Radio Shack “stereo” record player, which I bought with babysitting money. It was so cool - prior to, we had a nonstereo record cabinet in the living room. It’s amazing that my old vinyl records have survived and still play so well! :)</p>
<p>fafnir605, I absolutely remember the Incredible String Band! I have two well-worn albums. You’re never, ever alone…</p>
<p>My sweet parents. They meant well. They took us from Baltimore by car to Washington D.C. to hear their hero, Pete Seeger. Circling the concert hall entrance for a parking spot, Dad screeched the car to a stop behind a taxi. Climbing out of the taxi was a thin young lady wearing sandals and a short, straight dress. “Oh my,” said my Mom, “who would come dressed like that to a Pete Seeger Concert?” Next to pile out of the cab: Pete Seeger himself and several instruments. When the concert began, we learned that the sandalled girl with the knock-out voice was Joan Baez, his unknown warmup act, maybe 18 years old then. </p>
<p>How about when Dylan got booed at the Newport Folk Festival for playing an electric guitar in his second set?</p>
<p>Well it’s hard to know the story behind that one. Some who were there insist he was booed because his set was so short, NOT because it was electric.</p>
<p>And I saw the Door (unknown) as the warm-up group for Simon and Garfunkel, which was kind of a shame because no one wanted to hear Simon and Garfunkel after the Doors, at least not the young women. I was fifteen, with a girlfriend, first concert I was allowed to go to by myself at night, and never the same again.</p>
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<p>At the risk of being a revisionist, I’m happier to believe that explanation :)</p>
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<p>Oh, how cool! I read Ina Mae’s book ‘Spiritual Midwifery’ when I was pregnant and it blew my mind! What a beautiful book! I would have loved to live on the The Farm.</p>
<p>Do you know if they still take in new people?</p>
<p>From the research I have been doing it is now very difficult to become a part of the community, but not impossible. When I was in college the “caravan” came by, before the land in Tennessee had even been settled, and a dorm mate went off to San Francisco with them. I talked my parents into buying one of her paintings so she would have some money to take with her.</p>
<p>A brother of another friend of mine lived there for fifteen years.</p>
<p>Of course, my creation if fictional. Fictional name, etc.</p>
<p>Incredible String Band. Have been humming this since reading those words a few hours ago from-And We Bid You Good night</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/gdead/dead-lyrics/And_We_Bid_You_Goodnight.txt[/url]”>http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/gdead/dead-lyrics/And_We_Bid_You_Goodnight.txt</a></p>
<p>I found the Farm on line. Of course! They have a hostel, in one of the original farm buildings. A long day’s drive from here. Hmmm…time for a trip? </p>
<p>Spiritual Midwifery and that ethic formed the basis for my approach to childbirth and early parenting. Though when a friend suggested that I go to the farm to deliver my twins, it seemed a bit much. </p>
<p>Several years ago I had occasion to see Joan Baez backstage after a concert. Gorgeous still.</p>
<p>I remember that spring - Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and even Helen Keller. But Kennedy was the worst because he didn’t die right away. We had the radio on in all our classes.</p>
<p>I used to wait for the schoolbus and tell demonstrators how to get to Dupont Circle. My parents used to go make bail for kids who’d been arrested and put them up in our basement.</p>
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<p>Those albums & CDs are quite valuable now (mostly out of print). Check out these on EBay: [MFSLs</a> on EBay](<a href=“http://music.search.ebay.com/%2Fmfsl_Music_W0QQcatrefZC3QQdfspZ1QQfclZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ34QQsacatZ11233QQsbrsrtZd]MFSLs”>http://music.search.ebay.com/%2Fmfsl_Music_W0QQcatrefZC3QQdfspZ1QQfclZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ34QQsacatZ11233QQsbrsrtZd) Sometimes I think I should sell mine to pay college tuition, but I can’t bring myself to part with them.</p>