07-30-2007, 04:01 AM
Just have to say something about this Puna event I attended last Saturday..
Me wife, who loves music dragged me into this 'Summer of love' concert, event. Me not exactly being a hippie, nor her, and Listening to the old beat you hear at some bar, has become extremely tiresome so perhaps you can imagine I'd be hesitant to go to this 'thing'. Although I have long hair, some people think of me as an old hippie, but I am just an old surfer, who in these days don't got to cut me hair. Peace. love, dove baby.
At the gate, a couple of children, asking for, "$10, per person, or whatever you can donate, or if you don't have any money, then, (in a child like innocence) then that's O.K. too."
Time warp.
As we drove in there's all these, modern hippies dressed in their regular affair, kids living in today's world yet fashioned like the hippie of the 1960's. There's the African American with the 1960's rag-tag hair. Somebody beating a drum, Mothers with their children about resembling all you might have seen in an old movie or remake of the hippie era.. A few tents, and all things hippie-ish. Here in Puna there's quite a few kids, 16-30 running around who idyllically live with the fashion of the 1960's hippie, mother earth, peace, living off of the land. I hear many of these kids are somewhere in the woods about in places, who knows where.
So, as we drive in the stage is set, strangers to the local group as we are, yet now warped 40 years back in time.
In a large field there's an old rustic house painted in a hippie fashion which hosts the stage, bands, and announcers.. I can not recall which movie depicted this very same scene but there's a few..
There's a oder of a local herb, which we don't indulge in but too sets the scene.
Some selling beads, local foods, all things you could have found back in the day, San Fran or similar events.
Music of jimmy Hendrix, Janis joplin, Pink Floyd, an others of the era. Some fellow with long hair announcing the need to vote, anti war speech and the like, who at his current age equaled those ages of those back in the day. . Some christen song, folk too.
A few meandering instrumental players in the crowds who figure: "there's an audience, jump in and jam" A indigenous Australian, horn or pipe blown, whispering old sounds. A guitar player with harmonica attached to his mouth and a banjo guy, who kinda looked like what i expected Opie of Andy of mayberry to grow up and look like, who had an unrehearsed attitude and style of a country, 1950's bluegrass redneck..
The bands stopped at 12AM, but the people stayed as invited, which evolved into a hippie like setting, singing folk and the like around a large encircled fire.
Me? i just sat their behind me sunglasses all day and threw the night.. Somewhat stunned, not stoned, as this was a experience, I doubt Jimmy could have expected.
To this whole event unlike a Renaissance fair thingy, not a performance, nor rehearsed meandering players, just plain people gathering as it was, back, well,,, back in the day..
The promoters said something of a Woodstock event in 2009. However in my view this seems far to difficult to pull off, especially as this seemed to go so well.. Publicity and success is not always bliss, which makes the 40 year anniversary of "the summer of love" more of a event verses promotion..
Personally, me, me wife, we are just a couple of years young, at 52 now to have been involved with the 1960's affair.. But if ever there was a flashback, we ever did see, Puna's "Summer of Love" had everything we missed, as it seemed to me..
Edited by - Jeffhale on 07/30/2007 08:38:24
Me wife, who loves music dragged me into this 'Summer of love' concert, event. Me not exactly being a hippie, nor her, and Listening to the old beat you hear at some bar, has become extremely tiresome so perhaps you can imagine I'd be hesitant to go to this 'thing'. Although I have long hair, some people think of me as an old hippie, but I am just an old surfer, who in these days don't got to cut me hair. Peace. love, dove baby.
At the gate, a couple of children, asking for, "$10, per person, or whatever you can donate, or if you don't have any money, then, (in a child like innocence) then that's O.K. too."
Time warp.
As we drove in there's all these, modern hippies dressed in their regular affair, kids living in today's world yet fashioned like the hippie of the 1960's. There's the African American with the 1960's rag-tag hair. Somebody beating a drum, Mothers with their children about resembling all you might have seen in an old movie or remake of the hippie era.. A few tents, and all things hippie-ish. Here in Puna there's quite a few kids, 16-30 running around who idyllically live with the fashion of the 1960's hippie, mother earth, peace, living off of the land. I hear many of these kids are somewhere in the woods about in places, who knows where.
So, as we drive in the stage is set, strangers to the local group as we are, yet now warped 40 years back in time.
In a large field there's an old rustic house painted in a hippie fashion which hosts the stage, bands, and announcers.. I can not recall which movie depicted this very same scene but there's a few..
There's a oder of a local herb, which we don't indulge in but too sets the scene.
Some selling beads, local foods, all things you could have found back in the day, San Fran or similar events.
Music of jimmy Hendrix, Janis joplin, Pink Floyd, an others of the era. Some fellow with long hair announcing the need to vote, anti war speech and the like, who at his current age equaled those ages of those back in the day. . Some christen song, folk too.
A few meandering instrumental players in the crowds who figure: "there's an audience, jump in and jam" A indigenous Australian, horn or pipe blown, whispering old sounds. A guitar player with harmonica attached to his mouth and a banjo guy, who kinda looked like what i expected Opie of Andy of mayberry to grow up and look like, who had an unrehearsed attitude and style of a country, 1950's bluegrass redneck..
The bands stopped at 12AM, but the people stayed as invited, which evolved into a hippie like setting, singing folk and the like around a large encircled fire.
Me? i just sat their behind me sunglasses all day and threw the night.. Somewhat stunned, not stoned, as this was a experience, I doubt Jimmy could have expected.
To this whole event unlike a Renaissance fair thingy, not a performance, nor rehearsed meandering players, just plain people gathering as it was, back, well,,, back in the day..
The promoters said something of a Woodstock event in 2009. However in my view this seems far to difficult to pull off, especially as this seemed to go so well.. Publicity and success is not always bliss, which makes the 40 year anniversary of "the summer of love" more of a event verses promotion..
Personally, me, me wife, we are just a couple of years young, at 52 now to have been involved with the 1960's affair.. But if ever there was a flashback, we ever did see, Puna's "Summer of Love" had everything we missed, as it seemed to me..
Edited by - Jeffhale on 07/30/2007 08:38:24