Hey y'all:

Now you can actually read my review of the History Channel's two hour documentary,THE HIPPIES.

If you know me you know I've always wanted to get my hands on some media. Our dreams of the big boys in N.Y. & L.A. breakin' up have been replaced by the system in OpryWood, Hot'Lanta and Mickey Mouse Town.

I received some important information today from two great guys I've never even seen
but for many years we've known each other because of this wonderful tool called The Internet.

Thanks for these messages fellahs!

FROM LANCE MICCIO of http://www.happytrailershd.com/
[PLEASE REMEMBER THAT EACH OF THESE INTERVIEWS for the History Channel's THE HIPPIES
began with LANCE BEHIND THE CAMERA AXING, "What's another word for Thesaurus?"]

RR:

I shot Mountain Girl , Coyote , Krassner, Kandell, The cops Ballentine and Martin.

I shot Wavy Gravy , Country Joe and the Bus Driver .
We shot Ami McGill and Martin Lee although our camera man left us for
Martin Lee (Acid Dreams)
because his cat died and the grip had to shoot it.
Duuhhh .
I shot Jamie Cohen , Dr Smith . Michael Segel and also Joe Vitale.

The big problem in my humble opinion was as in that Reda did not hire a director for Hippies .
It was a hodge podge of people who did not even experience the 60's even though they may have been existing on the planet .

To take a quote from Field of Dreams

Buela

"I experienced the 60's !"

Amy Madigan

I don't think so, I think you did two 50's and moved

right into the 70's.

Scott Reda was the Executive Producer.
Scott is the creator of the no director documentary .

Scott was quoted in the Newspaper yesterday as saying it was a Sad story and that he would only watch the first half because he did not want to miss the Sopranos

Scott,who originally ran a mega sports business,
has replaced his father the legendary producer Lou Reda .
LM

& now from a guy we're still proud of:
ZANE KESEY! http://key-z.com

that show sucked...
i was ashamed to have helped them...

negative spin and lies!
Z

& here's my review of THE HIPPIES , a two hour documentary that'll show agin sometime.

THE HIPPIES premiered tonight on the History Channel. They mentioned Ginzberg. Not a word about Cassady.

OK
It opens with Peter Coyote {ain't dat Cohen} talkin' bout counter culture collapse along with stuff about liberators, industry makers & innovators.

I swear before Jesus they show Babbs 3 or 4 times in the opening clip!

January '66

Explosion of social & cultural experimentation & oh yeah this cat named something who wrote ACID DREAMS is the expert and he shows up all the time in the documentary.
The big problem with the interview technique was a lack of uniformity in camera position & angle.
But the big problem with the film wuzzzzzzzzzzz dat deyzzzzzz didn't use more Lance Miccio footage http://happytrailershd.com
They used too much testimony from the authorities who never got high in their whole life and it showed.
EXPLOSION OF SOCIAL & CULTURAL EXPERIMENTATION
"An orgy of experiment"
Picture of a sign that reads "LIKE FATHER LIKE SON LIKE HELL!"
LSD
Now it's all about Albert Hoffman's ergot's St Anthony's fire coming in accidentally through his fingertips & the stupid idgit took it intentionally and tried to drive his bike home I think in a town named Basil [dramatized by a cartoon by David Normal]
unconscious thoughts uncontrolled
Carey Grant admits to taking 60 trips
The Acid Dreams author with is really straight t shirt underneath his purple shirt talkin' shit.
CIA project called MK ULTRA...stuff that deals with chemical warfare & behavior mod
Trailers of '62's Manchurian Candidate
Roz Payne
anxieties about LSD
Leary was putting it in the wrong hands
touchy feeling group experiments at Harvard
achival clip of Leary and I believe Richard Alpert [a.k.a. Baba Ram Dass]
Leary saying that women had a "several hundred orgasms" while on acid
LEARY IS THE POPE OF DOPE
Leary, former Crimson Tider, let the monkey out of the cage![waddn't he a K.A.?]
Kesey's drugged out inspiration for ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
with patients in the mental hospital
KESEY IS THE JOHNNY APPLESEED OF ACID
Kesey sez it's your birthright.
Enter Owsley Stanley.
Amphetamine lab gets converted into an LSD lab
Merry Pranksters
Ken Babbs talks
M.G. talks
Warlocks
Kesey opens it up mo' dan CIA plus Leary combined!
Trips Festival with 10,000 paying customers {somewhere in here they show a street theatre led by Bill Graham}
Haight Ashbury

First round of History Channel Ads
last ad is a History Channel ad for THE CATACOMBS OF DEATH!

Reports of psychedelic subcultures emerging in L.A., N.Y., London & Amsterdam.
INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENA!
Peter Coyote: "Haight Street was the theater. People were acting out their fantasies in real life." [Mr. Coyote was prominently absent when it came to the testimonials about the communes which emerged in California's National Forests."]

Breaking through to the other side
Loosened
Tidal Wave
Taboo Shattering
Some birth control pill guy talking
EPOCH OF SELF FULFILLMENT
Girl talking on archival film, "Keeping your virginity is like keeping a Christmas present you don't open."

Myron Magnet gives his fat ass constipated opinion. What up wid dem sideburns?TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES!!!!
Nothing was permanent.
No one could be counted upon.
Emotional wounds of the children
SEX, DRUGS & ROCK 'N ROLL!

Diggers have a more ambitious agenda
M.G. fingers the Diggers on boosting a load of meat from Safeway for a BBQ
Peter Berg talks about 20 free pads in the Haight. free clothes
Coyote talks about free clinics
CALLS THE HAIGHT IN THE FALL OF '66 A SEMIAUTONOMOUS CITY-STATE!
FREE PUBLIC SERVICES!
Someone found a replacement for conformity!
Some academic looking shithead saying this attempt at utopia was American as apple pie and besides that we weren't killing Indians
Sense of almost anything is possible
Most Californians don't agree
The Stage is Set.
Some group other than Steppenwolf play "Born to Be Wild"

Second round of ads

Quote from a cat on archival footage, " I don't have words. I only have soul." with the Mamas & the Papas playing "California Dreaming" in the background.

HONEYMOON IS OVER IN THE FALL OF '66!

Ed Meese gives his opinion
The unsupervised use of the drug released demons
Lewis Yablonsky talks about the hippies tolerance for psychosis
Mark Vonnegut [I wouldn't take my child to this pediatrician, folkziz- He give me the willies]
Vonnegut sez, "Drugs are bad for you." I disagree Vonnegut, your screwball ass needzzzz sum kinda dope but I swear I ain't evuh smokin' outta yo' bag!

Rick Brookhiser from THE NATIONAL REVIEW sez something
Hypnotic Improvisations
Acid
Stephen Vitelli
Drugs like LSD & Marijuana become lucrative
Lewis Yablonsky sez that in a two square mile area around The Haight you could arrest everyone for dope.
LSD become 4000 times more valuable than gold
Some paper in L.A. dubs Owsley "ACID MILLIONAIRE"
Acid made illegal
3000 drop acid at Golden Gate Park on the day it's made illegal
AN ACT OF COLLECTIVE DEFIANCE
On November 8, 1966 Reagan is elected
He calls the Haight "A hotbed of evil."
With the lifestyle under threat, the Haight plans a mediagenic event
3000 were expected to attend the HUMAN BE-IN
30,000 showed up
Ginsburg, Rubin, Dah Pope Uv Dope His Own Bad Self!
TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT!
Leary starts a new church called THE LEAGUE OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
M.G. speaks into Lance Miccio's microphone
after he breaks the ice by axing her dis queerstion,
"What's another name for Thesaurus?"
The Hell's Angels provide security for THE HUMAN BE-IN
They wuz showl nuf right wing but deyzzzzzzzzzz loved dope & hated authority so they fit in
Barry Miles talks
The Diggers laced the free turkey sandwiches with acid
ALL THE BIG THREE NET WORKS FILM THE PROCEEDINGS!
THE HUMAN BE-IN becomes the focus of world wide att
ention
WAVY GRAVY speaks!
Todd Gitlin sez something like "Something bizarre's going on in the world"
Roz Payne sez "The media never got it."
BIG SPREADS IN ALL THE MAGAZINES FEATURING CUTE NAKED HIPPIE CHICKS!

DOTHAN, ALABAMA IS AFFLICTED WITH AN EPIDEMIC OF INTERGENERATIONAL VOYEURISM!!!!

Lee Edwards talks about bearded people and about everybody was shocked and repelled by the hippies contempt for standards.

Edward Morgan talks about the opposite effect on youth and Peter Coyote sez that when the kids saw the stuff on TV they said "Ding! That's for me!"
HIPPIE REVOLUTION!
History Channel plays "Magic Carpet Ride" by their half-ass wanna bee Steppenwolf impersonators

THIRD AD Includes AARP & Home Depot & a local yokel ad for Nancy Taylor Day Spa wid a nekid woman with black rocks resting on her back. Crown Housing from here in town also had an ad.

Peter Coyote,"BY THE SPRING OF 1967 FLOWER POWER WAS IN FULL BLOOM!"

Steve Gillon, History Channel historian who moves things in whatever direction the advertisers want, sez that the Hippies were the main alternative to the authoritarian Fifties.
Mark Vonnegut talks.
Can-do military mind set
5 Star General In The White House
MARTIN LEE [this is the cat you see over & over. He wrote ACID DREAMS]
Rick Brookhiser sez something about huge frustration
Parallel psychedelic scenes are popping up in Greenwich Village, Hollywood & London.
Psychedelic wannabe neighborhoods popping up on college campuses
Aldous Huxly takes LSD IV while he's dying
San Francisco becomes the HIPPY MECCA
Elsa Marley speaks [that's one of yours, ain't it Lance?]
Gray Line Tour Driver Donald Angus describes hippies mooning the GRAY LINE SAFARI THROUGH PSYCHODELPHIA TOUR : The Only Foreign Tour Operated by the Gray Line inside the contintental U.S.

Robert Donnelly sez something and then M.G. talks about the cops clearing the streets.
Mo' worser wuz yet to come!
Ami Magill- Procter sez something {that wuz one yours waddn't it Lance?"}
Acid Dreams Guy comes back on
Living off the streets
Dope
Rough Street Scene
Cop named Jack Ballentine talking about kids being picked clean
Cop named Marty Bastiani talks about pimps showing up
100,000 Runaways show up for THE SUMMER OF LOVE
M.G. talks again and sez that it crumpled with thousands with no place to go
David Smith talks about the cold weather, hard drug scene, heroin, amphetamines and injections.
Cops tell about cleaning up the garbage
Barry Miles brings up the gangsters
Murder of SUPER SPADE is a milestone
October 6, 1967: The Diggers haul a coffin filled with beads & junk across the park for THE DEATH OF THE HIPPIE Funeral

UTOPIAN PIPEDREAM OVER

Turning East

Fourth Ad at the end of the hour was really something. Here are the advertisers in order:
ATT Family Tree, Kobalt Tools coop ad for Lowe's, Autotrader.com, Men's Rogaine Foam, Northwestern Mutual, ancestry.com, Sam Adams Beer, Blockbuster Total Access, History Channel MEGA-MOVERS & Own the show $29.95 call 1-800-708-1776

The Beatles in '67 increased the interest in drugs.Coyote sez something 'bout the Beatles eating speed in Munich but I thought it wuz Hamburg.
They tell the story about Dylan gittin' em high in '64
Beatles doing the hippie thing
Fab 4 Flying High
Lennon had a meeting and told everybody he wuz JESUS! [hey y'all, don't smoke anything out of John's bag today...]
Harrison went out seeking spiritual meaning in The Haight and found a MASS of KIDS in need of Dial Soap & Clearasil. quote: "BUNCH OF HIDEOUS SPOTTY LITTLE TEENAGERS!"

Barry Miles talks about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gittin' shunned from the udder guras 'cause he took money for Transcendental Meditation lessons

Donovon, Beach Boys,
T.M.

Whole thing with the swami & the Beatles lasts seven months
Tsunami of Swamis!!!!
Embrace of the Mystical
creepy Mark Vonnegut again
Todd Gitlin: "revolt against reason"
Gigantic Crapshoot
Rick Brookhiser "spirituality was a crock" something about it being American as apple pie because the swamis influenced Thoreau & Emerson
Voodoo & Witchcraft
Aleister Crowley
Jim Morrison Mr. Mojo Rising
The Lizard King
Lion tamer Anton Lavay serving human flesh after the child sacrifice before playing OLD SCRATCH in ROSEMARY'S BABY

Vablonsky describes Manson pitching a fit in a San Fran Free Clinic so ferocious that it showed his "hellish side"
Manson gets respect from Dennis Wilson & Neil Young

ACID DREAMS cat sez he "bound the wills of his acolytes" & had sex with seven women 3 or 4 times a day
VERY BAD THINGS...


5TH ADD OPENS WITH ANCESTRY.COM

Double murder of Linda & Groovy
Groovy murders open a turf war between the blacks & the hippies in San Fran
Roz Payne blows
Myron Magnet blows something about how the hippies were a recipe for failure for Black America. [guess we caused all that shit too]
Hippies start packing heat up off out into & amongst dah hood!

'68 sees tens of thousands locating to rural America
HIPPIES & THE COMMUNES [where were Peter Coyote's personal testimony during dis segmint]

Elsa Marley talks about sleeping in a room with 60 horny adults.
"WHOA, YA 'BOUT TO BUST SOMETHIN'!!!!"
Something about Brooke Farm
[Really?!!!!}
NO COYOTE TESTIMONIAL IN ANY OF THIS SHIT SO YOU KNOW WHUT DAT MEAN!
Yablonsky talked about a couple who dosed their 5 yr. old with acid.
Pritty sho' Vonnegut sez, "UNDERESTIMATED HOW COMPLICATED THE SIMPLE LIFE COULD BE."

Anti-War '68 Tipping toward chaos

The Sixth Ad comes in here History Channel pitches Modern Marvels

January 30, 1968: beginning of 2000 U.S. dead in the Tet Offensive. 14,000 U.S. troops killed for the year.
March 31 Johnson sez, "NO MAS!"
April 4 MLK in Memphis & the worst domestic strife since the Civil War
June 4 RFK

Vonnegut devastated- everybody in it together- both generations

'68 Crazy & Poisonous
Convergence of Race Wars & Foreign Wars
Terry a Viet Vet gets a small blip but I remember that it does say that he got multiple Purple Hearts.

Todd Gitlin & Barry Miles talk
SDS antihippie turning into Rubin/Hoffman/Krassner YIPPIES with Country Joe giving the U.S. Navy Source of his humor to inject into this Hippie Left

Exorcism of the Pentagon
The Guy with the white T shirt underneath the purple shirt who wrote ACID DREAMS
Media Profile where FLOWER POWER conqueres the war machine with the pictures of the hippies putting the flowers in the bayoneted gun barrels.

NOT THE CASE

Edward Morgan talks
Something about Hoffman, Rubin & Krassner forming the Yippies

Paul Krassner talks 'bout how the hippies are like "RUNNING OFF WITH THE CIRCUS!"

1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention

Peter Alter
Lincoln Park Festival of Life
County Joe McDonald
1000 injuries , one death
Steve Gillon the history company resident shithead sez "IT DIES THAT WEEK IN CHICAGO!"

Nixon wins and declares Holy War on the counterculture through the FBI's....

7th Advertisement It's a Lowe's "LET'S BUILD SOMETHING TOGETHER!

Nixon inaugurated January 20, 1969
FBI's COINTELPRO
HIDE TIDE OF HIPPIE LIFE!
$100,000,000 WORTH OF REEFER A YEAR!
HAIR, WIGS,FALSE BEARDS!

Woodstock interview wid Michael Lang {did I smell Lance Miccio on that?}

Roz Payne

Glen Joshpe, a medical guy who got a helicopter ride out of Woodstock because he had liquid Valium at his crib

New York State Throughway Closed For The First & Only Time!

All the stores instantly empty....quit shocking

One doctor for every 22,000 patients

Abbie Hoffman tried to show his ass wid dah WHO but it didn't pay off!

Eliot Tibur
Jeryl Abramson-Howard
Wavy Gravy
[Lance you gotta have done some of this]

HIPPIE DREAM OF A LOVING WORLD

8TH AD

MANSON
The lacerated pregnant body of Sharon Tate with 16 stab wounds, many of which were inflicted by a very hairy girl from Mobile, Alabama named Patricia Kernwinkle.

Conservative Press Has A Field Day
Barry Miles
Edward Morgan
Hippies started off thinking it was a paranoid CIA frame-up and then realized the cat was a hate mongering psychokiller.

Altamont wid Myron Magnet's sideburns again. Whut a drag!
Violence by Manson killed any holier than thou hippie self image.

BEATLES BROKE UP!

Fall of '70

Hendrix, Joplin

Joe Janci [I got chased away from the picture right about now]

April 22, 1970 Earth Day, back to the land
Lenore Kandel
Pandora's Box of dilemmas
Seeds of the Flower Children Have Been Sown!
Apple II
Menlo Park
Steve Wozniak said,"Steve Jobs Was More Of A Hippy Than I Was."
The personal computer
Stewart Brand, The Whole Earth Catalogue, The Internet
Bring back the History Channel historian Steve Gillon. He talks about quest for utopia and the inevitable failure & then says that we all have a little hippie in us and that way the hippies triumph.

Then they replay the intro archival footage & you see Babbs three or more times agin!
Best,
RR
http://flowerpower2.blogspot.com