authfriend wrote: > Segment from a 1967 TV documentary about hippies narrated > by Harry Reasoner. Included is an interview with the very > young Grateful Dead and an excerpt from their live free > performance in the park of "Dancin' in the Streets": > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHmi9y-KLo > > Reasoner's verdict: "Style without content." He did get > the positive aspects of the hippie worldview; he just > didn't think they amounted to much. And he may have been > right.
Interesting. That was the year they dropped by my band house (a dilapidated three story mansion with a great view of Seattle). Jerry told me we should throw parties there but we were low key and didn't want to do any such thing. I notice his attitude about living simply is pretty much what the millennials embrace today and I think a smart idea. I'm wondering if that band was run communally or like more like a business. The difference being that with the communal model nobody got paid anything maybe other than a spending stipend and the money went into maintaining the house, transportation and food. When I was the leader of my group it was run like any band and the members got paid. We shared the rent on the house. Later when we got a personal manager he ran it more communal which was not to my liking.
