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Born & raised in San Jose. I was 11 in 67 and I was shocked when I went to the Haight Ashbury district with my folks. 8 years later I had my own band and had turned into a freak myself. What a blast to have ridden in on the coat tails of the counter culture. I consider myself lucky to have caught a glimpse of it and to have actually graduated in 75, unscathed!
Just beautiful....god I wish I had a time machine...I turned 18 that year. We had the right ideas ...just got crushef by reality along the way. Managed to keep my hair long and the music cranked up though...I turn 72 in Nov.
In 1969, when I was seven, my sister and I wandered into a hippie music festival, at a recreational facility owned by Winthrop College known as "the farm". "The farm" was adjacent to the neighborhood I grew up in. The festival was three weeks after Woodstock on Labor Day weekend, if memory serves. The Chocolate Watchband was one of the acts. I think their girlfriends took me and my sister on the VIP backstage experience. It was quite a day in my life. I never trusted anybody with a crew-cut after that day. The Chocolate Watchband had a song called "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" from 68.
I won't take clothes that are hand-me-downs And make out a smile, though I wear a frown And I won't take it all lying down 'Cause once I get started I go to town I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! Cos I don't want to walk through life like everybody else I don't want to live my life like everybody else I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else Cos I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! But darling, you know that I love you true Confess all my sins if you want me to But there's one thing that I will say to you That you want to love me the all life through I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! I don't want to walk trough life like everybody else I don't want to live my life like everybody else I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else I'm not like everybody else! But I'm not like everybody else! Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) (Like everybody else!) (Like everybody else!) (Like everybody else!) But darling, you know that I love you true Confess all my sins like you want me to But there's one thing that I will say to you That you want to love my all life through I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! I'm not like everybody else! No, I'm not like everybody else! I say, and I don't want to walk trough life like everybody else I don't want to live my life like everybody else I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else I'm not like everybody else! I'm not like everybody else! Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else (like everybody else!) Like everybody else
I won't take clothes that they hand me down And make out a smile, though I wear a frown And I won't take it all lying down Cause once I get started I go to town Cause Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else And I dont want to walk through life like everybody else And I dont want to live my life like everybody else And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else Cause Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else But darling, you know that I love you true Do anything that you want me to Confess all my sins like you want me to Theres one thing that I will say to you Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else And I dont want to ball about like everybody else And I dont want to live my life like everybody else And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else Cause Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Like everybody else Like everybody else Like everybody else Like everybody else If you all want me to settle down Slow up and stop all my running round Do everything like you want me to Theres one thing that I will say to you Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else And I dont want to ball about like everybody else And I dont want to live my life like everybody else And I won't say that I feel fine like everybody else Cause Im not like everybody else Im not like everybody else Like everybody else (like everybody else) Like everybody else (like everybody else) Like everybody else (like everybody else) Like everybody else
Song was repetitive rubbish vocally with a clicked instrumental track. Sounds like a Seeds or Blues Magoos reject picked up off the cutting room floor.
It will all come back !! It's the wild untamed spirit of nature coming through !!! .....all that's happening now will Be un cool to the children of tomorrow . Whether we like it or not. That's just how it is,the universe has its own rules. Peace again
I’m not sure if it’s just the way dudes looked like in 67 or if it really is Jim Morrison at 2:37. It’s unfair how much different the Haight is now. It was affordable for young people to live in. I’m glad they changed hippie hill to Robin Williams Hill.
Wow I guess you'd rather go to today's Street Scenes we're all is filled with homeless druggies and Tents all over and trash yeah you'd rather come back to this wouldn't you😢
Those are the years where humanity and people came together and finally realized that we're all the same equality we found out about we started talking about peace for society who are you what country are you from and what did you learn and what Street Scenes do you like
Hehe that's exactly what I said. There was definitely a dark side to the Haight Ashbury Scene. Many bikers and vets were unable to integrate into the free love vibe, due to life experience, abusive upbringing and traumatic childhood events, whatever, and railed against it at every chance. The images of Hell's Angels beating back the hippie crowd at Altamont with clubs comes to mind.
2:31 It is pretty funny that the well dressed black guy wearing a tie is sweeping the hippie trash off the sidewalk. He's doing his job. He wants to work. He's building a future for himself and his family. I respect him. Even though I'm a dirty heavily armed hippie. But I never litter.
So many free thinking peace loving souls back in the 60's with so much promise for the future. And yet here we are in this disgusting messed up world of greed and hate. Ps Kellermensch do a better version of this song
I'm still 'not like everybody else'. At 70 still living by myself, virtually no social life, living angst ridden gay man in a straight world. I feel sorry enough for myself, so don't request any help........have a good next world afterlife
Yeah cool cover but Kinks original is the best. The Chocolate Watchband were really cool , one can say strongly influenced by the Rolling Stones but they had some tunes which blow almost every early Stones song into the shadows ....hehehe....regarding such Stones clones remember also the great all time garage blastt off classic "Bad Woman" by The Fallen Angels ..one tune which blows almost every early Stones away ...hehehe...the singer not only copies Jagger voice one to one , moreover he also shows that he could do it better than Jagger, but such bands are almost unknown outside the notorious Sixties Garage fans community, an example for the power of commerce and advertising again ..... even if I joke a bit too this is really my opinion regarding the mentioned bands !!
