Woodstock, Hippies & The Summer of Love: 1960s Counterculture Documentary 

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Interesting trailer. Will watch the film. I have been in the music biz since the late ‘60s, as a kid and still play. Was in radio, music TV and a journalist/publisher. Even sang “at Woodstock”....(jokingly)....as I was on tour at 15 y.o. in a Christian folk choir that toured half the U.S. and did 2 LPs,and we played the town of Woodstock during the festival. Several of us who were into rock/psychedelic/folk had been psyched, until we found out the festival had been moved to White Lake/Bethel. So, all that was left in the town of Woodstock was a handful of head shop owners, in their stores with day-GOLO posters and black lights. BTW, I JUST “saved” a real live ‘60s hippie VW transporter single cab, that I found out in Northern CA last month and shipped it half-way across the U.S....hadn’t moved in 40+ years and is painted with a big peace sign, etc. with Woodstock/San Francisco tags on it. A real time capsule...HAD to have it!

I was a child in the ‘60s...too young to participate in the Hippie Movement (well, maybe did a little bit at the tail end) but was aware of it through stories in ‘Life’ magazine and the experiences of older friends. Back then, I felt fascinated by the changes that were taking place in society and really believed that they would be permanent. Perhaps some Hippie ideals have changed and are still with us, yet it’s kind of sad that for the most part, their dreams seem to have faded from our landscape.

Loved seeing Suzi Quatro. Her brother Mike Quatro opened up for Aerosmith in Port Huron Michigan, my first concert when I was 14 yrs old in Oct of 74. They are both loved in the Detroit area

Great work on this one. I remember the finger snapping beatniks. I was a little to young to be one but I thought it was cool. Thanks!

Great job, loved watching this!

Love our intellectuals! Truly the Beats gave rise to the Folkies to the rise of pop rock and the '67 Summer of Love and unto the full blown 60s counter-revolution ... and it all ended in November '72.

I would love to see a 2022 counter culture ..✌😊🍄💜☯️☮🕉🍄✌🍄✌

I lived through the sixties in London and it’s really Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove W11 in West London that I would say is similar to Haight Ashbury. Carnaby Street was about commercial fashion and it’s not a place anyone lives, Notting Hill is an inner London residential area with a road called Portobello Road with a market and many unique shops! In the U.K. in 1969 we had the second Isle of Wight Festival with Bob Dylan returning to performing for the first time since 1966, there were other large festivals in Europe also, unfortunately they weren’t filmed very well and didn’t get as much attention in the mass media at the time!

Oh gawd, couldn’t watch. I’m sorry. At least I was a part of it. 😀

It's pretty tough to have a video centered around music without playing any music.

The Beatnik Riot like most riots was a police riot.

It just mushroomed 🍄

I remember going to the college coffee house listening to folk music (One of my school friends actually sang and played) and poetry. Instead of clapping people sat silent or snapped their fingers. Labels like "beatnik" were frowned upon as it's just another square to be fenced in with. Why is it that people always seem to have a need to define or digitize everything ? Isn't it just as good to simply "be" without being tribalized ?

Frank Zappa was very diffinitly NOT "The Original Hippie".

I don't know why you weren't invited no one invited me......all because of LSD ✌️

As nice as it sounds, there will NEVER be peace and love on earth...at least not on the earth as we know it. There is too much hatred. On the other hand, there are times that we need to fight for what is right! Sometimes you have to war in order to have peace! The world is full of good and evil, and you can't have one without the other....at least not in this lifetime anyway.

after 1974 music was dead.

bud.... all go diferend

and then there was,The Velvet Underground

I always thought Joe McDonald was over rated. His appearance in this kind of reinforces this opinion.

I played hard-rock and rock music in a band when I was young and still do but I Never liked the Hippy and Beatnik lifestyle.