A tribute to the 60's.

Well it sucks that i kind of missed the whole psychedelic movement. But who said we cant read or know about it!

The Promoters billed Woodstock as "Three Days of Peace and Music," and hoped to draw a crowd of 150,000 for a celebration of a communal spirit and to hear some of the most popular rock acts of the day. The festival started on Friday, August 15, 1969, and the crowds quickly grew to number over 450,000, causing massive traffic jams, logistical nightmares, shortages of food and medical supplies, and potential problems of crowd control. On Saturday, the gates were opened to accommodate the many thousands who arrived without tickets. The music was almost nonstop, the rains came, drug use was widespread, sanitary conditions were primitive, bad acid trips were a constant problem, yet somehow it all worked out. Arnold Skolnick, the artist who designed the Woodstock poster said, "Something was tapped, a nerve in this country, and everybody just came." Woodstock came to symbolize all that was right and good about the hippie movement, but also that the movement was to be short-lived. A few months later, a similar gathering was held at a racetrack in Altamont, California, and turned ugly when members of the Hell's Angels attacked and killed a man near the stage where the Rolling Stones were performing. Thirty years later, when one looks back on the "Psychedelic Sixties," it is Woodstock that invariably first comes to mind.

Feed Your Head

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.

One of Slick's earliest songs, written in either late 1965 or early 1966, it cites parallels between the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carrol 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Alice, the Dormouse, the hookah smoking caterpillar, and the Red Queen are all mentioned in the song. Events in the books such as changing size after eating mushrooms or drinking an unknown liquid are also mentioned.

"Yes, my friends those were definitely the days.
We were so sure we could change the world through Peace and Love.
In some ways we did and. I know my own life changed through Peace and Love.
But I was also at Altamont and that was not such a fine day. Too soon, it
was over, the hard people and hard drugs prevailed and many of the
Flower Children started to migrate to Northern California and
Oregon. But not me, I stayed thru it all, continued to
march for Peace and joined in the funeral Parade."
(Taken from a website.)