The Leonard Lopate Show

I think hippies are so crazy! They have a very strange way to live.I could not have a life like them, because I perfer a simple life of my home. I am not sure about their life because I think they do many mistakes. Today I do not see hippies anymore in my place, but I know it still have a lot of hippies in the world.

It was a terrific time; a happy time, for most.

Drugs, for me, were not the main reason. Reflect back and then consider the present. Whic would prefer?

As someone in their late 30s I've been hearing about the over-rated "summer of love" all my life. As a teen it seemed interesting, but through my adult life it has become an excuse to turn the spotlight on bloated old bores like David Crosby, Grace Slick, Bob Weir and a host of others who stopped evolving after the 60s. It's become boring.

I'm sure the Monterey Pop fest would have been an amazing concert to witness, but how man boomers actually did?

And what came out of it? The apathetic, quaalude-lidded decade of the 70s? The selfish, greedy backlash of the 80s made the Eisenhower years look like a depression.

Congratulations- you got high and the world seemed great. Then, you inevedibly came down. Your children know better. Give it a rest.

James Paul

"All those day-glo freaks that used to paint their face- they've joined the human race- somethings will never change"

-- steely dan

I'm still waiting for the 100th hippie monkey to help shift this american land and culture into the garden of peace and love. We're free to read and sing, yet we continue to moan because of our fragmented, self-reliant, me mentality. There is always the dream, let's wake up and live it.

Thank you for the some of my favorite songs and bands, the hippie movement is what is lacking in this day. with conditions as bad or worst, it shows how really brave and intelligent your generation were, you were not just pot smoking degenerates. that generation was very aware of what was going on. not like todays poets who just want to get rich and shot eachother. long live the hippie.

The Moody Blues were known not for "Go Now" but for all of the albums they released.

I was a very young hippie. It was a big deal in junior high when female students were allowed to wear jeans/slacks to school. I was too young to go to Woodstock, but if I could have broken out of summer camp I would have. I did win tickets from radio station WNEW FM to the press premier of the Woodstock movie, there was a mail strike going on and my mom picked up the tickets for me in Manhattan, and she was my date to see the film, she only left the theater once, when Hendrix played the Star Spangled Banner. I am still crazy for Sly and the Family Stone.

Hippie days were over for me when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died.