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Part 1 California & the Hippie Movement 

9/1/2017

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Betty Page & Sky Saxon 

They died with a year of one another. Sunlight Saxon of the Seeds on June 25, 2009 and liberated 50’s pin-up Betty Page on Dec. 11 at 85. The Seed big hit was Pushin' Too Hard.  
Sky Saxon was also a member of The Source family led by Ya Ho Wha or Father Yod. On June 25th at 71, Sky Sunlight Saxon, as they say, “passed over to be with YaHoWha”.
But if you’re not familiar with it - get a load of this history in Part II of  Wierd California & the Hippy Movement  .

For a start - here's Betty Page dancing to the seeds!
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Part II California and the Hippie Movement 

8/1/2017

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The Source and Nature Boy

But if you’re not familiar with it - get a load of this history.
The Source was funded by a successful Veggie restaurant which was started by Father Yod (Ya Ho Wha). We was an ex-marine and became a member of the Nature Boys. 
eden ahbez (no capitals) wrote the song ‘Nature Boy’ and had a hit when Nat King Cole’s recorded it in 1947!
Here is a rare video of Ya Ho Wha and eden ahbez with Nat King Cole !
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Part III  California and the Hippie Movement 

7/3/2017

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The Roots of Hippiedome 

Hippie roots  came from Germany! 
Its interesting history can be read here.
The expression “Lebensreform” (life-reform) was first used in 1896, and comprised various German social trends of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. Sound familiar?
1. vegetarianism
2. nudism
3. natural medicine
4. abstinence from alcohol
5. clothing reform
6. settlement movements
7. garden towns
8. soil reform
9. sexual reform
10. health food and economic reform
11. social reform
12. liberation for women, children and animals
13. communitarianism
14. cultural and religious reform: i.e. a religion or view of the world that gives weight to the feminine, maternal and natural traits of existence
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                                                Nudists worshipping the Sun, 1926
The one Nature Boy to pass the torch from the old era to the the 1960’s hippie generation was Gypsy Boots.
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Part IV  Gypsy Boots in California

7/1/2017

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The Original Nature Boy? 

The one Nature Boy to pass the torch from the old era to the the 1960’s hippie generation was Gypsy Boots
In the 1940’s Boots lived wild in Tahquitz Canyon with all of the Nature Boys, bathing in the cool mountain water, eating fruits and vegetables, sleeping on rocks or in caves, hiking and selling produce in Palm Springs. 
In the early 1960’s he appeared on the Steve Allen show over 25 times to an audience of some 25 million households. 
He appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx’s TV show You Bet Your Life. He was friends with Kirk Douglas. His son directed the movie Life Drawing.
He was the inspiration for the song Nature Boy. He was eccentric and a pioneer. He ties all this wierdness together.
Listen to the great and short NPR tribute.
Look. 
Gypsy Boots was actually on You Bet Your Life with Grouch Marx.
This is GREAT
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The original Version of Little Bit o' Soul

11/10/2013

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The Band That Time Forgot does not encourage the use of psychedelics , But if we did ...

9/4/2013

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Stash Jackson on WMBR 

3/5/2013

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WMBR Stash Jackson Interviewed by the Mighty Slim
2013
Cool Songs - Wacky Stories



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Tandyn Almer Dead. Who?

2/17/2013

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Among other things, he wrote Along Comes Mary and invented the Tandyn Master-Slave Water Pipe

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The Tandyn Water Pipe
He was also a member of MENSA ( for genus level IQs) and wrote many other songs, yet remained mysterious and reclusive.
Check out his 'far-out' the lyrics and

SING ALONG
with 
The Band That Time Forgot 
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to give me kicks and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales of all the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
Whose sickness is the games they play
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes
As who is most to blame today

And then along comes Mary
And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality
From where she got her name
And will they struggle much when told that such a tender touch as hers
Will make them not the same

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

And when the morning of the warning’s passed,
the gassed and flaccid kids are flung across the stars
The psychodramas and the traumas gone
The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars

And then along comes Mary
And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains
She left the night before
Or will their waking eyes reflect the lies, and make them
Realize their urgent cry for sight no more

When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch


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Reg Presley of the Troggs

2/6/2013

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 Reg Presley died on Feb. 5 at age 71 in England, left behind quite a legacy. Here are some fascinating facts about the singer and his iconic recording:

  1. Presley, whose original name was Reginald Maurice Ball, was born in Andover, Hampshire during World War II. He took up guitar as a teenager after being inspired by the likes of skiffle star Lonnie Donegan and later became a fan of American blues musicians such as Lightnin’ Hopkins. He worked as a bricklayer before forming the Troggs in 1964.
  2. The Troggs were signed in 1965 by record producer Larry Page, who also produced the Kinks, after they gave him a tape of their cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me.” After their first single didn’t garner much airplay, Page found them another song: “Wild Thing,” which already had been a flop for a band called The Wild Ones. (Here’s that version.)
  3. “Wild Thing” was written by an American songwriter named Chip Taylor, a.k.a. James Wesley Voight, who is the brother of actor Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie. He also wrote “Angel of the Morning,” which became a hit for Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts. Here’s his own country-style version.
  4. According to music historian Fred Bronson, when Presley first read the song’s lyrics, he didn’t like them: “The seemed so corny that I thought, ‘Oh God, what are they doing to us?’ “
  5. Though “Wild Thing” was written in A major, during the recording session the Troggs didn’t tune their guitars precisely to C, so that their version is slightly sharp — a detail that’s reportedly often puzzled garage-band guitarists trying to imitate them.
  6. According to music writer Will Hodgkinson, it was Presley who got the idea of adding an ocarina — an oval ceramic flute, normally played by children — to “Wild Thing.” As songwriter Taylor told Hodgkinson, “He’s been carrying that damn ocarina around with him ever since.”
  7. In the United States, record companies Fontana and Arco both claimed ownership of the Troggs’ recordings, so that “Wild Thing” became the only number-one single to be released on two different labels, according to Bronson.
  8. “Wild Thing” went on to be covered numerous times by other artists. Perhaps the most famous is Jimi Hendrix’s rendition at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, which he ended by smashing his guitar and lighting it on fire. It’s also been performed by Bruce Springsteen, the Runaways, and the late comedian Sam Kinison. Here’s a version by The Muppets.
  9. In 1967, Taylor, the song’s writer, released a parody by “Senator Bobby,” a Robert F. Kennedy imitator. It reached the top 20 on the charts.
  10. Presley, who continued to perform for decades, also authored a 2002 book on the paranormal and was regarded as an expert on crop circles.



Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4779302/The-Troggs-frontman-Reg-Presley-dies-aged-71.html#ixzz2K8gezRce
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Time Has Come Again for Lester Chambers

12/29/2012

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LINK CNN Report on Lester Chambers
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The Kickstarter Campaign

Another older musician cheated out of royalties. The Band That Time Forgot does a rousing version of  'The Time Has Come Today'  so I feel karmically kompelled to contribute to Lester Chamber's freinds and family's very succesful campaign to raise some funds for some little finacial justice. 
Sidenote:
Stash was in a group that opened for the Chambers Brothers in 1969 at Wesleyan University. Our band got reviewed by the black college paper , which said that Stash kept a good beat despite his 'cultural deprivation'. Love it. 

This is a very cool story, and nicely reported by CNN. (link above)
A You Tube version of the song is below. 
                                                            The Kickstarter Campaign is linked above.

Thanks to Mighty Slim for the tip. 
Thanks to Glen Snow for the recent reminder about the campaign.

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