Most of the old hippies treated me as a kid in the punk scene with disgust. There was a definite faction of hippies in the poetry scene that hated everyone else. The glaring exception was Diamond Dave Whitaker, who was present in every scene in SF since the '50s. Is he still on the material plane with us?
Fantastic! I think everyone has an LSD-seagull story!
Most of the old hippies treated me as a kid in the punk scene with disgust. There was a definite faction of hippies in the poetry scene that hated everyone else. The glaring exception was Diamond Dave Whitaker, who was present in every scene in SF since the '50s. Is he still on the material plane with us?
Yes I have had the great Good Fortune to hang with diamond Dave at a poetry reading at the rainbow gatherings. He's the real deal
Of course, Ron Turner was also great to me, but I was talking about the poetry scene hippies!
It was a rare hippie that embraced and supported the generations that followed. - Turner was one, Charles Gatewood was another!
love this, went to a party once in Eugene on his ranch , and did LSD before I got onto stage with him. that was a mistake.