1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . The BYRDS – Greatest Hits – August 7, 1967

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THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Columbia CS 9516 – August 7, 1967

To hear Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time back in early 1965 was a exciting introduction to a new level: Electric Folk Rock.  Here’s where the separation between Pop and Rock become a genre unto itself. With the phenomenal response and success of the single, Mr. Tambourine Man, #1 US and #1 UK, The Byrds created Pop Rock history.

Excepting Turn, Turn, Turn, side one is entirely from The Byrds debut album – these tracks were so ingrained from repeated listenings that at fourteen, 00individual and his teenage cohorts would exaggerate the Byrds’ lyrics and vocals, Jim McGuin’s mainly, in a sort of Lollipop Guild nasal tweak – a twist on previous exaggerations of current Bob Dylan vocal impersonations.  In doing so, each song’s lyrics, timing, and accents were memorized – and sung – out loud – with enthusiasm and raucous fun.

The BYRDS:
Jim McGuinn – guitar, vocals (Solo, Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”, McGuinn, Clark and Hillman)
Gene Clark – tambourine, vocals (Solo, Dillard & Clarke)
David Crosby – guitar, vocals (Crosby, Stills & Nash, C S N & Young, Solo, Crosby & Nash)
Chris Hillman – electric bass, vocals (Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Souther-Hillman-Furay)
Michael Clarke – drums (Flying Burrito Brothers, Firefall)

THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Side 1
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Bob Dylan) – 2:29
“I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” (Gene Clark) – 2:32
“The Bells of Rhymney” (Idris Davies, Pete Seeger) – 3:30
“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (Book of Ecclesiastes/Pete Seeger) – 3:49
“All I Really Want to Do” (Bob Dylan) – 2:04
“Chimes of Freedom” (Bob Dylan) – 3:51
Side 2
“Eight Miles High” (Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, David Crosby) – 3:34
“Mr. Spaceman” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:09
“5D (Fifth Dimension)” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:33
“So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” (Jim McGuinn, Chris Hillman) – 1:50
“My Back Pages” (Bob Dylan) – 3:08

Dylan was covered by everyone from Cher to Hendrix, but the Byrds took Dylan’s songs to a much wider audience and in doing so served as the pioneers and inspiration for Folk Rock’s rise in the ’70s, and its continued popularity as a solid music category.

As much as they wanted to make excuses for the basis of “Eight Miles High”, it was posssibly the first real Psychedelic Hit Single. Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” is deemed by some to be the first, but it was released four months later in ’66. With the oncoming tide of psychedelia, there became a wide interpretation of what was psychedelic; while Sunshine Superman is trippy, within a Pop Rock level, Eight Miles High is cosmic, high energy, Psychedelic Rock.

and then there’s this:

“My guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

My Back Pages – Bob Dylan / The Byrds

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1960′s Historic & Classic Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . The ROLLING STONES – “FLOWERS” – 06/26/67 plus – Vinyl Record Listening Culture

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The ROLLING STONES – “FLOWERS” –  June 26, 1967

The Rolling Stones’ “Flowers” compilation album was sandwiched in Between The Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request album releases and was a righteously brilliant album of unreleased, previously U.K. released, and never released in the U.S. tracks.

The Summer of Love was epic for many cultural reasons and music was at the forefront presenting truly historic albums by truly historic bands; “Flowers” was a perfect example. Besides the righteous vinyl tracks, the album cover featured a perfect expression of the fun to look at and fun to read 1960’s psychedelic lettering. The mugshot portraits of the band are taken from the Decca UK album cover of “Aftermath”, and it is rumored that Brian Jones had no leaves as a joke perpetuated by Jagger.

Over-looked and slightly derided as a quick buck grab from mostly US fans (thank you!); this was nothing less than an exquisite greatest hits of the “evolved” Stones. This album captures some monster era classics as well as the first peek of what was to come in ’68’s “Beggars Banquet” and ’69’s “Let It Bleed”.

Although a compilation, “Flowers” has a concept album feel as all of the tracks are about women, and relationships.

00individual easily played this album more than Sgt’s and even more than Satanic, and here’s the reason:
Side one
“Ruby Tuesday” – 3:17
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” – 2:34
(a September 1966 single release)
“Let’s Spend the Night Together” – 3:36
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Lady Jane” – 3:08
(Also featured on Aftermath in 1966, as well as the b-side of the U.S.-only “Mother’s Little Helper” single in July 1966)
“Out of Time” – 3:41
(An abridged alternate mix of the version originally released on the British edition of Aftermath in 1966)
“My Girl” (Smokey Robinson/Ronald White) – 2:38
(Previously unreleased; recorded in May 1965, with strings added in autumn 1966)
Side two
“Backstreet Girl” – 3:26
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Please Go Home” – 3:17
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Mother’s Little Helper” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath; first released in the U.S. as a single in July 1966)
“Take It or Leave It” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath)
“Ride On, Baby” – 2:52
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
“Sittin’ on a Fence” – 3:03
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Vinyl Record Listening Culture
Back then there were two main competing AM radio stations in Los Angeles, KHJ 93 and KFWB 98, and the great KRLA 1110 the “oldies” station, and then there was Wolfman Jack on XERB 1090 the 250,000 watt ‘border blaster’ station in Rosarito, Mexico, but beyond those stations, and any appearences of bands and singers on television shows like Shindig, Hullabaloo, and late night shows In Concert, Midnight Special, and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, the way to really get the most of the music was to buy the album or single.

Repeated listenings of any album allowed Record Collectors, Rockers, and Music Lovers the abilty to savor every bit of every song, over and over again; this was the Vinyl Record Listening Culture.
You bought an album and basically played it so much that you could remember every nuance (even the occaisional pop and/or click – Imported virgin vinyl eventually solved that issue) to the point that those special anticipated moments of joy uplifted the soul.

And then there was the social aspect; 00individual and friends actually sat and listened to music silently while getting stoned, or as background ambient music. Righteous album sides stacked on a turntable provided continuous self-programmed music choices – 00individual was great at gauging the “room”.

Granted, not all albums had both sides worthy of repeated listenings, but with “Flowers” it was an absolute pleasure – still is.

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Celebrate the most historic year in modern American history with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring JULY

“00individual Welcomes Summer July 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

JULY 1968

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

Happenings:
Jul 1 John Lennon’s 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Jul 1 The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
Jul 5 The Doors persorm at the Hollywood Bowl
Jul 7 Rock group “Yardbirds” disband
Jul 15 “One Life to Live”, American soap opera, premieres on TV
Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
Jul 18 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
Jul 20 Iron Butterfly‘s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
1 The Band – Music from Big Pink – July 1, 1968
3 The Doors -Waiting for the Sun
5 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tyrannosaurus Rex –  My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair
12 Tom Jones – Delilah
18 Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
19 Family – Music in a Doll’s House
22 Miles Davis – Miles in the Sky Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Stephen Stills – Super Session
26 The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord
30 Buffalo Springfield – Last Time Around
Savoy Brown – Getting to the Point
West End cast – Hair
Waylon Jennings – Only the Greatest
Deep Purple US – Shades of Deep Purple
Phil Ochs – Tape from California
Cream – Wheels of Fire 

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending June 22, 1968:
1 THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU – Herb Alpert (A&M)
2 THE HORSE – Cliff Nobles and Co. (Phil-L.A. Of Soul)
3 JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH – The Rolling Stones (London)
4 LADY WILLPOWER – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
5 GRAZING IN THE GRASS – Hugh Masekela (Uni)
6 THE LOOK OF LOVE – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
7 ANGEL OF THE MORNING – Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts (Bell)
8 STONED SOUL PICNIC – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
9 HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Shorty Long (Soul)
10 INDIAN LAKE – The Cowsills (MGM)
11 REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS – Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast)
12 HURDY GURDY MAN – Donovan (Epic)
13  MONY MONY – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
14 MACARTHUR PARK – Richard Harris (Dunhill)
15 YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)16 MRS. ROBINSON – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
17 I LOVE YOU – People (Capitol)
18 THINK – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
19 D.W. WASHBURN – The Monkees (Colgems)
20 SHE’S A HEARTBREAKER – Gene Pitney (Musicor) 

July Movies
July 12
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
A Lovely Way to Die
July 17
For Love of Ivy
Yellow Submarine
July 19
Inspector Clouseau
July 24
Anzio
July 31
5 Card Stud
Asterix the Gaul
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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Are You An INDIVIDUAL? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Questions Reveal If You Are!

“Individuals” Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

So you think that you are an individual?  Many people do.
Take this 13 question test and see if you really are.

This test’s algorhythms were manually set by 00individual.

Dictionaries state an individual as: a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.

Individual’s are generally honest people
so let’s put that to the test with your answers to these questions:

1)  Are you influenced by opinions heard, read, or seen?   YES   NO
2)  Would you rather make the rules or obey them?   MAKE   OBEY   NEITHER
3)  How many “faces” do you wear during a single day?   1     2     3    AS MANY AS NEEDED
4)  Do you like to leave online comments on issues you are interested in?   YES   NO
5)  Do you think for yourself?   YES   NO
6)  Do other people’s opinions of you matter?   YES   NO
7)  Have you ever questioned your sanity?   YES   NO   MAYBE
8)  Are you happy?   YES   NO   MAYBE
9)  Do you see the world and life as a tragedy?  a comedy?  an opportunity?
10) Are you passionate?   YES   NO
11) Do you work well with others?   YES   NO
12) How many real friends do you have?   1   2   3   500 or more
13) Do you feel the need to let others know all about your life and your rights as an individual?   YES   NO

Now let’s see how you did.
As long as you answered YES to 5 and NO to 6 you are an individual. The rest of the questions, while they may be very revealing, are there to serve as thought processes for the truth.

5) As an individual you have strong feelings and opinions of your own based on your own personal experience, reliable sources, self-education, and common sense facts; and as an individual your time is precious and thinking for yourself is a top priority.  Individual thought comes naturally and is not the thoughts of others, or groupthink.

6) If other peoples opinions of you mattered to you, you would not be an individual.
While others’ opinions and thoughts may be considered, individuals trust their own judgement and have the confidence in themselves to see things for what they really are. While most everyone wants to be liked, individuals are secure in their individuality and know that other peoples’ opinions of them, good or bad, are nothing more than just that, opinions. These can vary from honest assessments to opinions influenced by their psychological debris.

This ends the test, but the real test is out in the real world with real human interaction – that’s where being an individual can be the hardest, or easiest, depending on one’s own definition.

But for those who may feel cheated by this test, here are the answers to all of the questions:
1) NO  2) NEITHER  3) AS MANY AS NEEDED  4) NO  5) YES  6) NO  7) YES  8) YES  9) AN OPPORTUNITY 10) YES  11) YES  12)  THERE IS NO CORRECT ANSWER  13) NO
This test’s algorhythms were manually set by 00individual – which means that he can twist it into any preferred favorable outcome or point of view.

Regarding #13: Remember real individuals mostly keep it to themselves, however, 00individual’s
00 clearance allows for his autobiographical experiences to be chronicled.  He’s earned his status.

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00INDIVIDUAL’S 6th YEAR ANNIVERSARY! . . . . . . . ALL TIME TOP 50 POSTS AND PAGES 2012 – 2018! OVER 1/4 MILLION ATTENDANCE!

00individual sincerely thanks all the Rockers, Individuals, Music and History Lovers, and Fellow Bloggers world-wide who have attended and continue to attend this 6 year thus far ongoing concert.
ROCK ON!

The ’60s and the ’70s were massively historic decades and no matter what was happening Rock ‘n’ Roll Ruled!

Over the past six years within these posts 00individual has tried his best to relate “the Vibe” that existed for nearly two decades.  The Vibe was a connecting force and a cross-cultural feeling of unity with those who understood the moment.

Each day had a certain thrill of expectation, whether it was fulfilled or not the thrill continued even in the simplest of things. New music, new ways of thinking, new ways to live, new ways to look at life, and new ways to enjoy life were daily experiences. Plus getting high was a constant reminder of what one thought they knew, versus the truth, or close to it.

The 1960’s and the 1970’s term that defined those interlocking decades; “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll”, has become a staple in the lexicon referring to a time when excess and exploration was a lifestyle – and as simple shorthand for an incredibly complex time.

However, “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll” is much more than a referential term; when each element is experienced individually during that timespan they were extremely potent – combined they were nothing less the the best time in history. Period. Tribal Truth. Wish You Were There. And if you weren’t, take a dip in the pool, the vibe is perfect . . .

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1960’s Psychedelic Horror Drive-In Movie . . . . . . . . . “The LOST CONTINENT” – June 1968 – UK Rated X 50th Anniversary Tribute!

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“The LOST CONTINENT” – June 19, 1968 U.S.

Whenever 00individual starts out with “Back in the’60s (or ’70s)” it is not simply a reference to a time period, but an invitation to truly try and erase all one knows, briefly, to see and appreciate what those decades offered.  But more importantly, to see everything related as though new.

00individual was so very fortunate to experience the incredible newness that started in the early ’60s. For nearly two decades life was straight up amazing; from Rock to the Moon and everything in between, each day revealed something new. And by new he means never seen, heard, read, or experienced.

Movies were in an exploratory phase of discovery where new techniques (Cinerama), soundtracks (Easy Rider is noted to be the first film soundtrack made up entirely of Rock songs), subject matter (pushed realistic and surrealistic boundaries), and many became future classic films.

Not all were classic, most weren’t, but most all were seen, because back in the Drive-In days of the late ’60s and early ’70s it really didn’t matter what was playing as most of the time the movies were a front for an evening of hot sex in a safely-parked car. However, there were those occasions where the movies were just too good and sex was saved for the second feature.

The late ’60s had some truly psychedelic-inspired movies; Fantastic Voyage, Our Man Flint, The Trip, The President’s Analyst, Wild In The Streets, the Abominable Dr. Phibes, Five Million Years To Earth, the insane trip of The Magic Christian, and then there was the truly bizarre atmospheric insanity of Hammer Films’ “The Lost Continent”.

Agreed by most all film critics as the sole outcast for typical Hammer productions, (even though Hammer could get pretty gritty and hit the right spots with The Conquerer Worm, The Pit And the Pendulam, Scream and Scream Again, among others); but here Hammer succumbed to the psychedelic zeitgeist and produced a Gem of Weirdness.

This Lost Continent had no Professor Challenger or Dinosaurs – this Lost Continent exists on the LSD vapors that come from the Killer Seaweed and a Vagina Dentata Monster in the boy king’s galleon’s hull. The Lost Continent had George Lucas’ Sarlacc Pit Monster before Star Wars – way before.

There is no way to explain the weird allure of this movie; one waits for the next surreal plot twist that defies any rationale, all the while soaking in the psychedelic thick mist that seems to float off the screen and into the air around you. It is like a portal into a darkly weird universe where fever dream transitions come and go.

Amid all of this, hard-core dramatic acting by a gathering of known professionals was also on display – no tongue in cheek,, no puns, no humor, this was serious stuff, with serious consequences at every turn.

The original version of this film had some very sexually lurid scenes and dialogue, hence the UK rating of X, those scenes were later cut. The original uncut version shown in the US, the Drive-In version, had those scenes intact which further fueled the gears of the mind to incorporate that level of drama into the overall madness and mood.

Based on the book by Dennis Wheatley, the mood of this movie is central, an always foreboding atmosphere; no matter the scene, the movie’s weird vibe actually over-rides the not-too-special effects and sometimes absurd but trippy plotlines.

Dana Gillespie’s monster camel-toe defeats the monster giant scorpion .

Dana Gillespie was David Bowie’s first girlfriend and singer associate, and Rock Star in her own right – 00individual had her “Weren’t Born A Man” album – and played it.

To travel across the seaweed on foot by helium ballons and tennis racket shoes is demonstrated in the film by the amply-endowed Dana Gillespie.

Remember kids this was 1968 – there was a lot goin’ on, and the psychedelic floodgates had opened and soaked many professionals, such as, film writers, producers, directors, and actors – even a few studio heads.  The Lost Continent is one of those films that would not have ever been greenlighted except for within that exact time, in that era, under psychedelic influence.

The plot includes passengers on a steamer lost in a Sargasso Sea of sharks, octopus and killer weed, and not the good kind.  Besides all of the salacious undercover actions of the seemingly all guilty-of-something passengers, they run into Spanish Inquisition descendents ruled by a boy king on the previously mentioned galleon.

Had this played out with an undercurrent of light humor it could’ve gone camp like BARBARELLA (released later in ’68), but no, and that’s what made this bizarre acid-drenched film more involving.

00individual could not look away, but lit up a joint; backseat sex would have to wait.

“The Lost Continent”
A bizarre psychedelic horror mystery thriller monster film from a half a century ago.
A True Gem!

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1970′s Album Track Gems & Culture Archives . . . . . . THREE DOG NIGHT – Mama Told Me Not To Come – March 1970

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From the March 31, 1970 album, “It Ain’t Easy”
Mama Told Me Not To Come

Three Dog Night, led by vocalists, Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny “Roses and Rainbows” Hutton, were a spirited Funk-inspired Rock Band who became serious hitmakers and Rock Icons.

Three Dog Night’s hits include: Harry Nilsson’s “One” (US #5), the Gerome Ragni-James Rado-Galt MacDermot composition “Easy to Be Hard” (US #4) from the musical Hair, Laura Nyro’s “Eli’s Comin'” (US #10), Randy Newman’s “Mama Told Me Not to Come” (US #1), Paul Williams’ “Out in the Country” (US #15), “The Family Of Man” (US #12), and “An Old Fashioned Love Song” (US #4), Hoyt Axton’s “Joy to the World” (US #1) and “Never Been to Spain” (US #5), Arkin & Robinson’s “Black and White” (US #1), Argent’s Russ Ballard’s “Liar” (US #7), Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “Lady Samantha” and “Your Song”, Daniel Moore’s “Shambala” (#3), and Leo Sayer’s “The Show Must Go On” (US #4).

“Mama Told Me Not To Come” was written by the always witty, clever, and hard rockin’ when he wants to, Randy Newman. Newman was gifted with the ability to really poke pointed fun at serious issues, at and on, every level. The subjects and issues usually boiled down to levels of ignorance. And while everyone sang along happily, Randy smiled.

Which brings the focus on one of his early songs written for Eric Burdon as far back as 1966; “Mama Told Me Not To Come” became a very successful Billboard #1 hit by Three Dog Night and the very first #1 song played on the July 4, 1970 broadcast of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem.

Beyond the obvious that is plainly-stated in the lyrics, there was a very timely vibe created by this song. The vibe was not only a parallel between the lyrics and 00individual’s current 1970 reality, but the music itself seemed very psychedelic to experienced ears. The perfectly-paced looney tempo gave the song an “already on drugs” feel – a woozy kinda cool – whereby with stoned eyelids half-closed one saw clearer than they ever had before.

00individual remembers cruisin’ the beach towns on acid listening to the car radio, and even before the vocals for MTMNTC could start, the beginning strains of the fuzzy organ intro of this song became an ambient vibe trigger of psychedelic rockin’ days and nights of the summer of 1970 and beyond.

Told from a surprised, semi-naive viewpoint, this song had a much deeper feel to experienced Psychonauts as the lyrics took on descriptions of an average weekday/workday fun night.

Mama Told Me Not To Come
(Popular radio version)
“Want some whiskey in your water Sugar in your tea
What’s all these crazy questions they askin’ me
This is the craziest party there could ever be
Don’t turn on the lights, ’cause I don’t want to see
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, That ain’t the way to have fun, no
Open up the window Let some air into this room
I think I’m almost chokin’ From the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you’re smoking ‘Bout scared me half to death
Open up the window, sucker Let me catch my breath
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun, son That ain’t the way to have fun, son
(Instrumental)
The radio is blastin’ Someone’s knocking at the door
I’m lookin’ at my girlfriend She’s passed out on the floor
I seen so many things I ain’t never seen before
I don’t know what it is Somebody shut that door
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun, son That ain’t the way to have fun, son.”

Memo
To: Mama
Re: Not to Come
Advice rejected.

Psychonauts, Hippies, Counter-Culturists and Individuals did not need nor heed non-experienced outsiders advice.  That was one of the first of many realities that was revealed by experimenting with drugs: the ability to avoid the BS and streamline one’s life and make room for important advice and information to be considered.

People who had experienced that of which they spoke, who spoke truth, and had no axe to grind, no benefit to lie, were revered.  With the new lens of bustability provided by Marijuana and Psychedelics; the self-serving phonies were spotted immediately.

Unfortunately, those who knew the least proclaimed to know the most. It was like nuns teaching sex education; who are you going to listen to, a nun or a hooker, if about drugs, a cop or your dealer, if about the Vibe, your parents or your friend, and if about the truth, any authority figure or your dog.

For most, other than those few who mastered the art of “Sincerity, and once you fake that, you’re in.” – sizing-up anyone’s bullshit level was easy. Easier still once one had dropped their own egotistical ways.

And besides, that was just one of the many ways to have fun.
Yes, that’s the way to have fun, son.

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For those who do not know the meaning of a Three Dog Night would cerainly appreciate it on a cold night when not one, nor two, but three dogs up on the bed were needed to keep you and them warm ‘n’ toasty throughout the night.

“How cold was it last night? It was a three dog night.”

This is Tribal Truth, 00individual has been sleeping with dogs for decades.
No double entendre intended.

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