Hippie And Musician Quotes From The 1960s Quiz

Answer: Timothy Leary

"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture phrase coined by Timothy Leary in the 1960s. The phrase actually came to him while he was taking a shower one day. Marshall McLuhan mentioned to Leary that he should come up with something catchy to promote the benefits of LSD.

He hoped the phrase would urge people to welcome cultural changes through the use of psychedelic drugs by detaching themselves from conventional life and hierarchies in society. The term is just a small bit from a speech that Leary delivered at the opening of a press conference in New York City. For anyone who doesn't know who Timothy Leary was, he was an absolute icon of 1960s counterculture. Doctor Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist and advocate of psychedelic drugs.

He is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic, spiritual and emotional benefits of LSD. After Leary passed away and was cremated, he was one of the first whose ashes were sent into outer space. He released several albums that are now available on CD.

Answer: Jack Weinberg

Jack Weinberg was a student activist in the 1960s. He was the one who uttered the phrase "Don't trust anyone over thirty!" during the height of the Free Speech Movement at the University Of California Berkeley. The Free Speech Movement was all about students rights to engage in political speech while on campus.

It promoted political activism on campuses around the country regarding student rights, civil rights and the Vietnam War. It has to be one of the most memorable expressions of the entire turbulent sixties era. I love the word turbulent.

It says it all.

Answer: Huey Newton

Black Panther Party founder and leader, Huey Newton, was known for coining the phrase "Off the Pigs!" Apparently it is was not meant as murder the police, but actually meant to kill the slave master. The definition of pig was printed in the second issue of the Black Panther Party newspaper in May of 1967. To them it meant "an ill-natured beast who has no respect for law and order, a foul traducer who's usually found masquerading as a victim on an unprovoked attack." White and black folks alike began using "Off the Pigs!" at the trial of brother Huey P Newton.

It meant that he should not be put in the gas chamber. Instead, put the "Pig" in the gas chamber for murdering black people. The Black Panther Party was an African American organization started to promote "Black Power" and self defense for blacks. If you have an interest in the Black Panther Party newspapers you can view articles that were in the paper from 1967-1970 at the following website. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/bpp/index.html

Answer: Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney)

At 4:38 AM on Friday, August 16th, 1969 that ever friendly voice of quintessential hippie, Wavy Gravy, was heard over the loudspeaker at Woodstock "Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000." Of course he was referring to the over 400,000 person crowd who came to the greatest festival ever held, for three days of music and fun. Wavy Gravy was born Hugh Nanton Romney.

He was and still is a proponent of peace and an entertainer who was known for his colorful hippie appearance, personality and beliefs. Wavy Gravy's legal name was Hugh until the 1969 Texas Pop Festival, held two weeks after Woodstock. BB King officially gave him his new name. Hugh was laying on stage, resting due to back problems.

It was before his surgeries.

He started to get up and felt a hand on his shoulder. I'm paraphrasing here. BB King asked "you Wavy Gravy?" "Yes sir" was his answer. "Well Wavy Gravy, it's okay, I can work around you." BB King picked up his guitar Lucille and proceeded to play until sunrise. Hugh literally saw this as a mystical event and took on Wavy Gravy as his legal name. You can read about Wavy Gravy and BB King at Wikipedia.

Answer: Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope" is a phrase that was popularized by The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. This is a tough one if you are not a true hippie. These guys were a underground comic book trio who were created by the brilliant artist Gilbert Shelton. Most underground comics are humorous.

The Freaks lead a zany existence that remind one of the best of the old classic silent comedies. Their life revolves around buying and partaking in the use of illegal drugs.

The majority of the time it's marijuana. Freewheelin' Franklin is the mellow but street smart brother, Phineas T. Freakears is the intellectual who creates new drugs and is into politics and Fat Freddy Freekowtski is fat, sloppy and always gets ripped off when buying drugs. If he does manage to get good ones he loses them somehow in really strange ways. I am in no way promoting drug use.

The Freak Brothers were essential for every hippie's reading and were extremely popular.

This question is a must for this quiz. The Freak Brothers were quintessential hippies and their comics were in most hippies' libraries. These comics are still being reprinted today. The correct spelling in this case is comics. Check out Wikipedia for the lowdown on the Freak Brothers.

Answer: Max Yasgur

The dairy farm that the Woodstock festival was held on belonged to old Max Yasgur, a Jewish American farmer. If he was still alive he would probably still be cleaning up the mess. The quote in this question is part of a speech that he gave in front of the crowd.

The villages of Saugerties and Wallkill, New York declined to provide a place for the festival. Max's son then talked him into letting the promoters hold the festival on their farm. It was last minute but they took him up on the offer of his farm's alfalfa field. On January 7, 1970 Yasgur was sued by his neighbors for the damage that the "flower children" did to their land.

His farm was nearly destroyed and he got a $50,000.00 settlement about one year later. In 1971 almost two years after the festival Max sold his farm. Nineteen months later at the age of 53 he died in Florida as the result of a heart attack. Rolling Stone Magazine gave him a full page obituary which was usually only given to musicians. Max said that he made a deal with Woodstock producer Mike Lang before the festival started that if anything went wrong, Max would give him a crew cut. If everything went okay though, he would grow his hair long! Max said that he guessed Mike Lang won the bet, but that he was so bald, he would never be able to pay Mike off. Yasgur's farm was mentioned in the song "Woodstock" written by Joni Mitchell about the festival and the band Mountain wrote a song titled "For Yasgur's Farm." Check out Wikipedia for a picture of Max.

It has a good sized article about him as well.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Our former president Ronald Reagan said this back in the day when he was governor of California. It was supposedly meant in jest. I get "looks like Tarzan" because of having long hair and being a bit unkempt. I get "smells like Cheetah" because of the insinuation that hippies don't bathe. I'm not clear on "walks like Jane" though. Any thoughts? Maybe from a distance a male hippie may look like a female walking because of long hair? In the Friday, October 13, 1967 Time Magazine, there was an article about Reagan making this statement at a $100.00 a plate dinner at the Municipal Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. If you feel the need you can read the article at: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837361,00.html

Answer: Ken Kesey

"You're either on the bus or off the bus" is attributed to Ken Kesey. Ken was an American author most famous for writing the book "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest." He was also a counterculture figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.

His age had him right in the middle. Ken was also an avid LSD user. When you hear the name Kesey, right away you think of the Merry Pranksters. They were a group of people who formed around Kesey in 1964 and would sometimes live communally at both of his homes on the West Coast.

They promoted the use of psychedelic drugs. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters were most remembered for the social significance of a very lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964.

Their trip was taken in a 1939 International Harvester school bus that was painted in psychedelic colors and designs. All along the way they smoked marijuana and took LSD. They named their bus "Furthur." Check the internet to see photos of this enigma of a bus. Tom Wolfe wrote a book titled "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" that told of their escapades. Kesey and the Pranksters made the top of the bus into a music stage and when the bus would detour through cities they would blast out crude homemade music and a running commentary about the journey they were taking. Every time the bus stopped for gas or bathroom breaks a few of the Pranksters would wander off.

When it was time to get rolling at least one was nowhere to be found. Hence the metaphor, "You're either on the bus or off the bus." No so called outsiders had any idea what Kesey meant. You had to be on the bus to really get it. If you were "on the bus" you were tripping on LSD with them or just "grooving" with them. If you were outside their little world you were "off the bus." One of the "acid tests" that Kesey held was recorded and released on a vinyl record album. The Grateful Dead know then as the Warlocks played music all night long. I believe that 1000 were released and as of 2009 still sold for in the $1000.00 range. This is getting lengthy but it's interesting. I'll explain the "acid test" and then be done. They started out as private events but then they went public with them. There would be a light show, a slide show about American Indians, the Warlocks would perform as would Kesey's own band the Psychedelic Symphonette. Kesey wasn't sure how to phrase what he was actually inviting people to attend. He figured it was basically participatory theater like the "happenings" that were going on in the art world. He would charge a dollar to get in. He advertised the events with posters posing the rhetorical question "Can You Pass The Acid Test?" On January 8, 1966, Kesey and his Merry Pranksters put on a stupendous Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium. It was located in San Francisco's black ghetto. In the middle of the floor in the auditorium was a bathtub filled with Kool Aid that was laced with LSD. The whole event was psychedelic craziness. The Pranksters ran around all night in comic book super hero costumes. They would do whatever they could to make the trip as strange as possible. So in a nutshell an "Acid Test" involved being up all night, taking LSD, listening to the Grateful Dead play, an all night light show would be going on while everyone had a wild time. This is basically what was put on the album that was released.

Answer: Abbie Hoffman

Apparently Abbie Hoffman was no fan of Richard Nixon's. I don't recall when he blurted out this memorable phrase. It may even be something he said in the amazing counterculture book that he wrote titled "Steal This Book." Hoffman was a social and political activist and co-founded the Youth International Party aka "Yippies." Much later he was a fugitive from justice for dealing cocaine.

Although Hoffman came to prominence in the 1960s, he practiced most of his activism in the 1970s. He has remained a symbol of the youth rebellion of that decade.

In his pre "Yippie" days, Hoffman was involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and organized "Liberty House", which sold items to support the Civil Rights Movement in the south.

He was an anti war activist during the Vietnam war who would use comical and or theatrical tactics. One of his gimmicks involved over 50,000 people attempting to levitate The Pentagon using psychic energy. It didn't work! Another endeavor was his announcement that his newest high was inserting bananas into his rectum.

He hoped that Pentagon scientists would try it. They probably did! His book titled "Steal This Book" is a how to book about how to get all kinds of things for free. It also included advice on how to grow pot, start a pirate radio station, live in a commune, steal food and credit cards, make pipe bombs, get a free buffalo from the United States Department Of The Interior etc. You get the picture. You can check out his book online at this address: http://www.tenant.net/Community/steal/steal.html

Answer: Arlo Guthrie

At the Woodstock festival on Friday night a fresh faced kid went up to the microphone on stage and announced to the rain soaked crowd "The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out!" That kid was Arlo Guthrie. Arlo is the son of Woody Guthrie the famous folk musician. Father and son both liked to sing songs of protest. Arlo is well known for penning the the legendary talking blues song "Alice's Restaurant." It's a musical monologue that is supposed to be something that actually happened, that began on Thanksgiving, 1965.

It was also made into a movie in 1969 in which Arlo starred. The song itself lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds. It took up the whole first side of Arlo Guthrie's debut album in 1967. Other songs he is known for are "City Of New Orleans" which was written by Steve Goodman and "Coming Into Los Angeles." Hippy.com is a very cool site that makes mention of Arlo's statement and all else hippie related.