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| warehambr |
 Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject: Hair! |
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Joined: 13 Jul 2009
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Location: Charlotte, NC
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Big Brother gang,
I was in high school in the mid 1960s and graduated in 67. I recall seeing an article in Life Magazine about the SF music and pictures of BBHC and they had the longest hair! Mine started growing out when I went to college, really in the second year. I had Beatles-inspired hair in high school, but the SF look was way past that. I remember all the heckling that I endured having long hair in those days. From the video of at Monterey, you guys had been growing it out for some time, and Gurley's hair looked like at least 2 years worth of growth! I am curious about how the long hair thing, which really was an icon for the anti-war movement, got going in SF.
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| sambbhc |
| Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Allen, you don't really ask a question here, but I'll tell you, it was very unusual to have long hair when we had it. We were thrown out of a restaurant in Vancouver because of it, and there was a lot of social harrassment. It all seems so trivial now. I wish I would have said then, "Men have had long hair for many more periods in human history than they have had short hair." I have a photo of an ancestor who fought in the Civil War. Most of them were long haired. And we won't even mention Samson. It's just that we had newly emerged from that period in the 1950s, when, influenced by their military bearing in World War II, most men had the shortest hair known in human history. In fact, it was the other way around...THEY were the odd ones out as far as tonsorial stylings go. As I say, trivial. Sam. |
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| warehambr |
| Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:44 am Post subject: |
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| Sam, Good points about putting things in historical perspective. What I am asking is about what was the thing that made the hair in SF get so much longer than everywhere else? LOL! When I was in high school, it was starting to get long, but the Life Mag article showed some really long hair and BBHC was among the longest. I was looking forward to Monterey Pop naturally because Janis had become a big star, but also because I was really digging the guitars and I wanted to see what everyone looked like. When I saw Gurley's hair, I think at that moment I decided to let mine grow out to the max. Hair was one of the main elements of the counterculture and you guys were very influential! Gurley must have started letting his go about time the Beatles arrived. I'm sure no one out there said "Let's grow our hair out real long." It just happened. Everyone talks about music, but hair was a big part, they even made a Broadway show about it. |
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