Here's an article written by our dear friend, Lara Lardizabal of Suspicious Character. Read on peeps!Peace, Love and Rock and Roll: A Celebration of Flower Power, and the Good Old Hippie Days
"...we condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives." - June JordanFlower pow
er, psychedelic rock and roll, peace, love and good vibrations, that’s America for you in the late 60’s, it was a time of chaos and turmoil that’s for sure. There’s the Vietnam War, the JFK and Martin Luther King assassination, and a whole lot more. But it was also a time when people started to voice out their ideas, their opinions; it was a time when people began to question and even reject the moral principles on which they had been brought up. It was a time when people finally decided to stand up for something, henceforth, the birth of the Hippie movement, of the Flower Child.
Hippies have received a lot of bad press. They’ve been hated and branded as alcoholics, drug addicts, promiscuous bums and the like but ultimately they stood for peace, love and freedom. Being a hippie was a matter of acceptin
g a belief system which transcends the social, political, and moral norms of any established society. It was their ambition to abolish any kind of hierarchy so as to make sure that people are not judged by their race, gender, religion or social class. They believed that the only way to establish peace in the world was through love and tolerance. They thought the society's biggest mistake was reducing the judgment of people to narrow definitions and so it was important to bring virtue and humanity into the system in order to broaden minds. All these ideas are what I love about these hippies. It’s so easy to judge them for their looks, their scruffy lifestyle but in the end, they’re all just appearances. The hippie movement had an undeniable merit: they represented the most authentic reaction against the imperialism and repression of ethnic minorities.
And then there was the music. Who could ever forget the Woodstock of ’69, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, John and Yoko, and so many more whose music embodied ideals of peace, love, freedom and unity, music so powerful that it reached out to your heart, and pushed you to open your mind and soul in order to give way to new ideas, new possibilities.
Such is the power of music, for some, it’s just a couple of notes carefully 
arranged to make a beautiful sound but for a select few, it embodies something more. It can represent love, sorrow, or hope. Music has a way of communicating to the world, of bringing people together. And it’s amazing to see just how the music of the 60’s still lives on and how it still communicates even to the generation of today. Lennon, Hendrix, Morrison, Dylan they’ve become legends and the words from their songs continue to echo from generation to generation.
It’s hard to think of the sixties and not think about all these: flower power, psychedelic music and these hippies and their ideals. After four decades, I’d like to believe that their music and ideals still lives on and has spread throughout different cultures. I’d like to believe that our generation
today still believes in equality, love, freedom and unity. That we still believe that people should not be judged by their looks, sexual orientation, religion or social class. I’d like to believe that people still choose to stand for something they firmly believe in even if it means going against social norms. It is still a chaotic world, but in such chaos, I’d like to think that we can still find a glimmer of hope, knowing that there are still people out there who believe in all that is good in mankind. In the words of the great John Lennon, “Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world."
Hiraya.
..Ala Paredes on vocals
... Mark Verzo on guitars
... Marco Cuneta on bass
... and the mild-mannered Paulo Tomas on drums :D
Bea Acosta in her model pose. Naks! ;)
The Peace Sign Babes! Bea and Kaken.
'Eto lang masasabi ko kay Master Monty, YOU ROCK!!!
Jorel of Happy Meals/Kjwan.
Nino Avenido of Happy Meals / Greyhoundz.
Day One Movement
Sib on vocals.
Januel Venturanza on guitars.
