On August 25, 2006, in Hartford, CT, my partner and i attended an event that we assuredly will never forget. With TEN Musical Acts (plus, emcee Wavy Gravy), Hippiefest was hours of great, pshchedellic, Hippie Fun! Enjoy the pictures and attend next year.
Another Woodstock performing band, Canned Heat, did thier thing at Hippiefest. They were even better than back in the sixties, in my opinion.
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The Rascals
"Groovin'" along with the Rascals was an awesome experience. My hippie chick partner was asked by another chick to dance and play in a mud puddle. "It will be fun," she asserted. And, it was.
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The Rascals 2
"True Love," was the song where the lead vocalist claimed: "I can feel it in my heart. I can feel it in my soul. Can you feel it? It's Love."
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Mountain
We were so very pleased that we upgraded our tickets to sitting twice as close to the stage for a mere extra ten bucks a ticket. As my lovely sweetheart told the usher, "I need to go to PP," (a double meaning indicating that she wanted to go to
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Mountain 2
Leslie West and band was the last act on the bill. The drummer continually was shooting his drum sticks into the audience by bouncing them off of the drim heads.
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Mountain 3
The drummer's cymbols also kept having to be picked up, as well.
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Mountain 4
The bass player was quite entertaining, moving all over the stage. But, guitarist, Lelie West was the real focus.
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Mountain 5
The bass drums were actually seen on the reaction of the screen where the Light Show was being done. And, unfortunately, like every other electric guitar at hippiefest, the sound was more like a buzzzzzzzzzz rather than a guitar. There was no mid range in
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Mountain 6
But, Leslie doing songs like "Mississippi Queen," and "Nantucket Slegh Ride," (for which he said he had waited for five hours to do) were still an incerdible experience. Mister West related how that "Ride" occured when a whal