THE DIAMOND GUIDE TO THE GRATEFUL DEAD: ANTHEM OF THE SUN (1968)
Originally posted on A Vinyl Fiend's Blog:
The word ‘hip’ translates roughly as ‘wise’ or ‘tuned in’. A hippy is someone who ‘knows’ what’s really happening, and who adjusts or grooves with it. Hippies despise phoniness; they want to be open, honest, loving, free. They reject the plastic pretence of twentieth-century America, preferring to…