Flashing on the Sixties a Tribal Document

Very Disappointing

This video will not give you the type of quality 60s footage you are looking for, just tired philosophic musings from fairly boring people. October 10, 2007

very fun and informative

I absolutely love this video....has some profound insights into the origin of the movement of the 1960's. Many great clips of interviews with people who were there, as well as photos and videos from the 60's. Loved seeing what people looked like then and now!! Peter Coyote and Nash and Crosby interviews were my personal faves. Loved how it ended with such hope for the future and for future generations to carry on the message of caring for the earth! September 10, 2007

Flashing on the Sixties a Tribal Document

Bought this as a gift. Recipient was quite pleased. January 9, 2007

Very well-done documentary

Since I wasn't alive in the 1960s, I spent my youth being fascinated by that era. In the late 1980s, there were no shortage of radio stations playing music from that era, and enough TV stations airing programs from that era as well. In 1987, photographer Lisa Law published a book called Flashing on the Sixties. Three years later, a documentary came out based on that book. What I really enjoy about this documentary was it wasn't a college student project made by people who weren't there, but by the people who not only were old enough to participate in the 1960s, but helped define that era. People including David Crosby, Graham Nash, Michelle Phillips, Peter Fonda, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Dennis Hopper, Peter Coyote, Wavy Gravy, a Vietnam War vet, Carolyn Garcia (wife of Jerry Garcia), and people I'm not so familiar with. What I'm also really glad is they avoid the stereotypes associated with the countercultural movement (none of that "Groovy, man" stuff here) and instead protray the hippies as a group of people that you are able to take seriously. The documentary points out that there was a generation of youth disenfranchised of their conservative, 1950s, suburban, Leave It To Beaver/Donna Reed upbringing and how they totally rebelled against that in the '60s as they reached adulthood, and how they felt they were being lied to by the "establishment". You get to see as the youth wanted to return back to the earth and start up communes, grow food and raise livestock, etc. Perhaps on the the most silly part of this documentary involved Wavy Gravy's hog farm where people painted his hogs and rode on them like they were a horse at a rodeo. The documentary isn't perfect. For one thing, I could live without what was then new footage of Crosby & Nash performing "Our House" and "Teach Your Children" (the latter with Carly Simon providing additional vocals) in New York during a benefit. The reason was the singing and performance was very sloppy, making you want to get your copy of CSNY's Déjà Vu and play that instead. Regardless, this is perhaps the best documentary I have ever seen regarding the 1960s hippie movement. If you were there in the '60s, or like me, who wasn't alive in the '60s but have a fascination for that era, this documentary is a must. March 10, 2004

Great Green Swastika Hash Brownies! A 60's Hip-Story!

Lisa Law's ethno-epistle is really rockin' good. I came back from India with other musicians who were 'seekers' and learned
somewhere along the way that the Hindu and Shinto ideas were not only good enough for Buddhism and Taoism and Confucius & Yoko; but that underneath it all, the Sanskrit and bean-sprouts, 60's-era people had so much energy, gave us so much of their times, ran trips on down to the big world culture...that it is as if INDIA were discovering COLUMBUS! We met the same folks coming and going over the years...and each made some inroad on the civilization, if ever so lightly. Olompali was there-Wheeler Ranch, and Morning Star. The diggers delivered homemade 'emergency bread' all the way North from the Straight Theater, and we listened to "Duck's Breath" and saw "Teatro Camposino' in North Beach. For Lisa to actually recount a YEARS WORTH..she'd need twelve shelves! And so would everyone else!
LOVE & PEACE to you ALL my RAINBOW FOLK June 24, 2003

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