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Leaders
of the 1960's Counterculture I've Seen or Met |
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 John Lennon - ex Beatle (seen greeting a concert audience in NYC) |
 Jerry Garcia - Lead guitarist, Grateful Dead (crossed paths at an Albany, NY gas station, plus shows) Photo Jon Sievert |
 Abbie Hoffman - Yippie leader (seen at the Nov 1969 DC antiwar march) |
 Jerry Rubin -Yippie leader (seen at the Nov 1969 DC antiwar march) |
 Allen Ginsberg - Beatnik poet (Met him in the home of his parents in Paterson, NJ) |
 Steven Gaskin - Hippie philosopher ("St. Steven" of Grateful Dead fame)- (I attended his famous Monday Class in San Francisco in 1970) Photo Robert Altman |
 Dr. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass - Holy man (Shake and howdy in Albany, NY) Photo Robert Altman |
 Tim Leary -LSD pioneer (Seen speaking at a college in Albany, NY) |
 Ed Sanders (Poetry Reading, Albany, NY) |
 Wavy Gravy, former Merry Prankster (Nobody for President, 1988 Albany NY campaign stop) |
 Jimi Hendrix (seen at Woodstock 1969) |
 Janis Joplin (seen at Woodstock 1969. As a 17 year old kid with raging hormones, I was burning to do her. Never did, though - Death got her before I could.) |