Isn't there a distinction to be made between psychedelic and hippy? Wouldn't call miles hippy.
Well yeah, I mean for one thing a hippy is sort of an inherently 'white' thing to be, isn't it? Is it even possible to be a hippy, as such, if you're not white?
Hmm, I guess - had't considered Hendrix. Point still stands that the stereotypical hippy is (almost) always white, though.
What I was getting at is that hippy-ism, like the Beat movement in the previous decade, was very consciously a rejection of white, Christian, bourgeois values - and you can't meaningfully reject those values if you (or your family/community) were never signed up to them in the first place.
agree, but individual psychedelic mindsets, usually but not always drug-related, are/can be more stringently codifiedcompletely open descriptor
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psychedelic in the way I've seen people describe black metal as psychedelic, repetitive entrancing overwhelming wall of noise
the way hypnotic disco can be entrancing, approached from a different angle
ya that side of black metal has been around for awhile, virtually since the beginning. all those extended Burzum keyboard workouts, even Bathory has some iirc."ambient black metal", who knew?
Hippies were absolutely about Christian values - their "peace, love n unity" was christian charity 100%.