HIPPIE FEST 2007

Well, it was lots of fun, but too damn cold for Florida, and of course no real
hippies in sight. Though lots of hippie wigs!! But a great line up of bands/musicians.
Here's who we listened to:
MCed by Country Joe and his sardonic sense of humor:
1)Denny Laine: original Moody Blue and member of Wings; very nice could have listened to more of him.
2)Terry Sylvester:from the Hollies, replacement for Graham Nash. Very nice performance.
3)Joey Molland:just about the last member of Badfinger still alive. Good songs, but seemed like
the performance was rote.
4)Country Joe:and his FISH cheer, yeah the original album one, and a new anti-Bush song (...gonna send him back to the farm, where he can shovel real bull shit). Something like that,
anyway, and well received.
5)Melanie:who actually looked and dressed like it was still the 60s. But found the performance
annoying with her son playing electric guitar behind her acoustic strumming, didn't fit
at all.
6)Felix Cavaliere:from the Rascals, seen him before and he always puts on a great show.
7)Eric Burdon:of the Animals, and a surprise guitarist - Hilton Valentine, the original
Animals guitarist. So that was cool. And he had some hot chick bass player as a bonus!
8)Iron Butterfly;which is down to Ron Bushy & Lee Dorman, original drummer and bass
player. But they had a good keyboard player and a great guitarist who really fit in well.
The funny part is, their whole set consisted of the long version Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida...
and that was it.

So we had a good time, except for the cold. Sort of hoped that some of the people
would have signed autographs, but probably too cold for them too. Hopefully
Cypress Gardens will do it again next year and the weather will be warmer.