Post #491671 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 8:38 AM

No, but an Eden Ahbez song, of course. And since I've had enough with this one-sided hippie-bashing here, here is an excerpt of my liner notes for the piece :) :

In the world of exotic romanticism, Eden Ahbez represents the missing link between the lounge generation and its children, the hippies. While his musical style was firmly lodged in a Martin Denny-esque sound, he was a hippie before there ever was the term....In “Full Moon” he essentially recites most of the clichés contained in Polynesian pop: “To surf and comb the beach…to hike over the island to the village…and do a little trading...”, yet he mixes them with a hippie philosophy, thus proving that the two generations which clashed so spectacularly in the late 60s were not so different after all. While the post-war veterans’ fantasies of the island lifestyle of free love and leisure lead to the fake recreations of urban Tiki havens, their descendants went about putting these tenets into action with love-ins, open air festivals and psychedelic drugs.