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In reply to the discussion: Richie Havens Dies at Age 72 [View all]Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)51. I see I'm not alone in loving this song.
I hear it, and I'm instantly transported back to 1968 and my little hippie pad across from the University of Houston my senior year where we had such good and high times. We Day-Glo painted the walls with psychedelia and radical slogans, smoked pot, ate peyote, dropped acid. It was great. When I moved out, my landlady kept my deposit and charged me another $100 for paint to cover the "art." Good times.
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graham4anything
Apr 2013
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"Truth, Justice...and the American way (?)...I thought truth and justice WERE the American way."
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Apr 2013
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I saw Ritchie many times. Besides being possessed of a beautiful, uniquely "warm" voice,
whathehell
Apr 2013
#13
Another good man done gone. Saw Richie at Woodstock and he was asked to keep singing, with
FailureToCommunicate
Apr 2013
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