Another Disappointment: Richie Furay

[Norbert]

Maybe not a surprise to some but I lost track of him. Enjoyed his music with Buffalo Springfield, Poco and the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. A little time after that he was born again and became a minister.

He is probably not a Boebert like RWNJ but there is no question on which team he is on.

No Twitter account that I could find but on Facebook, among the bible quotes are posts like this:

"WHY DO GROCERIES KEEP GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE?"
Is this really a legitimate headline on 9 News out of Denver? You have to be kidding me. Unless one's head is deep in the sand - it's pretty obvious to most of us. If you can't figure it out, just look east (you know, where sun rises) and focus on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. where there's been a "sit in" going on since January 20th.

Damn!

[marble falls]

1. There was some bad acid going around Boulder in '69. What can I say?

[walkingman]

2. It is disappointing - more and more of the great rock musicians

have turned into right wingers. We were always in a minority but I never thought I would live to see so many great musicians of the 60's be so fucking disgusting. Could it be dementia? What has happened to my generation?

[Progressive Jones]

3. I'm a bit disappointed in a few myself. nt

[tenderfoot]

4. What I find interesting about 1960s/70s era hippies that are today right wingers is...

that they're farther to the right than the generation they rebelled against.

[walkingman]

5. agree - I always ask my DW "where did everyone go?" She says "they are dead or senile".

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

7. There are real hippies, and then there are pseudo-hippies who were only

in it for the trendy fashion show. As soon as it was no longer "trendy" to be a hippie, the phony hippies got into disco, sold out, and became Yuppies in the 80's.

I know plenty of old hippies who are still talking the talk and walking the walk.

one of my favorite films:

[VGNonly]

8. Both Roger McGuinn

and Chris Hillman, formerly of the Byrds, have gone to the dark side.

[Norbert]

9. Funny Story

A MAGA buddy and I were talking about musical likes around the time Belinda Carlisle appeared briefly on Dancing with the Stars. I told him I liked the Go Gos. He said, "You know Belinda is a Republican." I told him I never heard that. He swore she is a conservative. I said, "Well, okay." and left it at that because he was really proud of it.

I went back on Twitter last year after a long absence, shortly after that a couple musings popped up by fellow Go Go Kathy Valentine. Thinking back on what he said I searched Belinda. Wow, she is probably as much of a progressive as any of the other members of the group.

I still haven't the heart to tell my buddy.