As you may know, I have an aversion – well, a hatred – of hippies.
I was thinking of who was the most ghastly and teeth itchingly horrible hippy group?
First, I thought of the dreadful Moonflowers. A horrible hippy late 80s band.
But, then I thought of another one…
They were the awful San Francisco Height Ashbury hippy bollocks incarnate. The music itself deserves enough stick, California bloody Dreaming and the self congratulatory Creque Alley for a start. But, what cunts they were behind their peace and love hippy facade.
Michelle Phillips, had every counter culture cock there was. Wrecked marriages, even those of close friends. She had both her male bandmates, and a lot more besides. She was such a trouble making slag, she was fired. Only to be brought back months later for the money involved. Peace and love, man.
Mama Cass. Not her real name. of course. A sort of novelty amongst the ‘beautiful people’. What she really was was a fat smackhead and rather light fingered in hotels. Made terrible syrup drenched solo records like It’s Getting Better and Make Your Own Kind Of Music. Truly dreadful shite.
John Phillips. Well, what can we say?
A proper smacked up nutter, who made Keith Richards look like a trappist monk.
Got so loony on drugs, that he’d pick his skin to bits. Seeing imaginary bugs on his body.
And, it gets much worse. He apparently had a coerced insestous relationship with his daughter. Despite denial from his wives, several witnesses have confirmed this. Papa John indeed, eh?
It appears Denny Doherty was the most normal one out of them. And, I’m not sure about him.
And that name – The Mamas and the Papas – is utterly cringeworthy. One of the worst band mames of all time. And, it appears that they were the most smacked up, self back stabbing, amoral group there was. Second only to the mid to late 70s Fleetwood Mac.
Link here, detailing Papa John’s alleged perversitude.
Never ever trust a hippy.
Nominated by : Norman
Wasn’t Anthony Blair a long haired pop singer at one time?. I remember on one of his duckie holidays at Cliff Richard’s Bahamas hideaway (with hot and cold running servant boys) he took his ukelele with him.
At least both their dads could pay their phone bills, even if they were raving poofs.
I do remember a band from the 1960s called The Lovin’ Spoonful. That has recently been reformed by David Lammy and Emily Thornberry. It’s called The Loving Shovelful.
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Oh the irony of Blair being a cottaging closet fondant fancy son-in-law of a prolific star of 1970s tit and bum sex comedies.
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They showed one of Tony Booth’s Confessions films a week or two back – Pop Performer. They had a girl group called The Climax Sisters, which reminded me of Dirty Ange and Sugartits Cooper.
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😁😁
Perchance did they live with their Aunty?
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I surprised the Mamas and the Papas haven’t been cancelled yet or had a trigger warning put on their performances for their hideous gender normative name.
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Can’t really agree with this because all bar one of the cunts is dead. Maybe we should have a separate section for dead people noms? Maybe Admin can sort it?
If so, I would like to nominate that cunt Richard (not to be confused with David) Nixon and Arthur Askey.
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Arthur Askey – Big Hearted Arthur?. I thannyou. Totally agree he was an obsequious little arsehole, and big headed rather than big hearted. I have a neighbour who looks exactly like him – even down to those black framed glasses He comes past about three o’clock every afternoon, pissed as a fart. Just saying.
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I didn’t know three quarters of them are dead, in fact until now I only knew their very well known songs. So they were weirdos, deviants and drug abusers. Doesn’t that describe most celebrities?
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Years ago, my kids and I were watching an old Scooby Doo.
It was one of those weird crossover episodes from the late 70’s and Mama Cass was in it, bizarrely.
She gets kidnapped or something and Velma says, “Mama Cass just disappeared into thin air!”
Shaggy replies, “Mama Cass? THIN air?!”
Imagine a telly program insulting a fat fuck nowadays!
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Disturbing lack of diversity in that photo.
Maybe I’m being overly cynical or conspiratorial here but I get the feeling that a band consisting of only white lads (basically like pretty much most bands from the 60s through to the 2000’s) wouldn’t be allowed to happen these days.
Or at the very least, would be under promoted or held back from mainstream success.
Similar in some ways to the England football team.
Would a starting XI of exclusively white players be allowed to happen in 2025?
I genuinely don’t think it would.
Good morning.
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Even as a lifter of shirts I have to say Michelle Phillips was one Red Hot Chilli Pepper during her 90s stint on Knots Landing.
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I would have.Well, everybody else was apparently.
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Oh, I forgot to mention. She played Nicollette Sheridan’s mother.
😗
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Bet the record company weren’t keen on putting on a post show buffet.
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‘i went for a walk on a winters daaay’ 🎶… obviously only to the fridge for mama Cass 🌭🌮🍗😩
California from far out ☮️✌️ now 🧟♂️💩… peace 🕊️ out maaan
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She obviously inspired Adele, who Set Fire To The Rain… then lay waste to the fridge.
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That whole flower power thing was a pile of old donkey.
One thing I will say about the M and Ps; their records sounded like Mozart compared to some other stuff getting aired around that time.
Anybody remember those cunts The Flower Pot Men? ‘Let’s go to San Francisco, where the flowers grow so very high’? Fuck me.Then you had that pissy wank from one-hit wonder Scott McKenzie ‘San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)’, written I believe by the aforementioned John Phillips (Norman will know for sure).
Bag o’ shite.
Morning all.
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That fucking luckiest “drummer” in the world still gives that cringe worthy hippy V sign crap to this day..!
I wouldn’t mind slipping his lass one through..😲
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Good nom Norman 👍
I too hate hippies.
But weirdly love a lot of their music.
Hawkwind
Bonzo dog doodah band
Neil Young
Captain beefheart
Janis joplin
Stones etc.
But that idealogy, Peace n love?
Bollocks.
They all ended up riddled with STDs and bad drug habits.
Degenerates.
Indian mysticism, hari krishna,
Sandals, centre partings,
Joss sticks, that inane peace sign✌️
Mama Cass has the right idea.
Fuck the drugs have a pie.
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Beefheart were never a hippie.
Nor the Bonzos as I recall.
Afternoon mate 👍
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Beefheart was a genius
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Afternoon pal. 👍
Neither was Lemmy in Hawkwind but know what i mean
, long hair, flares, late 60s musicians with a hippy fanbase.
The Grateful Dead were the original hippy band.
Haight Ashbury locals,
Noodling long psychedelic jams,
They had a character called PigPen who was the only decent one.
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I saw a interview with Michelle Phillips.
What a orrible old cunts she was.
Truly a bitter, jealous,
Nasty bitch.
That mama Cass had a great voice.
Shame she looked like a badly upholstered sofa.
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The hippy shit was just a classic counter culture liberal degeneracy.
Easy to be a rebel when strong men have literally spilt blood in order to build an orderly and prosperous society for the John Lennon champagne socialist cunts of the world to try and tear down.
All this happy clappy shit hasn’t exactly turned out very well for the West in retrospect has it.
Islam watching the west destroing itself – hold my halal beer.
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Spot on Herman.
Spoilt kids of rich californian cunts.
Smoking dope in their back garden swimming pools saying how theyd never work for “The Man”
How Vietnam was awful and daddy paid a bribe to get them out of being drafted to Saigon.
Your Peter Fondas an the like.
Bunch of wankers in §3000 frayed jeans.
Ps
Read your nom earlier
Chin up pal👍
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If Karen Carpenter had eaten Mamma Cass’s sandwich they’d both be alive today!🙈
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