To use a well hackneyed phrase
this song 'blew me away' when I first heard it. Unlike today when you can have an instant download I had to wait beside the radio for hours waiting for them to play it again. And they never would, or that's how it felt. The voice, the acoustic sound with it's many instruments, the idea of men wearing flowers, it was all too much. I was an immediate convert, to what I don't know. But I knew I was going somewhere with that song. To San Francisco? Not sure,
Bellingen
maybe. I just had to go. As soon as I could drive I took off to find that something. I picked up some hippies who were thumbing a ride to Byron Bay and stayed overnight at their...but I divert. This song is part of the sixties folklore that permeated the world at the time, well some of it.
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