![]() ![]() ![]() They were actually smoking the same grass that caused Robert Mitchum to be dragged off to jail, and I was horrified.īut we went to a coffeehouse in Kennebunkport, Maine, and I just weakened. I heard that all these musicians were on the stuff. Wavy Gravy: We were doing jazz and poetry on the East Coast in a joint in the basement of a pizza parlor called Pat’s Pebble in the Rock. High Times: How did you first get stoned? Last year he sat down with me and High Times founder Tom Forcade (an old friend and fellow traveler on trips with Wavy) and answered some questions about how he’s managed to do it. This guru of giggles, clown prince of the counterculture has managed to stay high and keep other people high for more than 20 years. As the visionary promoter of Earth People’s Park, Feed the Hungry and other utopian schemes that just might work for the ’80s. As a good-humored peacemaker at all the major rock festivals and political demonstrations of the ’60s and ’70s.Īs the clown-suited organizer of the hilarious “Nobody for President” campaign in 1976. As a volunteer worker/entertainer in hospitals for brain-damaged children. As a purveyor of Electric Kool-Aid and incandescent vibes during the madcap, Owsley Purple acid, Merry Prankster/Grateful Dead days of mid-’60s San Francisco.Īs a pioneer in communal living, group highs and “gong bongs” with his mobile, extended family, the Hog Farm, in the late ’60s. As a pioneer acid taker, dealer and trip guide in the formative years of the West Coast hip scene. He and his traveling commune, the Hog Farm, are perhaps best known to masses of Americans for their service at the “bad-trip freak-out tent” that was captured in the movie Woodstock.īut there is a smaller, more passionate group of Wavy Gravy fans across the country and the world who value him for a whole range of good highs and good deeds he’s inspired in his many guises and disguises over the years.Īs a stand-up, free-form comedian in the early beatnik scenes of the ’50s. Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Romney) is one of the key figures in the evolution of the contemporary culture of getting high and getting together. In honor of Wavy Gravy’s 85th birthday on May 15, we’re republishing the story below. From psychedelic barnstorming to communal hog farming from East Coast coffeehouse cool to stoned San Francisco sunshine from the Beat Generation through the Me Decade and beyond: A conversation with the legendary clown-prince of the counterculture from the June, 1979 issue of High Times, written by Ron Rosenbaum. ![]()
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