Weird 1960s people

Janis Joplin always gave me the creeps, Mad bitch

Tiny Tim was certainly an oddball

Dory Previn

Miaa Farrow

MY DAUGHTER MARRIED MY FUCKIN HUSBAND!

Squeaky Fromme

The Four King Cousins

Buffy Sainte-Marie. Weird, but in a good way weird. Oh she's much older than me and slightly predates me but in the 90s we would do blotter acid and her records were EXTREMELY acid-friendly.

Edie Sedgwick

Stephanie Farrow.

Tura Satana

Judee was a musical genius.

Justin De Villeneuve

Judy Carne

Joi Lansing

More Joi Lansing

Liberace

2nd Lady Muriel Humphrey

Wow Judee Sill, there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I actually saw her perform once - she opened for Cat Stevens when I saw him in back in 1972.

Martin Stephens - who starred in Village of the Damned and The Innocents - looked and acted pretty weird. No idea what he was really like of course.

Dirk

Madame Nhu

Good god I would have fucked Jim Morrison so hard

The Shaggs.

These bitches

Please don;' just post the image--give the name.

Not all of us were here in the 1960s and so we don't recognize these people.

Timothy Leary, who claimed that LSD could be used to cure homosexuality.

[quote]Please don;' just post the image--give the name.

Really? They're SO famous.

Do you not know who THIS is?

Madame Nhu was really old school. Ancien regime.

Grayson Hall

The Sugar Shoppe with Victor Garber

Freddy and the Dreamers

I rather prefer most of these people to today's bores. There's a uniformity in looks and persona to most of today's celebs.

I rather prefer most of these people to today's bores. There's a uniformity in looks and persona to most of today's celebs.

Scott Walker (NOT Lulu).

Was he a closet queen?

The Everyone's Gone To The Moon guy.

Diane Linkletter

Jo Anne Worley

Nick Drake. Late '60s-early '70s depressive.

Totie Fields

Everyone signed to Frank Zappa’s ‘Bizarre Records’ label (Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Wild Man Fischer, the GTOs).

[quote]Stephanie Farrow.

I meet your Stephanie Farrow and raise you a Tisa Farrow.

Joey Heatherton.

Donyale Luna, the first black supermodel.

Monti Rock the 3rd

Laura Nyro. Just ask Janis Ian, who was sometimes a piece of work herself.

Lamb Shop

Sorry, I meant CHOP.

Frank Zappa

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Cynthia Plaster Caster.

She made plastic casts of the erect penises of rock singers and musicians.

I just read Judee Sill’s Wikipedia entry. An extraordinarily chaotic bio, featuring an early career as an armed robber, an unfortunate crack about David Geffen’s pink shoes, and a third marriage to a Tunisian Charlie Chaplin impersonator.

Is that Mursel from 90 Day Fiance, R58?

The GTOs, a band of talentless, drug addled, bizarre looking groupies that Frank Zappa found amusing. He produced a record of them "singing" and talking and making noises called "Permanent Damage." By the way, "GTO" stood for "Girls Together Outrageously." Or "Girls Together Only." Or "Girls Together Openly." Whatever. Anyway, one of them, Pamela Des Barres, came out with a memoir detailing their exploits in called "I'm With The Band." Three of the GTOs died prematurely. The rest are still around, but only Pamela Des Barres seems to want to rehash over and over sexual encounters that took place decades ago.

"I meet your Stephanie Farrow and raise you a Tisa Farrow."

What about Prudence Farrow?

Katy Winters...

R60 I've met Pamela a few times, she's extremely nice and down-to-earth. Her book "I'm With the Band" is charming.

Those Manson girls were ugly as shit especially Squeaky and Atkins.

Mrs. Miller...

Judee Sill also worked as a prostitute. Apparently she was a talented make-up artist who could transform herself from hippie-librarian to sex kitten in a jiffy. This is her performing ‘The Kiss’ in 1973 on the BBC music program ‘The Old Grey Whistle Test’.

Mrs. Miller's Strangers in the Night....

Tiny Tim.

Michael J. Pollard

Bud Cort

Robert Morse

Shirley Stoler

Jim Nabors

Alan Sues

Grace Slick, the empress of 1960s weird people.

Grace Slick

Nico

" I've met Pamela a few times, she's extremely nice and down-to-earth. Her book "I'm With the Band" is charming."

"Charming?" Endless tales of sucking penises is "charming?"

I miss the days when we as a society celebrated non conformists. What a sad conservative culture we live in now.

BUMP for weird 1960s people!!

Moondog (NYC street musician).

Jackie Curtis & Candy Darling.

Ghost hunter Hans Holzer.

R77, most states still had sodomy laws on the books back then. So much for tolerating difference...

Phyllis Diller

Professor Irwin Corey

Brother Theodore

Phil Ochs, bi-polar protest singer.

I came here to say Mrs. Miller, too, but some bitches beat me to it!

Judee Sill, all issues aside, made wonderful music. Same for Dory Previn.

[quote]most states still had sodomy laws on the books back then. So much for tolerating difference...

Sodomy laws were still on the books for many states through the following decades up until 2003. They were very very rarely enforced.

[quote] Sodomy laws were still on the books for many states through the following decades up until 2003. They were very very rarely enforced.

I beg to differ, sir.....

Connie Converse, Greenwich Village singer-songwriter of haunting music, mostly recorded in her apartment. Frustrated with life, in 1974 she drove off in her VW Beetle, never to be seen again. She is still listed as missing (now 45 years, 3 months and 29 days).

Vivian Vance

R60 = Bebe Buell.

ahem......

Well, he was wonderfully weird in every decade of his life, but here's Little Richard in the 1960s.

Keith Moon

My mother....

Sonny & Cher

Jim Jones

Johnny Whittaker

The Faith Tones

I think a better question would be, who WASN'T weird in the 60's?

Speaking of, if I never hear the Boomer adage, "hey, it was the 60's", to justify their irresponsible ways, it'll be too soon.

Lee Hazelwood

Soupy Sales

Who among us have not taken up with a Tunisian mime. I dimly recall Judee Sill. She seems to have been the imbalanced Zelig of the singer-songwriter set.

One of my favorite unsung singers, R44.

Michael Stroka and Chris Pennock from Dark Shadows.

Why haven’t any of you cunts posted Jonathan Frid?

Mickey.

Bobby Morse was gorgeous.

Squeaky

Sir Tom Jones

Elizabeth Montgomery.

Wow, look at the gritted teeth grin on Mickey Deans at R112! He tried so very hard to put on a happy face in all his photos with Judy. But being married to her (and having sex with her) must not have been easy for him to do, seeing as he was as gay as a goose.

Sandy Dennis

[quote]But being married to her (and having sex with her) must not have been easy for him to do

Wouldn't have been easy for anyone.

The mini skirts, the legs.

During her marriage to Deans Judy started wearing Carnaby Street "mod" clothes. It did not become her. Maybe she thought Mickey would find her more attractive in glittery pantsuits and big hats and mini skirts. But I don't think he did.

click on that pic @ R119 - it's frightening.

Peter Hurkos, "professional psychic." Of course he was full of shit, like all "psychics" are. After the Manson murders friends of Jay Sebring hired him to do a "reading" at the murder house. Hurkos later said "Three men killed Sharon Tate and the other four...and I know who they are. I have identified the killers to the police and told them that these men must be stopped soon. Otherwise they will kill again." He claimed the killers were friends of Sharon Tate, turned into "frenzied homicidal maniacs" by massive doses of LSD. He was quoted as saying the killings erupted during a black magic ritual called "goona goona" its suddenness catching the victims unaware.

Vincent Bugliosi said in "Helter Skelter":

"If Hurkos did identify the three men to LAPD, nobody bothered to make a report on it. All publicity to the contrary notwithstanding, those in law enforcement have a standard procedure for handling such "information"; listen politely , then forget it. Being inadmissible as evidence, it is valueless."

The Amazing Kreskin

Penelope Tree

Ultra Violet

Buddy Hackett

Maynard G. Krebs

Rod Serling

Albert DiSalvo

Everybody associated with Andy Warhol.

Brian Wilson, lunatic frontman for The Beach Boys.

Syd Barrett, schizophrenic member of Pink Floyd.

Terry Melcher

Zal Yanovsky

Zal again

The entire cast of Laugh-In.

Wavy Gravy - still alive!

Father Francis of the Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount, up on Overlook Mountain behind Woodstock.

Bud Cort,, Alan Alda

[quote]The Everyone's Gone To The Moon guy.

Hands that can only lift a spoon..

[quote]Grace Slick, the empress of 1960s weird people.

She turns 80 next year.

Hugh Hefner

Joe Pine

Jerry Rubin

Marianne Faithful and Anita Pallenberg

Brian Jones

The Hip Hypnotist, Pat Collins, Miss Pat Herself. She presented her hypnotism act at her own club on the Sunset Strip, and in an episode of The Lucy Show.

Amanda Lear

Everyone at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball at the Plaza in 1966.

Cathy Lane

Karen “Mountains? What mountains?” Black

R148 In "Airport", Karen Black was a 1970s weirdo.

She was a 1960s weirdo in "Easy Rider" .

Hello from Interzone.

R149

William Burroughs was more of an evergreen weirdo.

The invitees at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball weren't "weird." They looked silly in those masks but they weren't weird. They were just obscenely rich.

Veruschka

Penelope Tree. Sorry I can't post links anymore. Great thread OP. Congrats

Well, yeah, R136. Hell, I just go through posting at R51, fercryinoutloud.

^^^ "GOT through . . ."

Penelope Tree, r155......

R158 she was already mentioned many posts ago.

But so far no one has mentioned Peggy Moffitt

Marc Bolan and Steve Peregrin Took of Tyrannosaurus Rex (T.Rex in the 70s.)

[quote][R158] she was already mentioned many posts ago.

Fuck Penelope Tree.

Penelope Tree got famous because she was David Bailey's gurlfriend after Shrimpton, who he also made famous.

Candy!

Among all the "weirds," there's still more vision or talent among most of them than in the commercialized, ruined media whores and other asses now populating the sources of attention they flit around like moths around an outhouse fire.

R165 Agreed.

^^^ I’m with you both.

A gathering.

To celebrate the publication of "Goodbye Baby and Amen" at the very end of the '60s.

Almost 50 years ago to the day

Goodbye Baby & Amen was a look back at Swinging 60s London as the decade closed.

It was only for sale until from October 1969 until March 1970.

Plate spinners...

John Paul & Talitha Getty

172 posts about weird 1960s people and no one mentions Donovan?

R171 While we're at it:

Señor Wences

Sea Train. The keyboardist (left) was hot.

I nominate one of our gay forefathers, former child actor, Broadway performer, gay cabaret trailblazer, straight porn actor and musician Zebedy Colt (born Edward Earle Marsh). He was making straight porn movies while appearing as an actor on Broadway.

jobraith

Zebedy Colt's wiki is interesting---Sandy Dennis recognized him from his porn and she had gone to see it with her mother! More twisted in ways I never expected.

Claudine.

First there is a mountain

Then there is no mountain

Then there is.

R181 R173 Donovan wasn’t “weird.” He was a stereotypical ‘60s flower child.

R182

Society saw 60s flower children as strange, unconventional. And that's how they wanted to be seen, they were proud to be labeled weird.

And it perfectly describes the guy who wrote songs like:

""Sunshine Superman"", ""Mellow Yellow", ""Epistle to Dippy", ""Atlantis" ""There Is a Mountain".

Listen to the lyrics: weird

Marc Bolan was far weirder than Donovan. His band’s 1968 debut record was called “My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows”.

Kenneth Anger.

R184 Typical for 1968.

Donovan's debut album in ...1965 ...was entitled "What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid".

Marc Bolan's big hit had lyrics was "Bang A Gong", which featured lyrics like "you've got the teeth of the hydra upon you" and "you've got a hubcap diamond star halo." He was probably stoned when he came up with that stuff. It was weird. But it wasn't unusual. I've liked songs with those crazy titles like "Strawberry Letter 22" and "Crystal Blue Persuasion." Music was so druggy and loopy then.

That's 'Strawberry Letter 23', which incorporates by reference the previous letter, R187.

I think we need a "weird 60s lyrics" thread.

Great thread

Bobby Beausoleil

I think the days of weird celebrities are forever gone. Present day pop culture is all about bland, basic bitches amplifying and copypasting other bland, basic bitches. It’s become a feedback loop of the obnoxious. The internet has given a voice to people who would’ve remained unheard in the past, but there was a reason for that: they had absolutely nothing of interest to contribute.

Bang a Gong was 70s stuff.

"The internet has given a voice to people who would’ve remained unheard in the past, but there was a reason for that: they had absolutely nothing of interest to contribute."

Most of the people named in this thread didn't contribute anything, either.

The Monkees

[quote]Most of the people named in this thread didn't contribute anything, either.

They made for a mix of pop culture that was infinitely more interesting than today's.

Joggers

About Bobby Beausoleil...there was a recent Rolling Stone article about him. A SYMPATHETIC article. The writer of the piece said "Sitting in the visiting room, it’s hard not to like the guy, to want to forgive, to want to believe, to want to forgive even if you don’t believe. He’s been here for 50 years. It’s been a long time." I guess the writer of the article fell in love with him (the writer is a guy). I don't think I'd want to have Beausoleil out of prison. After being convicted he said "you just better hope I never get out."

Charles Manson himself. Creepy as hell. His followers must have really been missing something in their lives.

Some of the Factory crowd were weird and some not. Viva and Holly and Jane Forth were not that weird, Andrea Feldman was weird. Billy Name was weird but nice.

Truman Capote, Roy Cohn, Rex Reed, Vincent Price - all creepy

Vincent Price was "creepy?" Maybe you're confusing him with his roles. By all accounts, he was well-liked by all, a lovely gentleman.

Valerie Solanas