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Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by prestonjohn
(Post 8861009)
Dreadsoc i too was looking for Goa Freaks and i came across a reference that it was re-printed in Goa and is available off the shelf.I too thought asking £80 for a £3 paper back says it all about the so-called hippies of the 70s.It will be one of those re-prints that the Indians are so good at knocking out.You read it once and it falls apart........:eek:
If I can find it I shall post on here. Cheers Dread - x |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by hemingway
(Post 8854911)
Dread, I too bought the above book via Ebay for a quid plus another £1.65 for postage. I finished reading it yesterday & thought it was a very interesting read but to my mind it was a bit far fetched & I don't really think I believe that is what happened to the not so honourable John Bingham.
I'd like to get hold of a copy of "Goa Freaks" by Cleo Odzer - it's around £80 secondhand on Amazon :eek: - there was one on Ebay the other week but I missed the end of the bloody auction & it sold for only £22.50 :mad: Thanks for the book tip. H. Hi All, Theres a film called 'Last Hippie Standing' which features an interview with Cleo Odzer and bits of film of Anjuna from the 70s. The whole film lasts for approx 45mins and you can watch it for free on the net. I read somewhere that Cleo Odzer returned to Goa and died there around 2001 or 2002. The film is definitely worth a butchers.:D I have added the link below. Remy http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...485205NtHqS8FJ PS. you may have to download the player but this only takes a couple of minutes. |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
:thumbsup: Welcome back
see you December :wub: |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by noni
(Post 8861949)
:thumbsup: Welcome back
see you December :wub: Noni, im near sure that was you running naked along Anjuna beach in that film 'last hippie standing'......is there something your not telling us?:blink: :wub: :D Remy |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by Remy-Ireland
(Post 8861974)
Noni,
im near sure that was you running naked along Anjuna beach in that film 'last hippie standing'......is there something your not telling us?:blink: :wub: :D Remy |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by Remy-Ireland
(Post 8861934)
Hi All,
Theres a film called 'Last Hippie Standing' which features an interview with Cleo Odzer and bits of film of Anjuna from the 70s. The whole film lasts for approx 45mins and you can watch it for free on the net. I read somewhere that Cleo Odzer returned to Goa and died there around 2001 or 2002. The film is definitely worth a butchers.:D I have added the link below. Remy http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...485205NtHqS8FJ PS. you may have to download the player but this only takes a couple of minutes. Oh dear how things have changed...... |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Is there anyone out there who remembers the original Air India Jumbos of the 70s with the concertina toilet doors that you could'nt open from the inside without force or someone in the queue outside helping!!
Or those beyond awful bus journeys from Bombay!! (worse with a wet bottomed baby/toddler on the lap). |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
I do quite well ! And not so long ago either....i remember one particular trip i made from Bombay to Mapsua in 1990.The road just above Karwar was supposed to be resurfaced and the company doing it stripped all the tarmac from about 20 kilometres of road and then went conveniently bankrupt.The result was a dust storm of heroic proportions along this stretch of the road as lorries and buses all churned it up in the middle of the night.When you arrived in Mapsua at around 7am you looked like something from a science fiction film.Completely red, every thing luggage , you the bus.I remember once in the monsoon travelling back to Bombay and seeing mud geysers spurting up from the holes in the bus floor !One bus i caught had 8 punctures in the night and all the passengers had to get off because the jacks wouldnt work and then there were the Dabas along the roads.Road side cafs Indian style with tea so sweet you could stand a spoon in it !Do you remember the video buses ? Having to sit there listening to some caterwauling Bollywood starlet strangling a cat for 14 hours...even the Indian passengers would go mad after around 8 hours of this torture.The conductors loved it though :eek:
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Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by prestonjohn
(Post 8867329)
!Do you remember the video buses ? Having to sit there listening to some caterwauling Bollywood starlet strangling a cat for 14 hours...even the Indian passengers would go mad after around 8 hours of this torture.The conductors loved it though :eek:
It must have been early 90s when myself and a daughter took a 'new' sleeper bus from Panjim to Pune, it looked wonderful, compartments with 2 floor beds and a bunk. The reality was different, on a floor bed over a wheel!! Never again ever. |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
The sleeper buses were something else.Travelling up to Bombay on Paulis bus I was sat on in the middle of the night by a large lady weighing at least 16 stone! I nearly died of suffocation before she realised she was on the wrong shelf. cant call them sleeping berths because in reality they were shelves. I used to like the Yogic flying as you elevated off your shelf when the bus hit a particularly big pothole....
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Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by prestonjohn
(Post 8867603)
The sleeper buses were something else.Travelling up to Bombay on Paulis bus I was sat on in the middle of the night by a large lady weighing at least 16 stone! I nearly died of suffocation before she realised she was on the wrong shelf. cant call them sleeping berths because in reality they were shelves. I used to like the Yogic flying as you elevated off your shelf when the bus hit a particularly big pothole....
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Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by Vagatorian
(Post 8867860)
Paulo Travel super deluxe luxury video bus was definately the way to go in the 90`s :thumbsup: remember getting dropped off in Bombay at silly o`clock in the morning and the taxi driver trying to charge me 600 rps to take me to Colaba, I almost dragged him from the taxi and into the Causeway police station, he took 150 rps, still too much .... I was tired
What a ride from the airport, Bombay looked so bad, After a few days in Colaba area no trains running so got a clapped out bus which was a hell of a ride down to Goa 17 hours, all the back seat flew off and we could see the bare road beneath us. never slept a wink. Got to Goa sheer bliss.... what riots, fell in love with the place...... |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by Remy-Ireland
(Post 8861974)
Noni,
im near sure that was you running naked along Anjuna beach in that film 'last hippie standing'......is there something your not telling us?:blink: :wub: :D Remy Welcome back Remy Thanks for the link - very enjoyable - what a different time and place ! Now what was that you were telling us about Noni ? Do please spill.....:rofl::rofl: Dread - x |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by dreadsoc
(Post 8871653)
Welcome back Remy
Thanks for the link - very enjoyable - what a different time and place ! Now what was that you were telling us about Noni ? Do please spill.....:rofl::rofl: Dread - x With the contacts Noni has i darn't divulge or i may 'disappear' !:eek::D |
Re: Memories of the Good old days
Originally Posted by Remy-Ireland
(Post 8872383)
Hi Dread thanks for the welcome.
With the contacts Noni has i darn't divulge or i may 'disappear' !:eek::D :o o.k. double 'noffi for you to keep quiet. Pleased you are back lightening up the forum, only need good old Milwart to come out of retirement.:wub: |
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