Pdog wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2010 at 3:28pm:



Outstanding. Hipsters are a fucking plague of mediocrity. For those who don't know, "hipsters' are people that would wear a tongue logo t-shirt, and when you see it and say "Hey nice, the Rolling Stones', they look back at you all bored and reply "I don't know what that is". Then you punch them in their ironic beard and make them cry.

from wiki

Hip is a slang term meaning fashionably current and in the know. Hip is the opposite of square or prude.

Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered hip is continuously changing. The term hip is said to have originated in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early 1900s, derived from the earlier form hep. Despite research and speculation by both amateur and professional etymologists, the origins of the term hip and hep are disputed. Many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat (e.g., jazz musicians' now cliched "hip cat") derive from the west African Wolof language word hepicat, which means "one who has his eyes open".[1] Some etymologists reject this, however, and have even adopted the denigration "to cry Wolof" as a general dismissal or belittlement of etymologies they believe to be based on "superficial similarities" rather than documented attribution.[2]

An alternative theory traces the word's origins to those who used opium recreationally in the 19th century. Opium smokers commonly consumed the drug lying on their sides (i.e. their hips). Because opium smoking was a practice of socially-influential trend-setting individuals, the cachet it enjoyed led to the circulation of the term hip by way of a kind of synecdoche.

Another explanation was that users would develop a sore on their hips from lying motionless on it. Thus to "have the hip" was to be an initiate.

Early currency of the term (as the past participle hipped, meaning informed), is documented in the 1914 novel The Auction Block by Rex Beach:

"His collection of Napoleana is the finest in this country; he is an authority on French history of that period - in fact, he's as nearly hipped on the subject as a man of his powers can be considered hipped on anything

texile wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2010 at 8:33pm:


First post.

I'm 24 have been listening to the Stones since I can remember. I really started being influenced by there music around the age of 14 or 15 when my friends parents would let us smoke pot in there house. Her parents were huge STONES fans and I attribute them to training my ears to classify music as The Rolling Stones and then there is music. I have watched about every DVD from cocksucker blues to Shine a Light. I have read several books on them my favorite being "According to The Rolling Stones". I have only seen them once in Atlanta in 05 and feel blessed to be able to say that.

As far as hipster status I am a big fan of Widespread Panic and they I guess have the "hipster status". I have seen them right around 100 times and they always put on a good show IMO. To me there is no music that comes even close the stones. I get more chills at home listening to the unrealeased "Whores, Cocaine, and a bottle of Jack" for example, than when I am at a WSP show. There is just nothing that comes close to the musical feelings and journey that there music can take me on and I have only seen them once and that was in 05.


Some of you older folks may find this interesting because this thread is about hipsters/hippies. Well last weekend when I saw WSP in Raleigh, NC we got a sheet of paper. The print on it was the stones tongue. 1 hit put me into full melt and it was definitely family L because of how clean it was. So that may be a very slight indication that there music is still in the hipster seen if "the family" is printing that on sheets.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GotToRollMe#p/a/u/0/vFHRdi5fQ5A