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Title
Oral History of Terry Haggerty
Contributing Institution
Mill Valley Public Library
Collection
Mill Valley History Online
Rights Information
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Description
In this oral history, musician, psychedelic explorer, and end-of-life guide Terry Haggerty shares the encounters, events, and experiences that have shaped his life. Born in Marin in 1946, Terry grew up in a family of performers: his father was a musician and his mother was a dancer who immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba. Terry recalls jam sessions and dance parties held at the family home in San Anselmo during his childhood, which had a formative effect on him. Having begun to play the guitar at the age of three Terry went on to play with various local bands, most notably among them the Sons of Champlin. Terry recounts his musical career and reminisces about the musical and cultural scene in Marin County and San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, sharing his reflections on the meaning of psychedelic rock music and the drug culture in which it was embedded. Terry concludes his oral history with a discussion of his spiritual outlook, shaped by the 1970s counterculture, and his involvement with the Living/Dying Project.
Identifier
444BF504-08D3-4C5B-AB77-513790762030
2019.085.001
Subject
Bands
Bardo
Buddhism
Cain, Tim
Champlin, Bill
Concerts
Creative anarchy
Drug dealers
Drugs
Guitars
Haggerty, Frank
Haggerty, Gloria
Haggerty, Terry
Horticulture
Living/Dying Project
LSD (Drug)
Marijuana
Moitoza, Rob
Music
Musicians
MV history - Music and counterculture (1960s and 1970s)
Oral history - Music
Oral history - Spirituality, philosophy, religion
Psychedelic bands
Pyschedelic drugs
Roth, Fred
Saijo, Albert
Seeds
Sons of Champlin
Spiritual life
Watts, Alan
Watts, Mark

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