We stuck out like sore thumbs, but everyone was really cool and it didn't seem to matter that we weren't dressed like all of them. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Just remembered that we even went to the extent of making our own peace sign pendants from thin copper rods and solder in Metal Shop so we might fit in to the crowd. What a fantastic period to have lived in. Quite an eye bulging experience for 3 - 17 year-old guys at the time! Sure wish someone would organize one more love-in just to have the chance to relive that day. And then there was talk about an electrical banana, which was a vibrator Anyway, Mellow Yellow, written and performed by singer/songwriter Donovan ( born. Some of them were so high on other drugs they never realized it when the sheets fell off. Will never forget the beautiful girls walking around with nothing but a white sheet wrapped around them. Well, besides rasping our lungs out, it didn't do a thing, but we sure had a great time.
So we thought, "What the Heck! Let's try it!". When we arrived at Golden Gate Park sure enough, all of the hippies were smoking what they called "Mellow Yellow"! We asked one guy what the high was like and he said it just mellowed you out and it was perfectly legal to smoke it. So one day we loaded up one of our buddy's cars and headed out for San Francisco from LA during the Easter Break. General CommentWhen this song first came out we thought it was about smoking the white stuff scraped from the inside of banana peels, too.
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