But it is 1990, and Psychic TV wouldn't be mistaken for a hippie band.

The band's mix of glam and increasingly violent stage theatrics stood out in stark contrast to the bearded, denim-clad hippie bands of the time.

He was inwardly cursing himself for allowing his attention to be diverted by "a hippie band" and anxiously screening the faces that were now hurrying by in the wake of the traffic jam.

There was a musician-turned-lawyer (Mr. Rapp) and even a news announcer and ice cream truck driver (Simeon of the pioneering electronic hippie band the Silver Apples).

Many contemporary bands performing at hippie festivals and their derivatives are called jam bands, since they play songs that contain long instrumentals similar to the original hippie bands of the 1960s.

The work of Robert Crumb and others doing posters for hippie bands, such as Big Brother And The Holding Company, spawned interest in the artwork among their followers.

Sly & the Family Stone, a San Francisco-based group that got its start in the late 1960s, was an exception, being a racially integrated hippie band with a hefty influence from soul music, hence making use of brass instrumentation.

Ladytron is a meta-retro hippie band connected to the strange configuration of groups known as Danielson.

The venerable hippie band will be holding a seder backstage at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, L.I., on Sunday, the second night of Passover, after taking Saturday off from performing.

A late-breaking hippie band from Japan, Acid Mothers Temple - led and loosely organized by Kawabata Makoto - was dressing in long robes well before the "Lord of the Rings" movies.