yeah,,totally bang on there harry,,i believe the convoy started off as "good thing" but by the end due to the reasons you state went very bad,selling smack etc,, and yes there was so much more freedom back then,cheers s2I wish I'd have been around then, when we still had some freedom.
I would have loved to have gone to the Stonehenge free festival.
In truth, the convoy movement, grew out of the gov clamping down on the big squats in the 70s, and then Maggie the witch started clamping down on the convoys in the 80s as it was a real threat to her plans. Plus English heritage couldn't have a few thousand hippies on stonehenge in peak tourist season, bastards. A tv show about the travellers summed it up best, the gov didn't mind the convoy, when it was a few st martins art school poshos and Cambridge grads, but when hardcore people from the estates in south London and up north started joining up it scared the shit out of them.
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell, where the banshees live, and they do live well.
Stonehenge, where a man's a man, and the children dance, to the pipes of Pan.
That was recorded in doubly.