Day of Anarchy: Amsterdam's Counter Culture Revolution of the 1960s - The Shite Guide to Provo

CHAPTER 1
The Shite Guide to Provo: A History of Amsterdam’s Counter Culture Revolution of the 1960s.
March 10, 1966: There is to be a Royal Wedding in Amsterdam between Princess Beatrix and the ex-German soldier Claus - a happy day for the monarchy. But lurking in the crowds is the revolutionary hipster crew called PROVO, who have sworn to overthrow the system and Dutch society by means of The Happening. The Day of the Monarchy descends into a Day of Anarchy.
This is the first episode of a 13 part series in which we'll take a deep dive into the characters and shenanigans of the coolest, funniest and most bizarre revolution of the 60s, and find out how a ragtag group of students, anarchists, artists, wizards and weirdos turned Dutch society on its head and ushered in a new era of madness and freedom by attacking the state with their hilarious and nonsensical guerilla street theatre, and transformed Amsterdam from a grey, provincial capital into the ground zero of 1960s Europe’s counter culture - The Magic Centre.
One man prophecised that every weirdo in the Western World would make their way to Amsterdam and sleep on Dam Square, have sex in Vondelpark and smoke weed in the streets. And his prophecy came true.
In each episode we'll take a spicy peep at the grooviest story you've never heard, the missing link between the Beats and the Hippies.
*All the spicy hip hop beats featured were made in a royal palace by d'beats. If you want to check out his luscious instrumentals and some tracks that feature in shite guides, check out The World's Shittest Beat Tapes and The World's Shittest Mixtapes @ goodvibesociety.bandcamp.com
If you want to help the channel out, you could consider throwing a few pennies in the hat for the new equipment fund. My camera and laptop are absolute dogshite (as is most evident), so if you wanna throw something in to help the cause, it'd be much appreciated.
It's not about making money, but making better shite. ko-fi.com/shiteguides
This isn’t the history of Amsterdam
This isn’t 10 best activities of Amsterdam
This isn’t visiting Amsterdam on a budget
This is the Shite Guide to Provo

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Bubba baby! Good to hear from ya. I don't have a patreon because my videos aren't really regular enough, but I do have a Buy Me a Coffe page for my equipment fund @ ko-fi.com/shiteguides

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Good stuff! I always appreciate the historical angle and your integration of old footage with the modern beats. Keep up the good work :) Can't wait for episode 2

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Next Monday! Might make it a Monday night thing from now on for the next few weeks

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Good to be back! This first episode is a little confusing but it gets easier over the next episodes. It's about to get a whole lot spicier. The lad who drilled a hole in his head to stay high forever, dropping weed seeds from hot air balloons, ordering chickens to march to Vietnam to end the American massacres, the first naked lady on the television, taking over a church to turn it into a hippy party house etc.

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Impressive how much the provos accomplished without even one balaklava between them. Fighting for the RA (Republic of Amsterdam) Welcome back.

[@shiteguides]

One set of Provos was blowing up barracks, the others were blowing up bike tyres

[@bernmahan1162]

That is some interesting shite. There's me thinking the Provos were a bunch of miscreant lads from Belfast. I knew Dada never died but I thought it was the Belgians keeping up the spirit of absurdity. All Low Country people I suppose. Great vid.

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Back in the shack! Got about 25 new videos in the pipeline. First 1960s Amsterdam, then shite guides goes to broker peace in the middle east

[@MrGrifft]

13:40 Gotta remember this is the 60s, so he must have had them on vinyl.

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[@DenUitvreter]

In the background of the The Dokwerker statue is the Portuguese Synagogue from 1675. The February Strike was triggered by and explicitly against the Germans persecution of the jews. The Anne Frank House in the background later on when it's about the police is a nice touch though. Another gem anyway, videos like these are KZbin's true calling , looking forward to the next 12 episodes.

[@shiteguides]

Too right, I should have put a little more context in there regarding the Synagogue. The photos used in the montage are mainly from the roundups that happened on that very square. The absolute horror and madness of it all.

[@DenUitvreter]

@@shiteguides The shots are great, it's just not that recognizable as a Synagogue, and looks centuries younger than it is anyway. I just wanted to give the Ferbruary strikers all the credit, as much as the Dutch police represented cowardice, conformism and evil during the German occupation, the February Strike represented courage, solidarity and humanity.

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I just keep my standup stuff on my instagram. If I get a good quality video sometime I'll throw it up here

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The real heros are the friends we make along the way

[@H8inLyfe]

😍 Great stuff, look forward to ep.2

[@shiteguides]

Gonna do 4 weeks in a row, then a 2 week break and then another 4 weeks in a row, so loads ready to go.

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Cheers Brendan! I'll stick up the tracks for this series on Bandcamp and Spotify soon. Then the mixtape after that is Love Me Under The Mushroom Cloud.

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@@shiteguides love your work man! Probably the best thing on KZbin. I'm laughing and learning at the same time. Quality content 👍 ps. Fuck those arts council pricks. They don't know skill when they see it 🖕

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These guys where so much better at protesting then what you see today. It is all about effective branding. A protest is a PR stunt.

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I was there I lived this stuff

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The deeper the series gets, the more legendary they become

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