Posted on 05/28/2007 3:25:01 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
The flowers that they wore in their hair have long since wilted, but the generation that came of age in the 1960s will spend the coming months recalling a summer four decades ago, when rock music, drugs and sexual liberation fused to create the Summer of Love.
From New York, where Janis Joplin's psychedelic Porsche is on display at the Whitney Museum of Art, to the Bay area, where Joplin's band, Big Brother and the Holding Company, will play at an anniversary tribute to the Monterey Pop music festival, the calendar will be flipped back to an earlier time that, in some ways, foreshadows the present:
*A Texan -- Lyndon Johnson -- was president.
*American troops were fighting an increasingly unpopular war.
*In California, the epicenter of the Summer of Love, an actor -- Ronald Reagan -- had recently been elected governor.
The events for the 40th anniversary -- a mark not usually celebrated as noisily as a 25th or 50th anniversary -- might reflect the fact that the Baby Boomers who were teenagers or young adults in the summer of 1967 are now well into their 50s or 60s, and they don't want to wait another 10 years to bask in the memories of their youth.
"It was a very special moment of optimism and idealism," said Amalie R. Rothschild, a photographer who amassed an archive of 20,000 photos of the era's rock musicians, mainly from their performances at the legendary Fillmore East concert hall in New York's East Village.
But the similarities between 1967 and 2007 could be an equally important factor, said Jason Fine, deputy managing editor of Rolling Stone, which published its first issue in November 1967 and is celebrating its anniversary with three issues, including one devoted to the Summer of Love ...
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
For those who come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there In the streets of San Francisco Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration People in motion There's a whole generation with a new explanation People in motion people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there
If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there
Ironically, when he was discharged two years later, he was at the Presidio. He got to see Hippie culture in San Fran first hand. What he remembers most were all the teenage "bubblegum" hippies who had gotten into the hardstuff, and the underage prostitutes, the latter of which he up to then couldn't imagine in a first world country.
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
I love the music from that era, too! Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, all those doowop and rockabilly groups. Just good time rock and roll. The Penquins, Crests, Wanda Jackson etc.
Ditto !!
Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Naw dude, independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.
M'am, I'm here to check your house for parasites ... apparently, you have hippies.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Dont worry, they got all the VD and Hep C.
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Free love never went away. It’s the one part of the hippie legacy that lives on.
I saw Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, (and even Simon & Garfunkel) back in the late ‘60s. Also saw Jimi Hendrix a few months before he died in ‘70. (Gosh, time flies!)
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“I know”, she said.
“I know”, he said.
Together they said, “We know”.
And I said, “ Don’t tell me, I’m not here,
I’m in Viet Nam BABY!”
Missed the summer of love, I was otherwise occupied.
Would have loved to see all them in their prime. Lived too far away from the action and was too young at the time. I was in the 7th grade in ‘67. I did get to see the Bee Gees, Grass Roots, the Beach Boys and The Unbelievable Uglies!:) a local group from Detroit Lakes, MN.
But I have alot of the recordings from that era! Listening to some right now.
One of the all-time worst songs, not quite as bad as “Imagine”, but certainly high on the list.
And I spent the Summer of Love in RVN with the ROK.
I’m a couple years younger than you - I had long hair and all that but the hippies considered us “greasers” and “spics” if you’ll pardon the expressions. A matter of attitude, I guess. We tried to get one of my friend’s brother to take us downtown to the ‘68 rat convention to try to score with some yippie chicks. In retrospect, probably a good thing that we didn’t make it there.
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