The Summer of Love????

Yes, FlightFRomAhiya, that twas me! WHERE CAN I GET A GOOD COPY OF THAT PHOTO MADE? I'll give you 4 kittens, 2 gallons of hard cider, a copy of my novel or a gallon of shine if you can clue me in. I can photo-copy the photo from micro-tapes, or whatever the fuck they call them, at the local library, but they are of poor quality.


I chust can't find 'em, as the local Amish would say.

 

I agree totally with the first part of the statement;that today's money incentive society & cynical outlook on human nature would dampen & dilute an attempt to re-create the same spirit & ethos of 'The Monterey International Pop Festival'.
It would use the legend of Monterey Pop for it's own ends with no genuine,abiding reference or acknowledgment to the Hippie Movement.

Still,many of the first-time-round players are still with us:
David Crosby,Grace Slick,Simon & Garfunkel,Neil Young,Pete Townsend,Roger Daltrey,Mitch Mitchell,Michelle Phillips,Country Joe McDonald,Barry Melton (now a U.S. State Prosecutor!)..........actually typing out this list has made me aware of how many original Monterey stars are no longer with us!.An unusually high death toll.Still that's to be expected in Rock'n'Roll.

I think something should be done to celebrate:The 40th Anniversary of 'The Monterey Pop Festival'.
Hey,maybe we should arrange it on here!.

 

I've surfed the world wide web for this photo Thudly,but to no avail.I'll keep on searching & If I strike lucky;I'll post it up on this tread, pronto!!.
I had that photo in an American magazine from late 1967.It could have been:'Life' Magazine for 1967 as I had a few of them some years back.

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Here's the front cover of:'Private Eye Magazine' 18 August 1967.
Almost certainly Peter Cook designed the cover with perhaps William Rushton's flower doodlings.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore had a pop hit with:'The LS Bumblebee'.



-Unlike our American cousins;Britain had an idyllic summer in 1967,almost serene.We never took the 'counter-culture' as seriously as others & 'the hippies' were defined in pretty songs like:'San Francisco:Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair' by Scott McKenzie.That song shot to number one in the U.K. pop charts which it didn't do in the Billboard top 100 in the U.S.
Also:'Itchycoo Park' by The Small Faces......(A song I remember listening to in August 1967).It contained the line that summed up the summer of 1967 from the British viewpoint:

........"It's all too beautiful"!!!.

 

1988 was also a beautiful summer of love. Atleast in England, Holland and Ibiza.

http://www.answers.com/topic/second-summer-of-love

 

Flight From Ashiya, Itchycoo Park is one of the songs I have downloaded lately. It brings back so many memories. Here Comes the Night by "Them" I adore too.

 

i sort of agree i think 1972 was the cutting off date. after that the disco duck came in and it was down hill ever since.

 

Thankyou Peeroette.Also beautiful photo!.
I note from your avatar that you are an American.I didn't know that anyone In the U.S.A. would have known about 'Itchycoo Park' in 1967- I assume it must have charted in the Billboard Hot 100 at that time.
'Them' was headed by Van Morrison.When 'Them' played the 'Whiskey-A-Go-Go' in L.A. both Van Morrison & Jim Morrison sat in the audience & 'heckled' Johnny Rivers during his stage set;& were both kicked out of the club.

There is confusion about which year 'The summer of love'
refers to.If you ask anyone in the street;the majority will say 1967.
I suppose it can refer to any year you choose to mention if there was a lot of loving going on at Rock/Hippie Festivals etc.

Many of those who were there believe that the true summer of love was summer 1966.'The Beatles' were still touring & L.S.D. was still legal.
It was the summer of 'The Merry Pranksters' led by Ken Kessey.
1967 was a media-staged repeat of summer 1966 which was spontaneous.

Can I take a liberty here & temporarily 'tilt' the thread to summer 1966 because it will soon be the 40th anniversary of:'The best pop music album of all time':'PET SOUNDS' by 'THE BEACH BOYS':



Also thanks to everyone else on the thread - I read your comments!!!.

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I really dug The Small Faces. I was lucky enough to be at the A.R.M.S. Concert in L.A. at The Forum in '83 or '84 (I forget). It was a benefit concert for Ronnie Lane after he had gotten M.S. Hence the name Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis. Quite an Amazing concert. Here is an excerpt from a review of the show at Madison Square Garden:

The A.R.M.S. (Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis) benefit last night demonstrated that even the most brutal and bluesy guitar playing can come from a heart of gold. The concert at Madison Square Garden was a tribute to former Faces guitarist Ronnie Lane and a benefit for muscular dystrophy [sic]. The ensemble of superstar players - which concludes its international tour tonight at the Garden - proved that British blues and the finest British blues guitarists are aging quite nicely. Three hours after eric Clapton, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, and Kenney Jones opened the show, Lane - suffering from MS - was led onstage and exclaimed, "What do you think of my friends?" The crowd obviously thought a lot, especially moments earlier when the entire cast, including Joe Cocker, Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers brought the show to an emotional climax with the appropriate John Lennon song, "With a Little Help from My Friends". The song, dedicated to the Beatle who died three years ago yesterday, summed up the emotional and musical best of the evening. For most of the show, the musicians were pooled to form three bands structured around Clapton, Beck, and Page, three guitar giants who led the legendary Yardbirds through the band's various incarnations. There were many highlights, especially the Clapton group, which proved the tightest band of the concert. Page, the former Led Zeppelin guitarist, was unfortunately paired with Rodgers, the night's weakest vocalist. However, Page offered his fans what they have long waited to hear live - "Stairway to Heaven" - the song that Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant refused to sing during his recent international tour. But more than showcasing Page's stringmanship, the number brought the entire cast to the stage and launched the concert finale, memorably marked by Clapton's guitar masterpiece, "Layla", and the Lennon tribute. Overall, the A.R.M.S. benefit was an impeccably produced group effort by musicians dedicated to their craft and, more importantly, to a dear friend. They made you feel good about the music business all over again.

Ya that concert rocked!

 

i wanna know one thing, why are u concentrating on the bad parts of the sixties? why cant u love the sixties for what it was? sure there was some bad shit going down but compared to now, it seemed a whole lot better.

 

seems to me there's good and bad parts to all times. Yeah the hippie movement was great, but there was Vietnam and the crackdown on the civil rights movement, riots, etc. Today there's Bush, Iraq, corruption as usual, but there's also the growth of the environmentalist/ecological world view, the New Age spiritual wave (really a back to basics sort of thing rather than anything new).

Summer of love sounds like a groovy time and I would have liked to have been there. Yeah, there was the shit hitting the fan in Vietnam and violence all around the world...but what else is new? There's always been war. The beauty of the hippie generation was this newfound, (relatively) widespread movement towards peace and love. Almost like a revival but not quite so religious. You can't just ignore that because a war was going on; way I see it, it was a significant thing that happened.

The question is: is the dream dead, or is there hope still?

 

The summer of love lasted from 67 to 75 IMHO. San Mateo high school was flooded with LSD at the time. We spent plenty of time hanging out in the height and at the park too. It was about tear and share then otherwise LSD was 25 cents a hit if at all.

The Free love thing was not as rampant, from what strait folks and the media made it out to be. I mean there was no mass orgies, hippies where loyal to there lovers then too.

 

This [post actually reflects how few here knows anything about it, and is almost 1 year old.

 

I suspect that after a year this thread would have been much larger, if all who tripped through that year actually remembered 1967. <g>

 

Ha,ha.....you mean the people who were there;wern't actually there but somewhere in the celestial ethereal of inner space!.
I was there but my main memories of summer 1967 were sitting on the potty.(But I do remember my older sisters writing the names above the profiles of each 'Beatle'-Sgt Pepper inner- gatefold photo for me).

I was sad about the demise of Ronnie 'Plonk' Lane & the premature death of Steve Marriott.

I think that the Vietnam War was the nascent beginings of the anti-war movement.It demonstrated that the generation that fought in W.W.II were out of touch with the beliefs of their children;the babies of W.W.II.The generation gap divided the whole world in 1967 & it became all out protest in 1968.Student uprisings in Paris.The Grosvenor Square demonstration of October 1968.Not forgetting the Pentagon flowers in gun barrels demonstration in October 1967.

Here s the cover of 'Time' magazine from 7th July 1967,anthropologically uncovering a new breed:'The Hippies!!!':

 

OMFG @ the casualty list on the first post!!! Such a stupid, completely unjustified war/American army presence (occupation) in Vietnam



Peace

 

No offence intended to those soldiers in my last post, they were simply told to fight (and courageously died) for something that only the rich and powerful in America would benefit from......



Peace

 

I was there-- In SF,in 1967. The rest of my story, is none of your business.Signed.....a hard-man and a world-class ball-buster, Burl.

 

Yep!-that casualty list is shocking!.

...........In Britain,the summer was more sedate:







-Peter Cook & Dudley Moore.February 1967.










-The L S Bumblebee.




Here's the link for a free download of this song:




http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/discography/singles.htm#singles

 

I am 39, just a few days ago in fact. I have been a lonely hippie my whole life. Too many of you became yuppies before I was even aware that I was a hippie. I have lived a lonely life of protesting the system by simply not having anything more to do with it than I have to in order to survive. I am grateful for the sacrifices of your generation. I grew up on my older brothers and sisters music. They forgot it. I have not. I am listening to The Guess Who and Imagine from John Lennon as I speak. I am crying. Being born right before "the Summer of Love" has always meant a lot to me. I am glad to have found this forum. I have always felt so alone and thought all the hippies had become yuppies. It's great to see that not everyone has traded their ideals for houses and SUV's.

 

Welcome Brother!.The 'revolution' lives on with the 1960s baby boomers.

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Got a good 'un fer yer true believers:

The metaphorical SINKING of Radio London on Mon 14th August 1967:




Monday 14th August 1967 2pm-3pm - the final hour of pirate radio ship: 'Radio London'.

Free download link of the recording of that final hour deep in the summer of love below.
(Please click on link & scroll down it):




http://www.vintagebroadcasting.org.uk/biglrn.htm




I recommend the 'Last hour' parts 1,2,3 & 4!.
2-3pm:Monday 14th August 1967.