The Summer of Love????

I was 9 in the summer of '67 so it was fun, in a 9 year old kids way

 

Absolutely I can appreciate that.The kids of 1967 saw the 'Flower Power' movement as nascent as they were.How many kids saw the 'Sgt Pepper' cover & learnt more about the world than any A-B-C Reader could offer.I remember 'Lyons Maid Ice Lollies' I know it sounds naive but the idyllic dusky meadows summer that England had in 1967 contrasts entirely with the haitus desperado hippies of San Francisco.




-"Burn Baby Burn".
The Detroit riots:Sunday 23rd July to Friday 28th July 1967.
"Light My Fire".

 

Guess I consider it the summer of love cause I was born

 

Born in 'the summer of love'.The most famous summer in history.That's cool!.



Tuesday 18th July 1967:'The Mayfair Studios' 701 7th Avenue New York City:









The Mothers Of Invention arrange the 'Sgt Pepper' spoof/parody photo album cover layout.Jimi Hendrix is there with the J-H-E recording: 'The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice'.Frank Zappa apparently providing some of the background banter.

 

olhippy i bet you could pull off a mean jerry imitation

 

indeed.

 

Allow me to quote George Harrison(from the beatles)

 

Interesting quote.I know that Mr.Harrison went to Haight Ashbury in the late summer of 1967;-after the Marhareshi/North Wales escapade.I diidn't know that he slagged it off so badly.
I dunno.I've been reflecting a lot about 'The Summer Of Love'.Two very important & genuine 'tokens' of love were missing in 1967.
Two people who began all the optimism at the start of the decade but whose very absence seemed to 'make-no-sense' when talking of 'The Flower People' in general terms.
I am referring to: Marilyn Monroe & President John F Kennedy.
Had they lived;the sixties might have taken on a more meaningful interpretation & not the sycophantic & nihilistic consumerist fad,fashions & war that the decade developed into.

 

Not so much a consumerist fad, but a general nihilistic attitude of life in general, a direct result of the death of "Camelot". Further compounded the following year and effectively quashing any renewed hopes with the death of Bobby K.
And now we have come to a place where Mordred and his plurocratic Knights have used Morgan Le Fey's magic to blind the nation to the loss of our democracy. So sad. As the court reaffirmed the no knock invasion of our homes, and the congress threatens to not renew the voting rights act of '65, and refuses to raise the minimum wage (the $1.25 an hour minimum wage in '68 was equal to $10.25 hour today), I'm fearful that the Summer of '07 will be "the summer of darkness".

Upon King Arthur's own partyè,
Onlye himselfe escaped there,
And Lukyn Duke of Gloster free,
And the king's butler Bedevere.

And when the king beheld his knightes
All dead and scattered on the molde,
The teares fast trickled downe his face;
That manlye face in fight so bolde.

"Nowe reste yee all, brave knights," he said,
"Soe true and faithful to your trust:
And must ye then, ye valiant hearts,
Be lefte to moulder into dust!

"Most loyal have yee been to mee,
Most true and faithful unto deathe:
And, oh! to rayse yee up againe,
How freelye could I yield my breathe!

"But see, the traitor's yet alive!
Lo where hee stalkes among the deade!
Nowe bitterlye he shall abye:
And vengeance fall upon his head."

KING ARTHUR'S DEATH by BISHOP THOMAS PERCY

 

I wish I could've seen the summer of love. It sounds truly magical. God. Seargent Peppers was released back in '67... the Beatles did there last show, well, officially. They held a jam session on a roof in '69. Okay, I'm getting off topic now. Yes, '67 was a summer of love.

 

Thanks - I echo the same sentiments!.

 

Thankyou for that.
Yes I almost forgot Bobby Kennedy's untimely demise.'Sirhan Sirhan' was interviewed in Prison by David Frost & he cited the 'Vietnam War' & one of the prime reasons for assassinating Bobby contrary to the fact that Robert Kennedy intended to halt further U.S. commitments to south east asia.

The end of 'Camelot' was almost the end of the purist form of 'The American Dream' as capitalism would permit.
After 1963 the U.S. decade became the stygian anti-conformist stance of middle class dropouts ;countless 'British talent invasions' & the generation gap of hypocritical parents whom forgot they had 'rebelled' with the jazz-age of the 1920s & subsequently condemned their offspring's 'acid-rock' age that ushered 'freedom' to the young & disillusioned.
For me personally; the only truly beneficial facet of the sixties from 1963 onwards was the incredible development of Rock 'n' Roll from a basic primitive sound in the 1950s-early 60s to the amazing genre of the 'west coast sound' of selective pop acts; climaxing with 'The Monterrey Pop Festival' & 'Woodstock'.

 

I've ressurected this thread because it is the 40th anniversary of 'The Summer Of Love' is approaching.
America embroiled in a country it invaded to liberate & can't seen to detach itself from.The Middle East in crisis.Hey,I'm not talking about 1967;.....I'm talking about 2007!!!.....

Anyway back to the Garden & the good times.....

Anyone want to guess what was THE big film in June 1967????

What was the huge box-office hit during the early part of the summer of love???.......

Any guesses??.....

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Okay here it is:

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'A Fistful Of Dollars'.


It was made in 1964 but wasn't sold to the English-speaking world untill 1967.
It was premiered in London at 'The London Pavilion' Cinema in June 1967.I have a DVD Video called 'Look At Life:Swinging London',which chronicled the 1960s through the Rank Organisation's special documentary unit.The film called 'Goodbye Piccadilly' about a proposed underground road traffic route to totally pedestrianize the surrounding thoroughfare which never transpired beyond the blueprints.In 'Goodbye Piccadilly' there are lots of panoramic shots of everyday Piccadilly Circus.The men all in suits-some in bowler hats & the women in one piece flowery dresses-all in crystal clarity colour & slightly surreal to look at;- all heading off to work.
Two overviews show 'The London Pavilion' opposite the 'Eros' Statue.The first shot shows 'Blow Up' -all spring 1967.Then the second shot shows: 'A Fistful Of Dollars'-June 1967.

I worked out the date from my copy of 'Films & Filming' July 1967 price: 4s.
Page 35:'A Fistful Of Dollars':

Quote:"A little belatedly(it was made in 1964),the film that started the great wave of Italian westerns A Fistful Of Dollars'(Per un Pugno di Dollari)reaches Britain."

Page 19:General releases Rank:A Fistful Of Dollars June 11.


I did know the exact day it premiered at 'The London Pavilion' but I can't find my June 1967 copy of 'Films & Filming'-'West End Premieres' section, to tell you.


As 'The London Pavilion' was the show-place for cult films in swingin' London I would surmise that 'A Fistful Of Dollars' is one of the contenders of 'The Film of the Summer of Love 1967'.

 

i have one personal wish and that is to visit san francisco.its a life long dream of me to see haight-ashbury,the park,the bay,to walk where it all happened and to find some brothers and sisters to lead me around.think i better start saving.

 

A good ressurection this is Flight. Back to the Garden...... it will never be the same, all we gots are the memories that we can pull out of the muck :ack:

 

Thanks for the encouragement!.Yes I also want to visit 'San Francisco' at some point.I've never been to the west coast -only the east coast of America.


As it's the 40th anniversary of the 'Summer of Love' in a few months time,it seems appropriate to share any memories or observations anyone has.

........I'll be back with some more retro-revivals!!.

 

one thing about the summer of love, not everyone loved the hippies... the prostitutes were pretty upset about all the free love going around cuz no one wanted to pay them any more cuz they could get it for free

 

I doubt that. There are and always will be old bald guys driving vettes who will pay for a little lovin/sex/kink/whatever.

 

Lol!-Absolutely!.Plenty of loose women on the strip.I bet Jim Morrison cruised Sunset Strip for some leggy lushes in 'hot pants' during summer '67.The 'Go-Go Bars' & 'Topless Bars' were full of hostesses who you could buy a drink for.



-A 'buddy' good time to be had.

 

---I was at the Human Be-In and yes the year before was more mellow-alot less people in the city than in 67-and yes-hard drugs did do alot of damage and caused alot of killings to start up-That was new-prior to 67' the people of Haight Ashbury were a small group and there was a alot of love in the air. We had free music in the parks with Janis and the Dead and plenty of high octane acid-and best of all; no paranoia!-that came later. It was a small community that did not last very long. It was great but to re-live it would not be to my advantage. It was then and this is now-gotta roll with the changes and stop this current war our leaders drug us into--o-and one more thing-the police of San Francisco were VERY tolerant and nice-never had any problems and nobody ever got hastled that I know of for just being high-never-by the time acid was made illegal I had already done way too much already so it really didn't matter-lol