What did YOU do in Summer 67 ?
jplac
- The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
- An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
- The Doors released their 2 best albums.
- The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
Buffallo Springfield and many others...
- Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
- The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
- John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
JP
The Maiden
therapy treatments. as for who do I /think/ I was in such a time as
1967; I was probably dancing on the bus of the "jesus movement" or at
least I /hope/ I was!(-:
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just [relax] it can't be /that/ bad!!
[not goodbye, but farewell until you get over it]
Love and Peace forevermore ..(end the hate)
Dîé Maiden of light! CWill
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>Moment of inner freedom
>when the mind is opened and the
>infinite universe revealed
>& the soul is left to wander
>dazed & confus'd searching
>here & there for teachers & friends.
> Jim Morrison
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> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Playing a child of 4!
Scribbler
Kid stuff: Going to swimming lessons, camping with my parents, watching
reruns of "Lost in Space."
I do remember hearing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" on the radio and
being amazed by it.
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Mister Charlie
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Corse
JP
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I was in my second year of college. Sgt. Pepper was released a couple of
weeks before the end of term and my dorm roommate and I played it
practically non-stop during those last days of school. Oh, and we smoked a
lot of pot. Those were the days!
Corse
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I was only six then and don't recall a whole lot.
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Lookingglass
during the Summer of Love... people came up to me and asked me to take off
the uniform and stay in SF... but I wasn't "right" with that... so I got
shipped over to Viet Nam... we smoked a lot of pot too that year... and all
the years since... When SGT. PEPPER came out I was in boot camp... but
WOW... when I first heard it, it "blew my mind"... being a Beatle fan, I was
always waiting for the next album... and now that all these years have flown
by, I realize that I was ignorant of the politics of the times... and that I
should have objected to going into the Navy... but I have no regrets... I
traveled around the world and came home with a world view I never would have
had if not for my military duty...
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Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto.
I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me.
Terence c. 190-159 B.C.
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> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
>
>
> JP
Lookingglass
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PEACE... Dave www.Shemakhan.com
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
>
>
> JP
edvado
> Summer 1967 :
> - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
Was that anywhere near the Haight/Ashbury?
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Mike Terry
I was 17 living in the UK and listened all day to offshore commercial radio
until the government closed most of them down on 14 August, a very sad day.
I had loved the offshore stations and their music which the BBC did not
play, they started in 1964, it was the three best years of music in my life
and I still love it, especially rarities that jog the memory.
Oh well... we all have to grow up...
Mike
Bournemouth
Paja
My parents had 9 years...
Mick Davis
> - The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
> - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
> Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
That's Haight Hashbury.
You musta been smokin' then, dude!
> - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
> - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
>
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Groovin' on that great cultural, moral, and political Rennaisance, the likes
of which we'll not see again for as long as the fascist scum now ruling
America are in power.
Oh yeah - I saw The Doors at the Fillmore East!
Gotta stay on topic, man.
Riverman
going on around me in the San Francisco Bay Area.I was still a rather
naive suburban kid-still a virgin and never even smoked pot yet.But I
heard the siren call of The Revolution at the Fillmore and Avalon
dance concerts.I thrilled in awe as the Black rebellions spread like
wildfire over the American landscape.I began an infatuation with the
New Left and the anti-war movement.I had the classical alienation from
parents and society syndrome and was SO optimistic about major social
changes happening that would shake the very foundations of the world.
Summer of 1967 was also somewhat mundane for me.I took a Biology
class at summer night school at College of San Mateo,worked a few
landscaping jobs and kicked it at the beach at Lake Tahoe where I went
to the dances at the American Legion hall trying to meet females- with
limited success.I got accepted at Sacramento State College but had no
idea of a future career since I felt prospects for a future were quite
dim.
But that summer I listened to the clarion call of Sargaent Pepper
but also dug Stevie Wonder's I Was Made to Love Her and Smokey doing
More Love,still one of my favorite songs.Beleive it or not,I even dug
stuff like Ding Dong,The Witch is Dead by Fifth Estate and Girl,You'll
Be a Woman Soon by Neil Diamond.
I was eclectic as hell while I dreamed visions of a communal utopia.
Riverman
Dilligaf
I was growing my hair longer, hitchiking across Canada , taking lots of
different "things" and having a ton of fun. The only thing I could never do
(untiil a couple of years later) was get across the border into the US. No
record or anything, they just didnt like my looks.
Bob
Geir Hongro
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
I was swimming around in my dad's penis.....
Geir Hongro
Steve Carras
never interested in the "groovy" movement..I was a nerd)
Bob Radil
> - The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
> - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
> Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
And "Light My Fire" was all over the radio.
> - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> Buffallo Springfield and many others...
The Byrds were past their peak. Cream hadn't yet risen to the top.
> - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
> - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
So?...
> - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
With a little help from his friends, Paul and George. Ringo didn't sing on that one.
>
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Not much. Just sitting around, waiting for someone to start up this NewsGroup.
>
>
> JP
Bob Radil
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Bruce Coryell
'67 in Montreal (not necessarily in that order) - didn't become a Doors
fan until August, '68
Dean F.
"jplac" wrote:
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
I would imagine I spent most of my time peeing my diapers and sleeping in my
crib. I wasn't born until March of 1966, y'see!
Dean F.
"jplac" wrote:
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
I would imagine I spent most of my time peeing my diapers and sleeping in my
Regina Litman
I spent almost every waking hour listening to WPGC, WEAM, or WINX, plus
a few out-of-town stations I pulled in at night (such as WABC) and
hearing the songs that they played. WPGC slipped a few Sgt. Pepper songs
on the air, and they played the single version of "Light My Fire" to
death (as did the other two stations). Well, maybe they didn't play it
to death, because I never got tired of hearing it. I heard the Jefferson
Airplane's hit singles "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" on at least
one of these stations and loved them, too.
The Buffalo Springfield didn't have any hits on the radio that summer,
but they had had "For What It's Worth" the previous spring and would
return to the airwaves of these stations with "Rock and Roll Woman" the
following fall.
Also in the spring of 1967, the Byrds' recording of "My Back Pages" got
played on the Washington area Top 40 stations, but this would be the
last ever new Byrds single to be heard on these stations.
Cream didn't enter my sphere of awareness until 1968, when the Top 40
stations played "Sunshine of Your Love".
"All You Need Is Love" followed the usual path of Beatles' singles
releases and went to #1 on the local stations.
But there was a lot more going on in the summer of 1967. That was the
year a demarcation was made between "hip" and "un-hip", and everything
mentioned by the original poster fell into the "hip" category -
supposedly the only stuff that MATTERED.
A whole lot more mattered to me that summer, as I listened to the radio,
such as:
Who would be the first local disk jockey to play Tommy James and the
Shondells' new single, "Getting Together", on Friday, August 4? Cousin
Duffy of WPGC said that he would be the one, but the non-personality
jock on WEAM beat him by about 45 minutes.
And what was that new song that BOTH WPGC and its next door neighbor on
the AM dial, the country station WDON, were playing at the same time on
the morning of Monday, July 31? It was the song that one of the other
people who have responded heard about a thousand times while on a
cross-country trip - "Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry.
The Monkees' first T.V. season was behind them - I don't recall if they
had re-runs on, or if there was a summer replacement show on instead -
but they were on the radio with a two-sided hit, "Pleasant Valley
Sunday" written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and "Words" written by
Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. Another person who had written for the
Monkees, Neil Diamond, was enjoying one of his hardest rocking hits
ever, "Thank the Lord for the Nighttime". ("Girl, You'll Be A Woman
Soon", mentioned by one of the others who posted, had been a hit the
previous spring.)
I had a lot of Motown favorites that summer, too. The first single
released under the name of Diana Ross and the Supremes (instead of just
the Supremes), "Reflections", came out in August. The Temptations took
us into the summer with "All I Need" and took us out with "You're My
Everything" - a great ballad. Someone else already mentioned "I Was Made
to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, which I also enjoyed hearing that summer.
As far as British Invasion acts other than the Beatles, the original
poster mentioned the Rolling Stones, and I remember their attempt to
sound Sgt. Pepper-like, "She's a Rainbow". I enjoyed this song even
though I've never been much of a fan of theirs. Some of the early
British Invasion acts had faded from the scene (such as the Searchers
and Gerry and the Pacemakers), but Herman's Hermits still had a minor
hit with "Don't Go Out Into the Rain". (A bit of science education here
- I didn't understand the significance of that song until the mother of
a friend of mine, while driving us to the Monkees' July 21 concert in
Baltimore, told me that water makes sugar melt.) While I did get to see
the Monkees when they came to the second closest big city to where I
lived, I had to pass up the Herman's Hermits show in Washington on
August 13. If I had gone, I'd have gotten to see another British
Invasion act, the Who, who had a hit out that I was hearing on the
radio, but not on WEAM, "Pictures of Lily".
The Hollies from England had out "Carrie Anne", while the hit record at
the time for the Four Seasons from the U.S. was "C'mon Marianne". Among
some of the acts who eventually came to be more "hiply" regarded, Simon
and Garfunkel's hit at the time was "Fakin' It" (in which I thought the
lyrics were, "I have a jealous face and hands", instead of "I have a
tailor's face and hands"), and the Beach Boys were also getting further
into experimentation with "Heroes and Villains".
At the very beginning of the summer, Saturday, June 17, I went with the
same friend whose mother took us to the Monkees' concert the next month
to see Sonny and Cher's first movie, "Good Times", at the theatre in the
Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center.
Well, I guess these are enough memories from the summer of 1967.
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BeatleMac
> I was an Airman in the US Navy at the time... I was visiting San Francisco
> during the Summer of Love... people came up to me and asked me to take off
> the uniform and stay in SF... but I wasn't "right" with that... so I got
> shipped over to Viet Nam... we smoked a lot of pot too that year... and all
> the years since... When SGT. PEPPER came out I was in boot camp... but
> WOW... when I first heard it, it "blew my mind"... being a Beatle fan, I was
> always waiting for the next album... and now that all these years have flown
> by, I realize that I was ignorant of the politics of the times... and that I
> should have objected to going into the Navy... but I have no regrets... I
> traveled around the world and came home with a world view I never would have
> had if not for my military duty...
>
> --
> PEACE... Dave www.Shemakhan.com
>
I was into my second year in NYC, working at a series of copywriter
jobs, ending up at Grey writing Revlon ads, hanging with Missy P for
drunken luncheons at our fave Chinese joint, recovering from a very
slight nervous breakdown in January... and awaiting the arrival of
SPLCB.
It was boot camp for what was then the advertising business. No
puters, no AIDS, no PC (Political Correctness), no Giuliani
sensibilities. But at work I was always fighting a losing battle with
the Powers That Be about Revlon's typical Young Person. Natural Wonder
was my beat! Saturday nights, I stayed home playing records and
watching Wm. F Buckley's fascinating talk show or Susskind. Let the
bridge and tunnel people be out in the bars on the weekend...
It was in the summer of 67 I became aware of the artist Yoko Ono, who
was inviting people to cut off pieces of her clothing at the Carnegie
Recital Hall. There was no Gloria Steinem, not for a few more years.
Gloria was posing as a Playboy bunny and making nice with Clay Felker,
who edited the NY Herald Tribute's elegant Sunday magazine, which
later became NY Magazine. She wrote her "seminal" journalism during
that period about the insider's view of the rabbitworld. I wrote
Natural Wonder and Flex shampoo commercials.
There was talk of revolution in the streets. Against The Man.
We were dancing to the Chamber Brothers' "Time" in our
club-of-the-moment. Our discoteque (not to be confused with the later
abortion-music, Disco) was built around real dance records, the
watusi, the twist...
Francie Schwartz
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Sixties Gen
Charlie, you were never dorky, man...just misunderstood...right?
In 1967, I was enchanted by "Sgt. Pepper", enthralled by Jim and the
Doors(saw them in concert in October of that year), smuggled copies of
the Village Voice into my house so my Dad wouldn't see that his son
was reading such stuff, becoming radicalized over Vietnam, listening
to that new FM Rock station from NYC...WNEW, entering my senior year
in HS, a very emotional break-up with my girlfriend of over a year,
and just feelin' groovy.
PButler111
>
>I would imagine I spent most of my time peeing my diapers and sleeping in my
>crib.
In other words, much the same thing you did this summer.
Shemp
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Germany. That, and Radio Luxenborg (sp?). They were the best stations over
there. I remember buying SPLHCB and listening to it over and over. Never
smokes pot, but just got high on the music.
G@ry
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Amps
"> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
>
I was a baby shitting in my Pampers. Now i'm a grown man shitting in my
Depends.
Mister Charlie
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> "Mister Charlie" <smokerdu...@myway.com> wrote in message
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> > > Summer 1967 :
> > > - The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
> > > - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock
scene
> > at
> > > Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> > > - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> > > - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds,
Cream,
> > > Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> > > - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
> > > - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
> > > - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
> > >
> > > And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
> > >
> > >
> > Being a dorky high school freshman. Loving the radio.
>
> Charlie, you were never dorky, man...just misunderstood...right?
Oh no! I was as dorky as they came. Not nerdy or geeky, although I
retained some of those mannerisms without any intelligence. But yeah.
A dork. Funny tho.
>
> In 1967, I was enchanted by "Sgt. Pepper", enthralled by Jim and the
> Doors(saw them in concert in October of that year), smuggled copies of
> the Village Voice into my house so my Dad wouldn't see that his son
> was reading such stuff, becoming radicalized over Vietnam, listening
> to that new FM Rock station from NYC...WNEW, entering my senior year
> in HS, a very emotional break-up with my girlfriend of over a year,
> and just feelin' groovy.
Interesting thread. People are really digging back through their
memories. 1966 was my favorite year for the music and such, but really
there was a real good run of years there, mainly thanks to the Beatles.
Stephen X. Carter
>Summer 1967 :
>- The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
>- An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
>Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
>- The Doors released their 2 best albums.
>- The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
>Buffallo Springfield and many others...
>- Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
>- The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
>- John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
>
>And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
I can't remember - it was the 1960s! :-)
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I was six......
and am radio was really good.....
HansPeter Kugler
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> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
I've been listen to the radio (mostly AFN or Radio Luxembourg) and make
a tape with the Nr.12 and the following songs (from radio)
Zeit titel interpret
1.Jul.1967 immer wieder geht die sonne.. juergens,udo
1.Jul.1967 randy scouse git (alternate title) monkees
1.Jul.1967 windy association
1.Jul.1967 new york mining disaster 1941 bee gees
1.Jul.1967 ding dong the witch is dead fifth estate
1.Jul.1967 strange brew cream
1.Jul.1967 san francisco mc kenzie,scott
1.Jul.1967 let's live for today grassroots
1.Jul.1967 alfie warwick,dionne
8.Jul.1967 everybody music explosion
8.Jul.1967 come on down to my boat every mothers son
8.Jul.1967 up up and away 5th.dimension
8.Jul.1967 little bit o' soul,a music explosion
8.Jul.1967 tom tom creations
8.Jul.1967 tracks of my tears,the rivers,johnny
15.Jul.1967 here we go again charles,ray
15.Jul.1967 you pushed me too far husky,ferlin
15.Jul.1967 c'mon marianne four seasons
15.Jul.1967 with a little help from my fr. young idea
15.Jul.1967 society's child ian,janis
15.Jul.1967 don't sleep in the subway clark,petula
15.Jul.1967 ain't no mountain high enough gaye,marvin & terrell,tammi
15.Jul.1967 ain't no mountain high enough terrell,tammi & gaye,marvin
22.Jul.1967 don't go out into the rain herman's hermits
22.Jul.1967 marta bachelors
22.Jul.1967 can't take my eyes of you valli,frankie
29.Jul.1967 let's pretend lulu
29.Jul.1967 light my fire doors
29.Jul.1967 i take it back posey,sandy
29.Jul.1967 i was made to love her wonder,stevie
29.Jul.1967 whiter shade of pale,a procol harum
29.Jul.1967 white rabbit jefferson airplane
29.Jul.1967 there goes my everything humperdinck,engelbert
29.Jul.1967 jackson sinatra,nancy & hazlewood,lee
29.Jul.1967 death of a clown davies,dave
29.Jul.1967 007 (shanty town) dekker,george
5.Aug.1967 mississippi delta gentry,bobbie
5.Aug.1967 for your love peaches & herb
12.Aug.1967 soul finger bar-keys
12.Aug.1967 mercy mercy mercy buckinghams
12.Aug.1967 my mammy happenings
12.Aug.1967 house that jack build,the price,alan set
12.Aug.1967 girl like you,a rascals (young rascals)
12.Aug.1967 carrie ann hollies
19.Aug.1967 telefone,le ferrer,nino
19.Aug.1967 pleasant valley sunday monkees
19.Aug.1967 silence is golden tremeloes
19.Aug.1967 all you need is love beatles
26.Aug.1967 cold sweat brown,james & famous flames
26.Aug.1967 hereos and villains beach boys
26.Aug.1967 ode to billie joe gentry,bobbie
26.Aug.1967 to love somebody bee gees
26.Aug.1967 thank the lord f.the nighttime diamond,neil
26.Aug.1967 bad night,a stevens,cat
A GREAT THREAD ;-)
HaPe
King Pineapple
>
>
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Lived in New York City and listened to AM radio. What a magical time.
Craig
Mike Terry
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> Were you listening to Radio Caroline?
Radio London was my favourite, styled on a mid-Atlantic version of KLIF
Dallas with its Fab 40... and it was fab.
Caroline was the other big station.
Luxy had been around from the 1930s but in the 60s was a bit past it and
wouldn't play independent labels which is why Ronan started Radio Caroline
to plug Georgie Fame and other artistes.
Mike
Damian
surfed in to read up on the 'new' Let It Be). I envy most of you so
much. Most of the music I listen to and grew up on -I'm 25- was made
in or around the late '60s.
Me, I wasn't even born yet. Hell, my _parents_ were what.. 17 at the
time?!
Best,
Damián
Susan
smokerdu...@myway.com wrote on 11/1/03 2:32 AM:
I feel so left out. I had just turned 10 at that time. I remember having two
Beatle 45's. 'She Loves You' and 'I want to hold your Hand'. Other than
that, no major memories. :(
The Maiden
of responses to this question that doesn't seem to be from any regulars
of "the-doors"...(this /is/ a good thread) Crystal
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From: jp...@vnumail.com (jplac)
- The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
- An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
- The Doors released their 2 best albums.
- The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
Buffallo Springfield and many others...
- Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
- The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
- John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Taliesyn
> in article bnvnld$164spa$1...@ID-63206.news.uni-berlin.de>
> Beatle 45's. 'She Loves You' and 'I want to hold your Hand'. Other than
> that, no major memories. :(
>
These two singles are usually associated with early 1964 in North
America, which would have made you.... 6 years old? Did you get them
at that age or did someone buy them for you when you were 10?
-Taliesyn
Susan
wrote on 11/1/03 9:26 AM:
I'm really not sure. My memories are very vague. I remember my older brother
was a Beatles fan from the start. I do know that the 45's were mine, I don't
know whether I requested them or my parents just went out and bought them
for me. I just remember listening to them repeatedly on my little record
player.
Louis Pecora
wrote:
> - The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
> - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
> Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
> - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
> - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
>
> And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
Well, I probably shouldn't go there, but I can't resist. That _was_ a
summer of Love for me. My first really big one. Fell madly in love my
sophomore year in college. Great parties, great company, tantalizing
girl (young woman, actually), naive me, all to the above music,
especially the Doors first album. I can't hear anything from that album
without thinking of that summer. Wonderful, nostalgic memories.
The girl? We were a 'thing' for three years. A little stormy relation,
but definitely intense. She pushed for marriage and I backed out at the
tender age of 22. Probably a wise move (although I wondered at the
time). I matured late (a few years ago :-) ). I do still think about
her.
Like a female friend once asked me, "Why do guys break up with the
right one, marry the wrong one, and then latter spend their lives
thinking about the first one?" Beats me, but it sure fits me. It all
started in the summer of '67.
Regina Litman
>
> As far as British Invasion acts other than the Beatles, the original
> poster mentioned the Rolling Stones, and I remember their attempt to
> sound Sgt. Pepper-like, "She's a Rainbow". I enjoyed this song even
> though I've never been much of a fan of theirs.
Correction - The Rolling Stones' summer 1967 attempt at psychedelia was
"Dandelion". "She's a Rainbow" came the following winter. The B-side of
"Dandelion", "We Love You", also got some airplay on the local Top 40
stations. However, after that summer, I never heard "We Love You" played
as an oldie.
BeatleMac
> Regina Litman wrote:
> >
> > As far as British Invasion acts other than the Beatles, the original
> > poster mentioned the Rolling Stones, and I remember their attempt to
> > sound Sgt. Pepper-like, "She's a Rainbow". I enjoyed this song even
> > though I've never been much of a fan of theirs.
>
> Correction - The Rolling Stones' summer 1967 attempt at psychedelia was
> "Dandelion". "She's a Rainbow" came the following winter. The B-side of
> "Dandelion", "We Love You", also got some airplay on the local Top 40
> stations. However, after that summer, I never heard "We Love You" played
> as an oldie.
Correction on your correction:
The Stones' attempt at psychedelia was the lp "His Satanic Majesties
Request" with the "holographic" record sleeve. The entire lp was one
theme, lsd-soaked imagery and lots of SFX! She's a Rainbow was from
the previous lp (title of which escapes me momentarily).
I m too stoned to get up and grab the holographic record sleeve right
now.
But my fave cuts on this much-panned record (trashed for aping the
Beatles and forsaking their rockabilly/blues roots - haha) are 2000
Light Years From Home, and quite possibly the little tiny cut between
two major songs where you hear Mick's voice saying "Where's that
joint" and then it goes into this psychocircus theme and another "far
out" song like "Gompers" or "Why Don't We Sing This Song All Together"
which is the Sgt Pepper theme translated into StonesThink.
I love just about every cut on the album, but I am listening as i
write this to a taped performance in Moscow by Vladimir Horowitz...
dee-vine! Talkin' bout your mad Russians.
Frannie or Schwartz
http://homepage.mac.com/fabela913/
Bruce Coryell
hit that summer, before LMF...
Lookingglass
PEACE... Dave www.Shemakhan.com
...we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Shakespeare
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Taliesyn
> Regina Litman <rsli...@infi.net> wrote in message news:<3FA3F272...@infi.net>...
>
>>Regina Litman wrote:
>>
>>>As far as British Invasion acts other than the Beatles, the original
>>>poster mentioned the Rolling Stones, and I remember their attempt to
>>>sound Sgt. Pepper-like, "She's a Rainbow". I enjoyed this song even
>>>though I've never been much of a fan of theirs.
>>
>>Correction - The Rolling Stones' summer 1967 attempt at psychedelia was
>>"Dandelion". "She's a Rainbow" came the following winter. The B-side of
>>"Dandelion", "We Love You", also got some airplay on the local Top 40
>>stations. However, after that summer, I never heard "We Love You" played
>>as an oldie.
>
>
> Correction on your correction:
> The Stones' attempt at psychedelia was the lp "His Satanic Majesties
> Request" with the "holographic" record sleeve. The entire lp was one
> theme, lsd-soaked imagery and lots of SFX! She's a Rainbow was from
> the previous lp (title of which escapes me momentarily).
>
The "We Love You"/"Dandelion" single IS psychedelic, and it came out in
August 1967. THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST LP was released about 3
months later, in November 1967. So your correction doesn't hold. ;-(
"We Love You" seemed to be the Stones "answer" record to the Beatles
"All You Need Is Love"; and I would say, "Dandelion" the answer to "Lucy
In The Sky With Diamonds". Definitely Summer of Love stuff. I strongly
preferred the "We Love You" side. Something haunting about it, and quite
a bit better than the very tiresome "All You Need Is Love". If I'm not
mistaken, some the Beatles participated in the making of "We Love You",
and some of the Stones, probably Jagger, on "All You Need Is Love."
The bands were highly competitive, yet willing to help each other.
It was a great time.
> The entire lp was one theme, lsd-soaked imagery and lots of SFX!
Yes, I love "2000 Light Years From Home". AM radio used to play it
back then in the Pacific Northwest as a popular album track. The
Stones definitely should have explored this field a lot deeper.
-Taliesyn
Biff
Dropped acid
Went Veggie
Had group sex
Discovered we are all one
Read the Book of the Dead
Questioned "reality"
Learned that there is no "truth"
All these discoveries happened with Beatles music on. Mmmm. Beatles.
End of report
Nuff said
Biff
> I m too stoned
So are we all my friend...so are we all.
We love the beatles dont we?
End of discusion
Nuff said
BeatleMac
> Smoked dope
> Dropped acid
> Went Veggie
> Had group sex
>
I believed you right up to there.
> All these discoveries happened with Beatles music on. Mmmm. Beatles.
>
> End of report
>
> Nuff said
You sho nuff dig yerself, don'tcha?
LOL!
I stand corrected, sort of. I believe (and Stones experts help me
here) "She's a Rainbow" was recorded earlier, then included in the
lineup. It sounds very "singly" to my old ears.
Over and out, little boy.
Regina Litman
> Does anyone remember that Western Union, by The Five Americans was a big
> hit that summer, before LMF...
I remember "Western Union" coming out, at least in the United States, in
February of 1967. By the spring, the Five Americans' next single, "Sound
of Love", was on the local radio station. It may have lasted into early
summer. By the end of the summer, their current hit was "Zip Code". The
last Five Americans single to get any airplay on Washington area radio
stations was "Stop Light", which I recall hearing in a car on the way to
a Halloween party. It was probably on Saturday, October 28. "Stop Light"
didn't last very long on the local stations' playlists. According to my
Top Pop Singles book, it didn't even make the Billboard Hot 100.
I heard four new songs of note on the radio on the night of Friday,
February 3, 1967 - "Western Union", "Happy Together" by the Turtles, and
the Beatles 2-sided hit, "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever".
The Turtles had had some medium-sized hits, including the Bob Dylan
song, "It Is Not I, Babe" (okay, I know that is not the real title of
the song), but "Happy Together" was their first really huge hit. The
Beatles, now into their experimental, album-oriented phase, had not had
a single out since the previous late summer's "Eleanor Rigby"/"Yellow
Submarine", so they were overdue in the eyes of fans who expected a new
single from them every couple of months. But the Five Americans were a
group I had neither heard nor heard of before. I later learned that they
did have two smaller hit singles, "I See The Light" and "Evol-Not Love",
in 1966, but I hadn't heard them then.
Stephen X. Carter
wrote:
"She's a Rainbow" was recorded (but see later) in early May
and then in early June 1967.
All attempts to *fix* dates Stones recordings took place
must be fairly heavily qualified by the knowlege that their
sessions were not as organised as those of the Beatles at
Abbey Road, and that no-one has ever had the access to
records that Mark Lewisohn had for the Beatles' recordings.
Best efforts to date - see www.stonessessions.com
Bruce Coryell
Sound of Love was on it. Those other songs you mention don't seem to
have gotten it on my radar screen, and I think that whole group pretty
much disappeared after that. But I didn't give a damn as I discovered
the Doors at that point.
dlarsson
> - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
> Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
I was at my grandparents summer house on Cape Cod
enjoying the sun and the beach and marvelling at
the quality and artfulness of popular music coming
over the radio in those days ( this, before "FM" ).
I remember being transfixed by Lennon singing
"All You Need Is Love". Rock music had grown into
more than just music, but a roadmap to enlightened
thinking and social renaissance. I remember for every
10 songs that would be played on the radio, at any time,
I would really like about 6 or 7 of them -! The quality
was amazing.
As for today:
For every 10 radio stations on the dial, I cannot find
one that I can stand listening to for more than 6 or 7 minutes.
I'm afraid the trends of: Disco, Hair-Metal, Punk, New-Wave,
Rap, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Gansta-Rap, KRAP, nu-Metal, Chainsaw-rock,
choreographed-dance-beat, Euro, Techno-pop, etc. have all
destroyed popular music and run it into a black-hole of
contrived, talent-less, garbage.
It's rare when I even find a song on the radio - that I can
honestly say, "hey, that's a good song".
"John had a brilliant mind and was such a brilliant thinker.
He would talk in similes, like poetry, and he would say things
like 'I want the feel of sawdust in the ring, George what can
you do about it?' He expected miracles and sometimes
he got them!"
-George Martin
- Derek
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EMail: derek_...@comcast.net
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Will Dockery
> Summer 1967 :
> Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
>
Camping out in the backyard with my cousin, reading Mark Twain, Edgar
Allen Poe, books on mythology, and lots of science fiction, any comix
I could find, collecting rocks and strange chips of tile, watching
ants, listening to the Beatles, wondering if they would actually put a
man on the moon... and writing my first attempts at poetry.
Will
http://willdockery0.tripod.com/
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BeatleMac
Thanks, Stephen. I'll bookmark that...
F
Stephen X. Carter
wrote:
>steve@[127.0.0.1] (Stephen X. Carter) wrote in message news:<3fa59087.3404692@localhost>...
>>
>>
>> Best efforts to date - see www.stonessessions.com
>
>Thanks, Stephen. I'll bookmark that...
Go one step better - buy the book. :-))
jplac
Love You",
> and some of the Stones, probably Jagger, on "All You Need Is Love."
> The bands were highly competitive, yet willing to help each other.
> It was a great time.
>
You are absolutely right : they cooperated but could not make it public due
to their exclusive agreements with their record companies.
- concerning We Love You, John and Paul sang in the chords ; their voices
can easily be recognized ;
- concerning All You Need Is love, I don't know who from the Stones actually
sang, but you can see Mick, Keith and Brian in the video of the chart.
Something more on We Love You :
At the beginning of the song, you can hear the sound of a heavy door
moving. Jail door. Remember, the Stones had been arrested on February 11th,
and Mick and Keith sentenced to jail : drugs had been found in Keith's home.
Huge scandal. During and after the trial, thousands of fans demonstrated,
screaming : WE LOVE YOU ! Eventually, the British authorities gave in, and
the famous prisoners were released on bail, in June 67. Later, it became
known that the whole operation had been a dirty attempt to discredit one of
the most popular groups of the moment.
The Rolling Stones wrote that song to thank all the people who supported
them during those difficult days.
Great times, as you said.
JP
Todd Tamanend Clark
>
> Summer 1967:
>
> What were you up to during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE?
My parents divorced in 1963, and my father remarried in 1964. I
would spend summers with my disabled mother and my free-thinking
Onodowaga grandfather, who would teach me about native art, dance,
music, and literature and about walking in balance with both the
natural and the spiritual worlds, and then I would spend the rest
of the year with my middle-of-the-road Fred McMurray father and my
abusive pentecostal step-mother, where I would be forced to attend
the dominant culture's governmental public schools.
By 1967, I was in full scale rebellion against the repressive
colonial society of rural Pennsylvania, with my long hair,
indigenous jewelry, black buckskin clothing and moccasins, and
with a love for avant-garde psychedelic music and radical
politics. I turned fifteen on August 10, 1967 while the Summer
Of Love was in full bloom.
Defining summer as the school vacation time of June, July, and
August, rather than the exact astronomical season from the June
21 solstice to the September 21 equinox, these were my favorite
things that summer:
VINYL SINGLES:
A Thousand Shadows (The Seeds)
Blues Theme (Davie Allen And The Arrows)
Can't Seem To Make You Mine (The Seeds)
Heroes And Villains (The Beach Boys)
Him Or Me (Paul Revere And The Raiders)
Let's Live For Today (The Grass Roots)
Light My Fire/The Crystal Ship (The Doors)
Mirage (Tommy James And The Shondells)
My World Fell Down (Sagittarius)
Omaha (Moby Grape)
Pleasant Valley Sunday/Words (The Monkees)
Reflections (Diana Ross And The Supremes)
Run Run Run (The Third Rail)
San Francisco (Scott McKenzie)
Six O'Clock (The Lovin' Spoonful)
Society's Child (Janis Ian)
Somebody To Love (Jefferson Airplane)
The River Is Wide (The Forum)
Twelve Thirty (The Mamas And The Papas)
White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
VINYL ALBUMS:
Absolutely Free (The Mothers Of Invention)
Da Capo (Love)
Electric Comic Book (The Blues Magoos)
Electric Music For The Mind And Body (Country Joe And The Fish)
Moby Grape (Moby Grape)
Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)
The Doors (The Doors)
The Spirit Of '67 (Paul Revere And The Raiders)
The Velvet Underground And Nico (The Velvet Underground)
Younger Than Yesterday (The Byrds)
COMIC BOOKS:
Justice League Of America #57: "Man, Thy Name Is Brother"
Strange Tales #160: "If This Planet You Would Save"
Strange Tales #161: "The Second Doom"
Strange Tales #162: "From The Never-World Comes Nebulos"
Teen Titans #11: [No Title On Cover]
The Doom Patrol #115: "The Mutant Master"
The Fantastic Four #66: "What Lurks Behind The Behive"
The Fantastic Four #67: "Within The Cocoon"
The Fantastic Four #68: "His Mission: Destroy The Fantastic Four"
Turok, Son Of Stone #59: "Trapped In A Prehistoric Spider Web"
TELEVISION SHOWS:
American Bandstand (ABC)
Batman (ABC)
Chiller Theater (Local: WIIC)
Come Alive (Local: WIIC)
Coronet Blue (CBS)
Daniel Boone (NBC)
Malibu U (?)
The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS)
The Monkees (NBC)
The Steve Allen Show (NBC)
FILM:
Riot On Sunset Strip (Arthur Dreifuss)
That brilliant summer solidified who I became as an adult, and
I have never given up on my ideals to this day.
- - - -
TODD TAMANEND CLARK
Poet/Composer/Multi-Instrumentalist/Cultural Historian
Primal Pulse (Label-Publisher-Studio)
The Monongahela River, Turtle Island
- - - -
Now Available:
Staff, Mask, Rattle (2-CD: Instrumental)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc2
Owls In Obsidian (CD: Instrumental)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ttc
Forthcoming:
Dark Thunder (Book: Poetry)
Monongahela Riverrun (CD: Instrumental)
Nova Psychedelia (CD: Remixes)
Dancing Through The Side Worlds (4-CD: Vocal)
The Poetry Of Lists (Book: Nonfiction)
- - - -
"As with his shamanistic forebear, the jazz prophet's chief
characteristic is his power to evoke ecstasy, the source of
his charisma or magic attraction, giving him the power to
legitimize his message with the sanction of a higher authority."
- - Neil Leonard
Peter Perpetua III
Pirates won !!!
PButler111
>From: tama...@hotmail.com (Todd Tamanend Clark)
>Date: 11/3/2003 4:41 PM Central Standard Time
>Message-id: <41960cc5.03110...@posting.google.com>
>
>> "jplac" inquired:
>>
>> Summer 1967:
>>
>> What were you up to during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE?
>
>My parents divorced in 1963, and my father remarried in 1964. I
>would spend summers with my disabled mother and my free-thinking
>Onodowaga grandfather, who would teach me about native art, dance,
>music, and literature and about walking in balance with both the
>natural and the spiritual worlds
So that's who's to blame.
Dennis M. Hammes
>
> well let's see.
>
> I put together my first sentence.
>
> I tried to eat a chunk of coal from the coal bucket.
>
> I pushed my finger up the dog's nose and pulled his tail. The dog we had at
> that time had this peculiar habit of when he was angry, going round in
> circles, chasing his tail. Our dog chased his tail *a lot* that summer.
>
> I chased the cat around the yard for hours on end. The dog stopped chasing
> his tail and smiled at the turn of events.
'67?
I spent a lot of time running a prog I wrote on the metal.
I got another promotion.
I got another medal.
I got drunk at Oktoberfest a couple times.
I got laid.
I got called to Alert the night of my Bronze test.
I saw the last surviving Me-109E (a 1300-hp fly you strap on like
a parachute).
I saw a Fokker D-VII (a construction scaffolding that /flies/).
I saw an /U-Boot/ with the starboard side cut out for display
(/don't/ dive).
I played Mozart's second fortepiano. Awful.
I played Beethoven's nth pianoforte (unlike Wagner, he went
through them like hay bales). Still pretty awful.
I played the Club Steinway for my Girrul and allowed as how 1967
was a better year than anything in the Deutsches Museum except some
of the statues.
I transferred to Ft. Carson. Awful.
But '68 was worse. Assassinations, riots, weddings...
--
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Because, when I see a swine,
I reach for .45-calibre pearls. -- Rob Evans
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Sixties Gen
Alexander DeLarge
>So that's who's to blame.
And what's your excuse, Butler?
pandora
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> "jplac" <jp...@vnumail.com> wrote in message
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> > Summer 1967 :
> > - The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
> > - An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
> > Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
> > - The Doors released their 2 best albums.
> > - The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
> > Buffallo Springfield and many others...
> > - Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
> > - The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
> > - John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
> >
> > And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
> JP
>
> Camping out in the backyard with my cousin, reading Mark Twain, Edgar
> Allen Poe, books on mythology, and lots of science fiction, any comix
> I could find, collecting rocks and strange chips of tile, watching
> ants, listening to the Beatles, wondering if they would actually put a
> man on the moon... and writing my first attempts at poetry.
> Will
Visiting Expo 1967 in Montreal with my husband. Smoking Cuban cigars and
drinking rum from Trinidad.
Marg
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>
>
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Sound like a nice time... I was a bit young for cigars and rum, just yet...
I did smoke a cigar a couple of years later that turned me green, and kept
me off the smoking idea for years!
Stephen C.
>
>
> JP
Celebrating a newborn son and playing all of those songs at my first
Top 40 gig, mornings at WAAB in Worcester, Massachusetts. We also had
a late night guy, Jeff Starr, who was the frist to play psychedelic
music!
Cheers,
Stephen
Shulamit
I was a 13 year old teenybopper just spreading my psychedelic wings
over the universe and beyond that, too.
PButler111
I was anticipating my 6th birthday that fall.
The Last Rebel
>Summer 1967 :
>- The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper.
>- An unknown guitarist named Jimi Hendrix burst out in the rock scene at
>Monterey International Pop Festival in June.
>- The Doors released their 2 best albums.
>- The Jefferson Airplane was at his top, as well as the Byrds, Cream,
>Buffallo Springfield and many others...
>- Ashbury Haights was the epicenter of the pscyhedelic experience
>- The Rolling Stones were in trouble with justice.
>- John Lennon sang "All You Need Is Love"...
>
>And YOU, what were you up to, during the MAGICAL SUMMER OF LOVE ?
>
just starting to have lots of sex in 67 and it continues today
>
>JP
>
>