The Summer of Love 1967: Highlight of the hippie movement. It began with the "Human Be-In" - a happening, which attracted the masses on January the 14th in the Golden Gate Park.
Among the participants: Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people throughout the U.S. surged to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, to join and participate in the new hippie movement.
The highlight was the festival of Monterey. The Summer of Love event was symbolically buried with "The Death of Hippie" march on October the 6th in 1967. Eight months of Flowerpower, free love and a musical revolution - with its large effect.
A jolt went through the conservative-dominated U.S. society, underlaid with a new sound: rock, loud and provocative! Janis Joplin screamed her passion into the microphone, Jim Morrison let the pants down and Jimi Hendrix played on his guitar as if it was a part of himself.
September the 2nd 2007 - musicians from everywhere in the country came into the Golden Gate Park to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love - together with thousands of like-minded people. They celebrated at ground zero, where it all began – presented by 2B1 Records and the Council of Light.
Ray Manzarek (the Doors), Moby Grape (all original members), Lester Chambers (from The Chambers Brothers), Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish), Canned Heat, Michael McClure (Beat poet), New Riders of the Purple Sage, Nick Gravenites, David Laflamme (It's a Beautiful Day) and many, many more artists joined the event in support of the principals of peace, free love – in support of the hippie movement.
Also the “Los Angeles Free Press” was involved in this event. The LAFP officially started its 'year' with the date of this 40th Anniversary. They promoted their new online version of the LAFP at this day: A plane flew over the event saying on a banner that 'we are back'.
Among the participants: Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
In the summer of 1967, thousands of young people throughout the U.S. surged to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, to join and participate in the new hippie movement.
The highlight was the festival of Monterey. The Summer of Love event was symbolically buried with "The Death of Hippie" march on October the 6th in 1967. Eight months of Flowerpower, free love and a musical revolution - with its large effect.
A jolt went through the conservative-dominated U.S. society, underlaid with a new sound: rock, loud and provocative! Janis Joplin screamed her passion into the microphone, Jim Morrison let the pants down and Jimi Hendrix played on his guitar as if it was a part of himself.
September the 2nd 2007 - musicians from everywhere in the country came into the Golden Gate Park to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love - together with thousands of like-minded people. They celebrated at ground zero, where it all began – presented by 2B1 Records and the Council of Light.
Ray Manzarek (the Doors), Moby Grape (all original members), Lester Chambers (from The Chambers Brothers), Country Joe McDonald (Country Joe and the Fish), Canned Heat, Michael McClure (Beat poet), New Riders of the Purple Sage, Nick Gravenites, David Laflamme (It's a Beautiful Day) and many, many more artists joined the event in support of the principals of peace, free love – in support of the hippie movement.
Also the “Los Angeles Free Press” was involved in this event. The LAFP officially started its 'year' with the date of this 40th Anniversary. They promoted their new online version of the LAFP at this day: A plane flew over the event saying on a banner that 'we are back'.
This is the cover of the LAFP’s edition from the 40th Anniversary of the Summer of Love
Is the idealism replaced by the demands of our today's performance society? "Make love, not war" - is the battle cry from that time fallen on deaf ears? And who was freed by the sexual revolution? And does the impact of the Summer of Love still lasts on today’s politics?
Today’s situation calls musicians from now and then to express their feelings: The presidential elections, the Culture War, economical crisis and the war in Iraq.
In this blog I will concentrate on musicians of the 60’s and today. I will try to determine their own political positions and will find out how far these musicians are politically active nowadays – for example as an "musicial support" for presidential candidates or by personal opinions in interviews.
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