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PSYCHEDELIA - SUMMER OF LOVE 2007 #0807/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape 2 | | Medium: | Acrylic on non-stretched canvas | | Size (inches): | 36 x 24 | | Size (mm): | 914 x 610 | | Catalog #: | PA_0124 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse.
Summer of Love -
The Summer of Love was the summer of 1967, particularly in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, where thousands of young people loosely and freely united for a new social experience. As a result, the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
Background:
The beginning of the Summer of Love has popularly been attributed to the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967. The size of that event awakened mass media to the hippie counterculture that was blossoming in the Haight-Ashbury.[1] The movement was fed by the counterculture's own media, particularly The San Francisco Oracle, whose pass-around readership topped a half-million at its peak that year.[2] The grassroots street theater/activism of The Diggers also garnered media attention.
College and high school students began streaming into the Haight during their Spring, 1967 break. City government leaders, determined to stop the influx of young people once schools let out for summer, unwittingly brought additional attention to the scene. An ongoing series of articles in local papers alerted national media to the hippies' growing momentum. That spring, Haight community leaders responded by forming the Council of the Summer of Love, giving the word-of-mouth event an official-sounding name.[3]
The music:
John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas took 20 minutes to write the following lyrics for the song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)":
If you're going to San Francisco,
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...
If you're going to San Francisco,
Summertime will be a love-in there.
Scott McKenzie's recording of the song was released in May 1967. The song was designed originally to promote the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the world's first major rock festival, which was attended by over 200,000 people. "San Francisco" became an instant hit (#4 in the U. S., #1 in the U.K.) and quickly transcended its original purpose.
The evolution of The Beatles and their music also contributed to the global impact of the Summer of Love. The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on June 1, 1967, in Europe and two days later in the U.S.[4] With its psychedelic influences, Indian instrumentals, vivid album cover and drug references, it encapsulated the very essence of the Summer of Love.
The Beatles had moved beyond their "moptop" era, and on June 25, 1967, their song "All You Need Is Love" was heard around the world as part of the "Our World" radio broadcast, further emphasizing the countercultural ideals of love, freedom, and unity.
The summer:
During the Summer of Love, as many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay Area cities to join in a popularized version of the hippie experience.[2] Free food, free drugs and free love were available in Golden Gate Park, a Free Clinic (whose work continues today) was established for medical treatment, and a Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them.[1]
The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages: teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia, middle-class vacationers who came to gawk like tourists, and even partying military personnel from bases within an easy drive's distance. The large influx of newcomers began to cause problems. The neighborhood could not accommodate so many people descending on it so quickly, and the Haight-Ashbury scene deteriorated rapidly. Overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicted the neighborhood. Many people simply left in the fall to resume their college studies.[1] But when the newly recruited Flower Children returned home, they brought new ideas, ideals, behaviors, and styles of fashion to most major cities in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.
On October 7, 1967, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony, to signal the end of the played-out scene.[3]
The phrase "Summer of Love" (or, more accurately, the "Second Summer of Love") is sometimes used (particularly in the UK) to refer to the summers of 1988 and 1989 and the rise of Acid House music and rave culture.
References:
1. ^ a b c Gail Dolgin; Vicente Franco. (2007). American Experience: The Summer of Love. PBS. Retrieved on 2007-04-23.
2. ^ Summer of Love: Underground News. PBS American Experience companion website. Retrieved on 2007-05-15.
3. ^ a b The Year of the Hippie: Timeline. PBS.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-24.
4. ^ [1]
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love
SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 - August 15, 2007.
Let your freak flag fly higher & higher in a night of intoxicating incense and peppermint paisley psychedelia!
Featuring groovy grooves by The 3rd Dimension:
Michael ‘Are You Sexperienced?’ Rytie
Eric ‘Sweet Soul’ Collins
Joe ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ Bryl
Doors open 9pm
$5 Cover
“We should remember 1967 not as the time the nation turned on and tuned in but as the moment the United States began hurtling toward a nervous breakdown, riven by conflict that would change the country and the world forever. It was the beginning of an era of intense polarization – one in which, arguably, we are still living. More than a momentous year, 1967 was a seedbed for our own times.”
-Sean Williams: “The Legacy of ‘67” – Rolling Stone Magazine
What has been conceptualized as “The Summer of Love” really never happened. Like many movements, its genesis and birth was an afterthought. While many disparate events occurred within San Francisco that would be later be labeled as the “Summer of Love”, those who lived in the community centered by Haight & Ashbury had no program, agenda or predicted plan. Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead once described the process succinctly as “something like ordered chaos.”
Starting as early as October of 1965 a group going by the name Family Dog staged a dance event titled “A Tribute to Dr. Strange” featuring local bands that included the Charlatans, Jefferson Airplane and the Great Society. By October 1966, possession of LSD became illegal, taking the youth centered culture underground.
On January 14, 1967 poets Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder lead a prayer march in Golden Gate Park known as the “Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In”, the first major meeting of the hippie counterculture. Featuring the Bay Area’s best bands, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and the Fish, Big Brother and the Holding Company and Quicksilver Messenger Service it was attended by over 20,000 celebrants.
By September of 1967 the supposed “Summer of Love” ended having hosted over 75,000 visitors, mostly all unwanted by the inhabitants of the Haight. Ron and Jay Thelin who owned the famous Psychedelic Shop posted a sign on their window showing their disdain to the influx of gawkers stating “Nebraska Needs You More.” On October 2nd the police raided the Grateful Dead’s house arresting two band members for drug possession. Four days later the Diggers and other residents of San Francisco exorcized both their frustration and demons with a “Death of Hippie/Birth of Free Man” funeral march. The “Summer of Love” quickly became the “Winter of Discontent” with riots scarring the urban areas across America.
However, as in John Ford’s ending to his monumental film “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence”, the reality of an event is superseded and overtaken by its own mythology. As James Stewart's character says in the film's closure, it’s best “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
With those thoughts in mind Sonotheque will present “The Summer of Love: 1967”, a celebration of the altering saga of that mythological year. Focusing on the music of 1967 we hope to show the diversity and distinctiveness of the time. 1967 became a formative year in the development of both rock and soul and altered drastically peoples perceptions, habits and politics.
Albums as diverse as The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, James Brown’s “Cold Sweat”, Pink Floyd’s “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, The Velvet Underground’s “The Velvet Underground & Nico”, Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Are You Experienced?”, Love’s “Forever Changes”, Aretha Franklin’s “I Never Loved a Man the Way I loved You” and The Kink’s “Something Else by the Kinks” charted whole new territories in pop music. Bands like The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish and Big Brother and the Holding Company – bands all associated with San Francisco – put out their maiden effort.
So be prepared to tune in, trip out, turn on and expand your mind to the kaleidoscope of the sounds and sights of ’67. “Summer of Love: 1967” will feature rare films from the time including the documentaries “The Hippie Temptation’ hosted by CBS TV newsman Harry Reasoner which contains footage of LSD users experiencing bummer trips, “The Summer of Love: San Francisco”, a compilation featuring Timothy Leary, liquid light shows and freak outs and “LA’s First Love-In”, a montage of an Easter Sunday festival populated by longhairs, go-go dancers, hippies and mods with psychedelic music by Spontaneous Combustion.
-www.sonotheque.net/archives/000312.php
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