Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture with the 50th Anniversary of 1967 – featuring OCTOBER!

“00individual Celebrates 1967’s 50th Anniversary!” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!

The Historic Pop Culture year of 1967 continues full steam ahead
to end the year with three of the most potent months of ’67!

Let’s Rock:
Oct 1 Pink Floyd arrive in New York for their first US tour.
Oct 2 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents.
Oct 2 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.
Oct 3 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
Oct 6 LSD made illegal in the US.
Oct 6 First big free concert in Golden Gate Park Panhandle (several thousand people at “Love Pageant Rally”) & Diggers started free food in Panhandle.
Oct 6 Haight-Ashbury Hippies throw a funeral for “Hippie” to mark end of “the summer of love”.
Oct 6 USSR performs nuclear test.
Oct 7 The Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein.
Oct 8 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. Oct 10 Elvis Presley “Clambake” soundtrack is released.
Oct 10 Bobby Seale & Huey P. Newton form Black Panthers of Oakland.
Oct 14-16 Fillmore: The Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane, Big Mama Thornton.
Oct 17 MacDermot, Ragni & Rado’s musical “Hair” premieres off-Broadway.
Oct 17 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue.
Oct 17 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km.
Oct 18 Walt Disney’s “Jungle Book” film is released.
Oct 19 Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, and “Sometimes A Great Notion”, (the first program to be broadcast by HBO, airing less than two years after its initial 1970 theatrical release) back from Mexico, gets arrested and serves six months for smoking Marijuana.

Oct 20 A purported Bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek, Northern Califonia by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin. (stabilized video) Still the most controversial and discussed film of a Cryptid.
Oct 21 Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters attempt to levitate the Pentagon.

“Had the Hippies and Protestors Been Successful” copyright 2014 00individual  TLL

Oct 21-22 Fillmore: The Grateful Dead, Lightning Hopkins.
Oct 23 Fillmore: The Yardbirds, Country Joe & The Fish.
Oct 25 UCLA Teach-in on the war in Vietnam.
Oct 28-30 Fillmore: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
Oct 28-29 Avalon Ballroom (Family Dog): Quicksilver Messenger Service, Sons Of Champlin.
Oct 26 Sam & Dave release Soul Men.
Oct 27 Ten Years After releases Ten Years After
Oct 27 Dusty Springfield releases Where Am I Going?
Oct 30 Buffalo Springfield release Buffalo Springfield Again.
Oct 31 Phil Ochs releases Pleasures of the Harbor.
Oct 31 (Halloween) Ken Kesey’s Acid Test Graduation.Oct 31 Nico releases Chelsea Girl.
Roy Orbison releases Cry Softly Lonely One.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band releases Gorilla.
Pearls Before Swine release One Nation Underground.
Sammy Davis, Jr. releases Sings the Complete ‘Dr. Dolittle’.
Nina Simone releases Silk & Soul.
Sly and the Family Stone release A Whole New Thing.
Judy Collins releases Wildflowers.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending October 14, 1967:
1  THE LETTER – The Box Tops (Mala)
2  NEVER MY LOVE – The Association (Warner Brothers)
3  TO SIR WITH LOVE – Lulu (Epic)
4  LITTLE OLE MAN (Uptight-Everything’s Alright) – Bill Cosby (Warner Brothers)
5  ODE TO BILLIE JOE – Bobbie Gentry (Capitol)
6  (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) HIGHER AND HIGHER – Jackie Wilson (Brunswick)
7  COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP – Bobby Vee and the Strangers (Liberty)
8  HOW CAN I BE SURE – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
9  GIMME LITTLE SIGN – Brenton Wood (Double Shot)
10  SOUL MAN – Sam and Dave (Stax)
11  APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE – Jay and the Techniques (Smash)
12  HEY BABY (They’re Playing Our Song) – The Buckinghams (Columbia)
13  YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (Tamla)
14  DANDELION – The Rolling Stones (London)
15  EXPRESSWAY TO YOUR HEART – The Soul Survivors (Crimson)
16  GET ON UP – The Esquires (Bunky)
17  I DIG ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC – Peter, Paul and Mary (Warner Brothers)
18  A NATURAL WOMAN (You Make Me Feel Like) – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
19  YOU KEEP RUNNING AWAY – The Four Tops (Motown)
20  BROWN EYED GIRL – Van Morrison (Bang)

OCTOBER MOVIES
October 13: Reflections In A Golden Eye
October 18: The Jungle Book

October 18: Clambake
October 25: Camelot

October 26: Wait Until Dark
October 31: The Comedians

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From sky-surfing, to off-rail mode Summer of Love beach parties, to time-travel psyide trips, the Psychedelic Train morphs into BatTrain mode and cruises Helloween Town Theme Park.  

TRICK OR TREAT!

“The Psychedelic Train Cruises Helloween Town in BatTrain mode”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train continues crossing over psychedelic sixties landscapes and is headed for two more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

Next stop, November!

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1967 Archives

January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June . . . July
August . . . September

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . “In The Future The 1960s And The 1970s Will Be Seen As A Mythic Paradise.” – 00individual

“Sittin’ in underwater beach chairs gettin’ high in Paradise mid-70s” copyright 2017 00individual TLL

PARADISE

Paradise was everywhere in the ’60s and the ’70s – every level of society was evolving and no one had the upper hand on what was happening – everyone was on the learning curve, some were ahead, some behind, but there was always the feeling that one was experiencing something very special, undefinable; the Vibe.

On one of many trips with friends up the Pacific Coast during the ’70s to Big Sur, Carmel, and then into Carmel Valley Arroyo Seco – 00individual’s VW camper broke down.  Unbeknownst to them at the time, but after a couple of phone calls and through cosmic synchronicity they found out that a family friend of 00individual’s girlfriend just happened to be house-sitting for a Doctor who was vacationing overseas. Once connected, he welcomed them to stay until the camper was fixed.  The Carmel Valley mansion had panoramic valley view decks, stone fireplaces, horses – a real trippy place to hang out – and just when needed.

Paradise – where even unfortunate occurrences have fortunate outcomes.

This was a clear example of Karma in action, as a few months earlier 00individual and his girlfriend gave their tickets to a Carole “Tapestry” King concert to him and his wife as a way to maybe help soften their upcoming divorce.  This was the cosmic timing of Karma.

And this time it came with an added gift.

The friend told of a way to get back into the Gorge to several Paradise spots.  He said to bypass all of the campsites for the normals, go to the Ranger station, and give them the required licenseplate number, number of people camping, and for how many days, and then they were allowed to go past the “No Passing” sign and travel deep down into the Gorge’s floor where three campsites were.  The pool shown in the above header was at the beach to their surrounded-by-trees campsite and the water continued back through narrow high-walled canals that opened up into another Paradise with a beach, huge pool, waterfall, trees, canyons – it was idyllic. They stayed for a few days in Paradise and then had to head back to the everyday Paradise – a land that held thrills and fun everyday.

On a return trip, the header photo depicts Beau, 00individual’s family dog out of the water after a good swim, he loved the water.  00individual’s on the right with the stoney grin behind a cool drink as they all enjoy the afternoon ritual of floatin’, and sittin’ in underwater beach chairs, soakin’ in the sun, and gettin’ high smokin’ a joint or two while the girlfriends took photos and joined-in later. 00individual’s two other family dogs, Shyloe and Bosco were not “water dogs” and stayed on shore.

While these were exceptions to daily life, it was almost like icing on the cake, as once back to the “city life” it continued to be as magickal as the Gorge, only different.  It was like no matter what the highs or lows or locations were, the sense of magickal times followed one wherever they went.

00individual can testify that there were days, work days, weeks even, that were so filled with the Vibe that he seriously doesn’t remember working, just having fun – now that’s Paradise.

This was a time for living in the now, with the freedom to embrace and enjoy life fully with a focus on exploring one’s mind, body, and individuality.  These were very exciting times, truly historic times, and in some cases, unbelievable times, and are reasons why . . .

in the future the 1960s and the 1970s will be seen as a mythic Paradise.

After a snippet epiphany, 00individual wants to go on record with the following prediction: In the future the 1960s and the 1970s will be seen as a mythic Paradise.

As the entire planet’s civilzations become increasingly insane, the cultural climate of the 1960s and the 1970s become more like Paradise every day.

And that is how it will be seen in the future; those two decades will go down (already have) as ground zero for everything good or bad to date.  However it will also be seen as a time when individuals were able to freely express themselves fully before the insidious socio-political-ly correct clamp-down on free speech and thought that governs societies today.

Farther in the future, the ’60s and the ’70s will become increasingly mythic; reference to a magickal time that maybe never really existed, however, there will always be the mysterious allure of the mythology of Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll – when individuals lived free in Paradise.

So, unless the future goes the way of apocalyptic wastelands and books of historic fact are as Johnny Cash forsees as a possibilty;
“I’m a child of this age Locked into the pages of your book
And when I am but dust and clay And all the children stop to take a look
Will they marvel at the miracles I did perform And the heights I did aspire
Or will they tear out the pages of the book, To light a fire.”

00individual will continue to relate the ’60s and the ’70s Vibe in digital and analog volumes for posterity of a time when the world was magickal, and anything was possible, every minute of every day.

Or he will provide kindling for a future survivalist campfire.  And existentially, he’d be just as honored.

“And in the end”, to paraphrase the Chambers Brothers, not The Beatles:
“I’ve been loved and put aside, I’ve been crushed by the tumbling tide, And my soul has been psychedelicized – But I had my fun.”

It was Paradise; an exciting, thrilling time to be young and free within a still relatively-innocent world – never to be seen or experienced again.  Sadly, 00individual speaks Tribal Truth.

The Vietnam war, assasinations, injustice, and all their collateral damage are duly noted; but however strange it all was, those events took place within an increasingly otherworldly environment – one that allowed the fortunately aware to appreciate the moment in Paradise.

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1960s & 1970s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 1 – 1967, The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 2 – 1968, The Greatest Hits of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – 1970, and the LOSS of INNOCENT POP-ROCK

EXPERIENCE POP-ROCK HISTORY!

If there is one individual who embodies the Spirit and Vibe of the entire ’60’s and ’70’s, it is John Sebastian. His music was embraced by people of all walks of life and was perfect for the mid-’60’s to mid-’70’s Counter-Culture’s mindset and allowed for some of the most consistently sublime uplifting fun and memorable Pop Rock songs that register in the realm of The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

Every one of the songs in bold on these three albums are simply remarkable.  When a group can release two “Best of” albums filled with actual hits, and then release a worthy “Greatest Hits” album – there’s a reason beyond prolific talent – they had “magic” – they created songs that were/are consistently pleasingly infectious. 00individual speaks Tribal Truth, he had all three albums and was under the spell.

John Sebastian went on to historically perform at Woodstock in his signature tie-dyed attire. His songs fit perfectly with the peaceful Vibe.

He opened for the Who at the legendary Anaheim “Leeds/Tommy” concert and enraptured a very acid-soaked and appreciative baseball field full of Rockers.

And he composed and sang the theme song to the wildy popular ’70s John Travolta “Vinnie Barbarino” character-driven TV comedy “Welcome Back, Kotter”.
The series originally was named “Kotter”, but the producers liked Sebastian’s “welcome back to your hometown to do good” version so much that they changed the name of the series to Welcome Back, Kotter.
The song eventually sold over one million copies and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

JBS had the ability to imprint a song and lyrics after only one listening.  That is part of the magic of The Lovin’ Spoonful.

The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 1 – 1967
All songs by John Sebastian unless noted.
John Sebastian – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonica
Steve Boone – bass, vocals
Joe Butler – drums, percussion, vocals
Zal Yanovsky – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
1. Do You Believe In Magic? 2:04 2. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? 2:00 3. Butchie’s Tune(Steve Boone) 2:34 4. Jug Band Music 2:49 5. Night Owl Blues (John Sebastian/Zal Yanovsky/Steve Boone/Joe Butler) 3:00 6. You Didn’t Have To Be So Nice (John Sebastian/Steve Boone) 2:29 7. Daydream 2:18 8. Blues In The Bottle (Arranged and adapted by John Sebastian/Zal Yanovsky/Steve Boone/Joe Butler/Stephen Weber/Peter Stampfel) 2:10 9. Didn’t Want To Have To Do It 2:06 10. Wild About My Lovin’ (Arranged and adapted by John Sebastian)2:38 11. Younger Girl 2:23 12. Summer In The City (John Sebastian/Mark Sebastian/ Steve Boone) 2:39

The Best of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL Vol. 2 – 1968
All songs by John Sebastian unless noted.
John Sebastian – vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, autoharp, harmonica
Steve Boone – bass, vocals
Joe Butler – drums, percussion, vocals
Jerry Yester – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
1. Six O’Clock 2:38 2. Darling Be Home Soon 3:32 3. Lovin’ You 2:25 4. Boredom 2:23 5. Full Measure (Sebastian*, S. Boone) 2:40 6. Nashville Cats 2:34 1. She Is Still A Mystery 3:00 2. Rain On The Roof 2:13 3. Old Folks (J. Butler*) 3:04 4. Darlin’ Companion 2:22 5. Money 2:01 6. Younger Generation 2:40

Joe Butler, a drummer with a frontman’s voice, never got his due, he got his chance once Sebastian left, but by then the tide had turned and The Lovin’ Spoonful that was intensely popular with hits to rival Beatle/Beach Boy territory diminished.  None the less, Butler’s voice rises to the top on
“Full Measure”, and with his own composition, the touching, melodic, uplifting, melancholy song,
“Old Folks”.  With soulful harmonica verse echoes, Butler delivers a strong, yet sensitive message that speaks to everyone, eventually.

By the ’60’s decade’s end their music had hit the peak of the feel-good Innocent Pop-Rock of the ’60s and faced the rising serious Singer/Songwriters, Glam, Punk, Disco, New Wave, and Hard Rock movements.  Classic Innocent Pop-Rock had seen its glory days.

The Greatest Hits of the LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – 1970
Younger Girl  – 2:23 Didn’t Want to Have to Do It  – 2:06 Daydream – 2:18 You Didn’t Have to Be So Nice (John Sebastian/Steve Boone) – 2:29 Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?  – 2:00 Do You Believe in Magic? – 2:04 Summer in the City (John Sebastian/Mark Sebastian/Steve Boone) – 2:39 Rain on the Roof  – 2:13 Six O’Clock  – 2:38 Darling Be Home Soon  – 3:34 “Till I Run with You” (Alan Gordon/Gary Bonner) – 1:52 Never Going Back (John Stewart) – 2:48

Butler again contributes an exquisite, touching, slice-of-life vocal on an exceptional John Stewart song, “Never Going Back”.

THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE
Like the loss of the Lovin’ Spoonful’s uplifting Innocent Pop-Rock, it is sad to see the loss of innocence and the natural growth process that is deprived of today’s youth.
Although the black, white and gray ’50s were slow movin’, and the colorful ’60s and ’70s picked up speed, those environments allowed for information to be acquired while gaining personal experience for the maturation process to allow for a fully-developed human individual.

That is all gone, it is straight to exposure of every facet of the world from the moment of recognition of self.  A social development that is apparently an evolutionary requirement for competition and survival in today’s world.

And while every child that grows up in this world will not know any different of what they will never experience, it will not be them that suffers the loss they never knew, but a horrific loss to those past and present generations who did, who remember when innocence had its place in one’s growth – before it was replaced with insanity unleashed at every level.

. . . if only they knew.

 

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00INDIVIDUAL’S 400TH POST! . . . . . . . . . . . . 1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . HIPPIE BEACH PAD

“Interior of a classic ’60s/’70s Hippie Beach Pad On A Marine-Layered Early Evening”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

1970’s HIPPIE BEACH PAD

A typical hippie pad was any place friends could hang, listen to music, have fun, and get high; this included back rooms or converted garages of understanding parents, dorm rooms, and rentals of apartments, duplexes, guest houses, and suburban houses.  Interior decorating ran from mattresses and big pillows on the floor, to virtual museums of interior design creativity.

00individual has created a nice cross-section of ‘70’s essentials and styles placed within the floorplan of his first rental in 1969-1970; a small beach pad above a garage with an ocean view in the L.A. beach town of Playa Del Rey for $150.00 a month, split three ways with his two friends.

Macramé hanging plants, Lava lamps, Rock posters, beanbag chair, candles, sound system, records, TV, billowed tapestries, black light and black light posters, and the aroma of incense and freshly exhaled weed mixed with the open window’s ocean breeze: the ‘70’s Vibe; have a nice day and night.

Unless the place came furnished most pad’s household items could be found at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales.  Sometimes fully-functional items like refrigerators would be left behind from the previous tenant.  Things seemed to fall into place easily back then.

A fun place to go for furnishings was Pier One Imports; it was not the mall store it is now, back then it was like a very cool super-headshop.  The one near LAX carried a ton of cool exotic items; a lot of Pacific Islander-themed pieces in wood from pipes, ashtrays, bowls, candle holders, and mugs to sculpted masks and figurine/Tiki Gods.  Rattan furniture was a semi-affordable favorite and the hanging concave rattan chair was cool.

The “ubiquitous paisley/Indian tapestries of many uses” were the most popular, as were the intricate-patterned Indian rugs, and if one got hungry while browsing, Pier One Imports had canned Octopus tentacles.  The place was hip and many items found their way into trippy pads across the land.

A much more dedicated effort for furniture acquisition was undertaken by 00individual when he decided to make a Hippie classic – an old ship hatch cover coffee table. He got one from a marine supply near Venice, lugged the beast back to his duplex and poly-urethane-resinated it in the garage.  It turned out very clear and nice and it served as a centerpiece to many a pad, and the header image.

The ‘70’s Hippie Pads of those who preferred cost-efficient furnishings acquired concrete cinder blocks and wood boards for sturdy and cheap shelving. Milk crates made for great stackable shelving that doubled as classic record containers and were very affordable using the five-finger discount.

The ‘70’s Hippie Pads of those who could afford it furnished their environment with futuristic bubble TVs and chairs, atomic lighting fixtures and lamps, wild colored shag rugs, Naugahyde upholstery, and textured wallpaper.  This was the height of the Pop and Mod Psychedelic designs and designers.

And finally there was the whole free unrestricted Bohemian life-style that encompassed ideology, clothing, interior design, and an independent way of life.  The Boho style never left and is one if the classic fashion and life-styles that remain strong.  Every town across the nation has a Bohemian enclave of artists and free spirits.

While some Hippie pads were decked-out with psychedelic flourishes and were overwhelming to the eye and senses, others were just as Spartan – but once settled-in and sharing a joint with your roomie, it didn’t matter, it was home, because Home is in one’s Head, like it always is.

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