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

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

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

00individual was among those blessed to be born into this existence during the most concentrated Cultural events of the late ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.  To have been able to experience the slow innocent build of the ’50s as a single-digit Rocker, and of the real-time experience in his teens in the ’60s, and twenties in the ’70s, is an exceptional gift, especially for those who appreciated it then, as now.

In August the release of the Psychedelic Summer of Love albums and singles increased.

Let’s Rock:
Aug 3: 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam.
Aug 4: Shortwave group ANARC’s 1st convention (Chicago).
Aug 4: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
Aug 4: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.
Aug 5: Pink Floyd release their first album “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn”.
Aug 5: Bobby Gentry releases her #1 hit “Ode to Billy Joe”.
Aug 7: The Byrds’ release their Greatest Hits album.
Aug 7:  Frank Zappa original release Lumpy Gravy; subsequently reedited and reissued in 1968.
Aug 18: The Rolling Stones release the single “We Love You” with Lennon and McCartney on back-up harmony vocals.  This was a “Thank You” from Mick and Keith to their fans and supporters throughout their arrests – and a timely companion to . . .
Aug 19: The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” single goes #1.
Aug 25: The Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Aug 27: The Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies of accidental overdose – The Beatles return to London.
Aug 27: Stevie Wonder releases I Was Made to Love Her. 
Aug 29:  Diana Ross & the Supremes release Greatest Hits.

Aug 29: Final TV episode of “The Fugitive” starring David Janssen watched by 78 million.
This was huge back in ’67!  This was the first TV “event” that 00individual can remember.
“The Fugitive, a QM Production…starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent victim of blind justice. Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife… reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house… freed him to hide in lonely desperation… to change his identity … to toil at many jobs… freed him to search for a one-armed man he saw leave the scene of the crime … freed him to run before the relentless pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.”

The Fugitive was a perfect TV series; great lead actor, David Janssen’s expressions alone told volumes and he was totally convincing in his role, as was Barry Morse as the rellentless Lt. Philip Gerard. The writing, directing, actors, storylines, and plots were all riveting, and the main storyline was pretty heady stuff back then.

The final episode was really exciting for 00indidvual because it took place at POP – Pacific Ocean Park in Santa Monica, an amusement park that he went to in his pre-teens and teens and that closed two months later in October 1967.  This final episode would see Dr. Richard Kimble not only face the One Armed Man, but beat the Hell out of him, something every viewer vicariously enjoyed. However, in the fight atop the park’s “Mahi, Mahi” ride tower the One Armed Man wrestles away the gun given to Kimble by a wounded Gerard and . . .

This classic really great historic TV series was made into a very decent movie with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones, and David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks” had a one-armed character named Philip Gerard who was really, well, that would be telling.

Many years later in the mid-’80s The Fugitive was in syndication and 00individual watched it with his young son every day – in glorious black and white.

Albums with undetermined August date of release:
Make It Happen – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
United – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Big Brother and the Holding Company – Big Brother and the Holding Company
Born Under a Bad Sign – Albert King
Carryin’ On with Johnny Cash and June Carter – Johnny Cash and June Carter
Chuck Berry in Memphis – Chuck Berry
Cold Sweat – James Brown
Goodbye and Hello – Tim Buckley
Joan – Joan Baez
Love of the Common People – Waylon Jennings
Spanky and Our Gang – Spanky and Our Gang
Underground – The Electric Prunes
Vanilla Fudge – Vanilla Fudge

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending August 26, 1967:
1 ODE TO BILLIE JOE – Bobbie Gentry (Capitol)
2 ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE – The Beatles (Capitol)
3 PLEASANT VALLEY SUNDAY – The Monkees (Colgems)
4 LIGHT MY FIRE – The Doors (Elektra)
5 BABY I LOVE YOU – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
6 I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)
7 COLD SWEAT (Part 1) – James Brown and the Famous Flames (King)
8 REFLECTIONS – Diana Ross and the Supremes (Motown)
9 YOU’RE MY EVERYTHING – The Temptations (Gordy)
10 A WHITER SHADE OF PALE – Procol Harum (Deram)
11 A GIRL LIKE YOU – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
12 HEROES AND VILLAINS – The Beach Boys (Brother)
13 I THANK THE LORD FOR THE NIGHT TIME – Neil Diamond (Bang)
14 COME BACK WHEN YOU GROW UP – Bobby Vee and the Strangers (Liberty)
15 WORDS – The Monkees (Colgems)
16 SILENCE IS GOLDEN – The Tremeloes (Epic)
17 TO LOVE SOMEBODY – The Bee Gees (Atco)
18 CARRIE-ANNE – The Hollies (Epic)
19 APPLES, PEACHES, PUMPKIN PIE – Jay and the Techniques (Smash)
20 MY MAMMY – The Happenings (B.T. Puppy)

AUGUST MOVIES
All right, here’s where it gets real, August 1967 explodes with
Righteous (with a capital R) Genre-Defining Movies:

August 2: In the Heat of the Night
Black Cop White Cop
gritty, sweaty Southern law and order murder case,

August 13: Bonnie and Clyde
Bad Boy Bad Girl Love Story?
classic, historic, operatic, bullet-ridden, notorious 1930’s bank robbers,

August 18: The Born Losers
Tom Laughlin’s, Billy Jack creates a brand and a trilogy
motorcycle gangs, injustice, martial arts, iconic loner heroics.

WHEW!

The Calm Before The Storm
While 1967 celebrated the Summer of Love, there was a curious darkness that was off in the distance in the ethers – an unknown, but serious vibe.  That vibe was attained by the enlightened who were tuned into higher frequencies; for by August of the next year, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Framcis Kennedy would both be asassinated – as the Vietnam war escalated.
1968 was a harrowing time.

But in August 1967 no one could have known – this was an epic summer for anyone anywhere who tapped into the fun, magickal Vibe.  The awareness that Marijuana unveiled also included a distant voice saying “Question Authority” and the true sixth sense of “justified paranoia and self-preservation while flyin’ high” began.

The loss of innocense is the cost of awareness; for while it is possible to maintain a youthful soul, awareness is a maturing process that reveals the truth – and therefore the world is never the same.

At sixteen 00individual stepped through the Veil into a New Reality; enjoying his entry-level indulgence in Marijuana, Hashish, and a Upper or Downer here or there, and the Freedom that came with a Part-Time Job, Drivers License, and a Car that facilatated Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.

It was his first real sense of the Counter-Culture’s Lifestyle of Individualism that yet had an undefinable cosmic Tribal  link – a Vibe, The Vibe.

.

From sky-surfing to off-rail mode Summer of Love beach parties, The Psychedelic Train morphs into Deep Marine Mode and takes a dip in the Pacific Ocean to cruise the Legendary Deep Sea Cities.

“The Psychedelic Train Cruises The Deep Sea Cities of the Pacific Ocean”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

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

Next stop, the Last Month of the Summer of Love:
September!

.

1967 Archives

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

.

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear directly below on this site –
00individual does not endorse nor receive any payment of any kind from any of those advertiser(s).

1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . TEN YEARS AFTER – Debut Album – 10/27/67 . . . and the 50 Year Old Mystery of the Weird Fifth Face

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!
TEN YEARS AFTER – Debut Self-titled – 10/27/67 – Deram DES 18009

Ten Years After – with a very sci-fi, futuristic, doomsday, paradise, premonition, undead, band name that begged the question, Watt?  It soon became clear that the TYA name meant a Psychedelic Blues Rock Band and Vibe that delivered with a distinct, unique sound and style.

Coming into the first year’s end of 00individual’s first year of getting high, Ten Years After released a very impressive time-stamp imprint of a space in time that served as an introduction to a vast new world of sound on the horizon.  By 1967, British bands were plumbing the depths of American Blues with electrifying results.  These sincere “tributes” to the Blues created a solid genre of British Blues Rock.

Led by Alvin Lee’s righteous Blues vocals and incindiary guitar, Ten Years After were  blessed with the Rockin’ precision of Leo Lyons’ bass, Chick Churchill’s organ, and Ric Lee’s (no blood relation to Alvin) drums.

TYA had the Psychedelic aspects of the Blues ingrained from the start, including a very LSD influenced album cover that continued with Undead and then to make sure they got their psychedelic point across TYA let Rockers know that they too were Stoners with the title of their next studio album, Stonedhenge.  Alvin Lee and Company were right there, on the scene at every milestone of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Highway during the Classic Rock Era.

There were two tracks that really resonated with 00individual and stone Blues Rockers everywhere; I Can’t Keep from Crying Sometimes and Help Me.  These two alone speak volumes of  the passion and intense smoldering casual ambience of ’67/’68/’69 – and if you can dig it, up to the present.

TEN YEARS AFTER
Side one
“I Want to Know” (Sheila McLeod as pseudonym Paul Jones) – 2:11
“I Can’t Keep from Crying Sometimes” (Al Kooper) – 5:24
“Adventures of a Young Organ” (Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill) – 2:34
“Spoonful” (Willie Dixon) – 6:05
“Losing the Dogs” (Alvin Lee, Gus Dudgeon) – 3:03
Side two
“Feel It for Me” (Alvin Lee) – 2:40
“Love Until I Die” (Alvin Lee) – 2:06
“Don’t Want You Woman” (Alvin Lee) – 2:37
“Help Me” (Ralph Bass, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson) – 9:51

The 50 Year Old Mystery of the Weird Fifth Face
. . . what’s with the weird fifth face peeking over Chick Churchill’s shoulder?

It is obvious that who or what is peeking was not in the original shot as all others are equally over-exposed and saturated and the tilted semi-motion blur that is uniform with TYA runs opposite with the Peeker.

Definately a pretty clean 1967’s paste-up job, but not as good as the infamous February 21, 1964 Life magazine cover of Lee Harvey Oswald – the conflicting shadows and lighting, the proportions, the stance – horrendous by today’s discerning eyes, but back then it was real.

What really begs the question is: Were TYA aware and was it done with their approval? Was this an art department prank that stuck? Was this an inside joke?  Or was this just another accepted step in psychedelia that was expected; something to trip on – as the cover’s text and the image are both very LSD influenced. Or was it a ghostly apparition only seen when the film was developed?  Yeah, the last one.

Bottom line, Trippy Far Out 1967 Psychedelic Blues Rock record and cover!

Ten Years After would make Rock History with their next two albums ’69’s “Ssssh” and  ’70’s “Cricklewood Green” – both Iconic ’70’s Rock.

.

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear directly below on this site –

1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . TEN YEARS AFTER – STONEDHENGE 2/22/69 plus a Mini-MindBlower – TYA & 2001: A Space Odyssey!

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

TEN YEARS AFTER – STONEDHENGE – February 22, 1969 – Deram Des 18021
plus
a Mini-Mindblower: TYA & 2001: A Space Odyssey!

The day after 00individual turned eighteen Ten Years After released the album Stonedhenge.  The overtly clever album’s title acknowledged the band’s endorsement and certainly their fans approval.

Stonedhenge was one of those direct hits at a time when music really shaped the environment. The beach pad 00individual shared with two good friends was a nightly place to gather, get high,
hang-out and enjoy music and good times.

Most everyone, whether they consciously know it or not, have imprints made by the music associated with personal life events, or even casual moments, these imprints can unlock detailed memory files – here’s a trippy example from the Stonedhenge-era:

Ten Years After and 2001: A Space Odyssey – Dig this Mini-Mindblower 
2001: A Space Odyssey was released on April 4^th, 1968 and was considered a huge event at the time with nearly everyone and especially the Counter-Culture.  The heavy symbolism and sounds of Strauss’ waltzes as background to the glorious images of a real space station in orbit and the slowly well-paced direction of Stanley Kubrick created a technical and realistic foundation for the film’s phantasmagorical ending – which was both the definition of visual psychedelic AND a true mental mind-blower.  This wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling psychedelic extravaganza was a must LSD Trip.

00individual has seen this film stoned and straight and it’s aces either way, but that ending sequence was epic and far out and truly like nothing anyone had seen prior to Kubrick.  No concert light show could come close.  And since the sequence was meant to literally put you into the main character, actor Kier Dullea’s, Point Of View surging through space and time; mid-theater was a good peripheral choice for viewing.  By the time one vicariously emerges as the Starchild, well, whew, what a Trip!

A year later in February of ’69, Ten Years After released their album, Stonedhenge.  Two months later 2001: A Space Odyssey played in selected theaters for its one year anniversary celebration.

00individual dropped acid and went to see and experience this great event again.  Toward the end of the film, the viewer is literally inside Dullea’s space suit and can hear him breathing throughout nearly the entire Psychedelic Trip sequence and the aging process, which is a perfect way to immerse and engage the audience.

Anyway 00individual tripped good, and he carried the mysterious contemplative high with him from the theater out into the late evening air.

Back at his beach pad, still stoned on acid but manageable, he put on TYA’s Stonedhenge and the first track is “I’m Going to Try” – and it starts with a heart beat and deep audible breathing and immediately 00individual flashed on the breathing/heartbeat in 2001 and it was a cool trippy synchronistic connection – and an archival stamp on a place in time and history for his experience of film, music and pure Hippie exhilaration!

Aside from the 2001 synch, “I’m Going to Try” gets cooler when Alvin begins to sing – at 1:23 into the track it sounds as though he’s channeling Elvis – he starts out like Elvis and then becomes Elvis.  00individual had heard Alvin Lee live on camera in a TV interview back then and 00individual could hardly understand a word he said because of his thick English accent, but right there on camera he started playing acoustic guitar and singing, and his voice was clear and totally understandable, but when he stopped and chatted with the interviewer, 00individual lost him again.

Stonedhenge was the perfect blend of diverse genres; Blues, Rock, Jazz, Scat, Boogie, Ballad and Psychedelia, that once heard as a whole, took on a weird concept feel, and it was the first album where nearly all tracks are by Alvin Lee.

STONEDHENGE
Side one
“Going to Try” (Alvin Lee) – 4:52
“I Can’t Live Without Lydia” (Chick Churchill) – 1:23
“Woman Trouble” (Alvin Lee) – 4:37
“Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob” (Alvin Lee) – 1:44
“Hear Me Calling” (Alvin Lee) – 5:44
Side two
“A Sad Song” (Alvin Lee) – 3:23
“Three Blind Mice” (traditional, arranged by Ric Lee) – 0:57
“No Title” (Alvin Lee) – 8:13
“Faro” (Leo Lyons) – 1:10
“Speed Kills” (Alvin Lee, Mike Vernon) – 3:42.

Even the back album cover’s infrared heiroglyphed Stonehenge image triggers memories of ’69.
These were the carefree days just before things burst loose and all forms of cosmic shenanigans  became seemingly daily adventures that were physical, mental, emotional, and fucking fun.

STONEDHENGE!

.

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear below on this site –

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

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

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

00individual was among those blessed to be born into this existence during the most concentrated Cultural events of the late ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.  To have been able to experience the slow innocent build of the ’50s as a single-digit Rocker, and of the real-time experience in his teens in the ’60s, and twenties in the ’70s is an exceptional gift, especially for those who appreciated it then, as now.

Let’s Rock:

July 1: The Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” goes #1 for 15 weeks.
July 3: “News at 10” premieres on English TV.
July 7: The Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” is released.
July 7: The Doors’ “Light My Fire” hits #1.
July 10: Bobbie Gentry records “Ode to Billie Joe” – single goes on to win 4 Grammys.
July 12: Race riot in Newark, NJ, 26 killed, 1,500 injured & over 1,000 arrested.
July 14: Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing.
July 14: The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman’s Hermits.
July 17: Jimi Hendrix is the opening act for
The Monkees at Forest Hills NY.
July 17: Race riots in Cairo Illinois.
July 17: John Coltrane, 40, African-American jazz composer & saxophonist, dies.
July 19: 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line).
July 19: Race riots in Durham NC.
July 19: US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit. 
July 22: 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC).
July 22: Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act for the Monkees’ tour.

July 23 -27: 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires).
July 23: Pirate Radio Swinging Scotland closes down for financial reasons.
July 23: First successful liver transplant – Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado.
July 24: The Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana.
July 24: Race riots in Cambridge, Maryland.
July 24: The Beach Boys release The Best of The Beach Boys Vol. 2 .
July 24: Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game.
July 27: LBJ sets up commission to study cause of urban violence.
July 31: The Young Rascals release their album, Groovin’.
 July 31: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards end one month jail sentence.

 

 

 

 

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending July 29, 1967:

1  LIGHT MY FIRE – The Doors (Elektra)
2  I WAS MADE TO LOVE HER – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)
3  WINDY – The Association (Warner Brothers)
4  CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU – Frankie Valli (Philips)
5  A WHITER SHADE OF PALE – Procol Harum (Deram)
6  LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL – The Music Explosion (Laurie)
7  MERCY, MERCY, MERCY – The Buckinghams (Columbia)
8  WHITE RABBIT – Jefferson Airplane (RCA Victor)
9  UP-UP AND AWAY – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
10  C’MON MARIANNE – The Four Seasons (Philips)
11  SAN FRANCISCO (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie (Ode)
12  I TAKE IT BACK – Sandy Posey (MGM)
13  COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT – Every Mothers’ Son (MGM)
14  JACKSON – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (Reprise)
15  HERE WE GO AGAIN – Ray Charles (ABC/TRC)
16  CARRIE-ANNE – The Hollies (Epic)
17  SILENCE IS GOLDEN – The Tremeloes (Epic)
18  SOUL FINGER – The Bar-Kays (Volt)
19  A GIRL LIKE YOU – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
20  THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)

JULY MOVIES

There was far too much fun goin’ on in the real surreal world that movies could not compete with during the Summer of Love.  This was it Folks, the Height of The Love Generation.  It truly was; even though ooindividual was still only sixteen he knew Love; physical, mental, emotional, empathetic, unconditional Love.  He was just one of the many who were part of The Love Generation.

In 1967 the world opened up to those who opened their minds.  The vapors of the positive elements of the Summer of Love of 1967 continued; Brotherly Love was still felt and trust was given.  And having a grin on one’s face all of the time could be caused by so many thoughts, visuals, interactions, and mental/physical stimuli that it would have been hard not to smile.

Any July is regarded as the Height of Summer – in July 1967 Summer made History.
.

“Fans Greet The Psychedelic Train At The Summer Of Love Beach Party”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

From sky-surfing to off-rail mode, The Psychedelic Train is greeted by a Summer Of Love Beach Party and sets off a colorful smokeworks response in appreciation to enjoy a Fourth of July concert and trip-out to the “night-time is the right-time” fireworks display.
Celebrate Freedom! 

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

Next stop – August 1967!

.

1967 Archives

January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June . . .

.

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

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

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY and the COUNTER-CULTURE’S COSMIC UNITY

The MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL June 16-18, 1967

The Monterey International Pop Festival was the brainchild of John Phillips of “The Mamas and The Papas”, and legendary super producer Lou Adler – timed perfectly to kick-start the historic Summer of Love cultural Vibe.

The cosmic level of Rock Pop Counter-Culture History that was produced at Monterey served as a cultural debut of the future, not only for the populace, but more importantly for the Counter-Culture itself.  Monterey Pop was the beginning of what could be, and what was to be.

There was so much happening, evolving, and being quickly assimilated in 1967 that the intricacies of what was really happening – a generational ideological music-oriented liberating socio-political drug-fueled movement that would change society forever – had become a multi-layered lifestyle.

For the Historic Archives here are the performers: Friday, June 16. Evening – 1 The Association 2 The Paupers 3 Lou Rawls 4 Beverley (Kutner) 5 Johnny Rivers 6 Eric Burdon & the Animals 7 Simon and Garfunkel Saturday, June 17. Afternoon – 1 Canned Heat 2 Big Brother and the Holding Company w/Janis Joplin 3 Country Joe and the Fish 4 Al Kooper 5 The Butterfield Blues Band 6 Quicksilver Messenger Service 7 Steve Miller Band 8 The Electric Flag Saturday, June 17. Evening – 1 Moby Grape 2 Hugh Masekela 3 The Byrds 4 Laura Nyro 5 Jefferson Airplane 6 Booker T. & the M.G.s 7 Otis Redding Sunday, June 18. Afternoon – Ravi Shankar Sunday, June 18. Evening – 1 Blues Project 2 Big Brother and the Holding Company 3 The Group With No Name 4 Buffalo Springfield 5 The Who 6 Grateful Dead 7 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 8 The Mamas & the Papas 9 Scott McKenzie 10 Mamas & Papas & Scott McKenzie

The Monterey International Pop Festival’s peaceful sucess introduced the Summer of Love . . .
and while considered trite today, Scott McKenzie’s Top 20 Hit, “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”, was heartfelt and was highly representative of the Vibe; the emergence and cosmic feeling of empathy and love and rock ‘n’ roll.

The Vibe is a hard feeling to describe.  Imagine waking up in the morning and going about your daily business only there is a subtle feeling of excitement coming from within.  This feeling was unique and ubiquitous and became part of every level of life.  It had no judgement or appropriation of class, it existed in the knowing recognition of another like-minded Brother or Sister who was also exploring life through an entirely new viewpoint with clarity, priority, vision, truth, reality, and empathetic Brotherly Love.

Arguably the catalyst for all of this stemmed from the enlightened experiences of Marijuana and LSD.  The unique part of the Vibe was that stoned or straight, longhair or shorthair, a symbiotic bond was known and felt among those whose world had opened up to many new ways of thought and to an acquired awareness.  And when a good Vibe is transferred, Cosmic Unity spreads.

This was exemplified by the emerging Counter-Culture’s celebration of music and performers in a peaceful, joyful outdoor environment was communal, tribal, respectful, appreciative, enjoyable, fun-loving, and empowering.  These were emotions that were obviously felt to varying degrees by everyone at Monterey, and the feelings continued at concerts and events thereafter, serving as evidence of the Unity of Music, People, and Rock ‘n’ Roll that re-inforced the Vibe.

THE SUMMER OF LOVE!

The Main Attraction of the Summer of Love was centered in and around the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco with Psychedelic Rock bands; The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger Service creating an allure that was magickal.  The West Coast Sound included a similar scene in Los Angeles centered in and around the Westside and the Canyons; Topanga and Laurel.  The Doors, The Byrds, The Seeds, Love, and Buffalo Springfield pioneered Folk Rock and Psychedelic Rock.

Although the Summer of Love had inadvertent negative repercussions, especially in the Haight, it historically represents the idealized moment in time when individuals joined in peace for alternative lifestyles not burdened by status, materialism, and consumerism; instead they appreciated the simple things in life like Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Equality, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, enjoying life, and Love.

00individual’s contribution to the Summer of Love:
On June 16-18, 1967 00individual was not 320 miles up the coast at Monterey.  He was 16, just got his license, and for a total of ninety-nine dollars purchased a spacious ’51 Buick, and contributed to the Summer of Love parked in the backseat having sex with his girlfriend.

Let’s Rock:

June 1: The Beatles release “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the US.
While there were many iconic images, music, performances, and historic events that took place within 1967, The Beatles not only created thee indelible stamp of the Height of Psychedelia, Height of Pop Rock, Height of Music, and Height of an Era, but also served as the unified umbrella of the Counter-Culture – The Beatles owned the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album at #1 for 15 weeks.

June 3: Aretha Franklin‘s “Respect” reaches #1.

June 6: Moby Grape release eponymous album “Moby Grape”.

June 7: Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors.

June 8: Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen.

June 9: The Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl.

June 10: 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Tamalpais Mountain Theater, CA – This festival should be recognized as the Prelude to Monterey and the Summer of Love, but has been relegated to Rock Obscurity.

June 10: USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel.

June 11: Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes.

June 12: Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested).

June 12: US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.

June 12: “You Only Live Twice”, 5th James Bond film starring Sean Connery, screenplay by Roald Dahl, premieres in London.

June 13: Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice.

June 14: “Steve Allen Show” premieres on CBS-TV.

June 15: Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill.

June 16-18: 50,000-100,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival.

June 17: Jefferson Airplane‘s “Somebody To Love” peaks at #5.

June 17: Barbra Streisand performed: “A Happening in Central Park”.

June 17: China becomes world’s 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power.

June 19: Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD.

June 20: Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services.

June 23: Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA).

June 25: 400 million watch The Beatles “Our World” TV special.

June 25: Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years.

June 26:  The Rolling Stones release “Flowers” compilation.

June 27: Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested).

June 27: The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.

June 28: George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding.

June 29: Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge.

June 30: Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.  named 1st black astronaut.

June: Tom Jones releases “Tom Jones Live!”.

June: Leonard Nimoy Presents “Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space” album is released.

June: UK band Procol Harum have a #1 UK and #5 US hit with “Whiter Shade of Pale”.

June: Florence Ballard is fired from The Supremes, who would hereafter be known as Diana Ross and the Supremes.

June: Van Morrison, formerly of the Northern Ireland band Them, has a #10 US, #60 UK hit as a solo artist with “Brown Eyed Girl”.

June: UK based Australian band, The Bee Gees score three US Top Twenty hits off their US debut album.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending June 17, 1967:
1 GROOVIN’ – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
2 RESPECT – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
3 SHE’D RATHER BE WITH ME – The Turtles (White Whale)
4 RELEASE ME (And Let Me Love Again) – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)
5 SOMEBODY TO LOVE – Jefferson Airplane (RCA Victor)
6 LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL – The Music Explosion (Laurie)
7 WINDY – The Association (Warner Brothers)
8 ALL I NEED – The Temptations (Gordy)
9 I GOT RHYTHM – The Happenings (B.T. Puppy)
10 MIRAGE – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
11 CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU – Frankie Valli (Philips)
12 SUNDAY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME – Spanky and Our Gang (Mercury)
13 COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT – Every Mothers’ Son (MGM)
14 7 ROOMS OF GLOOM – The Four Tops (Motown)
15 LET’S LIVE FOR TODAY – The Grass Roots (Dunhill))
16 HIM OR ME – WHAT’S IT GONNA BE – Paul Revere and the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
17 DING DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD – The Fifth Estate (Jubilee)-5 (17)
18 NEW YORK MINING DISASTER 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones) – The Bee Gees (Atco)
19 DO IT AGAIN A LITTLE BIT SLOWER – Jon and Robin and the In Crowd (Abnak)
20 SAN FRANCISCO (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie (Ode)

JUNE MOVIES

HOW FRESH IS THIS STORY?NOW THAT’S FRESH!

June 7: Caprice
June 7: El Dorado
June 13: You Only Live Twice
June 14: Thoroughly Modern Millie
June 14: To Sir With Love
June 15: The Dirty Dozen

.

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train is again in Off-Rail Mode soaring over psychedelic sixties landscapes and headed for six more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

“Psychedelic Train shifts into AntiGravAeronaut Mode and Surfs the Skies”
copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

The Psychedelic Train shifts into AntiGravAeronaut Mode and takes to the skies above the beachtowns of the California Coast headed for the Monterey International Pop Festival and then on to the Summer of Love. 

Next stop – July 1967!

The Summer Of Love Heats Up!

.

1967 Archives

January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May

.

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear on this site –
00individual does not endorse nor receive any payment of any kind from any advertiser(s).

 

NEIL YOUNG – “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” May 14, 1969 and “Harvest” February 1, 1972

NEIL YOUNG with CRAZY HORSE – EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Reprise RS 6349 – May 14, 1969

Neil Young’s career is truly legendary with both hit recordings and live SRO performances – solo or with the historic, classic Rock bands; Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – as well as with a solid fan base over the decades.

This second solo release after leaving Buffalo Springfield saw him reach a righteous balance of Ballads and Hard Rock. Joined with the solid musicians of Crazy Horse, the hooks and beats became infectious classics.  Cinnamon Girl packs a head-nodic three minute punch, and both ten minute classics Down by the River, and Cowgirl in the Sand serve as the basis for countless bands’ songs ever after.

“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” Side One: 1. Cinnamon Girl 2:58, 2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 2:26, 3. Round & Round 5:49, 4. Down by the River 9:13.  Side Two: 5. The Losing End (When You’re On) 4:03, 6. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) 5:30, 7. Cowgirl in the Sand 10:06.

Young would soon be etched in Rock History in 1970 by joining ex-Byrd David Crosby, his Springfield bandmate Stephen Stills, and ex-Hollies Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and release the era’s defining album “Déjà Vu”.

He would take another place in Rock History Hierarchy with “Harvest”, his fourth solo album, and the Best-Selling Album of 1972 in the United States.  00individual can testify that as a So. Cal. Record Store Manager in the early ‘70s, “Harvest” was a monster!

One of the lost gems in Rock History is the rousin’, rockin’ eponymous 1971 debut album by the truly great band Crazy Horse: Danny Whitten – guitars, lead vocals, Nils Lofgren – guitars, vocals; legendary Jack Nitzsche – piano, vocals; Billy Talbot – bass, vocals, Ralph Molina – drums, vocals.
The whole album is aces with stand-out classics Gone Dead Train and Beggars Day.

NEIL YOUNG – HARVEST
Reprise RS 2032- February 14, 1972

1971 – After defeating hundreds of other applicants for a job at the notoriously-discounted and famously-known Crane’s Records in Inglewood; the Home of the Fabulous Forum!  00individual was able to land the coverted job!  Well, …actually at $1.00 an hour, ten hours a day from 10 AM until 8 PM, Monday through Sunday (seven days a week) – for three months straight – no one else wanted the job.  But he was in – and after the crash course of record store boot camp, and upon achieving super-human knowledge via his trivia-obsessed mutant form of Hyperthymesia (blessing/curse), and with a $3.00 an hour raise, he was put in charge as sole manager of Crane’s Palos Verdes Record and Tape Store on Highway 1, located near the beach, just north of Malaga Cove, which was around the point from the original “Marineland” of the Pacific.  Groovy.

At twenty, for nearly a year, from ’71 to ’72, that store became his second home and he really styled and customized the place.  He took the fixtures from a clothes store next door that had closed and installed their slanted shingled “roof” over the length of the whole cash register area; supported by slender real tree trunk poles braced at both ends, this gave the counter area a “natural” environment and a nice place to do business.

With a wall of cassettes behind him, 00individual would look out across his domain and down all of the aisles as his satisfied subjects flipped and sifted through bins of choice records while rockin’ to the cranked-up sounds of Hendrix’ “In the West”, or T-Rex’ “Electric Warrior”, or Led Zeppelin IV, or Deep Purple’s “Machine Head”, or America’s debut album – or Alice Cooper’s “Schools Out”, or Neil Young’s “Harvest” – and those were just the most recent Warner/Reprise/Atlantic releases! Good times?  No, epic times!

“Harvest” sold so well that 00individual just stacked the sealed factory boxes with the top box open – no need to file or display “Harvest” – just keep it in stock.

“HARVEST” Side one 1. “Out on the Weekend” 4:35, 2. “Harvest” 3:11, 3. “A Man Needs a Maid” 4:05, 4. “Heart of Gold” 3:07, 5. “Are You Ready for the Country?” 3:33  Side two 1. “Old Man” 3:24, 2. “There’s a World” 2:59, 3. “Alabama” 4:02, 4. “The Needle and the Damage Done” (recorded in concert January 30, 1971) 2:03, 5. “Words (Between the Lines of Age)” 6:40.

Apparently Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” in response to Young’s racist portrayal of the South with the “Harvest” track,  Alabama and the “After The Goldrush” track, Southern Man.  So basically Neil Young is responsible for one of the most loved and famous songs of the ’70s.
But . . .
in his 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, Young commented on his role in the song’s creation, writing “My own song ‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue”.

A rarity; a man owns up – and that’s why Neil Young is a Legend – well, that, and all that other music stuff.

 .

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear on this site –
00individual does not endorse nor receive any payment of any kind from any advertiser(s).

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

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

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

MAY EXPLODES!  

Let’s Rock:

May 1: Elvis marries 21 year old Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas.
He has been dating her since she was fourteen.

May 4: Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7.

May 6: Pearls Before Swine begin recording an album called “One Nation Underground”. The LP includes a song called “Miss Morse”, which would be banned in New York when it was discovered that lead singer Tom Rapp was singing F-U-C-K in Morse code. After disc jockey Murray The K played the record on the air, local Boy Scouts
correctly interpreted the chorus and phoned in a complaint.

May 6: The Who’s Keith Moon offers this insightful advice to young
drummers during an interview in Melody Maker Magazine: “To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder.”

May 6: Two weeks after being pushed out of the top spot on the Cashbox Best Sellers list by The Monkees’ “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You”, Nancy and Frank Sinatra return to number one with “Something Stupid”.

May 6: 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania

May 7: Soviet youths openly defied police and danced The Twist in Moscow’s Red Square during May Day celebrations.

May 8: Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army.

May 8: Gerry And The Pacemakers announced that they were splitting up, recognizing that they could ‘no longer keep pace with the rapidly changing UK Rock scene.’

May 10: Rolling Stones Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges.

May 11: The 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected.

May 11: The Bee Gees made their debut on the UK TV show Top Of The Pops, performing “New York Mining Disaster, 1941” which will enter the UK Pop chart two days later and go on to reach #12. In reality, there was no mining disaster in New York in 1941, although there was one in McIntire, Pennsylvania which killed 6 people.

May 12: The Jimi Hendrix Experience release their debut album, “Are You Experienced”; and with it Hendrix creates an Art Form. This album takes Rock and Psychedelia to its highest eschalon.  Guitarists re-evaluate their career; Rockers, their lives.

May 12: 20th Cannes Film Festival; “Blowup” directed by Michelangelo Antonioni wins the Grand Prix du Festivall International du Film.  The Yardbirds Beck/Page lineup were featured in the genre-spawning London-set psychedelic noire mystery, “Blow Up”, in a club scene performing “Stroll On”; (the “legal” version of “The Train kept A- Rollin’”). Toward the end of the scene Beck destroys his guitar onstage to emulate the soon-to-be legendary
destructo-showmanship of the Who’s Pete Townshend.

May 13: NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller.

May 15: Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman.

May 15: “In re Gault”, US Supreme Court rules juveniles accused of crimes should be given same legal rights as adults.

May 16: The Monkees’ third LP, “Headquarters” was released. It was their first album recorded primarily by the four members of the group and would reach #1 in the US for one week before being relegated to second place for eleven consecutive weeks by “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”.

May 17: Dylan’s filmed 1965 UK Tour is released as “Don’t Look Back”.

May 19: US bombs Hanoi (Vietnam War).

May 19: USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US banning nuclear weapons in space.

May 20: 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

May 20: The BBC announces that it will not play The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life”, claiming it contained explicit drug references. On the same day, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr go to the BBC to record interviews for the show Where It’s At.

May 20: The Young Rascals scores the second of their three Billboard #1 records when “Groovin” reaches the top. It made #8 in the UK. Felix Cavalieri and Eddie Brigati wrote this song because their work schedule would only allow them to see their girlfriends on Sunday afternoons.

May 20: Manuel Fernandez, founding member and organist for Los Bravos on their 1966 hit “Black Is Black”, committed suicide at 23.

May 22: “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” debuts on NET (now PBS).

May 25: John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelically painted Rolls Royce.

May 26: The Mothers of Invention release the classic “Absolutely Free” album.

May 26: The Beatles masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released in the UK, one week before its American June 1st debut. The album took over 700 hours to record under the direction of George Martin and cost $75,000 to produce. A then state-of-the-art four track recorder was used to build each song layer by layer. The LP spent 22 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. The iconic album cover, depicting the band posing in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth based on a sketch by Paul McCartney. “Sgt. Pepper” has now sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

May 27: Otis Redding’s backup band, The Bar-Kays, enter the US charts with “Soul Finger”, an instrumental that will peak at #3 R&B and #17 Pop. Six months later, four members of the band died in the plane crash that killed Redding.

May 27: Columbia and RCA Victor, two of America’s biggest record labels, announce that they will raise the list price of L.P.s by one dollar on June 1st. It’s the first increase since 1953.

May 28: 1967: Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd were among the performers at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincoln, England.

May 28: A new band from Los Angeles,
The Doors, release their first single, “Light My Fire”. It reached #1 and became one of the Top 20 Songs of the Rock Era. The Doors went on to have 17 hits, including three Top 10 songs.

May 30: World-Class Daredevil, Robert “Evel” Knievel, jumps 16 automobiles on his motorcycle.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending
May 20, 1967:
1  GROOVIN’ – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
2 THE HAPPENING – The Supremes (Motown)
3  SWEET SOUL MUSIC – Arthur Conley (Atco)
4  SOMETHIN’ STUPID – Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
5  RESPECT – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
6  I GOT RHYTHM – The Happenings (B.T. Puppy)
7  RELEASE ME (And Let Me Love Again) – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)
8  CLOSE YOUR EYES – Peaches and Herb (Date)
9  DON’T YOU CARE – The Buckinghams (Columbia)
10  YOU GOT WHAT IT TAKES – The Dave Clark Five (Epic)
11  GIRL, YOU’LL BE A WOMAN SOON – Neil Diamond (Bang)
12  ON A CAROUSEL – The Hollies (Imperial)
13  CREEQUE ALLEY – The Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill)
14  HIM OR ME – WHAT’S IT GONNA BE – Paul Revere and the Raiders/Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
15  WHEN I WAS YOUNG – Eric Burdon and the Animals (MGM)
16  FRIDAY ON MY MIND – The Easybeats (United Artists)
17  I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
18  HERE COMES MY BABY – The Tremeloes (Epic)
19  MIRAGE – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
20  A LITTLE BIT ME, A LITTLE BIT YOU – The Monkees (Colgems)

MAY MOVIES

May 10: Per qualche dollaro in più  (For A Few Dollars More) – Clint Eastwood
May 17: Don’t Look Back – Bob Dylan concert tour documentary
May 25: Barefoot in the Park – Robert Redford & Jane Fonda
May 27: The War Wagon – John Wayne & Kirk Douglas

.

OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train is headed for seven more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

“Psychedelic Train Takin’ A Trip And Manifestin’ A Reality” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

After April’s sumptuous breakfast at the Psychedelic Coffee Shop, off Route 67, and back on the rails, the effects of the “Rainbow Plate Special” are coming on –
please enjoy the scenery. 

Next stop – June 1967!
And the Official Beginning of the Summer of Love!

.

– Please disregard any advertisements that may appear on this site –
00individual does not endorse nor receive any payment of any kind from any advertiser(s).