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

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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

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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”
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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!

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1967 Archives

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

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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.

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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

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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!

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

“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.

April was the calm before the Cultural Explosion.  What seemed like (in comparison, thus far) a mundane month, April was merely the respite needed in order to keep pace with what was soon to come.

Let’s Rock:

April 1: Paul McCartney’s supposed death in a fiery auto accident on November 9, 1966, created further rumors that he was replaced by a much more talented look-alike, one William Campbell aka Billy Shears.  By the end of March the truth spread outside The Beatles’ small circle of friends that McCartney did have a double, but not because he died, but because he wanted/demanded time off for writing, composing, reflecting, and family. So for all public appearances, publicity photo-shoots, limited interviews and such, the double took over while Paul was busy creating and enjoying life.  Paul’s successful ruse caused animosity, as John, George and Ringo, felt used and wanted that “double” relief too.  So to make peace, on the first day of April 1967, Paul agreed to resume his role and duties in the band – but the seed to go solo was planted, and as history shows three years later on April 9, 1970, Paul would announce The Beatles breakup – and accompanied with that press release was a copy of his debut solo album “McCartney” – he knew how to max a moment.
Late 1966: Paul (left) William (right) or is it . . . ?

April 7: Tom Donahue, San Francisco DJ begins new radio format – Progressive (KMPX-FM).  Later he was programmer for many other stations including KPPC.

April 7: Canned Heat opened at the Avalon Ballroom.

April 8: Sandie Shaw wins 12th Eurovision Song Contest.

April 9: The Doors appear for two shows at the Cheetah on the Santa Monica Pier, Venice CA. with The Jefferson Airplane.  The Doors, riding high on the success of their debut album are for the first time top billing over the biggest bands from friendly rival San Francisco and playing to their largest crowd to date of over 3,000 – a big night for the band.

April 9: The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.

April 11: Buffalo Springfield, and the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at the Rock Garden, 4742 Mission near Ocean.

April 12: Benefit at the Fillmore Auditorium for arrested members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. The Airplane, the Dead, and Moby Grape appeared.

April 14: Country Joe and the Fish performed in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park on the eve of the Peace March.

April 15: Antiwar Protests and Peace March held in New York and San Francisco – Draft cards burned.  100,000 people marched from Second and Market to Kezar Stadium at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Vietnam veteran David Duncan gave the keynote speech.

April 17: Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20.

April: Blues Magoos release their second album “Electric Comic Book”. Their debut in November 1966, “Psychedelic Lollipop” was one of the first albums to use the word “psychedelic” in the album title.

April 20: Howlin’ Wolf opened at the Matrix.

April 23: Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov, Russian
Cosmonaut, becomes first in-flight casualty.

April 25: Abortion legalized in Colorado, U.S.

April 25: Jules Feiffer‘s “Little Murders” premieres in NYC,

April 27: US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

April 28: Muhammad Ali protests the Vietnam War  and refuses induction into the Army and is stripped of his Championship Boxing Title.

April 29: Aretha Franklin releases “Respect”.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending April 18, 1967:
1  SOMETHIN’ STUPID – Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
2  HAPPY TOGETHER – The Turtles (White Whale)
3  THIS IS MY SONG – Petula Clark (Warner Brothers)
4  BERNADETTE – The Four Tops (Motown)
5  A LITTLE BIT ME, A LITTLE BIT YOU – The Monkees (Colgems)
6  WESTERN UNION – The Five Americans (Abnak)
7  I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
8  DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE – The Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill)
9  I NEVER LOVED A MAN (The Way I Love You) – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
10 JIMMY MACK –Martha and the Vandellas (Gordy)
11 SWEET SOUL MUSIC – Arthur Conley (Atco)
12 PENNY LANE – The Beatles (Capitol)
13 THERE’S A KIND OF HUSH – Herman’s Hermits (MGM)
14 THE 59TH STREET BRIDGE SONG (Feelin’ Groovy) – Harpers Bizarre (Warner Brothers)
15 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound) – Buffalo Springfield (Atco)
16 BEGGIN’ – The Four Seasons (Philips)
17 AT THE ZOO – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
18 WITH THIS RING – The Platters (Musicor)
19 THE HAPPENING – The Supremes (Motown)
20 DRY YOUR EYES – Brenda and the Tabulations (Dionn)

APRIL MOVIES
April 7: The Karate Killers (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.)April 14: It’s A Bikini World
April 19: Fitzwilly
April 24: Elvira Madigan
April 26: The 25th Hour
April 26: 8 On The Lam
April 27: Two For The Road
April 28: Casino Royale

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

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After concerts ’til dawn in the Jam Car, the Psychedelic Train morphed into Off-Rail Mode, veered off onto the mystical Route 67 in order to stop, let the engines cool-down, and partake in “an orgasm for taste buds” breakfast at the “famous on all levels”,
Psychedelic Coffee Shop. 

Once back on the rails, relax and take in the scenery.
If the landscapes, lakes, and meadows seem to have an opalescent tinge, that’s courtesy of The Psychedelic Coffee Shop’s “special” brand of coffee.
Next stop – May 1967!

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Opening Tracks Matter! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Top 23 Opening Album Tracks of the 1960’s

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Opening tracks matter, which is why most bands were wise to choose an opening track that either hooked the listener in, or set the stage for what was to come – or both.

Some tracks like Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times” Hendrix’ Purple Haze, Lee Michaels’ Hello, Tull’s A New Day Yesterday, King Crimson’s 21st Century Schizoid Man, Blue Cheer’s “Summertime Blues”, and Led Zeppelin’s monster classic Whole Lotta Love are all opening tracks that explode when the needle touches down.

Others create a groove to build on lyrically or musically like LOVE’s “Alone Again Or”, Dr, John’s
“Gris-gris Gumbo Ya-Ya”, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown’s “Fire”, The Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Gimme Shelter”, CCR’s “Born On The Bayou”, and The DOORS’ Break On Through.

And some, like The Moody Blues’ “Higher and Higher”, explode and build lyrically and musically and set the mood for the rest of the album.

And then there’s The Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand”; probably the single most influential opening track in Rock History.  See: 30 Seconds That Transformed A Generation.

“I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND” – The Beatles – Meet The Beatles January 20, 1964

“HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY” – The Mothers of Invention – Freak Out! – June 27, 1966

“SUNSHINE SUPERMAN” – Donovan – Sunshine Superman – August 26, 1966

“I FEEL FREE” – Cream – Fresh Cream –  December 1966 UK / January 1967 US

“BREAK ON THROUGH (To the Other Side)” – The DOORS – The DOORS – January 4, 1967

“SHE HAS FUNNY CARS” – Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow – February 1967

“PURPLE HAZE” – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced – May 12, 1967

“STRANGE BREW” – Cream – Disraeli Gears – November 1967

“ALONE AGAIN OR” – LOVE – Forever Changes – November 1967

“SUMMERTIME BLUES” – Blue Cheer – Vincebus Eruptum – January 1968

“GRIS-GRIS GUMBO YA-YA” – Dr. John, the Night Tripper – Gris -gris –  January 22, 1968

“HELLO” – Lee Michaels – Carnival of Life – 1968

“COMBINATION OF THE TWO” – Big Brother & the Holding Company with Janis Joplin – Cheap Thrills – 1968

“Prelude/Nightmare/Fanfare/Fire Poem  “FIRE” – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown –
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – June 1968

“SHAPES OF THINGS” – Jeff Beck – Truth – August 1968

“SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL” – The Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet – December 6 1968

“GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES” – Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin – January 12, 1969

“BORN ON THE BAYOU” – Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country – January 1969

“A NEW DAY YESTERDAY” – Jethro Tull – Stand Up- August 1,1969

“21st CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN” – King Crimson – In The Court Of The Crimson King –
October 10, 1969

“WHOLE LOTTA LOVE” –  Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II  October 22, 1969

“HIGHER AND HIGHER” – The Moody Blues – To Our Children’s Children’s Children –
November 21, 1969

“GIMME SHELTER” – The Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed – December 5, 1969

OPENING TRACKS MATTER!

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1960′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . CTA – Chicago Transit Authority – April 28, 1969

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!
CTA / CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY  – Columbia GP8 – April 28, 1969

Before Jazz Rock Fusion was a term, there was CTA.  While this new Jazzy/Brass form of Rock initially took a quick bit of music appreciation, it was soon fully embraced by the Counter-Culture and Rockers everywhere.

Once Chicago Transit Authority was legally forced to change their name, they became Chicago, the incredibly consistent and prolific hit-makers destined for major success with Middle Of the Road/ Album Oriented Rock and Pop and Easy Listening radio stations and audiences.
Here’s the proof:
July 1969 “Questions 67 and 68” “Listen” Oct. 1969 “Beginnings” “Poem 58” March 1970 “Make Me Smile”  Chicago II “Colour My World” June 1970 “25 or 6 to 4”  “Where Do We Go from Here” Oct. 1970 “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” Feb. 1971 “Free” Chicago III “Free Country” April 1971 “Lowdown” “Loneliness Is Just a Word” June 1971 “Beginnings” (A-side) June 1971 “Colour My World” (B-side) Chicago II Sept. 1971 “Questions 67 and 68” (A-side) Sept. 1971 “I’m a Man” (B-side) July 1972 “Saturday in the Park” Chicago V “Alma Mater” Oct. 1972 “Dialogue (Part I & II)”  “Now That You’ve Gone” June 1973 “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day” Chicago VI “Jenny” Sept. 1973 “Just You ‘n’ Me” “Critic’s Choice” Feb. 1974 “(I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long”  Chicago VII “Byblos”  June 1974 “Call on Me” “Prelude to Aire” Oct. 1974 “Wishing You Were Here” “Life Saver” Feb. 1975 “Harry Truman” Chicago VIII “Till We Meet Again” April 1975 “Old Days” “Hideaway” Aug. 1975 “Brand New Love Affair (Part I and II)” “Hideaway” June 1976 “Another Rainy Day in New York City” Chicago X “Hope for Love” July 1976 “If You Leave Me Now” “Together Again” March 1977 “You Are on My Mind” “Gently I’ll Wake You” Sept. 1977 “Baby, What a Big Surprise” Chicago XI “Takin’ It On Uptown” Jan. 1978 “Little One” “Till the End of Time” May 1978 “Take Me Back to Chicago” “Policeman” Oct. 1978 “Alive Again” “Love Was New” Dec. 1978 “No Tell Lover” “Take a Chance” March 1979 “Gone Long Gone” “The Greatest Love on Earth” Aug. 1979 “Must Have Been Crazy” Chicago XIII “Closer to You” Oct. 1979 “Street Player” “Window Dreamin'”

BUT with their debut double album one gets the true feel of this group of highly accomplished musicians and vocalists with an absolute love for Rock ‘n’ Roll powered by a rockin’ Horn section that marked a special time of the unique vibe of the last year of the 1960 decade.

Chicago Transit Authority
Side One: 1.”Introduction” 6:35, 2.”Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” 4:35,  3.”Beginnings” 7:54  Side Two: 4. “Questions 67 and 68″  5:03,  5.”Listen”  3:22, 6. “Poem 58” 8:35 Side Three: 7. “Free Form Guitar” 6:47, 8. “South California Purples” 6:11, 9.”I’m a Man” 7:43  Side Four: 10. “Prologue, August 29, 1968” 0:58, 11. “Someday (August 29, 1968)” 4:11, 12. “Liberation” 14:38

CTA: Terry Kath – electric and acoustic guitars, lead and backing vocals, Robert Lamm – grand piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, lead and backing vocals, Hammond organ, Hohner Pianet, maracas, Peter Cetera – bass, lead and backing vocals, Walter Parazaider – saxophones, backing vocals, tambourine, Lee Loughnane – trumpet, backing vocals, claves, James Pankow – trombone, cowbell, brass arrangements, Danny Seraphine – drums, percussion.

While Chicago in any form could never be labeled a Psychedelic Band, that didn’t mean that there wasn’t the desire or ability.  Terry Kath, vocalist and guitarist, cuts loose on Side Three with this Psychedelic Masterpiece, Free Form Guitar.  00individual is not a guitarist and can’t read one note of music, but hearing this solo he knows that to some ears this is just noise, but to the Psychedelic Ear it is an Opera, a Full Length Action Movie, a Sonic Spectacle, and a soulful Epic Tour De Force with Kath giving a Jackson Pollack delivery of intuitive and deliberate evocation – in one take. 

00individual has imprinted memories of rockin’ to this double album on 8 track tape while cruisin’ UCLA and Westwood Village for parties back in ’69.  Truth be known, it was more fun cruisin’ with good friends while gettin’ high, jokin’, laffin’, drinkin’ beer, and rockin’ to the music than any actual parties that were found.
Ain’t it the way – the journey is always better than reaching the destination.

I’M A MAN!

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

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

00individual was among those blessed to be born into this incarnation and into this existence at the most concentrated explosion of the Cultural Epoch 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 the real-time experience in his teens and twenties that matched truly historic events of each decade, is an exceptional gift, especially for those who appreciated it then, as now.

The 1960s are acknowledged as the Height of Pop Culture – and 1967 as the Pinnacle!

Let’s Rock:

March 1: Buffalo Springfield re-release their December 1966 self-titled debut album to include Stills’ zeitgeist classic, For What Its Worth.

March  7: CBS Reports aired the first television news documentary in U.S. history to report on gay and lesbian issues.

March  9: The Fillmore West opens six nights a week.

March  11: The first list of endangered species was issued by Stewart Udall, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior with a total of 78 animals in the U.S. that were threatened with extinction.

March 11: Pink Floyd release their 1st single Arnold Layne.

March  12:  The Velvet Underground release their debut album “The Velvet Underground with Nico” with classics Heroin, Venus In Furs, and I’m \Waiting For The Man.

March: Donovan releases his “Mellow Yellow“ album with psychedelic standout title track.

March 16: U.F.O.s! The first of two unexplained incidents happened at Malmstrom Air Force Base, near Great Falls, Montana, where the U.S. Air Force had missile silos for its Minuteman ICBMs.  According to later accounts, crews in the areas had seen unidentified objects hovering near or over the silos of the Echo Flight section, and starting at 8:45, the launch facilities of ten missiles began going offline and inoperable.  Eight days later, at the Oscar Flight section of Malmstrom AFB, another set of missiles went offline after a UFO was seen.

March 17: The Grateful Dead release their debut self-titled album.

March  18: The Beatles hit #1 with Penny Lane.

March  18: The first demonstration of “slow motion instant replay” on television was shown to viewers of ABC Wide World of Sports.

March  20: The Supremes get psychedelic and release The Happening – title single from the movie of the same name.

March  24: University of Michigan holds first “Teach-in” after bombing of North Vietnam.

March  25: The Turtles have a #1 hit and Summer of Love “theme song” with Happy Together. 00individual went to local dances when local Surf Rock band The Crossfires were The Turtles.

March 25 – April 2: The Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K’s Easter Shows.

March 26: New York’s Central Park “Be-In” (Easter Sunday Love-In) 10,000 attend.

March 27: Bob Dylan releases “Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits“

March 27: The Yardbirds release “The Yardbirds Greatest Hits”.

March 30: The Beatles finish recording their Sergeant Pepper
album and take cover photos.

March 31: Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire for the first time at the Astoria London.

US Top 20 Singles for the
week ending March 18, 1967:
1 PENNY LANE – The Beatles (Capitol)
2 HAPPY TOGETHER – The Turtles (White Whale)
3 BABY I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ – Johnny Rivers (Imperial)
4 LOVE IS HERE AND NOW YOU’RE GONE – The Supremes (Motown)
5 RUBY TUESDAY – The Rolling Stones (London)
6 DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE – The Mamas and the Papas (Dunhill)
7 SOCK IT TO ME-BABY! – Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (New Voice)
8 THERE’S A KIND OF HUSH – Herman’s Hermits (MGM)
9 MY CUP RUNNETH OVER – Ed Ames (RCA Victor)
10 THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE – The Casinos (Fraternity)
11 STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER – The Beatles (Capitol)
12 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH (Stop, Hey What’s That Sound) – Buffalo Springfield (Atco)
13 THE HUNTER GETS CAPTURED BY THE GAME – The Marvelettes (Tamla)
14 KIND OF A DRAG – The Buckinghams (U.S.A.)
15 DARLING BE HOME SOON – The Lovin’ Spoonful (Kama Sutra)
16 CALIFORNIA NIGHTS – Lesley Gore (Mercury)
17 I’VE BEEN LONELY TOO LONG – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
18 I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
19 EPISTLE TO DIPPY – Donovan (Epic)
20 GIMME SOME LOVIN’ – The Spencer Davis Group (United Artists)

MARCH MOVIES
March 8: Mad Monster Party?
March 8: The Taming of the Shrew (Italy/US)
March 9: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’
March  12: The Busy Body
March 14: Ulysses
March 15: Frankenstein Created Woman (UK)
March 15: In Like Flint
March 21: Hombre
March 21: Thoroughly Modern Millie
March 22: Easy Come, Easy Go
March: The Happening

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

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While on the Psychedelic Night Train be sure to visit the Midnight Munchie Car
before enjoying free concerts ’til dawn in the Jam Car. 

Next stop – April 1967!

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