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| Ten Thousand Motels |
PBS gets groovy for 'Summer of Love'
By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer
04/22/2007
San Jose Mercury
Get out your love beads and be sure to wear some flowers in your hair! PBS' "American Experience" takes you on a trip to 1967 for "Summer of Love," a groovy, mind-expanding flashback to a cultural phenomenon full of lofty ideals, but also broken dreams.
The place was San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, where, that summer, thousands of young people from across the country came together to this sudden hippie mecca. But even before they got there, this happening was already on the wane—and the swollen population jamming sidewalks, parks, soup kitchens and health clinics only hastened its demise.
It had begun mere months before as a nonstop celebration of free music, free love, free drugs and "cosmic oneness." It was a revolution that sprung up in response to 1950s-bred comformism and the rampant bloodshed of the Vietnam War.
"Turn on, tune in, drop out!" druggy guru Timothy Leary exhorted a crowd of 20,000 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in January 1967, the "be-in" that led to that summer's overwhelming invasion.
Filmmakers Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco examine the social and cultural forces that sparked the largest migration of young people in America's history. They hear from a diverse group of people who lived through the Summer of Love (including actor Peter Coyote, who sounds like he would gladly do it all again). And they trace the indelible impact those few months has had on the nation ever since.
"Summer of Love" airs
Monday at 9 p.m. EDT (check local listings). |
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| glencar |
This must be about the 10th show on summer of '67. |
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| mojoman |
american express takes you on a trip |
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| fireontheplatter |
did someone say free love and free drugs? |
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| guitarman53 |
Thanks for the information, one of the best events was Monterey Pop Festival. |
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| Brian Jones Girl |
Thanks!
I'll be sure to watch! |
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| Prodigal Son |
Come on, let's be honest though. Most psychedelia was tripe and though it contains some great music that genre, I'll take movements like punk, new wave, brit invasion and soul anyday. You got your Hendrixes, Love, Doors, the Dead. But you also get stuff like Vanilla Fudge and Strawberry Alarm Clock (when your far and away best tune is "Incense and Peppermints," something is wrong). Stuff so airy and hippie-mushy (like "If You're Going to San Fransisco") that it makes "Listen to What the Flower People Say" by Spinal Tap seem like death metal. |
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| pdog |
I was born in the Fall of Love, a much overlooked time. After everybody came down let out a big sigh, realized pay the rent or get the fuck out, Pdog arrived on planet earth. 40 years later, and everything dirty, ugly, noisey and rock and roll lives inside me. Thank you hippie freaks. I'm the leftovers from your far out love fests and peace filled aspirations.
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| Rodney_King |
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I was born in the Fall of Love
man, are you one old sumbitch! |
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| Joey |
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guitarman53 wrote:
Thanks for the information, one of the best events was Monterey Pop Festival.
A - FRIGGIN - MENS !!!!!!!
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| mojoman |
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guitarman53 wrote:
Thanks for the information, one of the best events was Monterey Pop Festival.
hendrix
da who
dead
airplane
band with no name
otis
canned heat
lou rawls
brian jones.............. |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
There were a good ole days.
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| chevysales |
quote:
Prodigal Son wrote:
Come on, let's be honest though. Most psychedelia was tripe and though it contains some great music that genre, I'll take movements like punk, new wave, brit invasion and soul anyday. You got your Hendrixes, Love, Doors, the Dead. But you also get stuff like Vanilla Fudge and Strawberry Alarm Clock (when your far and away best tune is "Incense and Peppermints," something is wrong). Stuff so airy and hippie-mushy (like "If You're Going to San Fransisco") that it makes "Listen to What the Flower People Say" by Spinal Tap seem like death metal.
it wasn't just the music it was the time... different world. |
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| Brian Jones Girl |
Sorry but that thing on TV was boring and disappointing unlike the real Summer of Love. |
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| Brian Jones Girl |
quote:
Prodigal Son wrote:
Come on, let's be honest though. Most psychedelia was tripe and though it contains some great music that genre, I'll take movements like punk, new wave, brit invasion and soul anyday. You got your Hendrixes, Love, Doors, the Dead. But you also get stuff like Vanilla Fudge and Strawberry Alarm Clock (when your far and away best tune is "Incense and Peppermints," something is wrong). Stuff so airy and hippie-mushy (like "If You're Going to San Fransisco") that it makes "Listen to What the Flower People Say" by Spinal Tap seem like death metal.
Sorry but I disagree Flower Power was just as exciting as, if not even more than any other so called "movement".
Incense and Peppermints is the grooviest song ever in my opinion and San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) may be soft but it is the ultimate hippie song. |
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| sirmoonie |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
There were a good ole days.
The most embellished days. By both those who were around at the time, and by those that now like to characterize that particular time for their selective benefit.
Relatively, it wasn't any more a big deal than any other time in the last 50-60 since WWII. |
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| pdog |
The 80's were the shit for me... |
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| Brainbell Jangler |
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pdog wrote:
The 80's were the shit for me...
Yeah, man, the 80s eat the 60s alive. I mean, how can you compare sucky fag bands like the Beatles, the Stones or the Dead with awesome acts like Tears for Fears, Men Without Hats or Men At Work? Bands with three-word names rule!
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| pdog |
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Brainbell Jangler wrote:
Yeah, man, the 80s eat the 60s alive. I mean, how can you compare sucky fag bands like the Beatles, the Stones or the Dead with awesome acts like Tears for Fears, Men Without Hats or Men At Work? Bands with three-word names rule!
[Edited by Brainbell Jangler]
I was talking about how much fun I had, not the music, but I can hip you to the music i listenend to in the 80's, it wasn't popular, at least not until people got over the fear of punk rock... |
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| sirmoonie |
I tried to have sex with Jennifer Aniston once - they banned me from that theater forever. |
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| texile |
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glencar wrote:
This must be about the 10th show on summer of '67.
no shit....
this overrated "movement" in time has been so romanticized - and for what?
a few corny songs.
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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texile wrote:
no shit....
this overrated "movement" in time has been so romanticized - and for what?
a few corny songs.
And I always thought you were cool.  |
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| texile |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
And I always thought you were cool.
but that's WHY Ten!
ok, i LIKE crimson and clover or maybe the peppermint song...
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
Fuck the time differntial...Beatniks, Hippies, Punks and Freaks etc .....it all amounts to same thing to me. |
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| _Boomy_ |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
What's Butthead doing wearing Keith's ring on his belt buckle? I hope he paid his royalty. |
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| pdog |
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Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
Fuck the time differntial...Beatniks, Hippies, Punks and Freaks etc .....it all amounts to same thing to me.
This is pretty much true, but I'll add, it's the moment right before it becomes commercially viable, that is the moment when it is special... It's kinda like the feeling you have right before you get drunk...
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| PartyDoll MEG |
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_Boomy_ wrote:
Bambi....Please kindly remove the disgusting photo in your signature!! This is a far better one for such a sweet young squirt(oops.. I mean Stud) like you!!
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| _Boomy_ |
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PartyDoll MEG wrote:
Bambi....Please kindly remove the disgusting photo in your signature!! This is a far better one for such a sweet young squirt(oops.. I mean Stud) like you!!
I was waiting for someone to do this!!! |
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| PartyDoll MEG |
Who better than me?...
OK Bambi..show me what ya got???? |
