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Topic: "Summer of Love" fest in works for next year.

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2nd December 2006 01:16 PM

Ten Thousand Motels

UNION-TRIBUNE
December 1, 2006

POP MUSIC: Break out the incense and bell-bottoms, get ready to wear some flowers in your hair, and consider planning a trip to San Francisco next year. A free, daylong “Summer of Love” 40th anniversary festival is being planned for Sept. 2 at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park. According to the event's Bay Area-based organizers, 2b1 Multimedia Inc., a simultaneous event is being planned for the same day at Hyde Park in London.

No artists have been confirmed to perform at the San Francisco fete, although the promoters' list of “potential acts” ranges from Neil Young, Santana and at least three former members of the Grateful Dead to Green Day, Van Halen and, um, k.d. lang.
2b1 is an offshoot of Family Dog, which was San Francisco's first rock concert promotion company of note in the 1960s. To honor deceased Family Dog founder Chet Helms, who died in mid-2005, 2b1 staged a free concert at Speedway Meadows late last year that drew 20,000 people. The Helms tribute featured Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Country Joe McDonald and other flower-power era Bay Area music veterans.

It is unclear where funding will come from for the proposed “Summer of Love” festival, which is designed to celebrate “truth and individual freedom, freedom of expression and creativity, (and) love and respect for all things.” However, 2b1 isn't losing any time touting the event's “marketing potential” and “merchandise branding and logo-banner placement” opportunities.

Meanwhile, members of veteran Welsh rock band Amen Corner have announced plans for a “Back to the Psychedelic '60s Summer of Love” 40th anniversary tour of the United Kingdom next year.

– George Varga

[Edited by Ten Thousand Motels]

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