Summer Of Love: The Psychedelic Revolution Of 1967 | Summer Of Love

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1967 was the year where our society changed dramatically. "The Summer Of Love" was a counterculture movement that saw young people coming out against the Vietnam War, inspired by figures like Muhammad Ali. Music played a crucial role, with bands like The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Otis Redding releasing groundbreaking music for a new generation. Fashion also played a part, with designers like Mary Quant revolutionizing the scene. The year was characterized by a sense of rebellion, freedom, and a desire for change in society.
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@maleal49 6 ай бұрын

1967 was a pivotal year for me. Tried marijuana and LSD for the first time and loved it, lost my virginity and also loved it and last but not least, the psychedelic music coming from England and right here in the USA was just the perfect complement to make 1967 memorable. I also turned 18 that summer.

@sunshinenblues 6 ай бұрын

Ditto! '67 I was 17 and went away to college. Guess what? Didn't know what was about to happen...the psychelic revolution, summer of love, and music albums from the best of the best performers ever...I fell in love with myself, so to speak! There's alot more to my story, but wanted to share something!

@Dawn-Songs 6 ай бұрын

1965 aged 15 to 1969 were my most ,happiest years . I already loved hippie/ boho type clothes before they ever became must have clothing , so I suddenly found myself in fashion !! It happens again each time the style comes back around . I still have some of the clothes and still wear them ; I don't care that others might laugh at and old Hippie/ Boho mix woman with her necklaces , earrings and bracelets . I'm true to myself , and that's most important . The mid 60 s music was amazing . Every group of singers had their own distinct style . I loved both pop and folk music . The summer of love was amazing . I only remember it as being very warm weather in England where I lived . Whenever I hear Scott Mackenzie's San Francisco song i'm immediately transported back to those lazy , hazy , happy days .Those years were so good to be part of such a huge movement in music . 🤍

@sunshinenblues 6 ай бұрын

"Right On" I agreed and definitely identified with your experience. @@Dawn-Songs

@struki84 5 ай бұрын

Damn! What a time to come of age!

@divalivingston1664 4 ай бұрын

@@Dawn-Songs Yes, listened to Scott Mackenzie's San Francisco with my boyfriend in his VW bus going from So Calif to SF and there were hippies hitchhiking up and down Hwy 1 which is a beautiful drive in itself.

@MoonShineAndRoses 5 ай бұрын

I was born 8/8 1967 Wild child, full of grace. Savior of the human race. - The Doors We are the true 🌼🌹 children. Let's bring the Summer of Love back in 2024 🥳🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

@tiffanyroseangeles34 Ай бұрын

Love the Doors too but I was born in 1961 my brother had a Doors tribute band…..I grew up with rock music. Though I’m no musician….both my brothers play guitar, my elder one ( started the Doors tribute band) now advanced to flamenco,like Robby Krieger . I believe) & my younger brother 10 yrs apart,designed his own guitar based on one of Rolling Stones Keef Richards ….Gibson models….. He plays like my older brother,by ear never stook a formal lesson. He used to jam w his buddies up in Scarborough for awhile until a personal tragedy hit him…..he’s not played in awhile. Neither of them that I’m aware have used more than social drink. 🍺

@kathyl2620 4 ай бұрын

I was born in 1957. Although I didn't have the Hippie experience until we were called Freaks in the 70's. Growing up during the 60's formed my political life and along with my family, my morale integrity. I'm proud to be a child of the 60's. Some people say it was a lost generation. Not so.

@ziblot1235 4 ай бұрын

U didnt miss much. In 67 I was in the process of getting court martialed and booted out of the Navy. Broke my heart. Went back to VA, left my wfe moved to a town in Fla that we just picked off the map. None of us ever been there. We went down to ake Hollingworth they were having Boat races. We parked our asses in front of Joe Garagiolas house. Made a sign, Lids 20.00. It didnt take long. Everybody from lakeland High School wanted to see the Va Hippies. So did the Police Dept. They took us down to the station, the Had Narc for Polk Co, was beside himsllef. "I aint believing this shit" "You guys are buting my balls" "What am I supposed to do?" He took us home and gave us a lecture on hard drugs. He was relly worried about those. We were already doing them."As long as you guys stay off the hard stuff you wont see me"I stayed in that town selling drugs for about 6 or 7 years. Didnt work one day. MY SOc Security folder is so funny. It shows about 5 or 6 yrs with Income-0. Then Prison in VA 5 more income--0. Everyday at 3.30 there would be a line of the prettiest healthy girls. We intended to bed everu one of them. Its so funny My wife got a phone call from a Housing developer in SOSuth Fla. "D u know him.. I had to think. Yes he was my dealing partner. "He told me those were the best days of his life. I taught him what music to listen to. Country Rock, Bruces first Album, Southern Rock and Merle HAggard for good measure We played him loud when we partied. People just knew there couldnt be any drugs up there. It was so nice to hear from him, but he should be MY HERO. He inherited 3 million from his Dad then proceeded to do a Donal Trump on it. Buying Housesm flipping them. He had just wrecked his tri hull Cat. Life goes on

@TheHypnotstCollector 4 ай бұрын

Dad moved us from Sierra Vista Az, pop 4000 to Los Altos Ca in Jan 1966. I was pretty straight. Dan showed me Zappa's "Suzy Cream Cheese" and I said "This was would great if you were drinking....". "you don't get it". But I did "get it" around Jan 1967. "We" were going to Haight by late 66. In August 1967 Jay and I (together today) saw Cream at the Filmore. Saw Hendrix 3x and so on. In Nov 67 I was with Doug on Haight and made arrangements for $600 in pink bayb tabs and some MJ. ... Friend was not bright.....they brought some MJ wrapped in paper. I tried to open the corner. He took it from me. To keep it short, after the cops arrived and left, (the sellers did it, it was part of their cleaver rip off) we put the MJ in the trunk of his moms 1967 Camero with factory Paisley Landua top and drove to Atherton, opened the MJ and of course it was all books. Mostly psychology books. He was ripped off many times. in 1968 3/4 of the class of LAHS class of 68 skipped school and went to the first Sadie Hawkins Day celebration in Golden Gate Park.. A bunch of us saw Allen Ginsburg and smoked with him. in April 68 Dozens of us went to Lime Kiln Ck Big Sur (private property then) and partied hard. Doug (from above) also had a VW transporter, just a cab and flat bed. We rolled two big cigars and filled the cab with a fog of Mexican "trash compactor" weed. (Even the seeds are crushed and sometimes we smoked them!?) I was surprised it took so much smoke to fill the cab. This was 13 yrs before I saw Cheech and Chong do it in their Impala. And I was on Haight in late 68 for the Haight st riots and that was the end of the Haight. Gone by '69. You can find good silent and voice video from Haight era. ..Worth watching. By 1969 we were running the Poppycock and doing the light shows, lived on the 3rd floor, had a hammock about 12ftx18ft that we lounged in.... Ed McClanahan, the writer, lived on the 2nd floor. out light show broke the lightshow "community" to unionize light shows. July ? 1969. That night we did Family Dog on The Beach with Grateful Dead, Beautiful Day and ?. The summer of 69 we also went to LALA land wiht Ron Hiblin, owner of Poppycock. We went to Blue Jay Way (Topnga Canyon?) and smoked Jay's. (Blue Jay Way is a Beatles song) We also moved from Poppycock to Medway Forest, near Skylonda. An Electric Kool Aoid Acid Test House, with some Pranksters still there. I could see why Poncho Pillow was not On The Bus. I could go on and on but not now. my biggest regret is not going to 1967 Monteray Pop Festival.

@alexanderfarrell8957 4 ай бұрын

I was also a 60,s kid, born in 1961. Growing up from the 60,s to the 80,s , we had the best music!

@Tony74665 4 ай бұрын

I was born 1957 so was 10 in 67 I was to young to go to the pubs and and clubs but I remember the music and the colour people walking around without shoes a great source of amusement for me and my mates . GREAT TIMES 🎶🎶

@kstrongtree22 7 ай бұрын

This inspired me as a kid and still does. I love learning about the shift towards freedom of expression, and minds being opened. The vibrations of the time changed the world for the better ☮ 💗

@eleiaaa 2 ай бұрын

I was born in 1997 but am fascinated by the 60s and 70s! Love the video. Many thanks!

@johnallen6945 5 ай бұрын

I was 16 in '67 in Ohio and I asked my parents to let me and my buddy go to SF that summer if we earned $1000 between us to pay our gas and expenses. Gas was like 25¢ a gallon and a motel was $5-6. They said yes and we left when school got out. We felt like the guys on, "Route 66" for 3 months. We were both virgins who had never tried pot or acid. We remedied all of that in Golden Gate Park when we got to SF. That trip changed the entire course of my life. I became a tie-dyed radical hippie. Muhammad Ali has always been my hero. I believe that black and white teenagers came together and got to know each other on the dance floor cause we all liked the same music. It broke down barriers. I remember I asked a black girl if I could touch her Afro cause I had never felt a black person's hair. She said sure and it just felt like hair! I'm 73 now and I have led a very colorful life and I'm grateful for it. I have learned so much! Love is a very powerful emotion and it's the only way to overcome hate.

@jimperkins9661 3 ай бұрын

i was 10 in '67, but wished I was 17. LOL

@John-px2kb 2 ай бұрын

@johnallen6945 thank you for sharing your journey to CA in 67' and what you have said is very interesting to read. Especially the last sentence. I was only 7 in 67' but I can still recall seeing the evening news of soldiers fighting in the jungles of Vietnam in that 67'-70 time period and I want to thank all the soldiers who fought there. Thank you.

@CounselingCoachDavid 27 күн бұрын

Well said!! Really appreciate this! Thanks for sharing!

@davinawonderling9361 20 күн бұрын

Johnallen6945, The texture of their hair fascinates me. I have felt their tight coarse hair, and it's pretty neat.

@pmajudge 2 ай бұрын

AAAAh !!! I was 13yrs. In 1962. 😂💐💐💐🌹🌹🌹🌹!!!! SUPER GREAT TIME ! Well Protected by ONE's FAMILY ! ALWAYS . FROM, U.K. (2024).

@maleal49 6 ай бұрын

Hi sunshineblues, bet you miss those days! At least, we got to enjoy the experience and can relive it again in our memories 🎸🎶🎵

@joeyvocals1 3 ай бұрын

This is fascinating! My great grandparents were in World War two, still with me (99), My grandparents were in Vietnam 66-68, and my parents were born in June - July 1978,

@John-px2kb 2 ай бұрын

This is priceless.

@joeewell4846 2 ай бұрын

LET'S ALL CELEBRATE WOODSTOCK TURNING 60! Woodstock II in 2029! SPREAD THE WORD!

@John-px2kb 2 ай бұрын

It would be great for all like minded people to gather there for 3 days and 3 nights ( camp nearest the site as possible) and just listen to music of this historic and very powerful music, and WITHOUT violence. Count me in.

@timr31908 3 ай бұрын

Janis Joplin blew the top off from the Monterey Pop fest 1967... Nobody else did...😊

@eric9104 3 ай бұрын

I was only 3 in 67'. So 77' and 78' was much more influential in my life. For many different reasons. However, still a pretty cool time to be young!

@davidfurino2987 8 ай бұрын

LSD amazing in right setting,aloha

@michaelsherman6492 6 ай бұрын

Still is amazing 😊

@HippyMetalhead 2 ай бұрын

Love doing it 😂

@debralittle1341 Жыл бұрын

I live in Michigan and it wasn't like that here.

@kstrongtree22 9 ай бұрын

This is talking about where it was like that, and if that's true, maybe people left Michigan to go join in. A lot of people moved in that time

@1d1ane 6 ай бұрын

I left Mi, but not to Canada, to see the whole US, first, transferring Army physical to Denver, SF, Austin. When you are#12 in lottery,you try harder.

@carlsaganlives6086 3 ай бұрын

Moscow, either.

@jeffmeredith2100 4 ай бұрын

Cia psyop thanx tavistock thanx adorno the wrecking crew sure did put out the hits thanx billy

@generoush3823 3 ай бұрын

Couldn't use the backseat of a mustang though, I tried and all I got was cramps

@Fred.Carpenter 3 ай бұрын

I miss my friend in Doncaster and his wife since I was banished from Facebook years ago. I used to cuss him out in British slang.

@GOTHICMAMBA35 7 ай бұрын

This looks so fun! 🎉

@rustyrobinson8027 4 ай бұрын

1960s girls forever ❤️🇺🇸

@Dawn-Songs 4 ай бұрын

I feel sorryfor Bridget Bardot's leopard. I'm n😢ot impressed in the least . It should have been living free where it belonged , not on the end of a chain ... It didn't "belong" to anyone . Yet in her adult life she championed animal welfare . Maybe she finally felt guilty about keeping a Leopard as a pet 🤔

@TinLeadHammer 5 ай бұрын

This is a badly assembled collection of footage from other sources, in particular footage taken from British Pathe has been butchered into 16:9. Meh. Switched away after five minutes.

@John-px2kb 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. But at least it will spark an interest in this era for people to look into it further and no doubt it will.

@christophermorgan3261 7 ай бұрын

Yeah the Summer of Love was great, then Charles Manson came along and ended it.

@markmurphy558 7 ай бұрын

Actually the Hell's Angels ended it at Altamont.

@dans9463 6 ай бұрын

The Summer of 'Love' was not great.... It was pure HippiePotcracy. Self-absorbed indulgence... Slave to passion in the name of compassion... and if you can't be with the one you love, (because she is sick) no problem, love the one you're with. The Free Love thing, was nothing more than the male sea lion stud with multiple females.. The females did not formally share the dude.. But when the dude got bored, he would make his rounds.. Many males were in Vietnam. Back at stateside, the hippie males had a field....day.. If a girl expressed modesty, he can go to another. Also, the dude who was born before the baby boomers.. like Vido, the firrst hippie, had a a large pool of young female boomers. He had resources... like providing the pad... The young boomer male was not a competitor... for he was preoccupied with his resource, the skateboard... And so it was free love for the 30 something, 40 something male. And now you know the rest of the story.

@sunkintree 5 ай бұрын

@@dans9463 I disagree completely, but thanks for sharing.

@westtexas7 4 ай бұрын

The first wave of great albums came out in 67 along with the counterculture spreading to every campus. Hippies started moving to the country that fall out of the Bay Area. Things were innocent in 67 where by 70 it was dangerous with Nixon's declaration of war on the Hippies and Radicals.

@StoneSeeds 4 ай бұрын

Hey Gyp.

@mukhumor Ай бұрын

The 'Hippies' were great. You could grow yer hair long, take acid and smoke hash, listen to great music and hang out with some really cool people. It'll never happen again.

@sythe77 3 ай бұрын

You mean, 1966.

@bryanwilliams6032 5 ай бұрын

I was born in 1969 to two libertines and I can due to the free love and drugs I grew up in hell!

@dwayneandrews2059 4 ай бұрын

🎉😂

@dianaapple1744 6 ай бұрын

The American Story??? I watched 10 minutes and mainly saw the UK.I was expecting San Francisco and Bay area groups. Not twiggy and mary quant. UK not interesting to this California girl.

@cg00000 3 ай бұрын

lol

@danielhayes7967 4 ай бұрын

There was no Summer Of Love. Did we forget the riots

@teenac718 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for bringing me my history. I was born in 1960 to a very musical family. My uncle's were in the music industry. My mom was into Motown, blue eyed soul, musicals and Opera. I remember most of these events. Vietnam was very sad. Many of my friends lost their older brothers, fathers, uncles, etc. My uncles also went, my dad worked on planes, I lived my first 11 years on a base. Sad soldiers who HAD been drafted, were treated unfairly when they got home by civilians. Lulu was wonderful to see again. So much going on in that decade leading to the 70's. Great childhood/early adulthood.

@gaylegoodman9097 Жыл бұрын

To Sir, With Love, is one of my favorite movies. Sidney Poitier was wonderful in that movie, but of course, he was spectacular in all his films 😊!

@yackama504 12 күн бұрын

I graduated HS in 1968 and we sang TO SIR WITH LOVE to our principle.

@79tazman 4 ай бұрын

I was born in 1979 but I believe 1967 to be the best year of the 1960's because it had the best music that year and the cars was the best and it being the summer of love the only thing that would of made 1967 any better is that the war would ended and Otis Redding would of not been on the plane that crashed into Lake Monona in Wisconsin

@skrubzilla4213 5 ай бұрын

Bring it back. ☮️

@HippyMetalhead 2 ай бұрын

It will come back don't worry ✌

@1KSarah 7 ай бұрын

I was a kid living on the other side of the world, but I felt the good vibrations through the music that came out of the radios. It was enough for me to understand that something good was happening very far away and I connected to it immediately. I felt it before I understood it.

@gaylegoodman9097 Жыл бұрын

I was 10 in 1967. Remembering this music brings back so many memories.

@cathylindeboo.9598 7 ай бұрын

I was 6 in 67!! Elementary school. Flashbacks....

@bobpierce115 4 ай бұрын

I turned 10 in May 1967, which means I'm turning 67 later this month in May 2024. It's weird mentally because it's one of the first years I'm really old enough to remember. So "67" is very much on my mind. I already know being this age in '24-'25 is going to be lousy, unfortunately. Plus I live in L.A. Ugghk.

@charlesnolan7602 3 ай бұрын

I was born in '55. I remember some of the clothing, definitely the music it was AM top 40 initially for me. I bought my first 45s in 1967- " Explosion ( in my soul)" by the Soul Survivors in Philadelphia April, 1967, age 11 ( birthday in Dec). I remember my favorite song was " Light my fire," by the Doors 1967...

@jasminnemcdonald94A 5 ай бұрын

I don't like the sound of bombs!!

@dwayneandrews2059 4 ай бұрын

So sad in many different issues. Was not even born yet but the repercussions have a apple effect on my life for decades?

@djbongojsouthtexasusamixma4642 4 ай бұрын

I was only 5 years old in 1967. My first year of school, The year of the Newark NJ riots. I'll never ever forget it. I remember the "Mini Skirts" the music. Little did I realize that was the inspiration to Dance Music and Rave Culture..

@tiffanyroseangeles34 Ай бұрын

This song sums it all up Haight Ashbury….. I wished it been there not by much 1961 @ country. Of Canada but British heritage) I did go to the UK in 1979

@Marktheshark-e7f 2 ай бұрын

My 1976 3/4 chevy van i drove in the 90s was known as white rabbit😊. Unfortunately the cops also knew it😂😂😂. Had lots of fun in the back😊

@charlesodonnell2993 8 ай бұрын

I lived in Staten Island during the 1960s. The island of cultural lag.

@Fred.Carpenter 3 ай бұрын

I think some black women are absolutely gorgeous, but just like with any race, it depends on the woman.

@SumNumber 4 ай бұрын

Everyone still alive does have a piece of info on those days. I have always been outside of the " box " so the idea of expanding your knowledge was a real magnet. If one finds enough knowledge one realizes everything we thought was so important is not. If you look you will find. Don't look and be stagnant . :O)