Summer Of Love: The Psychedelic Revolution Of 1967 | Summer Of Love | The American Story
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2023
- 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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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.
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!
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 . 🤍
"Right On" I agreed and definitely identified with your experience. @@Dawn-Songs
Damn! What a time to come of age!
@@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.
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.
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..
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.
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
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 😊!
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 ☮ 💗
I was 10 in 1967. Remembering this music brings back so many memories.
I was 6 in 67!! Elementary school. Flashbacks....
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 🥳🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
1960s girls forever ❤️🇺🇸
Bring it back. ☮️
Hi sunshineblues, bet you miss those days! At least, we got to enjoy the experience and can relive it again in our memories 🎸🎶🎵
I would have loved to have been around back in 1867. It must have been fun to have been a hippie.
I live in Michigan and it wasn't like that here.
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
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.
This looks so fun! 🎉
LSD amazing in right setting,aloha
Still is amazing 😊
I lived in Staten Island during the 1960s. The island of cultural lag.
I don't like the sound of bombs!!
so for behind it's just getting here
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.
Yeah the Summer of Love was great, then Charles Manson came along and ended it.
Actually the Hell's Angels ended it at Altamont.
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.
@@dans9463 I disagree completely, but thanks for sharing.
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.
I was born in 1969 to two libertines and I can due to the free love and drugs I grew up in hell!
Ended up a good real estate grab?...nicelely done...(bank of mum&dad)?....clapton really was god..😔