Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary In GoldenGate Park, S.F. 9/2/07 !!!

[WillyT]

San Francisco Mayor Proclaims Sept. 2, 2007
Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary Day

Thousands Expected in Golden Gate Park For Gathering of the Tribes

100’s of Musicians to Perform at Free Summer of Love Anniversary Concert

San Francisco, CA July 1. 2007 - San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom has issued a proclamation declaring Sunday, September 2, 2007, Summer of Love 40 th Anniversary Day in San Francisco. On that day, the 40th Anniversary Summer of Love Free Concert will take place in Golden Gate Park’s Speedway Meadows between 10 AM and 6 PM. Mayor Newsom acknowledged the 60­s movement in his proclamation which begins: "Whereas, The Summer of Love in San Francisco is internationally recognized as the birthplace of the 60's revolution that ignited a spiritual awaking that swept the world..." The full proclamation including concert information can be found at www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th.

Event Info: http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/info.htm

Musicians so far:

Moby Grape reunion (all original members)
Country Joe McDonald
Taj Mahal
Lester Chambers (from The Chambers Brothers)
Canned Heat
Lydia Pense and Cold Blood
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Jessie Collin Young (From the Youngbloods)
Banana (From the Youngbloods)
Jerry Miller Band (from Moby Grape) featuring Tiran Porter (from the Doobie Brothers) and Dale Ockerman (from the Doobie Brothers)
Michael McClure, Rob Wasserman, Jay Lane and Ray Manzarek (from the Doors)
San Francisco’s First Family of Rock (TBA)
Brian Auger
Dickie Peterson of Blue Cheer
Chris and Lorin of the Rowan Brothers
The Alameda All Stars (from Gregg Allman Band)
Terry Haggerty (from the Sons of Champlin)
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks
George Michalski - Pete Sears Dueling Keys
Freddie Roulette
Ron Thompson
The Charlatans
Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer) and Greg Douglass (from Steve Miller) and Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship) and Melissa Olsen
Essra Mohawk (from the Mothers of Invention and Jerry Garcia Band)
Brad Jenkins
Barry “The Fish” Melton
The All Night Flight featuring David Denny and Steve McCarty (from Steve Miller), Jack King (from Cold Blood)
Merl Saunders (supporting the effort)
Squid B. Vicious
Charles Lewis - Harmonica
Jim Post (Friend and Lover, Siegel Schwall Blues Band)
"Hair Reunion" Original Cast
Long Feather - Flute
Fayette Hauser and the Cockettes
Terrance Hallinan (former SF DA)
Stephen Gaskin
Cindy Sheehan (political activist)
ruth weiss (Beat Poet)
Richard Eastman and Dennis Peron (marijuana initiative)
Lenore Kandel (Beat Poet)
Paul “Lobster” Wells (MC)
Dr Hip MC (Eugene Schoenfeld)
Artie Kornfeld (Producer of Woodstock)
Wavy Gravy
Mouse man (Bagpipes)
Scoop Nisker
David E. Smith (Haight Ashbury Medical Clinic)
Bruce Latimer (Bruce Latimer show)
Rabbi Joseph Langer
Bruce Barthol (Mime Troup)
Doug Green (MC)
Howard Hesseman (schedule permitting)
Benjamin Hernandez (Harts hands and Elders)
American Indigenous people’s, Agnes Pilgrim and 13 Grandmas (schedule permitting)
Lakota War Pony’s and Harry Riverbottom (Chippewa)
Merle Tendoy (6 th generation of Sacagawea ) Shonie
Chief Sunne Reyna
Albert Tenaya
Iroquois Tribe
Dakota Tribe
Jeff Jolly
Emmit Powell and the Gospel Elites

Link: http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/

Anybody feel like meeting up???

:bounce::hippie::woohoo::hippie::bounce:

[WillyT]

1. And Check Out The Poster Art !!!

Link: http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/posters.htm

:smoke:

[Faygo Kid]

34. Too sweet! How did they do the 3-D version?

Wish I could be there. Might hafta get a t-shirt, anyway.

[WillyT]

41. Then There's These Photos...

Link: http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/galleries.htm

:bounce:

[valerief]

2. I just wrote a novel "Summer of Geezer Love" set in 1967 (at lulu.com).

It didn't even dawn on me that this year was an anniversary.

[Stardust]

51. Are your geezers what they really were back then, or the modern-day

geezers (i.e. older people)?

[WillyT]

53. We're ALL Geezers Now, LOL !!!

Link: http://www.2b1records.com/summeroflove40th/galleries.htm

:hippie:

[MuseRider]

3. Oh man Oh man Oh man

I would give about anything to be there. Not going to happen though. Enjoy and report back to us please. PLEASE?

My husband and I went to the Summer of Love exhibit at the Whitney in NYC a few weeks ago. It was so sweet to remember and feel almost back in my youth listening to those sounds and seeing those images. It was almost like a flashback!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. What fun! Wish I could be there. n/t

[Wiley50]

5. Stephen Gaskin Performed My Wedding to my Second Wife

And his wife, Ina may, was the midwife who delivered my second son.

Glad to see my old buddy is still able to get around to public appearances

Wow! That's a lot of music to try and get on a stage in only 8 hours!

Wish I could make it, but way too poor

Everyone have fun!

[Le Taz Hot]

6. Cool!

I'm there! Who else is going? Kicky Poo.

[Webster Green]

7. I'll be there!

With flowers in my hair.

Hope the acid is clean.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. ''on the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene, but yours was kitchen clean.

Everyone stopped and stared at your technicolor motor home....''

I know that song by heart

Labor Day weekend? I may have to check for cheap flights.

anybody pick me up at the airport?

ED: OK, 'stopped to stare'

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Brian Auger??? I have vinyl.....

http://www.brianauger.com/

Billy Cobham is playing with him in Italy

[Gabi Hayes]

10. ha ha HAAAA!

[WillyT]

11. Oops !!! - Bay Bridge Will Be Closed Labor Day Weekend...

Some of us will have to find alternate routes.

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

13. Get to my house crash and will ride in on BART

LEAVE ON THE FIRST TRAIN TO THE CITY Take the bus to the park ..Woo Hoo

That's what I did for the Bill Graham memorial ...:woohoo:

[WillyT]

14. You Got A Deal !!!

:hippie::smoke::woohoo::smoke::hippie:

Should we try and contact the rest of the old gang???

Haven't seen Karen around for awhile. Maybe HellHathNoFury would be up for it. And could you imagine Cassandra at this thing, LOL!! We'd see her for five minutes and she'd be gone. Twenty minutes later, she'd be up on stage!

:rofl:

[TahitiNut]

17. (lol!) Eggs - actly !

Lord ... that be a happenin'! :party:

[proud patriot]

19. Wish you could be here

:hug:

[TahitiNut]

23. Me two-thousand, luv!

(sigh) It'd be a terrific thing.

I'll be there in spirit, for sure! Just make sure you and WillyT give each other a hug for me ... and Karen and Cassandra and ... awww... you know.

[WillyT]

26. You Got It TN !!!

Wish you could be there too!

:grouphug:

[proud patriot]

27. You bet

:loveya:

[proud patriot]

18. LOL , yep

I bet Cassandra knows how to contact Karen , Hell would go if she's
down here , she may be in Tahoe though.

[Peggy Day]

15. BART

I wanna go I wanna go
So many good bands

[proud patriot]

12. I AM SO LIKE TOTALLY THERE ....Woo Hoo

:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:
:woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo::woohoo: :bounce::smoke: :bounce::woohoo:

[Tom Joad]

16. And the week after that.... Power to the Peaceful!!!

http://www.powertothepeaceful.org/
The first of these annual concerts started on 9/11, but a few years before the attacks in NYC.

" The Festival began humbly in 1998 as an international day of art and culture in support of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. The name and date ”911” were chosen to call attention to the emergency status of Mumia's impending execution and drew roughly 6,000 people to the Mission's Dolores Park. In 2000, PTTP expanded; showing support for all prisoners on death row, and speaking out against the exponential growth of the prison industrial complex."

[proud patriot]

20. That looks like fun too

:D

[Pastiche423]

21. Is that the Polo field

where you end up after the Bay to Breakers?

[WillyT]

24. I'm Not Sure... There Calling It Speedway Meadows In The Event Info

Is that the new name for the Polo Fields???

Many a concert has been held at the Polo Fields because it has the room.

Map here: http://www.inetours.com/Pages/SFLndmrkVws/GGP_Map.html

:shrug:

[WillyT]

25. OK... Not The Same, But Right Next To The Polo Fields, According To This...

Map: http://www.lightight.com/GGP/act_images/MapAct2.html

It's that red dot, right next to that diamond looking thingy, and directly to the right of the oval track.

I think.

:shrug:

[Pastiche423]

28. Thanks, Willy T!

When I used to go to concerts there, we called it the Polo field. Not sure why, since we only watched Ruby, not Polo there. But that was a looooooooong time ago.

[TahitiNut]

22. R.I.P. Allen Ginsberg

:cry:

[otherlander]

55. Dumb question-

Is that Peter Orlovsky standing next to him in the second pic?

[argyl]

29. And the first weekend of October has the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

festival at Golden Gate.Check out this lineup.I may fly in for this one.What a knockout roster of talent.






Drum roll, please … Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Los Lobos, Robert Earl Keen, Doc Watson with David Holt & Richard Watson, The Del McCoury Band, Charlie Louvin, Nick Lowe, the subdudes, John Prine, Austin Lounge Lizards, Gillian Welch, The Wronglers, Earl Scruggs, Dale Ann Bradley & Coon Creek, The Sadies, Jimmy LaFave, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder, The Hacienda Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Keller Williams, Chris Smither, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, Marley’s Ghost, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones featuring Victor Lemonte Wooten, Future Man and Jeff Coffin, Jorma Kaukonen, Kevin Welch & Kieran Kane & Fats Kaplin, Richard Brandenburg & Julay Brooks, The Mekons, Blanche, Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson, Flexigrass, Boz Scaggs & the Blue Velvet Band, The Mother Hips, T Bone Burnett, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Hot Buttered Rum, Poor Man’s Whiskey, The Abrams Brothers, New Lost City Ramblers, David Grisman Bluegrass Experience with special guest Curly Seckler, Ned Sublette, Teddy Thompson, Moonalice, The Steep Canyon Rangers, The Secret Life of Banjos (Jody Stecher & Bill Evans), The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, The Flatlanders featuring Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Shana Morrison & Caledonia, Red Wine, Railroad Earth, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Bill Kirchen & the Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods, Jim Lauderdale, Bill Callahan, Heartless Bastards, Fionn Regan, Buddy Miller, Alison Brown Quartet with special guest Joe Craven, Michelle Shocked, Allison Moorer, Dan Reeder, The Knitters, James McMurtry, The Whoreshoes, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Symphony Bluegrass Ramblers, Belle Monroe & Her Brewglass Boys, plus a special songwriter circle with Chris Smither, David Olney, Ray Wylie Hubbard & Steve Young.

[La Coliniere]

54. What a line up!

Bay area sounds like one hell of a place to call home!

[proud patriot]

57. Wow that looks great , I love los Lobos

Heavy bass ..:headbang:

[retread]

30. "Moby Grape reunion (all original members)" Not all OF them. n/t

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. Sounds AMAZING!

Having been here for the original and having vivid memories of it, all I can say is watch out, "colorful" San Francisco is going to be out in droves. :D

I find it especially appropriate it is happening now, in the midst of another war killing innocent people. Talk about an (bad) acid flashback.

I wish to heck I could be there -- I'm up in Tahoe for the weekend working on the house. :(

Take lots of pictures and share them with us! :hi: :loveya:

[proud patriot]

33. I'm a result of the original summer of love .. Hi Hell

:loveya:

[TahitiNut]

61. Oh? So ... ProudDad has shared that historical nugget with you?

:rofl:

He's my kind of guy! :rofl:

[proud patriot]

39. I will take pictures

I finally have a photo bucket account to post pictures also .

:loveya:

[proud patriot]

32. Kick

:D

[WillyT]

36. Kick !!!

:kick:

:hippie:

[HeeBGBz]

35. I wish I had more time to save up

I would so love to go.

[bdamomma]

37. I only wish those days were with us now.

[proud patriot]

38. Indeed

:loveya:

[Warren DeMontague]

40. Nice!

:hippie:

[Cha]

42. What a Blast everybody's

gonna have! I won't be going but for those who do get to trek to San Francisco for the anniversary of Summer Of Love I'm happy for ya!

I was thinking about the Summer of Love the last couple of days..I must have seen this on DU or something..didn't know it was the summer my son was born. Little bambino is all grown up now~

[WillyT]

43. Pass It On !!!

The little Bambino from the Summer of Love.

That one's got a great legacy!

:bounce::yourock::bounce:

:hi:

[Cha]

44. Crack me up!

You funny! B-) :hi:

[WillyT]

46. I'm Lovin Ya Right Now, And Were Barely Halfway Through The Summer

Peace... :loveya:

[Cha]

48. Backacha!

:loveya:

[conscious evolution]

45. Start calling him a flower child.

It is time for another summer of love.

[Cha]

49. He calls me Flower Child!

But, that's a great idea..the next time I talk to him on the phone(Kauai)I'll call him Flower Child and give him a little history about The Summer Of Love

[mitchtv]

47. Damn I just flewup to SF for a reunion

Now this? Maybe I can get partner to drive up. (I arrived in SF for the first time in June '67 I shared a VW from the Village Voice) Any word on Ashleigh Brilliant?. I miss Allen Ginsburg. Will there be Digger bread? how about fish 'n chips?

[Kajsa]

50. I wish I could go!

My high school years are coming back to me---

We grew up with this music!!


Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

:hi:

[WillyT]

52. Last Chance For Love Kick !!!

Sorry Donna.

:kick:

[EFerrari]

56. Amy Goodman is going to be there.

Let's meet up!

[proud patriot]

58. I'm coming too

:patriot:

[EFerrari]

59. Cool! Maybe we can get a thing together in the CA forum?

:bounce:

[WillyT]

60. Woo Hoo !!! - Let's DU It !!!

:bounce::hippie::woohoo::hippie::bounce:

:hi:

[LaPera]

62. I will be there and I'll drop a nice hit and enjoy my mind, sights & sounds....

just as I have hundreds of times in my hometown of SF through the years!!

[WillyT]

63. "Don't You Need Somebody To Love ???"

:shrug:

[proud patriot]

64. My mom who was at the Original just called

she says to have fun and take lots of pictures .

[kittykitty]

65. We were there! I wish I could find the pictures--my husband was a photographer then

I would post them. Our 1 yr old son was toddling around naked. Those were the days. . . . .

[WillyT]

66. Please... If You Ever Find Them, By All Means, Post Them !!!

Would love to see 'em.

:hi: