I think the SF Summer of Love was mostly organic but lots of threads set it in motion.
- The return of a lot of G.I.s to nearby Travis Air Force Base as well as Alameda and Moffett Naval aviation stations with luggage loaded with heroin, weed, and raging PTSD cases from the 1st two years of the USA's Viet Nam War combat ramp-up. I'd never seen multiple young draft-age men passed out in the streets of SF until that summer of 1967.
- the L.A. and N.Y music labels were actively suppressing "drug" songs but they got through and started to became the "new cool" big thing that summer. The Monterey Pop Festival mid-June 1967 opened with the business suit clad music sales chart topping "The Association" but their set was not filmed by the festival organizer Lou Adler for his brand new non-profit "foundation." He was supposedly running that festival to find "new" young (and contractually dumb) acts he could put under his management contracts to make more money for himself. His leading top acts' board of directors (seated to recruit new artists and make money selling the festival film) included board members Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys riding the wave of his "Good Vibrations" song and Paul McCartney of the Beatles who both declined to perform and be filmed. They both smelled a $-rat in Lou when he did a bait-n-switch creating his non-profit foundation at nearly the last minute. Instead, the big new acts were the new "wild" children of Jimi Hendrix (who then toured as an opening act that summer for the Monkees), Jefferson Airplane of SF, Janis Joplin, The Who, etc. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" was commissioned by Lou Adler and released in mid-May to promote his Monterey festival. An American pop music song, written by John Phillips of Lou's managed studio group, the Mamas & Papas, who had won a Grammy that Spring for another song, many think in a bribery scandal. Flowers in Your Hair was a world hit for much of that summer.
- 1965-1974 the Viet Nam War was a cash cow bonanza for the military/industrial complex, much of it centered around aerospace contracts written at the Los Angeles Air Force Base. Was the stuffed-with-antennas US Air Force Lookout Mountain facility by Laurel Canyon part of any mind-control experiments? Who knows. Track the patents of 5G. Go down a rabbit hole seeing what jobs the father of Frank Zappa had as Frank wrote his songs living in Laurel Canyon bashing the estabishment from the L.A./N.Y. news & entertainment scene to the U.S. government. Check out where The Door's Jim Morrison's father was when the Gulf of Tonkin incident happened (Hint: he was the US Navy Fleet Admiral floating on the Gulf at the time.) Or how close nearby lived the LSD proponent Aldous Huxley who was deep into the Stanford mind control studies funded by the CIA. Check out his brother Julian Huxley's connections to world government efforts. Every time I read Aldous' "Brave New World" book with his dreams of populace control by allowing only test tube babies and all regularly swallowing Soma pills I think of the Summer of Love gone haywire and Aldous dying voluntarily from an LSD pverdose right below the Hollywood sign by Laurel Canyon in 1963.
- USA made recreational use of LSD illegal by 1966 after Sandoz company's patent for it expired in 1963. Easy to cook up in any lab. What do many teens and many others not yet fully mental adults love to do? Tweak the noses of their parents. And, if LSD really does open a door to amazing and real ESP trips, well, who am I to argue with its recreational use? Add the Viet Nam War insanity with one year tours of duty "in country" and ex-Motor City executive McNamara thinking he could win that war on statistics and data crunching, and suddenly - how convenient - "ignore" those wild drugged up hippies political line which emerged by Summer 1967 to keep that war and its profit streams going full steam ahead. Thus, I suspect all these factors congealed to create the counter-culture Summer of Love 1967.
W.R.
P.S. Check out who was one of the very first rent paying tenants at the newly demilitarized SF Presidio Army fort: the newly deposed Gorbachov who had ben lead around California by an Esalen executive on his first fundraising trip through California collecting cash for his new "foundation. Folowo the money every time to understand big world events, especially the dark money.
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Re: Liminal space
Date: 2022-11-16 12:54 am (UTC)- The return of a lot of G.I.s to nearby Travis Air Force Base as well as Alameda and Moffett Naval aviation stations with luggage loaded with heroin, weed, and raging PTSD cases from the 1st two years of the USA's Viet Nam War combat ramp-up. I'd never seen multiple young draft-age men passed out in the streets of SF until that summer of 1967.
- the L.A. and N.Y music labels were actively suppressing "drug" songs but they got through and started to became the "new cool" big thing that summer. The Monterey Pop Festival mid-June 1967 opened with the business suit clad music sales chart topping "The Association" but their set was not filmed by the festival organizer Lou Adler for his brand new non-profit "foundation." He was supposedly running that festival to find "new" young (and contractually dumb) acts he could put under his management contracts to make more money for himself. His leading top acts' board of directors (seated to recruit new artists and make money selling the festival film) included board members Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys riding the wave of his "Good Vibrations" song and Paul McCartney of the Beatles who both declined to perform and be filmed. They both smelled a $-rat in Lou when he did a bait-n-switch creating his non-profit foundation at nearly the last minute. Instead, the big new acts were the new "wild" children of Jimi Hendrix (who then toured as an opening act that summer for the Monkees), Jefferson Airplane of SF, Janis Joplin, The Who, etc. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" was commissioned by Lou Adler and released in mid-May to promote his Monterey festival. An American pop music song, written by John Phillips of Lou's managed studio group, the Mamas & Papas, who had won a Grammy that Spring for another song, many think in a bribery scandal. Flowers in Your Hair was a world hit for much of that summer.
- 1965-1974 the Viet Nam War was a cash cow bonanza for the military/industrial complex, much of it centered around aerospace contracts written at the Los Angeles Air Force Base. Was the stuffed-with-antennas US Air Force Lookout Mountain facility by Laurel Canyon part of any mind-control experiments? Who knows. Track the patents of 5G. Go down a rabbit hole seeing what jobs the father of Frank Zappa had as Frank wrote his songs living in Laurel Canyon bashing the estabishment from the L.A./N.Y. news & entertainment scene to the U.S. government. Check out where The Door's Jim Morrison's father was when the Gulf of Tonkin incident happened (Hint: he was the US Navy Fleet Admiral floating on the Gulf at the time.) Or how close nearby lived the LSD proponent Aldous Huxley who was deep into the Stanford mind control studies funded by the CIA. Check out his brother Julian Huxley's connections to world government efforts. Every time I read Aldous' "Brave New World" book with his dreams of populace control by allowing only test tube babies and all regularly swallowing Soma pills I think of the Summer of Love gone haywire and Aldous dying voluntarily from an LSD pverdose right below the Hollywood sign by Laurel Canyon in 1963.
- USA made recreational use of LSD illegal by 1966 after Sandoz company's patent for it expired in 1963. Easy to cook up in any lab. What do many teens and many others not yet fully mental adults love to do? Tweak the noses of their parents. And, if LSD really does open a door to amazing and real ESP trips, well, who am I to argue with its recreational use? Add the Viet Nam War insanity with one year tours of duty "in country" and ex-Motor City executive McNamara thinking he could win that war on statistics and data crunching, and suddenly - how convenient - "ignore" those wild drugged up hippies political line which emerged by Summer 1967 to keep that war and its profit streams going full steam ahead. Thus, I suspect all these factors congealed to create the counter-culture Summer of Love 1967.
W.R.
P.S. Check out who was one of the very first rent paying tenants at the newly demilitarized SF Presidio Army fort: the newly deposed Gorbachov who had ben lead around California by an Esalen executive on his first fundraising trip through California collecting cash for his new "foundation. Folowo the money every time to understand big world events, especially the dark money.