Image by Grant Jacobs #Onthisday 50 years ago George Harrison of the Beatles visited the Haight Ashbury neighborhood to experience the hippie counterculture he (and the rest of the world) had been reading so much about The visit, however, wasn’t exactly what he expected. At the time, he was asked what he thought of the Haight Ashbury community during the Summer of Love. His... Learn More →
Familiarity with a trivial pop tune should not be mistaken for historical knowledge. If we want to understand why any song becomes popular or what it signified when it first was heard, we need to know both the social and political events surrounding its publication as well as what music, in general, was undergoing at the time. Learn More →
Monterey International Pop Festival – Original Poster By Danny Goldberg, excerpted from In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea. Lou Adler was thirty-three years old in 1967 and was a power in the then small Los Angeles music business. His label Dunhill Records had Steppenwolf under contract and Adler had produced and released Barry McGuire’s radical pop single Eve of... Learn More →
The KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, held June 10th and 11th, 1967, was the first rock music festival in America history, preceding the Monterey International Pop Festival by one week. Learn More →