Welcome Psychedelic Subculture: "It's 1967 - Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out"
Welcome Psychedelic Subculture
1967
Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out at the Summer of Love
January: “A Gathering of Tribes for a Human be-In” is held in Golden Gate Park
in San Francisco, California. Among those performing were the Grateful Dead
and Big Brother and the Holding Company. Famed Timothy Leary urges the crowd to “turn on, tune in and drop out.”
The “Love Generation” was first used by the S.F. Chief of Police.
February:
The Beatles release “Strawberry Fields Forever” single in UK.
Astrologer Gavin Arthur announces
a “glorious, cosmic Age of Aquarius” has begun.
March: The Jefferson Airplane releases iconic
“White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love” tracks on the “Surrealistic Pillow” album.
The Dead releases the first of its Eponymous LP.
April: Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
residents form the “Council for A Summer of Love,” while “Hippie Hop Tours”
are driving tourism to The City.
May: John Phillips of the Mamas and
Papas writes “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) track,
recorded by Scott McKenzie, a release that offers a musical invitation
to experience that “summertime will be a love-in there.”
June: The use of psychedelics among
California youth appears to cause a “dramatic change in value systems,”
and Monterey Pop Festival’s performances enlighten the Northern California
and Southern California music scenes.
July:
The Blue Magoos, the first psychedelic rock group and
The Who play concerts throughout California.
One of Time Magazine’s cover stories is “The Hippies Philosophy of a Sub-Culture.”
August:
“The Hippie Temptation” is a television special on
CBS Broadcasting network, watched by subculture devotees.
September:
Golden Gate Park officially announces the end of
the “hippie invasion” of the Park,
overlooking a still thriving number hippie camps.
October:
Jefferson Airplane rocks California.
November:
The very first issue of the “Rolling Stone Magazine” is published
with John Lennon on the cover.