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RE: Summer of Love/ big oops for Patti?



The wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love
starts out "The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967".
I have always thought of Summer of Love as meaning 1967 in 
San Francisco.

- Mitch
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-babel-list 
> [mailto:owner-babel-list] On Behalf Of Paul Perner
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:32 PM
> To: babel-list
> Subject: Summer of Love/ big oops for Patti?
> 
> There's one problem about celebrating the 40 year 
> anniversary of the Summer of Love: The event in
> question started on the summer solstice, 22nd of June
> 1966!!! (in Haight Ashbury, San Francisco at sunrise).
> 
> That makes this year the 41st season.
> 
> How could they miss that with a knowledgeable gent
> like Lenny Kaye around? 
> 
> Of course, the music that was born of it didn't 
> blossom until 1967. It takes a while for such expressions
> to go from the minds and note pads of the artists to the small
> clubs and festivals.... to the recording studio, the radio 
> and record bins and off into the great eternal juggernaut
> of pop culture.
> 
> Peace, loud guitars and flower bombs,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]d
> > From: <Oligodendroglia>
> > Subject: Patti Covers: Summer of Love
> >
> > The "Summer Of Love" happened in 1967 ...
> >
> > any hendrix, doors, airplane covers will probably come from 
> that year ...
> >
> > if they decide to select anything outside of 1967 ...