Freitag, 5. Juni 2015

50 Jahre »Summer of Love« – Enthemmte Jünglinge, LSD-Glück und Liebe

Den Vietnam-GIs wurden die Haare geschoren, an der Heimatfront wuchsen sie bis zum Boden. Im Sommer 1965 formte sich von den USA ausgehend eine Freak-Armee der freien Liebe und des Drogenkonsums – gegen das Establishment. Die Flower-Power-Generation wurde Vorbote gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche und hinterlässt Spuren bis ins Silicon Valley
[dieser und die folgenden roten Textblöcke sind aus 50 Jahre »Summer of Love«: Enthemmte Jünglinge, LSD-Glück und Liebe, Wolf Reiser, Cicero, 04.06.2015]

Herbst der Gammler 1967- Doku komplett - Aussteiger Hippies Anti NATO Antikapitalismus [1:02:49]

Veröffentlicht am 12.11.2014
„Herbst der Gammler“ : mit diesem Dokumentarfilm wurde Peter Fleischmann 1967 bekannt. Am Vorabend der Studentenrevolten, nannte der anständige westdeutsche Bürger jene „Gammler“, die sich die Haare wachsen ließen und sich der Wirtschaftwunder-fleißigkeit verweigerten: dabei verstand sich Springers Boulevardpresse als Sprachrohr des angeblich „gesunden Volksempfindens“, das sich über die Verweigerung der Jungen erregten:

Peter Fleischmann drehte seinen Beitrag zum aufkeimenden öffentlichen Generationskonflikt in der Bundesrepublik mit großer Sympathie für die jungen Leute. Ein erfrischendes Plädoyer gegen den deutschen Nachkriegsmief…

Dokumentarfilm München 1967 von Peter Fleischmann
Quelle:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-d2...

San Francisco im Juni 1965. Die ersten Prototypen der Love-Generation finden sich ein und begründen den ewigen Sommer des Lebens, in dem ihre Ideale aus Musik und Protest, aus Poesie und Rausch, aus Farbe und Fantasie explodieren. Es ereignet sich Monat für Monat steigernd eine Mega-Party, die zwei Jahre später bereits im Chaos endet. Und doch hat sie unendlich viel ausgelöst; in der Welt der Kultur, der Wirtschaft und der Politik und vor allem in den Herzen vieler Menschen. „Wenn du hierher kommst“, sollte dann Scott McKenzie singen, „be sure to wear some flowers in your hair“.

San Francisco - Scott McKenzie [3:29] Text

Hochgeladen am 16.06.2009
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is a song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was written and released in June 1967 to promote the Monterey Pop Festival.

McKenzie's song became an instant hit. The lyrics tell the listeners, "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". Due to the difference between the lyrics and the actual title, the title is often quoted as "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". "San Francisco" reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was number one in the United Kingdom and most of Europe. The single is purported to have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. The song is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California during the late 1960s.[citation needed]

In Central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising against Soviet rule.[citation needed]
The song has been featured in several films, including Frantic, The Rock and Forrest Gump (Wikipedia).


Aus allen Teilen von God’s own country strömten junge Leute herbei, geschmückt mit Pfauenfedern, Stirnbändern, goldgelben Batiktüchern, befransten Wildlederminis, indischen Umhängen. Sie rochen nach Weihrauch, Patchouli und Kiff. Enthemmte Jünglinge trommelten auf Bongos ein, ihre körperbemalten und zu Rainbow und Gypsie umgetauften Girlies tanzten in wilder Ekstase. Unmengen von Einberufungsbefehlen für Vietnam verbrannten in Lagerfeuern. Der Beat-Poet Allen Ginsberg sang Pyjama tragend und im LSD-Glück Buddha-Mantras. Er schuf den Begriff „Flower Power“, ein Vorläufer der heute so bieder daherkommenden Landlust-Bewegung der deutschen Provinzen.

Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney playing "A Ballad of American Skeletons" [8:21] Text

Veröffentlicht am 13.08.2012
'A Ballad of American Skeletons' was performed by Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney for an evening of poetry and performance at The Royal Albert Hall promoted by Goldmark entitled 'The Return of the Reforgotten' in 1995.

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Timothy Leary and Ram Dass Debate [18:06]

Veröffentlicht am 03.02.2013
This video is of footage of a lively debate between Timothy Leary and Ram Dass. The topics range from humanism, God, and the differences between them.
zum Video siehe:
- Watch Timothy Leary and Ram Dass Debate the Universe (Andrei Burke, Ultraculture, 06.10.2014)
They cover a lot of ground in the 18 minute clip, as expected from two of the lead researchers of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. They seamlessly move from the future of humankind, the nature of God, and the political situation in the 1980s. Leary is pitch-perfect in his psychedelic anti-establishment transhumanist prophet role, with Ram Dass playing the foil to the mystico-futurist gobbledygook with his calm, measured and insightful responses–like when he points out that science might be capable of taking as many lives as the idea of God. They come off like a psychedelic Abbott and Costello, and this weird drawn out banter is like their “Who’s on First?” routine–in that it goes absolutely nowhere while remaining uproariously hilarious.



- Boks of the Times: Tune In, Turn On, Turn Page (Dwight Garner, New York Times, 07.01.2010)
In the winter of 1960-61, when their lives began to overlap in Cambridge, Mass., Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Andrew Weil and Huston Smith resembled tweedy extras from “Mad Men.” These future psychedelic pioneers were still buttoned-down intellectuals and careerists, men who leaned more toward martinis than marijuana.

Film Review for “Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary” (Suzette Sherman, Lending Insight, 17.10.2014)

Die so genannten Diggers verteilten kostenlos Suppen, Orwell- und Hesse-Bücher sowie seltsam halluzinogene Truthahnsandwiches. Timothy Leary gab unverlangte Pressekonferenzen und rief eine spirituelle Revolution aus. Wahrsager prophezeiten ein goldenes „Aquarius & Let The Sunshine In“-Zeitalter, die Hells Angels verteilten Betelnüsse an die überforderten Polizisten, und Abbie Hoffman, Ober-Hippie der ersten Stunde, kündigte das abendliche Freikonzert mit Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin und den Grateful Dead an.

First Bay Area Hippie Commune and the grateful dead ,jefferson airplane, janis joplin [5:55]

Veröffentlicht am 08.11.2012

Abbie Hoffman on Yippie Tactics - 1968 [5:45]

Hochgeladen am 25.08.2009
Abbie Hoffman discusses Yippie guerilla theater tactics in advance of the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Albert Hofmann - Entdecker des LSD [34:55]

Veröffentlicht am 21.11.2012
Der grosse Denker und Wissenschaftler im Porträt. U.a. mit Eric Burdon, Ernst Jünger, Aldous Huxley und Timothy Leary ("der ultimative trip - der entdecker des LSD wird 100", 2006)

Report from the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, the centre of the new hippie movement [22:30]

Veröffentlicht am 23.05.2014
This is the new avant garde left bank area of San Fran which has evolved over the past number of years, the last 18 months has seen tremendous increase of so-called hippies who have invaded and live in this area.
This is a protest against middle and upper class people of San Fran, it is a belief of the people that we the middle class have done a very poor job in running our government and our way of life
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http://www.itnsource.com/en/shotlist/...

I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers. [George Harrison, Wikiquote, abgerufen am 14.10.2016] 

San Francisco: Summer of Love, 1967 [7:08]
Hochgeladen am 05.02.2009
San Francisco, Haight Ashbury, 1967
Summer of Love, Verano del Amor

Rebels: A Journey Underground #3 - Turn On the Revolution [46:47]

Veröffentlicht am 05.07.2012
In 1959 a twenty-six year old creative writing student named Ken Kesey became a guinea pig for LSD experiments conducted by the CIA and later used this experience to write "One flew over the cuckoo's nest." Timothy Leary, a Harvard research psychologist turned rebel guru, told people to "Turn on, tune in, drop out!" while an anti-war activist named Abbie Hoffman led a peace demonstration at the 1968 Chicago democratic convention. This film delves into the world of hippies and yippies; young people who put themselves at risk in pursuit of "perception" and democratic freedom.

Anfang April hatten sich über 100.000 gnadenlos friedlich gestimmte Blumenkinder zwischen Haight-Ashbury und der Bay Area sesshaft gemacht. Überall gab es Lesungen, Straßentheater, Musik. Am 4. April 1967 flog sich Paul Mc Cartney mit Frank Sinatras Lear Jet ein, um sich ein Bild von der Flower-Power-Revolution zu machen. Er hatte ein paar Songs der noch geheimen „Sergeant Pepper“-LP im Gepäck, jenem Beatles- Opus, das Wochen später zur Hymne der Bewegung werden sollte. Am 7. August tauchte der leicht überdosierte „Lucy In The Sky“-Kapellen-Kollege George Harrison auf. Dessen Inspektion missriet zum Horrortrip. Fassungslos rettete er sich vor einer Masse pickliger Teenager und aufdringlicher, nickelbebrillter Drogendealer zurück nach London. Sein Resümee: „It’s all too much.“ Die lokale Polizei hatte zunächst keine gesetzliche Handhabe, um gegen diese Freak-Armee vorzugehen. Bei einer der ersten Razzien ging ihr ausgerechnet der russische Ballettstar Nurejew ins Netz. Das war Wasser auf die Mühlen der rotzfrech-trashigen Underground- Magazine und half bestens, das ohnehin gereizte Klima zwischen Love-Freaks und Hate-Spießern zu vergiften.

George Harrison on Haight Asbury [1:51]

Veröffentlicht am 10.07.2012
George Harrison interviewed about what Haight Asbury was REALLY like...

"We went up to San Francisco in a Lear jet. Derek took us to visit a disc jockey, and we went straight from the airport to the radio station in a limo. The DJ gave us some concoction and then we went off to Haight-Ashbury. I went there expecting it to be a brilliant place, with groovy gypsy people making works of art and paintings and carvings in little workshops. But it was full of horrible spotty drop-out kids on drugs, and it turned me right off the whole scene. I could only describe it as being like the Bowery: a lot of bums and drop-outs; many of them very young kids who'd dropped acid and come from all over America to this mecca of LSD.

We walked down the street, and I was being treated like the Messiah. The Beatles were pretty big, and for one of them to be there was a big event. I became really afraid, because the concoction that the DJ had given me was having an effect. I could see all the spotty youths, but I was seeing them from a twisted angle. It was like the manifestation of a scene from an Hieronymus Bosch painting, getting bigger and bigger, fish with heads, faces like vacuum cleaners coming out of shop doorways... They were handing me things - like a big Indian pipe with feathers on it, and books and incense - and trying to give me drugs. I remember saying to one guy: 'No thanks, I don't want it.' And then I heard his whining voice saying, 'Hey, man - you put me down.' It was terrible. We walked quicker and quicker through the park and in the end we jumped in the limo, said, 'Let's get out of here,' and drove back to the airport.

It certainly showed me what was really happening in the drug culture. It wasn't what I'd thought - spiritual awakenings and being artistic - it was like alcoholism, like any addiction. The kids at Haight-Ashbury had left school and dossed out there, and instead of drinking alcohol they were on all kinds of drugs.

That was the turning-point for me - that's when I went right off the whole drug cult and stopped taking the dreaded lysergic acid. I had some in a little bottle (it was liquid). I put it under a microscope, and it looked like bits of old rope. I thought that I couldn't put that into my brain any more.

People were making concoctions that were really wicked - ten times stronger than LSD. STP was one; it took its name from the fuel additive used in Indy car racing. Mama Cass Elliot phoned us up and said, 'Watch out, there's this new one going round called STP.' I never took it. They concocted weird mixtures and the people in Haight-Ashbury got really fucked up. It made me realise: 'This is not it.' And that's when I really went for the meditation."

Wenn ich mir diese ganzen Videos ansehen und die Einstellungen von Bob Dylan und Frank Zappa, dann denke ich: »Die waren alle verrückt!«

Wenn ich mir aber folgendes Video ansehe – und man sollte nicht vergessen, daß die CIA eine staatliche Organisation ist –, dann denke ich »Die Hippies mögen verrückt gewesen sein, aber sie waren nur nervig. Die CIA ist jedoch Ausdruck der dazu kongruenten Verrücktheit des Staates – und der ist gefährlich!«

CIA - Geheime Operationen_Teil 1 (ARTE Doku) [1:37:24]

Veröffentlicht am 29.01.2015
Diese Dokumentation von Arte beleuchtet die Geschichte des US-Geheimdienstes CIA und seine geheimen Operationen.

mehr:
- 50 Jahre »Summer of Love« – Enthemmte Jünglinge, LSD-Glück und Liebe (Wolf Reiser, Cicero, 04.06.2015)
- Suddenly That Summer (Sheila Weller, Vanity Fair, Juli 2012)
siehe auch:
- Der Fall Wilhelm Reich (Post, 15.09.2013)
- Who needs the Peace Corps (Songplaces)
- We’re Only in It for the Money (Wikipedia) 
- Even Dylan Hates Hippies (the zoo, 30.09.2004)
- How Did Bob Dylan Get So Weird? (Bill Wyman, Vulture, Juli 2014)
- Dylan: The unwilling hippy icon (Sydney Morning Herald, 27.09.2004)
- Folk rock, the hippie movement, and “the rock paradox” (Simon Frith, Encylopædia Britannica)
- The knockin' on Dylan's door drove him nuts (Bob Dylan: hippie-hating gun owner?) (Jane H. Furse, Free Republic, 27.09.2004)
[Gefunden bei Geiss Haejm]
Flashback Trailer (1990) [1:27]

Veröffentlicht am 01.07.2012

Ram Dass: Hippies vs. Cops? [5:15]

Veröffentlicht am 31.01.2013
Ram Dass uses the examples of the fight between the counter-culture and police from the depths of the 1960s revolution to remind us not to get caught in our roles. To find that place within where we are all one... that was why the revolution failed and created division and problems that still echo today. This message from the 60s has much meaning for all the current modern day conflicts we deal with not just issues with the police.Visit my website: http://ericlan4.wix.com/cosmicjoke
- Ram Dass – Angewandtes Mitgefühl (Post, 06.12.2012)

Bob Dylan – My Back Pages Text Übersetzung


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