Ik kocht vanmorgen een speciale uitgave van Mojo Classic evenals een vorige uitgave waarover ik hier al eens iets schreef met Jimmy Hendrix op de cover. Het is een themanummer over het gedenkwaardige jaar 1967 met 144 pagina’s over o.a. Donovan, The Monkees, Cream, the Grateful Dead, Procol Harum, Pink Floyd, Moby Grape, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Traffic, Love en The Who.
Daarnaast zijn er paginagrote besprekingen van een paar klassieke albums uit 1967, waaronder natuurlijk Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band van The Beatles en The Piper at the Gates of Dawn van Pink Floyd. Maar ook Are you experienced van The Jimmy Hendrix Experience, Smiley Smile van The Beach Boys, Surrealistic Pillow van Jefferson Airplane, Disraeli Gears van Cream en de debuutalbums van The Velvet Underground & Nico en David Bowie.
Op 8 augustus 1967 bezochten George Harrison en Patti Boyd in San Francisco The Haight Ashbury en het Golden Gate Park. Uiteraard waren de fotografen erbij. De ‘originele’ afdrukken worden nu op het internet verhandeld.
During the summer of 1966 the Beatles played their last live concert at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. After a short break, they spent the next six months in the recording studio working on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,“ their eighth studio album. After the record’s release on June 1, 1967 they took another short break during the so-called “Summer of Love.“ George and his wife Patti came back to San Francisco on Aug. 8, 1967, and visited the Haight. They had traveled from England to Los Angeles the week before, renting a house on Blue Jay Way, which gave Harrison an idea for the tune of the same name. George traveled north to San Francisco, telling reporters that he was simply curious about the hippie phenomenon. George, Patti, and Beatles press agent, Derek Taylor, drove into the area in the early evening and strolled, unnoticed, along Haight Street.
They reached the sector of Golden Gate Park, then known as “Hippie Hill,” where they found a young man performing before a gathering of about 20 long-haired youths. After a few minutes, Harrison asked to borrow the musician’s guitar, and proceeded to play. After a few moments he was recognized and a sizable crowd formed. He stopped in a park to play a few bars of “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” for the hippies. After a few minutes Harrison shouted “Let’s go for a walk.“ As he walked and strummed the guitar the hippies followed along. As the crowd left the park and moved down Haight, it grew. When asked how he liked the Haight, he answered “Wow, if it’s all like this, it’s too much.“Bron: americanmemorabilia.com
