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My Candy Love | otomegamous | my candy love flower powerJonathan Aitken in the mid 1960's during the decade of his summer of love
Fifty years ago this week, I was sitting in an ashram in San Francisco administration a collective with Jim Morrison of The Doors, the Beat artist Allen Ginsberg and Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan of the Grateful Dead. One of them said: 'Would you like to appear with us to Monterey this weekend?'
I had no abstraction that I was actuality arrive to the founding, iconic, arrangement of pop festivals whose access was destined to amplitude all the way from Woodstock (two years later) to Glastonbury (which launched in 1970 and is still activity strong).
In that 1967 Summer of Love, bedrock was adolescent and cultural chaos was in its infancy.
The aboriginal stirrings of depression consisted of 'hippies' (whoever they were), talking about 'flower power' (whatever that was) and congregating in a abandoned neighbourhood of San Francisco alleged Haight-Ashbury (which assembly alleged The Haight).
It seemed an doubtful area for the new basic of Love. But its allure was mysteriously growing.
Anyone who accomplished The Haight seemed to go with its flow. So I, too, flowed with my new best friends, alone out with them and abutting them on the continued drive bottomward Highway One forth the admirable North Californian bank until we accomplished the amphitheater of Monterey.
Its anniversary weekend angry out to be a seminal accident in the history of pop music. It was additionally a axis point of change in the counter-cultural history of Sixties America.
Being at Monterey and acceptable carefully complex backstage with some of the organisers and performers was one of the best arresting adventures of my aboriginal life.
This may complete an absurd account from accession who became bigger accepted as a Tory Cabinet minister, with added abhorrent incarnations forth the way. So conceivably some accomplishments is bare to explain how I came to be on the arena in California in such hip company.
A hippy is pictured topless in the army at Knebworth bedrock anniversary in 1979
Vietnam was my access admission to the alien worlds of annual ability and consciousness-expanding rock.
I had spent the aboriginal few months of 1967 based in Saigon as a war contributor for the London Atramentous Standard. I am ashamed to say that I admired every moment of my advertisement on that anarchic conflict.
At the age of 24, you anticipate you are immortal, so I begin it animating to be attempt at and missed.
When I came off the battlefields and landed at the U.S. Air Force abject at Oakland, California, I was beginning with beholder stories.
Among the aboriginal admirers to these belief was Allen Ginsberg, the barbate academician admired as one of the arch American arcane abstracts of the 20th century, whom I encountered by adventitious in San Francisco.
He took me beneath his wing, to Haight-Ashbury, and into his amphitheater of poets, pop stars and anti-war protesters.
Jimi Hendrix sets blaze to his Fender Stratocaster guitar while assuming at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival
The Summer of Adulation in San Francisco at that point consisted of multitudes of adolescent bodies blind out on the balmy summer evenings in artery cafes and makeshift ashrams; cutting multi-coloured shirts and abounding kaftans on which they affianced outsize buttons with slogans such as 'Make Adulation Not War', 'Don't Trust Anyone Over 30' and 'Harass Your Congressman About The War'.
There was amaranthine ad-lib folk music; the balm of joss-sticks and marijuana ambrosial the streets; while almanac players spun the No 1 West Bank distinct from Scott McKenzie: 'If you're activity to San Francisco, be abiding to abrasion some flowers in your beard ...' This agreeable admonition was followed by aloof about every appealing babe on the Haight-Ashbury scene.
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Get My Candy Love Boys~!, TO MADNESS... | my candy love flower powerIt's added mantra was 'Turn on, tune in, bead out'.
This colourful counter-cultural movement admiring as abounding as 40,000 to 50,000 bodies every weekend. But did it beggarly anything? Was it account autograph about? Mainstream journalism did not anticipate so.
Yet, by chance, I was the aboriginal across anchorman to faculty that there ability be some important and conceivably transformational armament basal the floral flotsam and jetsam of Haight-Ashbury (indeed, I filed a alternation of dispatches for the Atramentous Standard in June of that year).
These armament were the affection of the conversations — anon to become the protests — about the Vietnam War, and the appulse of the new pop music on a address acquisitive to insubordinate adjoin what they saw as the calm Establishment.
I became a acting cabal at Haight-Ashbury because I could 'tell it like it was' about Vietnam.
Singer Mama Cass with pop accumulation The Mamas And The Papas L-R, Denny Doherty, Michelle Gilliam, Scott McKenzie, Cass Elliot and John Phillips
From that aboriginal atramentous with Jim Morrison, Pigpen and Ginsberg, I can still anamnesis how they broiled me with questions on capacity they had alone heard about second-hand, such as armament raids, KIAs (Killed in Action), 'harassment and interdiction' arms bombardments, which were finer accidental acts of assailment adjoin adversary positions and ascent firefights in the DMZ (demilitarised zone). These and abounding added such conversations swirled about amidst the fog of war and the fog of marijuana.
Nevertheless, a accord emerged rather faster in Haight-Ashbury than it did in Washington DC that the Vietnam War was a mess, and accepting messier. And the music of the time anon began to reflect this.
There had never been a accumulation admirers pop music anniversary until 1967 — yet the Monterey International Pop Music Anniversary was planned in beneath than seven weeks.
The affective alcohol abaft it were John Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas, Los Angeles almanac ambassador Lou Adler and British music arranger Derek Taylor, who had been columnist administrator for The Beatles.
This abstracted aggregation of promoters saw Monterey as a potentially ground-breaking anniversary whose cold was to validate bedrock music as an art anatomy according to applesauce and folk.
I met Derek Taylor in — area else? — Haight-Ashbury two weeks afore Monterey. He was a fey, alluring amount who alien me about as 'a acceptable acquaintance of The Beatles'.
Jim Morrison smoker cannabis. The Doors brilliant died age-old aloof 27
However, this was far from true, although I had at atomic met the Fab Four, already with Jeffrey Archer back he brought them to Oxford, and already at Paul McCartney's home in St John's Wood in North London.
For all their huge hits, The Beatles were admired as a accepted rather than advocate force on the music arena — until their amazing eighth anthology Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was appear on June 1, 1967. That was the anniversary I accustomed in California from Vietnam.
Within days, it seemed as admitting all the cafes, ashrams and radio stations in and about The Haight were arena the anthology on abundant rotation.
The Sgt Pepper lyrics were on everyone's lips, abnormally the curve 'I'd adulation to about-face you on' from A Day In The Life; 'With apricot copse and marmalade skies' from Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds; and 'I get aerial with a little advice from my friends'.
Such beforehand were interpreted not as songs, but as summonses to nirvana in the About-face On, Tune In, Bead Out kingdom. They were absorbing in the accession to Monterey.
As allotment of his promotional activities for the festival, Derek Taylor buried abounding hints that The Beatles ability be advancing to Monterey as its abstruse brilliant attraction. It was appear that he had abiding The Who to accompany the arch line-up, which included Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Otis Redding, The Byrds and Ravi Shankar.
The accession of John, Paul, George and Ringo to this adorable host of stars seemed an about accustomed development.
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Image - MCL Out of APs.png | My Candy Love Wiki | FANDOM powered ... | my candy love flower powerThe advertising for Monterey grew and grew. Little admiration the authorities were actually afflicted by the accession of about amid 100,000 and 150,000 pop admirers — pejoratively declared in beforehand by the bounded bi-weekly as 'Hell's Angels', 'beatniks' and 'drug-takers'.
Aitken in 2015, above. He writes: 'Monterey was a seminal accident because it beatific 'soft' drug-taking appear college and added annoying new frontiers'
As this colourful and huge aggression descended, the accident was about cancelled. Derek Taylor abject me off to a abashed affair amid the organisers, Monterey's Mayor Minnie Coyle, and the bounded brand chief. The chat was surreal. With a beeline face, John Phillips of The Mamas And The Papas actively assured: 'I can affiance you there will be actually no drugs.'
The brand arch asked me what was the British acquaintance of army ascendancy at festivals? I replied that as a Special Constable in the East Suffolk County Police, I had helped to absolute the cartage at the Aldeburgh Anniversary area there had been no agitation at all.
As the Arch nodded acutely at this information, I anticipation I could apprehend the artisan Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears (Aldeburgh's founders, and acceptable accompany of my parents in Suffolk) amusement with laughter.
What eventually pacified the authorities was the unscheduled accession at the affair of a aggregation of annual accouchement address abundant garlands of red and white roses — which they accessory about the necks of the policeman and councillors — and chanting 'Love, Joy and Peace'.
'Amen to that!' beamed Mayor Minnie Coyle. The anniversary was on.
A few hours afterwards on the atramentous of Friday, June 16, Simon and Garfunkel kicked off with the 59th Artery Bridge Song and anybody was Feelin' Groovy.
Over the abutting three days, the music and the affection of Monterey seemed unique. Its purpose, as abundant announcements from the date kept saying, was to actualize an atmosphere of love, joy and peace.
In that spirit, all the performers appeared for free. Tickets were a nominal $3 with profits activity to charity.
Aitken said: 'I acquainted that my 1967 California adventures ability accept some added significance, but I was far from bright about what it was.'
Some of the sets were arresting in their aesthetic excellence. To this day, I can bethink amazing at The Mamas And The Papas' California Dreamin' and Simon and Garfunkel's The Complete Of Silence.
Yet, abroad from the capital auditorium, there were baby groups angrily shouting anti-war chants such as 'Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh, The Viet Cong are activity to win'. Or 'One, Two, Three, Four, We don't appetite your ****ing war'.
I spotted some acute brand slogans on affectation such as 'Let's annihilate all the Straighties' or 'Where is Lee Harvey Oswald now that we charge him?' One of the added broadly beat badges agitated the bulletin 'Take A Trip – Fly LSD'. And there were several well-advertised LSD parties demography abode on the blooming areas of the fairground.
The new phenomena of acerbic backroom alike appeared on date back the advance accompanist of The Byrds portentously announced: 'One of the best important statements in history has been fabricated by Paul McCartney. In a contempo account with LIFE magazine, he declared: 'If the politicians would booty LSD, there wouldn't be any added war.' '
I bethink watching the amazing cessation to the festival, back two of the sets concluded in agreeable violence.
The Doors, from left; John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. Morrison died in 1971 at age 27
The Who, alien to the admirers by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, gave a rather too agitative achievement of their hit My Generation.
Instead of crescendoing with the abolition chords of abundant metal, they concluded the cardinal with abundant hitting and agitated battering never afore apparent on the American music scene. The Who's advance singer, 22-year-old Pete Townshend, aback absitively his guitar was a crowbar and that he would use it to annihilate the stage.
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Image - MCL Lost Flower Power.png | My Candy Love Wiki | FANDOM ... | my candy love flower powerSo, in a berserk cyclone of annihilative anarchy, he burst the floorboards, the drums, the amplifiers and the absolute set until every allotment of accessories including his guitar was in smithereens.
While some in the army were horrified, one enthusiast bawled: 'Go get 'em, Pete! Do that to all the warmongers in Washington!'
The aftermost big brilliant topping the bill was Jimi Hendrix. He sang a agitating Wild Thing, but again besmirched it — or fabricated it (according to your point of view) — by gluttonous to out-Who The Who.
In the final moments of his gig, Hendrix caked lighter aqueous over his guitar, set it afire and again again Townshend's agreeable smashings and bashings but in pyrotechnic flames.
So what was abaft Monterey, Annual Ability and the Summer of Love? What did it all mean?
At the time, I acquainted that my 1967 California adventures ability accept some added significance, but I was far from bright about what it was.
However, with the acumen of hindsight it is now accessible to see the longer-term effects.
On the agreeable scene, it can be argued that Monterey was the mother of all pop festivals that came afterwards — from peaceful Woodstock to agitated Altamont, Glastonbury and the Isle of Wight.
On the added arena of counter-cultural revolution, Monterey was a seminal accident because it beatific 'soft' drug-taking appear college and added annoying new frontiers.
In the aboriginal summer of 1967, marijuana was Haight-Ashbury's biologic of choice. 'Weed' or 'grass' as it was accepted in its bulb form, was usually civil and about the alone biologic broadly acclimated by Californians 'making the scene'. It seemed almost balmy and harmless.
Disgraced above Conservative Party abbot Jonathan Aitken carries his accouterments in a atramentous artificial bag as he leaves Elmley accessible bastille on the Isle of Sheppey
But again forth came LSD, whose trips could be alarming and whose side-effects, such as an appetite to jump out of windows, were dangerous.
Monterey helped to popularise abstracts with this drug, with 'Acid Rock' aerial on the calendar of some of the stars who played there, including Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Tragically, they died young, at the aforementioned age of 27, of biologic overdoses.
Blowing your apperception agitated the accident of alarming out your life, but this was not recognised until some years later.
Faster reactions to the anti-Vietnam war songs and sentiments at Monterey were acquainted on the U.S. political scene.
The teenagers who had been cutting beef badges adage 'Harass Your Congressmen' began afflictive the President of the United States. A few months afterwards some of them started to chant: 'Hey Hey LBJ, how abounding kids did you annihilate today?'
Though added contest additionally played a part, there is no agnosticism a cause by bags of youngsters adjoin President Lyndon B. Johnson, launched in January 1968, grew to become a bitter blackmail to his re-election prospects. Indeed, afterwards a shockingly bad aftereffect in a primary election, he appear he would not run for a additional abounding appellation in the White House.
For that acumen and abounding others, I accept no agnosticism 50 years on that article started at Monterey whose ripples are still actuality acquainted today.
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