The summer of love...not 69...89!

[Backdoor man]

You may have had Hendrix and woodstock but...

1989 was a real summer of love certainly over here in the UK, the Chicago house and Detroit Techno scene had crossed the atlantic and morphed in to Eurobeat and the Acid house warehouse scene, not only did we have the free love and great music, we also had a real sense of hope unlike the summer of 69 with all that war and college campus madness, in 1989 the evil communists were being otherthrown in Eastern europe and talk was about nuclear dissarmament, there was no war of any real significance, certainly not like Vietnam and certainly not like the current "war on terror" idiocy.

But what really edges it in 1989 rather than 1969 was.....Ecstacy!!

 

[Connoisseur]

I almost got to the end of your post and was like, "Wait, where in the %$#@ is this guy gonna mention X, that's the most important part!"

 

[Backdoor man]

I almost got to the end of your post and was like, "Wait, where in the %$#@ is this guy gonna mention X, that's the most important part!"

the euphoric "white burger" and the more trippy "New yorker" were my favourites that year, £25 a tab back then, you can buy what they call x now for £1 a time obviously the two are not one and the same.
my favourite Acid tracks of all time were also from that year and if anyone remembers either i'll be amazed, these were not "chart toppers"....
"Dreams of Santa Anna" by orange Lemon (Todd Terry) and "A Better way" by Royal house.

 

[jarff]

I like Hendrix and Woodstock....not to mention purple microdot...brown speck..orange four barrel...not enuff room to name em all.My grandchildren say grampie what did you do in the sixties...did you smoke that marijuana stuff? lol...
jarff

 

[Stoner4Life]

I like Hendrix and Woodstock....not to mention purple microdot...brown speck..orange four barrel...not enuff room to name em all.My grandchildren say grampie what did you do in the sixties...did you smoke that marijuana stuff? lol...
jarff

oh yeah the old days.......
my favs were peyote and shrooms, window pane

and the 'summer of love' was '67
not '69

 

[Backdoor man]

and the 'summer of love' was '67
not '69

No, it was 1989.

 

[waydee]

1989 is normally regarded as the second summer of love.

But I do agree, what an excellent time it was.

 

[Stoner4Life]

No, it was 1989.

NO, IT WAS 1967.......

period

 

[jarff]

I was around in 89,but I didn,t feel like I did in 67,.....I guess everything changes about every 20 yrs.....jeez we,re ready again almost ....2009...don,t know if i,ll make that one....I won,t be doin,much dancing or makin,love...enjoy it ....it don,t last forever....I have no complaints in this short time we have to enjoy..
jarff

 

[Backdoor man]

I was around in 89,but I didn,t feel like I did in 67,.....I guess everything changes about every 20 yrs.....jeez we,re ready again almost ....2009...don,t know if i,ll make that one....I won,t be doin,much dancing or makin,love...enjoy it ....it don,t last forever....I have no complaints in this short time we have to enjoy..
jarff

Yeh, as Newton said, "for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction", i burnt too many bridges in my first summer of love, im still not over it enough yet to take on another in two years

 

[Stoner4Life]

I was around in 89,but I didn,t feel like I did in 67,.....I guess everything changes about every 20 yrs.....jeez we,re ready again almost ....2009...don,t know if i,ll make that one....I won,t be doin,much dancing or makin,love...enjoy it ....it don,t last forever....I have no complaints in this short time we have to enjoy..
jarff

I agree....... by 2009 I may be too old & too tired to be making anymore love.

gotta hope for a blowjob or two I 'spose.

 

[Willie]

Aahhhh 1967......one of the most wonderful years of this old stoners life.
I wouldn't trade the 60's for anything....Sex, drugs, rocknroll and even love.
I was too young to be drafted...Too old to stay 'close to home'.
I grew older (not necessarily 'up') on Cape Cod, Mass. When I think of these times I see beaches, sun, BIKINIS and my first real love. I feel happiness, a sense of well-being and an undercurrent of impending excitement. What a great time to be alive! Even with the war going on and the demonstrations for peace, I truely believe we, as a people were much closer and more caring than most seem to be today.
Keep your memories alive 1989!!
Peace,
Willie ........ Now to fire one up....

 

[facelift]

The Summer Of Love was 1967 not 1969. I just saw a documentary on it. The American Experience on PBS. What started off as a Utopia of free food, free love and the free store, turned into chaos once schools let out of the summer. Runaways from around the world went to SF, in the Haight/Ashbury District. By the time it ended in October 1967, the brainchildren who started it had moved off out into the country away from the park. In the end, there were abandoned storefronts, and squalid conditions in the street, not to mention a sharp increase in STD's.