Does anyone remember the griffith park love-ins

i was at the airplane/moody blues gig at elysian park around early november 1969....it was not attacked by the lapd....it was surveilled by narx on the hill talking to paper bags...i was there w/green power feeeding the freex so that is my recollection....do you recall a fellow dressed as julius caeser mounts the stage which was a flatbed truck to dance during the moodys set?anyway, elysian park was adjacent to the pig school....the lapd were a bunch of crazy rednecks shades of george putnam!!! hey those were the days!!!

 

I went down to Hermosa Beach once...went to a little club and saw John Fahey play some knock yer socks off slide.
I remember he came out onto a small stage with a 6 pack of 7-up..actually IN GLASS bottles....opened every one of them, gulped one down played and about every once in a while would reach down a drink one in about one gulp...

I got into the Whiskey only once, saw 2 bands...Bones and Sarah.
My daughter is named after one of those bands...no NOT Bones!!

I stayed at Griffith park a bit, then when I had the blessing of a band putting up with me I lent my awesome Navy mummy bag to a guy at the park...I went back after a bit to get it and he had almost burned himself alive in it...fell out with a lit cig...
Man, that was such a great bag....*sniff*

Marry Marry is right....alot of us that traveled around or lived in 'hot' spots at the time ran across people who made it big....and no one is droppin names...just tellin stories and including people you may have heard about.
Heck Soupy Sales tried to pick me up one night at the restaurant I was working at...
I didn't go...afraid of Fang....

At EPP Larry and I had the nicest house up there so it was only natural that we would have some of the people who came up to play stay with us.
Can't help it that some were well known...

I'm always asked to share stories here...so I shall.
No place else to tell them...and if I don't tell them....dust in the wind.

 

People are people no matter what their jobs are. Some are good and some are still learning what good is. What is sad is the ones that are still learning are running/ruining the country.

 

Our stories are our memories of a time of learning the truth of why we exsist. Without them we forget.

 

yeah shameless heifer u are right,
but u forgot the best band to ever live and play in the haight, unless u lived in the haight u never heard this group they played in the park with the airplane and the dead and big brother and at the family dog,
im talking about the one the only

the ace of cups
peace love white rabbitt
haight ashbury hippie icon

 

Teepi, I Love your newest sig, she rememinds me of ~Sam~. It like she is looking down at us, saying.. Happiness..

 

Sorry Hef, I wasn't implying that. It was kind of a subtle jab at an earlier poster suggesting your story was just that. I didn't get that from your post at all. I never gave much credence to the cult of personality that was prevelent back in the day. Too many legends in their own minds, running around, that I never heard of....

Teepi, that little club was probably The Lighthouse which is a world famous Jazz club. Occasionally they would slip into another genre, I saw John Hammond Jr. there, only he was nodding so bad he couldn't find his pick. I tried again a few years later, at McCabes in Santa Monica, and was rewarded with an amazing bottleneck blues experience.

Pieman. Did they (Moodys/Airplane) play there twice? Cause I may be getting a little foggy in the memory department but I do remember that gig and I can still see the little blue prick with the billy club who had to hit me from behind with his other hand on his gun saying "wanna try me punk" like some bad vision out of a Clit Eastwood movie.

Anyway, keep the stories rolling people. I'm lovin' it!

 

HAHA As soon as I saw your post I remembered...Yep...the Lighthouse
Thanks sweetie.

Thanks Sh...most of my art is based on someone or something personnal.
I was not thinking of Sam when I did it, but just thinking of mostly the people here that I just want to give a wave to and say "hi" I see you....

 

the moodies and the airplane played together at elysian park once in early november 1969....do you remember the easter riot of 1971 at elysian park with all the rookies running down the hills w/o badges?

 

Nope sure don't. I remember at one point people started getting hip and getting badge numbers, to use when filing brutality complaints and so the LAPD started trading badges before an action. So you would file a complaint against a white cop badge number so and so, and that badge number belonged to a black cop, or vice versa. You know thinking back on the Moddy Airplane concert I think that the police crap went down afterwards as we were leaving. We were headed to where the car was parked and ran into a skirmish line trying to force us back the way we came towards another line coming from the direction they were forcing us to take. There was so much fucked up shit the pigs were doing back then, that they wouldn't be able to get away with now. Which doesn't mean they are really any better, just not as visible, except when caught on video. Ha ha. I just remembered something. Do you remember the older guy who would dress up like the devil, and had his moustache, gotee, and eyebrows, all waxed up into points? LOL And the undercover cops ( my kid calls them lo pro po, for low profile police, instead of narks) wearing Mexican sarapes and trying not to look obvious while talking into paper bags with their walkie talkies inside? Man every time I read a post here I get this serious rush of memories.

 

ask heifer about the best band who ever played in the haight, the ace of cups
if u lived in the haight u enjoyed the ace of cups
peace love
white rabbitt

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

Brightest Blessings Carol
May the Light of Love and Joy fill your life for always
sh

Teepi, It just reminded me of her when I saw it, but it does look like you.. heh heh.. Brightest Blessings
sh

 

shamless heifer forget to tell u about the ace of cups sloth

 

Rabbitt.. names and dates allude me sometimes. The Ace of Cups does ring a bell, but then again, I read the Tarot and see the Ace of Cups quite often. I stayed pretty FUBAR untill I had my boy Jom in 70. I remember much more after that time bc my mind was free from chemical interaction. Mostly organics after that.
I'm sure we crossed paths somewhere along the pathway. There were SO many people in the Haight and so many drugs everywhere. Music was coming from all directions at once and everybody had beards and long hair...lol.. I see pictures of people I knew back when and I would never reconise them on the street today, we have all changed so much. I hardly reconise myself anymore.
As I sit here remenising of days gone by, it does joggle the mind and more memories surface. I see little snapshots of places and people in my head and I remember. It lingers in my subconscious mind teasing my brain.
Brightest Blessings to you Rabbitt
sh

 

Sloth Outta Here!

 

Hey Carol,
I did wear Peasent Blouses and long colorful skirts, I also wore a pair of Red Leather Pants with a Balck Velvet Shirt. I did the thing with the inserts in the legs of jeans to make them bellbottoms too, humm lets see. I wore a Long Orange Tapestry Dress with slender straps and very low cut with sandles.. there was a time or two I wore nothing at all :O . I had a lot of nice expensive clothes but they got absorbed into the commune.
There will come a time Carol when we shall all be togther and sip on Ambrosia, Food of the Gods. We shall laugh and sings songs of love and beauty as we embrace each other in Spirit. (and when I win the lottery n the physical).
Brightest Blessings Sister Carol
sh

 

OBTW my hair has always been long and blonde, brown eyes and 5'2

 

Awwww come on now. You know all us guys want to know how all you cute earth mamas accessorized back in the day! LOLz

 

Well LUV,
I had the cutest pair of jeans with leather and suede patches all over them.
I found a huge bag of scaps behind some kind of shop in Santa Monica and sewed a ton of patches on a bunch of peoples clothes.
Then when I hitched back to Vermont I stayed in PA. for a few days with some groovy people and we went horse back riding...ALL day.
When I took of my jeans that night...AAACCKK!!
That leather had rubbed 2 big boo boo's on my buttocks...yep, still have the scars.

My main accesory was...flowers in my hair...I even stayed in SF for 2 nights....

Long dark brown hair,light green eyes...5'4"...thats all you get...