It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

[Bekah]

I watched the whole thing - all of them.  Lots of memories there.   
Thank you,  Robin!   That's my times and I loved that album.  (And I  
saw Yellow Submarine more than 13 times.)

  But I'm not sure how much 1967 has to do with Vineland - it's a  
kind of background for it, for sure,  but Vineland takes place in  
1969 and that was a world of difference.  The clips from your post  
are from 1967 for the most part with 1987 remembering them - great  
stuff.   The Summer of Love in 1967 was so free and new and  
beautiful.   No one was calling anyone else a "hippie bum"  because  
the term was barely invented (disputes here, I know). The hippies  
were pretty much being peaceful in San Francisco at the time although  
there were anti-war demonstrations.     In 1969 (Vineland) the  anti- 
war people were splitting into the faction demanding more militant  
activism.   The 1969 break (Country Joe) with the flower-power of  
1967 ("Are You Going To San Francisco?")    is exceptionally well  
done in Vineland.     The flower-people  of the Haight dissolved into  
the Weathermen of 1969 or went other ways.    (Maybe y'all don't see  
the difference now.)  The  Beatles split in 1970.  :-(


1969 was these old favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeCxJmcAo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenV9Din7K4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIvs4j4IniA&feature=related

Bekah


On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> Stumbled across this looking about fro Timothy Leary's quote about  
> Baby Boomers being the first generation to be "demand fed," and was  
> overjoyed to see most [if not all] of this scorching epochal  
> sensation. "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" came out in [surprise,  
> surprise] 1987, coinciding with the first issue on CD of Sgt.  
> Pepper. While ostensibly concerning itself with "Sargent Pepper's  
> Lonely Hearts Club Band", this documentary opens up to include  
> Allen Ginsberg, Abby Hoffman, some of the original Diggers, Timothy  
> Leary and various and sundry artists and anarchists, including a  
> number of anarcho-artists. Essential viewing, great background for  
> Vineland:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_dI5vVFRc
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjJ5sZ7S-fo&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtayyf4lX2Y&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DVbugM60k&feature=related
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WBgSCCdGgg