SFist: SFist Watches: Jonestown and the Summer of Love

fizzandpop

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:06:18 -0800

You're right, we had to be there. But we weren't. So will you fatties just shut up about it now.

TLL

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:01:07 -0800

Jonestown was a CIA behavior experiment: only two committed sucide the rest were shot or given injections of lethal toxins. Like Congressman Leo Ryan; they weren't under JJ's spell - they were murdered. As far as the Summer of Love; you had to be there, ...so, for classic concert, culture and fun accounts from '66 thru '75 archived by someone whose heart and soul couldn't have been in a better place than in my late teens in the late '60s, please go to: http://www.authorsden.com/terryllattimer scroll to "Nosebleed Or Front Row, I Just Want To See The Show!" (book) Set One w/extras, is available now as a free download! Set Two; excerpts posted! Enjoy!

dailychuppler

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:15:02 -0800

As we shift our gaze from foggy summer into burning some man, let us not forget the copious amounts of mind altering substances that JJ injested on his rapid digression into gun toting, cyandide dispensing assassin. Not that people can't shoot up street corners in plain camera view in the Western (so much cooler than saying NOPA), whilst not high on the crunk of your own choosing, it usually helps in getting past the first couple of shots. I suppose what I'm saying is sometimes people get crazy, after you get to know them and turn over all your worldly goods to them. ya know? well, this really was just a comment so i could get the words 'jackie speier' in here. who was shot 19 times and left for [a tarmac rum party] dead.

fizzandpop

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:21:38 -0800

When are the fat, lazy, boomer hippies ever going to realize that the Summer of Love has absolutely no cultural significance what so ever? Janice couldn't sing, the Dead couldn't play, it was all just a self-absorbed jerk-off. George Harrison came over here and thought the whole thing was a digusting mess, and that disgusting mess is something we still live with today. I say we bury this thing once and for all and wipe this crappy period from our collective memories, like the Germans do with their grandparents. I mean, Peter Cayote for fucks sake, we're supposed to celebrate something he was involved in? That's the best you've got? Just go quietly into the dark and quit spending my Social Security money.

DC1974

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:57:41 -0800

There's a tendency to look at the message and not the messenger. And also to a natural Bay Area inclination to embracing outsiders. I think that a lot of the Your Black Muslim Bakery issues is very akin to Jones and his temple. It's ignoring the warning signs, and just a little bit of bandwagoneering. And name calling to whomever questions your assumptions. Of course all of political discourse has swung this way. But the Bay Area seems like the lefts answer to the religious right: say the magic words and people will ignore the ugly details. Anyway, that's my dime-store analysis. For what its worth. I've always thought that the 1970s (or the 1950s before it) was much more interesting in SF/Bay Area history than the 1960s. Things got out of hand, sure, but so much more interesting music and art was created. And the political changes were much more interesting.