We're doing a "Summer of Love" tribute show. In October. The thought was, well there's always room for love, and always room for summer. And 1967 was some kind of watershed year in music. "Sgt. Peppers" from the Beatles, "Pipers at the Gates of Dawn" from Pink Floyd, "Are You Experienced" from the Jimi Hendrix Experience. And many more great songs and albums.
Our band is doing songs from the Monkees (that cheesy TV band), Jefferson Airplane (trippy SF rock), The Doors (dark, moody, transcendental) and the Velvet Underground (strange, hard-boiled, decadent). Definitely attracted to the darker side of the summer of love. Revolution was in the air. Doors and walls were melting. And even though some look back at that year as some kind of beautiful flowering, it was a complicated flower with thorns that cut and could make you bleed...
