THE LOVE-INS, 1967, Sony Reportory

Be More! Love More! Sense More! Professor Richard Todd (From teen exploitation wizard, producer Sam Katzman, The Love-Ins gleefully rips off Timothy Leary, the Haight-Ashbury hippie movement and everything in ...- http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/movies/loveins.htm)becomes LSD guru to impressionable San Fransico college hippi. Stay tuned to the "Alice in Wonderland" psychedelic ballet, featuring music by The Chocolate Watch Band. Co-starring James MacArthur and Susan Olive.
When Larry Osborne and his girl, Pat Cross, are expelled from college for publishing an off-campus underground paper, philosophy professor Jonathan Barnett resigns in protest. On the Joe Pyne TV show, Barnett advocates the use of LSD and he becomes a hero to the hippies of San Francisco''s Haight Ashbury district. Elliot, an opportunistic hippie, sees a chance to create a cult around Barnett and thereby profit from the resultant "happenings." Pat and Larry quarrel over her use of LSD and the girl moves in with Barnett. She becomes pregnant and attempts suicide when Barnett tells her to have an abortion. Larry saves Pat, and sets out to destroy Barnett at one of his "happenings." When another hippie pacifies the crowd, Elliot sees a new "messiah" he can promote and attaches himself to the newcomer. Lang realizes he has made Barnett a hippie martyr.


See - http://www.lasalle.edu/library/vietnam/FilmIndex/Assets/L6798_THE_LOVE_INS.pdf

James MacArthur''s role in The Love-Ins, explosive new hippie drama, that of a student underground editor in a turned-on generation, parallels to a degree his own personal history.

As a teenager, young MacArthur found himself a fiery non-conformist, as was to be expected from the son of newspaperman Charles MacArthur, collaborator with Ben Hecht of the famed stage play, The Front Page, and actress Helen Hayes. However, as Jimmy grew older, his way of thinking swung into more conservative channels, only finally to reverse itself again and come back to where it is now, middle of the road.

Because of his earlier non-conformant thinking, Jimmy could understand the hippie viewpoint and was able readily to communicate with them. He hardly ever agreed with the 50 or so hippies brought to Los Angeles for the film, but their discussions never were the violent ones that usually erupted when the hippies got into a dialog with any one not "in" with their beliefs.
Too, MacArthur''s love of music, especially his guitar, also proved "common ground" for the hippies and himself. He understood their "beat," and could play it, and they could "read" his music.



POP CULTURA - For boys the 1950''s was an era of cowboys and spacemen.

Almost everything about the sixties seems to be an icon. David Bailey wore a crewneck sweater to marry Catherine Deneuve while Mods and Rockers spent the Easter holidays hurling deckchairs at each other on the seafront.

The youth of the 1960s certainly had plenty of heroes to choose from - Mary Quant, Twiggy, Che Guevara, Mick Jagger, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Bernadette Devlin, Yuri Gargarin . . . DJs, pop stars, footballers, racing drivers, film stars and those four lads from Liverpool.

Some predicted the mini skirt would lead to anarchy - or even worse, to joy. The Pill and the miniskirt seemed to promise some kind of utopia, providing the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.



A decade where the best selling albums came from K-Tel and Ronco - The same people who brought us such labour-saving devices as the Fishin'' Magician and the Buttonmatic.

The Seventies were about having a good time all of the time. People were too busy having sex, getting drunk and/or stoned, eating fish and chips, smoking Woodbine and posing in front of their bedroom mirrors with tennis racquets to worry about the underlying problems.

From Klackers and Curly-Wurly''s to The Sex Pistols and Anarchy In The UK via Glitter, Glam and Disco: The seventies remain our favourite era and given half a chance and a bottle of Old Spice we''d be back there again before you could say "Shang-A-Lang".



What were the 80''s? . . . Bueller? . . . Anyone? Well, you are truly a child of the 80''s if any of the following statements are true for you: You know what leg warmers are; You know who Mr. T is; You remember when Atari was a state of the art video game system; You used to be able to breakdance (or wished you could); The phrases "bright light" and "phone home" actually mean something to you; You had a BMX bike. . .

The 80''s was a decade where young folk wore fluorescent, neon clothing and business folk wore double-breasted suits with shoulder pads and believed "Greed Is Good" . . . and when Prince sang about partying "like it''s 1999" it seemed so far away!

Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, Transformers were more than meets the eye, leggings under a short skirt was considered a stylish look, Michael Jackson was still black and ''by the power of Greyskull you HAD the power- http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/popculture.htm







Love-Ins No More, Now We Have Critical Mass!

In the old historic section of Highland Park (Los Angeles) there is a tiny storefront that for several years has been one of the last meeting places for those seeking social justice and wanting to keep alive the counter-culture movement. Friday nights at Flor Y Canto has become a pot-luck dinner and video night. Thought-provoking, educational, alternative films became the norm. This particular Friday it was billed as the very last video night at Flor y Canto, a day before the north east LA community space was to close down.

A growing awareness of the downside of the bell curve of world crude oil supply has created a thirst for information among the forward-thinkers of L.A. Exacerbating the decline in oil production is the volatile motor fuel supply/demand balance; we are on the razor''s edge. Current events in the Gulf Coast area are the text-book example of this; one glitch in the petrol-system and prices rise and waves of anxiety are generated.

A video concerning peak oil would be shown at F y C. Since I wanted to see these particular videos I decided to pedal over there at the appointed hour. Some of us have already begun changing our lifestyle for less petroleum-dependence. Bicycles are the new symbols of opting out of corporate commodification of transportation, cutting the oil-umbilical cord, while simplifying and naturalizing our lives. Love-ins of the 60''s have given way to Critical Masses in modern times. Volkswagen busses with psychedelic paint schemes have given way to bikes as the hip way to navigate the city and make a point. So, we have some overlapping agendas here. Or so I thought.

I expected the crowd to be a mixture of Peak Oil weenies and bicycle geeks. I got there a bit early so I could get first crack at the only bike rack on the sidewalk in front (well... half of the rack anyway). A needless concern, I was the only one there on a bike. As has happened before, my attendance at the Flor y Canto event turned out to be (among other things) a reminiscence of the love-ins, peace marches and demonstrations of yesteryear. While time has marched on, morphing most counter-culturists of the 1960''s into their places in corporate America, a few have held out and seek like-minded souls at venues such as F y C.

There were always people there who experienced these 60''s events at the same time and places as I did. This time was no different and we even had a second-generation radical there. However I felt like the Lone Ranger in that I seemed to be the only one who carried forth with (what we now consider to be) non-mainstream values and lifestyle into the modern age. This lifestyle is even more important given the man-made planet reshaping problems we now face. But in this brief encounter, I really could not have become familiar with the core values of everyone present. Much of the radical nature of the anti-war 60''s movement lives on and is still subject to the wrath of law-enforcement, so we do have this common ax to grind. But I expected more.

After viewing and discussing "Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature", it became
apparent to me that for the most part, this crowd (about 20, but I wasn''t counting) was not as advanced in the realization of and proposed solutions to these problems as those who are reading this. At least four of us present had been on Critical Mass rides. While three had arrived by Metro Rail, and I had ridden in on my bicycle, the rest had driven their doomsday machines.

Completely sympathetic and understanding of the peak oil problem, they simply could not commit to changing their lifestyle to mitigate the consequences of the inevitable energy crisis. Steps in the right direction had been taken by several of those present, but the need to reach for that ignition key was overpowering for most.

Corporate America has taught it''s lesson well. Common perception is that life in the U.S. is not possible without the extreme petro-consumption our society takes for granted. Most of our society. Not me. Not us. But we have a ways to go.

Bottom line here is that it is going to be tough. It is already getting tough for much of our population. We thought we had social and political problems in the heydays of hippies, peace marches, and love-ins? A frolic in the park (literally) compared to today and worse yet, tomorrow. Those of you reading these words are growing in number and will be much better equipped to handle this brave new world than those who can not imagine how they will cope.

Not all is doom and gloom. I think great progress is being made. It is not easy to pry people out of their complacency. Of course we are being helped by world events, but that is a terrible price to pay.

So we keep chipping away, smug in the knowledge that this is working for us and we are light-years ahead in terms of being able to coast down that back side of the oil production bell-curve and into the future.


THE CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND - play music ridht now: http://www.mp3stor.com/albums/67/11847/35891/chocolate_watch_band/no_way_out_inner_mystique/

http://www.cdonpc.ru/album/6666/The_Inner_Mastique/

http://eng.audiograbber.ru/album/6667/One_Step_Beyond/

ЧОКОЛЭТ УОТЧ БЭНД (Chocolate Watch Band), американская группа. Сформирована в 1964 в Сан-Хосе, Калифорния.

Оригинальный состав: Нед Торни (ведущий гитарист, вокалист), Марк Лумис (гитарист, вокалист), органист Джо Кемлинг, басист Том Антон и барабанщик Гари Андриясевич. Позже, к коллективу присоединились вокалист Дэйв Эгайлар и басист Билл Флорес, а гитариста группы заменил Дэйв Шон Толби. Передавая в своих песнях любовь к ритм-энд-блюзам, группа стала одной из лучших групп американского гаражного жанра.



Дискография:
NO WAY OUT (1967)
THE INNER MYSTIQUE (1968)
ONE STEP BEYOND (1969)
BEST OF CHOCOLATE WATCH BAND
FORTY-FOUR

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