Welcome to Team DFH'sFreaky Friday weekly music series.
Because Team DFH operates more or less like a herd of cats, we’re here at roughly 9PM Eastern, every week. So take off your shoes, plop down on that beanbag chair over there, let your hair down, maybe light up a fattie, and get some groovy on.In the mid to late 1960's the San Francisco Bay area was a center to a musical and creative confluence that forever changed the landscape of American culture.
The music that was created in this period combined elements of folk, blues, soul, jug band, jazz, pop--- but the result cannot be categorized so easily.
In the 1950's the Beat poets and writers like Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti visited often or made San Francisco their home, the music that was created later in the sixties had a philosophical kinship to those writers.
Not to overstate the synergistic effect of the use of psychedelic substances such as LSD and Mescaline, the experience while under their influence was a major part of the direction and zeitgeist of those years.
Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, which started in 65', gained the Grateful Dead an appreciative following.
Tickets $2.00--pretty good deal I'd say. Pretty sure that's Allen Ginsberg in photo.