motel de moka

Highly amusing write up from cannabisculture.com :

The Mecca for beautiful people during the Summer of Love was San Francisco – where you had to be sure to wear flowers in your hair – and the city’s most revered precinct was the Haight-Ashbury district, where flower power had first been fomented in the “happenings” chronicled by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. LSD provided the inspiration for free-form events at which rock groups performed lengthy improvisations before back-projections of swirling colors while the audience would loon around wildly, or sit quietly on the floor, as the mood took them. However, as Harry Shapiro put it, “if LSD was the icing on the counter-cultural cake, marijuana was its basic ingredient.”

As the influence of flower power and of the bands that grew out of the San Francisco scene became more pervasive, so did pot smoking and, at the large outdoor rock festivals that superseded the acid tests, smoking pot became almost obligatory. During the hippie era, which was formally inaugurated at the Monterey festival in June 1967, climaxed at Woodstock, and came to an abrupt end at Altamont in December 1969, smoking pot ceased to be a minority activity. For a generation of young people, igniting a joint was a defiant, quasi-political act indicating dissatisfaction with conventional society, identification with the hippie values of peace and love, and a sure-fire way to worry your parents. (more)

“Shake Your Fa Fa”

01. Yerba Buena - Guajira (I Love U 2 Much)
President Alien (Razor & Tie, 2003)
02. Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa
Datarock Datarock (Nettwerk Records, 2007)
03. Betty Davis - Walking Up The Road (wiki)
Betty Davis (Light in the Attic, 1973)
04. DraculaZombieUSA - Shake Your Fa Fa Fa (BF)
(Artist net property, 2007)
05. Sound Experience - Boogie Woogie
The Soulville Collection (Collectables, 1994)
06. De La Soul - Not Over Till The Fat Lady Plays The Demo
De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
07. The Yellow Ballon - Follow the Sunshine
Lazy Summer Afternoon (2007)

Note: San Francisco mix. A little bit of everything, but for some reason this list is very nostalgic, 70’s funk based hip-hop. Plus it’s really about Will’s latest computer noodling. He is the puppet master behind DraculaZombieUSA, btw. Check out his page for more treasures and SF gig. Have fun.

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