The San Francisco Trips Festival (1966)

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The Trips Festival was held at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco over three days in January of 1966. The festival was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, a Prankster and later publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Brand and Ramon Sender did most of the early organizing. The festival roughly followed the format of the earlier Acid Tests and, by all accounts, it was equally chaotic and off the wall (despite the best efforts of Bill Graham and his clipboard).
The Pranksters were involved early on, and on Saturday night they provided their usual homemade inter-active technology and wacked-out craziness. The Dead played -- well, sort of -- as did Big Brother and the Holding Company, along with lots of other musicians and artists. Kesey offered the crowds a running commentary of the craziness on an overhead projector. The audience were encouraged to be more than just spectators and many wore "Ecstatic Dress" and danced the night away as the fliers had requested. A bag of LSD circulated around the hall courtesy of Owsley himself.

Ben Van Meter - S.F. Trips Festival, An Opening (1966):

Rockin' at the Red Dog Saloon (1965)

Opening in June 1965, the Red Dog Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada, was the prototype for the hippie dance halls of San Francisco, the proving ground for new groups like the Grateful Dead and the Great Society, and the outlaw enclave where Bill Ham invented the psychedelic light show. Melding raucous vintage footage with recent interviews, this brilliant documentary is essential for anyone interested in
the kinetic rise of Sixties rock.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Dino's Song (1968)

Must be one of the earliest ever music videos. The scene is the houseboat docks in Sausalito, home to generations of Bay Area bohemians including Alan Watts and the Whole Earth Catalog editors. The subject, Dino Valente, composer of the hippie anthem "Let's Get Together."

Keep on Truckin' - R. Crumb (1967)

From Zap Comix #1 - 1967

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Acid Test - Muir Beach (1965)

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Dec 17, 1965 Acid Test.

The third Acid Test took place at Muir Beach Lodge near Mt. Tamalpais (after being advertized for Stinson Beach). This was the largest one to date in terms of attendence. The Warlocks aka Grateful Dead perform.

Joel Selvin: Third public Acid Test. Last minute it was moved to lodge near Muir Beach. Augustus Owsley Stanley III arrived and tripped out on LSD. Screeched chair across the floor, left log cabin screaming and crashed his car on the side of the road.

Human Be-In (1967)

The 'Human Be-In' was a happening in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a household word as the center of an American counterculture and introduced the word 'psychedelic' to suburbia.

Berkeley Barb (1969)

Berkeley Barb 3-21-69 (front page)

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The Berkeley Rebels (1965)

The Berkeley Rebels (1965)

Narrator: Harry Reasoner (CBS). Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, Sallie Learey, Ron Anastasi, Kate Coleman, Michael Rossman. A unique documentary film presenting the 1964 Free Speech Movement demonstrations and sit-in at the University of California, Berkeley through first person accounts by four students involved in the protests. Includes debates between students withdiffering viewpoints of the movement, debates between faculty and students and an overview of the impersonalacademic experience at the University which fueled the unrest.

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Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)

A police captain (Aldo Ray) is caught between businesses operating on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip who don't like the punks hanging out, and his belief in allowing the kids their rights. But when his daughter (Mimsy Farmer) gets involved with an unruly bunch, his attitude starts to change.

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Alice In Acidland (1968)

Alice in Acidland (1968)

Cute and perky college student Alice and her cute and perky friend Kathy are invited to a "pool party" by Freida, a female teacher who is actually a lesbian and has designs on Alice. At the party Alice gets drunk, takes acid and immediately becomes a lesbian, taking a bath with Freida. Later Alice gets mixed up with LSD-addicted hippies, rape, more lesbians, more LSD, orgies, suicide, and having sex with guys who keep their boxer shorts on while doing it.

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