Darice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm planning a program at the San Francisco Public > Library in the Haight, on the music of the Haight, > in June 2003.
Sounds like a great project to be involved with, Darice. You may have this covered already, but do you know about the 1967 documentary film "Revolution" - and the follow-up 20 years later called "Hippie Revolution"? A while back (July 2000) I spent some time driving around Northern California with two women I had befriended on the Internet - singer Kathleen Tarp, who had been a member of the Serendipity Singers, and her friend, Louise - (along the way we visited the Monterey Blues Festival and the Kate Wolf Festival in Sebastopol). In the sixties Louise was known as 'Today Malone' in Haight Ashbury and had starred in the original 1967 'Revolution' film - touring Europe in 1968 promoting it at 3 European film festivals. Today Louise is saving lives and stamping out disease as a hospital administrator. Kathleen and Louise remain two of my best-loved people on the planet, so I'll write to them and see if they can help at all with your program. In the meantime, I love this picture of 'Today' (on Haight Street, I imagine) hawking the alternative newspaper 'Berkeley Barb Wire' back then - see http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.18.96/hippie-9629.html and also found this doing a web search: >"The original 1967 documentary 'Revolution' starred > Today Malone, Herb Caen, Ronnie Davis, Louis Gottlieb, > Jurt Hirschhorn.... Features performances by Mother Earth, > Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Steve Miller Band and > Country Joe and the Fish. and these links for Tracy Nelson of 'Mother Earth' http://members.tripod.com/~DBFox/tracynelson2 >"Take the theme song from the film "Revolution" (where, >by the way, is the film's star, Today Malone, today?). It's >Brubeck-like rhythms are wholly out-of-sync with the >"garage band" psychedelia of the day and more in-tune >with the sophisticated approach of a Henry Mancini. While >the Steve Miller band is singing "doo-doo doo-doo-doo" >on "Your Old Lady," certainly a hippie novelty song of the >first degree You should be able to contact Tracy Nelson via her website http://www.tracynelson.com . She has an interesting bio @ http://www.tracynelson.com/TracyNelson/bio/index.htm - Etta James/Linda Ronstadt/Maria Muldaur/Bonnie Raitt/ Scotty Moore/Willie Nelson/Neil Young content - great video of Tracy singing "That's Alright Mama" with Scotty Moore, DJ Fontana and the Jordanaires in her website gallery, too) Hope these links help, Darice. I'm hoping you'll share your 'program' research with the jmdl as it develops. Very best to you PaulC (who played several gigs - and worked the door! - at the US Cafe - on Haight, just up from Ashbury - back in 1975 - my English accent saved my life (literally!!)
