Prequel to 1969
– The Summer of Love Continued
1969
- The Summer of Love Continued is a Sequel to Bill
Kelly’s Waiting on the Angels – The Long Cool Summer of ’65, a light,
easy reading, episodic Roman a clef novel that takes place over the course of
the summer of 1965 in Ocean City and Somers Point, New Jersey, a seasonal
Jersey Shore resort then popular with the college crowd.
Waiting on the Angels – The Long Cool Sumer of ’65 Revisited
Waiting on the Angels – The Long Cool Summer of ’65 Revisited
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It was also a crossroads departure point for many of
the real life characters whose further adventures are chronicled in this follow
up, including Conway Twitty, who went from rock & roll to country music,
Bob Dylan, who went electric, taking Levon and the Hawks out of Tony Marts with
him, Tedo Mambo – the first hippie rock star, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, Jimi
Hendrix, Dave Herman, Linda VanDevanter, Grace Kelly, Ralph “Sonny” Barger,
David Brenner, Tom Snyder, Chris Mathews and a host of ordinary people who came
together in a small place at the same time and made special things happen, as
recounted in this still unfolding story.
They say 1967 was the “Summer of Love” – as
conceived, concocted and devised by Madison Avenue Advertising executives as an
overall attempt to describe, brand and profit from the huge cultural shift that
radically altered society. This multi-dimensional cultural shift suddenly increased
the numbers of mobile free spirits who chose to follow a “counter-culture,” - mainly
young, care free, long haired, liberal baby boomers who rejected the corporate
wall street profit motive and drifted off with flowers in their hair to
Monterey and Heights-Asbury on the west coast, and the Village – Greenwich
Village in the southside of the city – New York city. They were in search of
love and happiness and discovered marijuana, hashish, LSD and other psychedelic
spirits that infused a generation.
Those they called “hippies,” who were a distinct
minority in 1965, were nearly a clear majority by 1969, and in America mob
rules, not necessarily for the better.
Now in retrospect, it’s easy to see how it went from
the cool vibes of the Monterey and Atlantic City Pop Fests and the au natural
mud orgy called Woodstock to the suddenly catastrophic nightmare at Altamont,
killing a dream.
Getting there was another matter.
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