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Map of the Haight-Ashbury
By Ed Stephan, who roomed with Sam Andrew of Big Brother and hung out with Dan O'Neill, the cartoonist. It has just about every Haight-Ashbury point of interest you might care to visit, if you were to go on a pilgrimmage to the birthplace of the hippie counterculture. Everything's changed, yet everything remains the same.
 
Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Celebration. Includes interviews, photos, art, and news of the celebration that occurred on Sept. 28, 2007 in Golden Gate Park.
 Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
Founded in 1967 by Dr. David Smith. The doctors who work there believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. It should be free at the point of delivery, and it should be comprehensive, nonjudgmental, demystified, and humane. Rock Med is but one of their wonderful projects.
The Family Dog
Responsible for some of the legendary shows of the Sixties in San Francisco at the Avalon Ballroom and as recently as 2005, such as the Chet Helms Tribute. The Family Dog included legendary concert producer Chet Helms.
Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, and the Merry Pranksters
Carry on Furthur with an on-going Acid Test in cyberspace. You are either on the net or off the net. Never trust a Prankster.
Wavy Gravy
No hippie list would be complete without the clown conscience of the Sixties, a funny man Lenny Bruce described as "a perfect entertainer", one of the main forces behind the Hog Farm, Camp Winnarainbow, the PigNic, and countless invaluable benefits and fund-raisers. His main charity cause is the Seva Foundation.
Electric Druid Home Page
Links to all of Dark Lord Rob's fab, scary, groovy, trippy, and/or out-of-this world projects. Dark Lord Rob is a poet, musician, and writer with some exciting ambitions.
 The Rainbow Maker
In support of world peace, this picture of our planet encircled by its true flag the rainbow was sent to us; feel free to copy it.
 
  
 
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Bands
Grateful Dead
Maintained by the Grateful Dead and offers CDs and other merchandise, news about former band members and t he Dead community, the Deadfile, Terrapin Station, the Robert Hunter archive, info on the Rex Foundation, and much more.
Founding band members: Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Pig Pen, and Bob Weir. Lyricists included Robert Hunter and John Perry Barlow. Keyboardists included Tom Constanten, Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland, and Vince Welnick.
See also: History of the Grateful Dead
Rockument's history includes a special video interview of the Grateful Dead in 1967 at their house, 710 Ashbury, in the Haight-Ashbury. Illustrated with original collages by Alton Kelley.
GDLive
One of the most extensive sources of Grateful Dead and GD-related music on the Web, for free downloading.
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
By David Dodd, Research Associate in the Music Dept. at Univ. of Calif. at Santa Cruz. The site provides extensive footnotes on lyrics -- an excellent reference for Deadheads.
Philm Freax Digital Archive
Some cool images of Jerry Garcia and his band.
Berkeley Grateful Dead FTP
Includes song lyrics, setlists, and much more. This  site existed before the Web, and is still a fine resource if you can figure out how to browse it.
The Great Society
The first band Grace Slick fronted, which also included Jerry and Darby Slick (the latter wrote "Somebody to Love"). This band's version of "White Rabbit" is something to cherish.
Jefferson Airplane
The most popular of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury bands was the first to have a hit record (in 1966). The group included Marty Balin, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Skip Spence replaced (after one album) by Spencer Dryden, and Signe Toly Anderson replaced (after one album) by Grace Slick.
Barry Melton
Lead guitarist for Country Joe and the Fish, was quoted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "San Francisco was like the capital city of the 60s." I saw Barry lead the Dinosaurs back in the 1980s (an ad-hoc band of ex-Quicksilver, ex-Airplane, and ex-Charlatans folks), and he is awesome on stage. The Barry "the Fish" Melton Band is on tour as of this writing.
Quicksilver
This band still represents for me the ultimate San Francisco-Marin sound (even though the piano on that song is the ubiquitous Nicky Hopkins). The guitar sound of John Cippolina, may he rest in peace, soars into the foggy cosmos, epitomizing the Haight-Ashbury experience.
Moby Grape
In early 1967, this was one of the most exciting bands on the San Francisco scene. The object of a spirited bidding war between record labels, the Grape ultimately signed with Columbia Records and released their fantastic debut album. So fantastic was this album that Columbia was convinced to put out five singles simultaneously... Then what happened? Was it hype? Was it teenage girls? Was it drugs? Read the Moby Grape story, more realistic than Spinal Tap, and more primeval than the punk bands that would come a decade later.
 Jimi Hendrix Official Site
This site offers lots of information on the most innovative electric guitarist of the 1960s, along with news from the Jimi Hendrix estate and official merchandise.
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History
Video: The making of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper during the Summer of Love
These clips tell the story in a very concise style with extraordinary interviews and film footage, including Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, the Diggers, Derek Taylor, all four Beatles, and a variety of sixties artists and orators. It ends with the live satellite video broadcast in 1967 of the Beatles performing "All You Need is Love" -- England's contribution to the first ever broadcast seen and heard around the world.
 Rockumentary on the Haight-Ashbury
Includes sounds and video clips along with original collages by legendary artist Alton Kelley.
Rockument's Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties
This 2-disc CD-ROM set (out of print since 2002) included video clips, images and words from the Haight-Ashbury and the San Francisco Oracle psychedelic newspaper, and music by the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, and Tom Constanten.
The Digger Archives
Preserves and presents the history of the anarchist guerilla street theater group that challenged the emerging Counterculture of the 1960s and whose actions and ideals inspired (and continue to inspire) a generation (of all ages) to create models of Free Association. For many people, the Diggers epitomized the 1960s Haight-Ashbury experience. For some, they were its heart and conscience.
San Francisco Oracle History
The San Francisco Oracle, true to its name, was one of the first underground papers, and it spread the word of change throughout the hip community. By Allen Cohen.
Summer of Love
By Allen Cohen, editor of the S.F. Oracle: "The Summer of Love was the peak of the Haight Ashbury experience. Over 100,000 youth came to the Haight. Hoards of reporters, movie makers, FBI agents, undercover police, drug addicts, provocateurs, Mafioso and about 100,000 more tourists to watch them all followed in their wake."
 S.F. Psychedelic Pop
Rockument's history of the pop music of San Francisco in the 1960s.
S.F. Psychedelic Rock
Rockument's history of rock and jam music of San Francisco in the 1960s.
 Rockument Podcast
Episodes by Tony Bove devoted to rock music history. Subscribe to the free podcast to receive each show automatically, or play the show right from the Web page. You can even download the show as an MP3 file, all for free.
Rockumentary on the Haight-Ashbury
Includes sounds and video clips along with original collages by legendary artist Alton Kelley.
 Beatles-Get Back Time Capsule
Rockument's Beatles time capsule offers news, anecdotes, fab Beatles trivia, Beatles merchandise, recommended CDs, DVDs, and biographies, and the "Red Album" fantasy.
 Beach Boys Smile Sessions
Rockument chronicles the fabled lost Beach Boys "psychedelic doo-wop" album by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, along with commentary, suggested CD purchases, a playlist of the original "Smile" and a review of the recently finished version by Brian Wilson.
Shrine to Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg will be remembered as one of America's greatest poets and counterculture heroes. He leaves behind an incredibly inspirational body of work. There are lots of web sites devoted to his poetry, such as this one that analyzes "Howl" and other poems.
Shrine to Timothy Leary
He pioneered the use of LSD in the 1960s, escaped prison in the 1970s, wrote inspired essays on mind expansion and evolution while dabbling in software in the 1980s, and became a multimedia star in the 1990s, and even since passing on, he continues to be in the forefront of whatever counterculture you have in mind.
Elegy for Jerry Garcia
By Allen Cohen, a poem written on Aug. 9, 1995. Jerry, may the four winds blow you safely home.
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Miscellaneous
The Facsimile Ed. of the S. F. Oracle
Painstakingly assembled by editor Allen Cohen, it includes reproductions of every single S.F. Oracle that appeared, including the P.O. Frisco issue which appeared before issue 1.
Leftist and Progressive Internet Resources Directory
By Jay Moore, offers news and a variety of links to sites dedicated to left-wing and progressive issues.
The Virtual Realist
Paul Krassner has edited The Realist (see also this Realist fan page) since before the Sixties. A contemporary of MAD Magazine, Lenny Bruce, and Madonna, Krassner is one of my heroes. His story of what actually happened in Air Force One when LBJ accompanied Jackie and JFK's body back from Dallas is a journalistic legend. The powers that be never quite understood how this irreverent comic and his tiny publication could have ultimately inspired a universe of 'zine publishers.
Sunshine '69
A novel about a freak-out, with the premium LSD known as Orange Sunshine personified in a flower child who, in the midst of making sense of what's happening to her generation, gets kidnapped by the CIA and turned into a deadly double-agent. Her infiltration into counter-culture happenings from Hell's Angels' runs to the Woodstock Festival transforms the tapestry of a decade in decline. The story unfolds over serialized chapters linked from a 1969 calendar page.
Lilac's Book
(Random Advice & Hippy Values), for ages 12 to adult. Hippie or not, you should check it out.
Atomic Books
An online catalog of drug related books. They also have a BBS in Baltimore.
Dyed in Vermont
Tie-dyeing for over 22 years, these folks developed a resource site for tie-dye artists and Web authors.
Posterville
A very cool place. The site covers far more than just the finished poster product -- they explore the many facets of this fabulous, fascinating and fantastic subject, including information about the poster artists, the music that inspired them, and events past, present and future.
Elegy For Rick Griffin
Allen Cohen, poet and editor of the S.F. Oracle, wrote:
Sometimes the world seems to stop -
it just won't work.
The wheels won't turn.
The waves and the wind won't rise.
The beat slows down and
the notes go flat.
It all becomes a struggle
and then a heartache until
another piece of flesh
is torn from the body.
It was a raging time
the week Rick Griffin died.
Classic Rock Photo Gallery
By former Rolling Stone photographer Robert Altman. Another excellent source of rock photos is the most famous of all concert photographers, Jim Marshall.
 
Changes
Beginning as a radio program twenty four years ago on a maverick station KDNA, Changes has consistently held to the scenario that energy follows attention.
Star Trek follows the White Rabbit
Humorous video of Star Trek scenes set to "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.
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