| THE FILLMORE |
| Bill Graham, founder of both The Fillmore and The Fillmore East began as business manager for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and then began producing benefits in the Haight. Be sure to read the whole history of The Fillmore and browse the gallery of classic psychedelic concert art...all of which you can download. |
| FONDLY REMEMBERING ALLEN GINSBERG |
| Poet Allen Ginsberg, along with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac and others began the counter-culture movement in the late '50s with the Beat movement of avante-garde poetry, jazz new consciousness about politics and environment and sexual experimentation, with more than a little marijuana. (Bay Area Columnist Herb Caen called them Beatniks, a term they weren't particularly thrilled with). |
| DIGGERS ARCHIVES |
| The Diggers followed The Beats. They dropped out and turned on even more and extended the new consciousness or counter-culture. They were nicknamed Hippies, a term they weren't very fond of, either. They carried on the renaissance of San Francisco, begun by The Beats in the late '50s. Read their archives of those times. |
| THE FAMILY DOG |
| Chet Helms started the tribe known as The Family Dog and gave haven to the early Grateful Dead, Big Brother and others. Chet also put on concerts at the Avalon in the mid-late '60s, with early psychedelic light shows. Today, he produces concerts at the Maritime Hall in San Francisco and the 30th.Anniversary Summer of Love concert in Golden Gate Park, near the original Hippie Hill. |
| THE HIP DICTIONARY |
| As the Beats before them, the hippie counterculture developed its own vocabulary. Much of it related to new consciousness as well as the emerging drug culture of marijuana and psychedelics. Here is most of the language, as it really was used. Dig? |
| AN OFFICIAL GRATEFUL DEAD SITE |
| A key musical group of the Haight and the counter-culture, the Dead continued to grow musically and as a pop cult well into the the 1990's, until the death of their beloved leader, guitarist Jerry Garcia. Their devoted followers, Deadheads, keep on truckin'. |
| Audio Interviews on our Bleecker Street 60's Podcast |
| Broadcaster Don Fass interviews the Dead's Jerry Garcia and the Fillmore's Bill Graham. These fascinating realaudio interview clips are hosted for you to hear on the RockWeb Interactive web site. |
| THE SIXTIES! |
| The award-winning web site that captures all the music, the lifestyles, people, events of those turbulent and exciting times, from the Beatles to Woodstock, the Kennedys to Dr.Martin Luther King, the Apollo 11 First Lunar Landing to the War in Vietnam. |