Introduction: Ripples 1 -- The Short 60s Prelude: City Scale ; Into the 60s ; 1965 ; 1966 ; 1967 ; 1968 ; 1969 -- The Long 60s. Psychedelia and Its High Other ; Postlude: The Dharma at Big Sur ; Hippies, Incorporated ; Gatherings of the Tribe ; The Grateful Dead Archive -- Notes on Interviewees.
Summary
San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. It is also a chronicle of the impact this brief cultural flowering has continued to have in the city - and more widely in American culture - right up to the present day.