Human Be-In 1967

[u2kool6]

Thank you for posting this! This event caused me to realize "Something's happening here..."

[LGMH69]

For one summer they almost got it right. But violence and frustration from the war closed in. So close, but I know one thing it will never happen again. I was born in 1969 and I always felt I missed something beautiful.

[RATTLEY67]

Thank you !!!

[pdorn777]

Saturday in the Park, January 14, 1967. Before the 14 Hour Technicolour Dream, before Monterey Pop, before the Summer of Love. Before the beginning of time. Owsley's white lightening striking the crowd with great force.

[hollyprop]

Wow! Thank you so much for posting this. I really feel like I was there. Leary looks so blissed out I can practically see his pupils dilating. This is what YouTube is all about-- sharing history

[moshmartyr]

guitar music with Ginsberg is nice

[cutis1000]

Thanks for posting. January, 1967. The Human Be-in (being). Get it? Those were definitely surreal times for those who chose to experiment with LSD and expand their consciousness. I know I did.

[myshilohranch]

THANK YOU, emessgeeable, for filming this and posting it!!! I was there ... having a great time looking back! btw: it was white lightning that day that Owsley gave us all to pass it out for the celebration. Virtually everyone there dropped. ;D" Holey schmoley ... what a day that was ... peace ... love ...

[fvgdfbdokd]

Attention EVERYONE! There is some bad acid going around. Don't take the blue acid tabs take the red ones!

[leafblower2012]

Beautiful. When there was Real Hope, and Real Change in America.

[HIPandiDONTmeanHOP]

Your "complete and unedited roll of film" was only 4 minutes and 26 seconds long?

[lndac02]

Middle class spoilt white kids indulging themselves while their pareants fund their self centerism whilst working class kids got up and went to work every morning. These people were in the main the greedy Yuppies of the 1980s, and who now run corporate boardrooms outsourcing jobs. The 1960s, a great place to experiment if someone else paid for it all

[threeby8887]

THANK YOU for just being there and filming history.

[Psychedalien]

WOW I was 5 years old!!

[DarkSunGod]

Haha... a wonderful time... but what is more important, is to make life revolutionary now.

[anwiyayoukhanna]

A lotta young pups like me wish we could go back in time and experience the revolutionary decade... well... If you trip... and I mean really trip... you can be there.

[threeby8887]

@anwiyayoukhanna I know I do. I was born in 1967 and have been angry at God ever since for the fact that I was not old enough to enjoy the 1960s.  Instead I had to become a young in the 1980s and '90s.

Man I HATE today.

[stalepixel]

@threeby8887 my mum was the same, she was 5 in 67 and hates her older siblings for not being cool enough to take off their shoes and thumb down to haight. i feel like crying when i see this footage. no one gets it anymore. they think a 120 mic tab and a longterm relationship is far out. wheres the love?

[cutis1000]

January 14, 1967 to be exact. Thanks for the memories!

[Thundralight]

Much of the change brought about was due I think to the use of mind expanding type drugs and that is the reason the government fears them so much. People start standing up against the wars and demanding their human rights.

[nabisho]

I was at all the "B" ins never missed one. Rode there from Richmond (across the bay) on an old 305 honda - '66 & '67 were when things were still great - thanks for posting film of my memories.

NAB :-)

[kixigvak]

I showed up totally by accident. Got there about two hours early, met photographer Jim Marshall and we remained friends until his death a year ago. I saw myself briefly in the film...it was a special day, but many other days also were special. This one just happen to get famous.

[cosmicdoorway]

I was there, at the human be-in. If only that movement would of went on ...

wow, what a world we would of had!

[emessgeeable]

I totally agree. The '60's were exciting times for privileged college students like me. But during that period there was also codified segregation in the South and the rapid escalation of the war in Vietnam. And today...

[kixigvak]

@emessgeeable Most of the people you see at the Be-in are not "privileged college students." They are middle class, mostly working class San Francisco kids. The college kids heard about it later on. Same for the Fillmore. In 1967 you didn't find "privileged college students like you" at the Fillmore. And San Francisco isn't in the south.

[sd62t833]

@emessgeeable And today you better get yourself to Vietnam and start a business

[dannel94]

i see clips like this and the kids of today all say the same thing "i wish i could have been around in these times'' i say to you young kids make your own time and see whats going on in your world and do something about it!!!!

[TheGreatStonedOne]

Can't beat the Airplane.

[addictedtobed]

i'm currently reading the book 'hippies' by barry miles, i can't tell you how much i appreciate the fact that i can watch actual footage of the time, of what i'm reading.

thank u thank u thank u

[oRelvaz]

i think i was there on a previous incarnation :)

[SPYDERWOMAN67]

Awesome Thanks man. This is great, i was a fresh, possibly unknown, bun in the oven at the time. :()

[nichobo]

once upon a time the life

[mrgoodvibrations]

Like it was yesterday man.

[thedarkesthole]

@mrgoodvibrations wait, you were at this, kenny? wouldn't that mean you were like three or four?

[mrgoodvibrations]

@thedarkesthole would've been six so I remember those days as a kid, only from the beaches of Michigan though.....

[thedarkesthole]

@mrgoodvibrations Thats pretty cool.

I really wish I had memories like that. I too am from michigan but i was born in the 1980s.

But beaches of michigan are the best in the summer.

[lavieboheme68]

I can't imagine how amazing it must have been. I'm 19 and am so jealous of anyone who lived through that time.

[timquinn66]

The name of this song is "Plastic Fantastic Lover"

[emessgeeable]

There are 2 songs used. You are correct that the first is "Plastic Fantastic Lover". The second is "Embryonic Journey". Both songs are from the same Jefferson Airplane album. You Tube somehow identified and advertised the second song, and remained silent about the first song.

[BMWproductionCo]

@emessgeeable i like how you used a plane song that featured Jerry Garcia. also one of the most lysergic sounding songs of that album.... surrealistic pillow or crown of creation.. i cant remember. great footage!

[alberthoffman1]

thanx for putting up this fabulous slice of san francisco history....quite majical.....

[ANEWWORLD2012]

sort out DEAR MICHAEL/2012 - HARRY LOCO !

[sarahbtsd]

Thanks so much for sharing. Nice choices of tunes. :)

[otter4x4]

Great video, thank you for teaching a current college student history! : )

[FOSEEBOY]

Home movies, eh?.....(GRRROOVEY)

[ANEWWORLD2012]

new HUMAN-BE-IN in 2012 ?

see movie 2012 the song - Harry Loco

[mtopper66]

Thank you so much for this historic footage. Most of the extant film from this event is in B&W, so it's *wonderful* to get it in color, really the only way to see anything from '67! The whole thing looks like a total gas; the earliest hippie events up to and including Monterey were the best, it was all downhill from there...

[transcendentalicon]

ya man lazy horny speed freaks are not the same as communal peaceful psychedelic stoners