Haight Ashbury Song List and Source Materials

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Song List

These are songs that I play between stops of my Haight Ashbury tour.  Many of these songs are available to stream from Spotify or iTunes (I will post a Spotify playlist soon).  

Songs list (with band name, song name, album title and year)

  1. The Youngbloods, "Get Together", The Best of the Youngbloods, 1967.

  2. Moby Grape, "Sitting By the Window", Moby Grape, 1967.

  3. Jefferson Airplane, "It's No Secret", Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, 1966.

  4. The Grateful Dead, "The Golden Road", The Grateful Dead, 1967.

  5. Blackburn & Snow, "Stranger in a Strange Land", Something Good for Your Head, 1966.

  6. Quicksilver Messenger Service, “Pride of Man”, Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1968.

  7. The Byrds, “Mr. Tambourine Man”, Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965.

  8. Jimi Hendrix, "Little Wing", Axis: Bold as Love, 1967.

  9. Scott Mackenzie, "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", The Voice of Scott Mackenzie, 1967.

  10. Big Brother & The Holding Company, “Easy Rider”, Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1967.

  11. Jefferson Airplane, "White Rabbit", Surrealistic Pillow, 1967.

  12. Jefferson Airplane, "Somebody to Love", Surrealistic Pillow, 1967.

  13. Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Piece of My Heart", Cheap Thrills, 1968.

  14. Janis Joplin, "Me and Bobby McGee", Pearl, 1971.

  15. Big Brother & The Holding Company, , "Blindman”, Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1967.

  16. Big Brother & The Holding Company, , "Call On Me”, Big Brother & The Holding Company, 1967.

  17. The Grateful Dead, "Ripple", American Beauty, 1970.

  18. The Grateful Dead, "Truckin'", American Beauty, 1970.

Click here to access the Spotify playlist

Books

Browne, David, So many roads : the life and times of the Grateful Dead, Da Capo Press, 2015.
Echols, Alice, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Selvin, Joel, Altamont: the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the inside story of rock's darkest day, Dey St., an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
Talbot, David, Season of the Witch : enchantment, terror, and deliverance in the city of love, Free Press, 2012.
Tamarkin, Jeff, Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane, Atria Books, 2005.
Unterberger, Richie, Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock, Backbeat Books, 2003. (Learn more about Richie’s books, classes and presentations)

Selected Record Albums and Box Sets

Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Cheap Thrills, Columbia, 1968. Janis Joplin, Pearl, Columbia, 1971.
The Grateful Dead, Workingman’s Dead, Warner Bros., 1970.
The Grateful Dead, Live Dead, Warner Bros., 1969.
Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, RCA, 1966.
Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow, RCA, 1967.
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers, RCA, 1969.
Various artists, Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, Rhino Records, 2007. (Beautifully packaged collection with 4 CD discs.)

Films

Fly Jefferson Airplane, 2004, Directed by Bob Sarles.
Janis: Little Girl Blue, 2015, Directed by Amy Berg.
Magic Trip, 2011, Directed by Alex Gibney & Alison Ellwood.
Monterey Pop, 1967, Directed by D.A. Pennebaker.
Woodstock, 1970, Directed by Michael Wadleigh.

Link to Haight-Ashbury Food & Drink

Location of The Chutes amusement park operated in the neighborhood at the turn of the 20th Century.