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When the era of the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury is invoked, often the first band that comes to mind, especially among those born later, is the Grateful Dead. Second is usually Jefferson Airplane.

This is one of the funny tricks of the passage of time; the further removed from history, the more it changes. Back in 1967 only the squares called anything "Haight-Ashbury". There were lots of scenes happening, thousands of scenes; some overlapped, some were isolated, some blossomed, some mutated, some broke down. They couldn't be pigeonholed by a street crossing name. Similarly, there wasn't really a "Summer Of Love" until Life and Look magazines called it as such and identified the Haight district of San Francisco as its epicenter.

But call the time and place what you will; there is one thing that is true. As respected as the good ole Grateful Dead was at the time, the band that represented the counterculture at large, the concept of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashburydom, and better living through chemistry in the public imagination across the nation was Jefferson Airplane.

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