1967

January - The "Human Be In" concert in Golden Gate Park with the Dead, Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger. A
key event leading to Monterey Pop.

Mid June - The Monterey Pop Festival is generally regarded (along with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band released two weeks earlier) as the precursor to the Summer of Love. Monterey Pop was the first
multi-day/ multi-band rock festival to be held, and it predated Woodstock by two years. It brought together many
of the acts that would rise to international prominence over the following years. Tom attended, and by good
fortune gets a seat next to Jimi Hendrix on a flight back to from Monterey to Santa Barbara. Hendrix was
continuing on to LA [in 1970 Tom would get a job at Electric Lady Studios in NY].

The war in Vietnam continued to expand, with million of tons of bombs, missles, and rockets dropped dropped
throughout Indo-China.

The average age of US military in Viet Nam was 19, compared to 26 in WW II. Protest marches were getting larger
and increasingly common.

Early in '67, John Hall and Charles get back from Viet Nam and are trying to get their lives back together. They
pursue jobs in music - gigging and teaching.

About the same time in '67, Tom engineers and produces two "Jet Set" productions at Two:Dot Studios in Ojai and
forms a close friendship with its owner Dean Thompson.

Timothy Leary emerges as a focal point for the LSD movement and says we should "turn on, tune in, and drop out".
Maui Zowie was the weed of choice.

Woody Gutherie dies at the age of 55
Otis Redding dies in a plane crash, age 26, a few weeks after performing in Monterey.

The Summer of Love happens, and Height/ Ashbury is the centre of a global movement. Bands with strong political
and societal stances are widely successful - Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Country Joe and
the Fish, Quick Silver Mesanger Service, and so many more.

Surrealistic Pillow by the Airplane was a key recording in the Summer of Love.

Tom and John were both in University. Tom, was also recording and producing local acts, and working parttime as
an all-night disk jockey on KIST in Santa Barbara, California.

June - Tom helps Dean Thompson revamp his studio and install an Ampex 8-track. Dean asks him if he would give
the studio a "shakedown" and make some recordings that could be used to demo the studio's capability.

August - Tom calls Charles, John Hall, and John Capanna to see if they would like to make an album.

Late August to Nov - Four friends sign a basic contract between them, call themselves Prufrock and record Visions
at Two:Dot in Ojai. Dean was pleased with the results.

December - Prufrock does one gig, and Dave Pell, A&R at major label Liberty Records, is interested in the songs. A
remix session happens at Liberty Studios on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.

December - The members of Prufrock decide they are not a performing band and go their separate ways.

Early '68- A lawyer friend of Tom's hears of a job at the hotest independant studio at the time - Gold Star Studios.
Tom is interviewed by the owners - Stan Ross and Dave Gold and plays Prufrock. He gets a job as an Assistant
Engineer to Stan Ross and to record song demos. His most memorable demo session was with Led Zeppelin when
they were in LA prior to the release of their first album.

March 68 - While working at Gold Star, Tom makes a few acetates for keepsakes and song demos for Two:Dot and
the Prufrock band members. The song demos had only one or two songs, and it was one of these that would
eventually find its way to Europe, and be heard by RD Records. It took RD a few years to find Tom and the
masters.