Rolling Stones Summer in the City
Posted on Jun 27th, 2008
by 
*Ladybear~
*Ladybear~
The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City (1966 color clip)
I came upon this song today by one of my favorite guys, John Sebastian and
The Lovin Spoonful.
It was 1966 and whenever I hear this song I think of what I was doing that summer in
New York City. I was living the life of a wild one in Manhattan.
I had a 1963 green Corvette convertible, lots of Mod clothes,
wearing 4 pairs of false eyelashes like Twiggy,
Retro 60's makeup, with dark eyeliner and mascara, artificial eyelashes, and pale pink lipstick. Fab. Simply fab.
A Vidal Sassoon haircut,
Hanging at the clubs in New York City.
The Scene, The Electric Circus on St. Marks Place, The Cheetah,
The Go Go, The Riveria & Peppermint Lounge. There were alot of clubs every night!
One night in particular I was at a place, that summer it was "THE PLACE", called
Ondines.
I was all decked out and in my best “it's ok, i'm with the band”, going with Steve Curry,
the lead singer of the house band named The Denims.
A couple of years later Steve was playing Woof in the original
production of HAIR on Broadway!
Steve Curry is in the middle with my buddy Steve Gamet on top of the pyramid.
Because I was with the band, I got to stay after hours in Ondines.
<Ondines was owned by the guy that produced HAIR, Michael Butler.>
One night there was a big buzz. We had to clear the front bar room and put up a
long table covered with tapestry cloth and a big hooka pipe in the middle.
Remember, it's the summer of 1966, days of the song
"Mother's Little Helper" and the band was on tour.
about 4 AM in come The Rolling Stones.
ALL IN DRAG!
Mick was with the Queen of New York at the time named Terry Noel. Both in full drag.
Brian Jones was still alive.
We all sat at the long table and smoked opium and did poppers (amyl nitrate)
I don't remember much else of it all, except I kept saying to myself,
I can't believe I'm getting loaded with the Rolling Stones!!!
Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end....
Access: Public
1966
September 2008 