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Summer of Love

About Me

Formed in January 2006 after 2+ years meticulously recording the Anonymous debut Lovesongs, SUMMER OF LOVE has been referred to as a remedy for Chicago’s harsh winters by means of its “sunshine music.” Its focus is on positivity and (agreeing that 40 years is much too long to wait for another love revolution) a belief in the power of love and compassion to deal with the challenging state that Mama Earth/we find ourselves in. The band lends itself to many possible ensembles – up to 7 members in total – and has reinvented itself with each performance from Chicago to Cape Town, South Africa.WAS
..Summer of Love's debut LOVESONGS is an acoustic-based/electronically-enhanced exploration of song and sounds contrasting urban/rural experience and love & alienation in the modern era.SO CLOSE from ChicagoPeaceFest benefit at the Hideout, Chicago.SEED from ArtAgainstWar series at Heartland Cafe, Chicago.

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Member Since: 10/02/2006
Band Members: MARK HETZEL acoustic guitar/vocals KURT FESTGE keyboards ANTONIO CARELLA electric guitar/vocals BRIAN O'QUINN drums CHRIS PAQUETTE percussion
Influences: WE ARE THIS WORLD based on what we have seen and heard and how much it has invaded us or set us free. Our devotion to life and hope - to faith in faith itself. Our trust in this feeling, now and how it is everything
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My Blog

OPENING:reflections

2006 marks the 1st time in human history when more than half the world's population live in cities. Nearly all have been attracted by greater opportunities and a better standard of living - at times r...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 23:35:00 GMT

<<VIBRATION>>

Break away from this sad dream become reality / Welcome the new day / Up to freedom / Love's stream of consciousness / I wanna dive right in / Take me away / See Heaven opening / There's room for ever...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 23:28:00 GMT

FIGHTING THE SILENCE!!! some inspiration i've found along the way...

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Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:09:00 GMT

All I Wanna

I know why but I still don't want to believe itDays go by but it all seems so far awayOne more try, gonna pick my way through the piecesPray to the heavens on high that I find a way back homeTAKE ME T...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:14:00 GMT

Always

If I could forgive me and let you goand all that you've given me right to my soulIf I could find peace...IN THE DREAMTIME WHEN I'M FALLINGI HOPE THAT I SEE YOU BY MY SIDEI'll look back in love as I've...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:06:00 GMT

Shine

"PEOPLE ARE MADE TO SHINE not die of hunger" -C. Veloso, "Gente"...from the inside out i will shine / got nothing but love / float on up to the full moon or we will climb / look down from above...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:15:00 GMT

as i lay sleeping as i lay dreaming

"YOU WHOSE DAY IT IS - make it beautiful - GET OUT YOUR RAINBOW - make it beautiful" -Neotka"weave us a garment of BRIGHTNESS that we may walk where the birds sing, that we may walk where the grass i...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:07:00 GMT

koyaanisqatsi

"crazy life, life in turmoil, like out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living" -from the Hopi language
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:03:00 GMT

UBUNTU

a human being is a human being because of other human beings
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:02:00 GMT

image of the enemy

"the image of the enemy is a moral and political burden because you are negotiating with someone who only yesterday you called an oppressor, a murderer, or a terrorist...i am negotiating because I HAV...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:51:00 GMT