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Godfather Of The Summer Of Love

  • Jan 31, 2025
  • 13 min read

Updated: Nov 5, 2025

The Godfather of the Summer of Love and the concert producer who discovered Janis Joplin. The tall Texas Gentleman. I first met Chet on the backstairs of a huge warehouse party in Downtown San Francisco, through a photographer girlfriend, Victoria. Chet was from Texas, a gentleman bent geek kind of Texas. We sat and chatted and smoked. He smoked joints, I smoked cigarettes. And afterwards kept running into each other backstage at various events and backstairs of other parties...

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