K E E P O N T R U C K I N ' R E - V I S I T E D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 4, Issue 4 ISSN 1097-4156 November 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: ** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS ** CONTRIBUTIONS ++ COOL LINKS ** COOL LISTS ++ QUOTES ++ FEATURED WORDS & TUNES ** SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO ***************************************************************** ! H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G ! ***************************************************************** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS Welcome All! So, what's it all about man? Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited is a moderated newsletter/list about the time between the mid 60s and mid 70s. It was designed to examine and present a positive nostalgia of a time since past. It is also designed to provide a forum for you to share your feelings, thoughts and experiences from that time frame. Please participate and help this community grow. ---------------- All the subscribe and un-Subscribe info is at the end of this mess! ---------------- Kicks! This issue is one of the most fun I have done in a while. There are a ton of links, several e-zine resources, and many quotes in this issue. I sincerely hope you all get as big a kick out of reading it as I did putting it together! Onward and Upward! ---------------- Conformity "A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Your mission this month, should you choose to take it, is ... Now is your chance to express yourself on the role that this dirty little word (conformity - not to be confused with responsibility) has had on your life. Were/are you able to avoid it, or did you just have a light brush with it, or did it grab you (like it did me) and pull you in with full force, head first? Just drop us a note and tell us of your experience and/or thoughts on the subject. - mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com ---------------- Tis the season! Don't forget to get you and your buds an official KOTRV T-Shirt! Now you can also get Sweatshirts, and Baby Doll Ts as well. > Visit - http://mp3.cafepress.com/vipgrafx Perhaps you would like to have your own design on a shirt, mug or mousepad - just click the link at the bottom of the above site and you can setup your very own deal - everyone is invited! ---------------- Karma Points You know we all need them, and now is your chance to get yours! All you have to do to get your very own 100 fantastic, wonderful, and beautiful "Karma Points" is to forward this newsletter to all your friends, co-workers, enemies, family members, acquaintances, comrads, pals, bros, associates, and loved ones. No big deal, it's just that easy. ---------------- Comments:(or just ads?) comment: I was wondering if you wanted to exchange links. I am the founder of a new vintage and modern day clothing site at http://www.catchingthebutterfly.com/ check it out to see if you like it's style. Let me know! Thank you so much for your time! Tenika Morrison (catchingthebutterfly@mail.com) comment: The Lost 45s with Barry Scott features Top 40 records from the 70s and 80s you never hear anymore. Scott has released a best-selling book and CDs series based on the program and has appeared on VH-1's "Behind The Music." Check out the site and make a link if you like it! Thanks. http://www.lost45.com Barry Scott (barry@lost45.com) comment: We offer a line of Grateful Dead(R) Steal Your Face(R) & Dancing Bear(R) pendants, charms, earrings, ect., in sterling silver, 14K gold, and 14K gold with diamonds. A little bit for everyone a www.daviesjewelry.com Thank you Peace out. Tiffany Eis (tiffssite@dotplanet.net) comment: Do you guys know where I can find the original picture with keep on trucking. I had a T-shirt many years ago with the pic and text on it Michael Larsson (snezzer@hotmail.com) Can anyone help? --> You can add your comments from the main page at the KOTRV Website: http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/hippy.html So please do! ++++++++++++++++++++ More fluff... less stuff... So, warm up the lava lamp, pull the trash bag up over your head (to keep the rain off) and stomp in the mud to the Fish Cheer jams of Country Joe, flip on the black light, then put on your love beads, your headband, bell-bottomed pants, put a flower in your hair, get yourself in the proper state of mind, kick back, and experience the rest of the newsletter. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Benefits of Growing Older! 1. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first 2. It's harder and harder for sexual harassment charges to stick. 3. Kidnappers are not very interested in you. 4. No one expects you to run into a burning building. 5. People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?" 6. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac. 7. There's nothing left to learn the hard way. 8. Things you buy now won't wear out. 9. You buy a compass for the dash of your car. 10 You can eat dinner at 4:00 11 You can live without sex but not without glasses. 12 You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television. 13 You consider coffee one of the most important things in life. 14 You constantly talk about the price of gasoline. 15 You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. 16 You get into a heated argument about pension plans. 17 You got cable for the weather channel. 18 You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. 19 You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge. 20 You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. 21 You send money to PBS. 22 You sing along with the elevator music. 23 You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. 24 Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper. 25 Your back goes out more than you do. 26 Your ears are hairier than your head. 27 Your eyes won't get much worse. 28 Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. 29 Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service. 30 Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. 31 Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size. 32 People send you this list ... ** Editor's Comment ** Don't ask! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CONTRIBUTIONS Please feel free to add your 2 cents worth - share your thoughts, feelings, and general good-times. We would all love to hear from you! Send your comments to: mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com +++++ From: hmc1@bigfoot.com To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Subject: John Lennon Remembered Date sent: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:51 -0600 John Lennon Remembered This special section of Rollingstone.com coincides with the release of The Beatles Anthology, the third entry in the mammoth chronicle of the band's career, and RS' own re-release (with new material) of Jann Wenner's Lennon Remembers, the 1970 Rolling Stone interviews. The site trots out several old Lennon interviews, wrapping them with new features: an interview with producer Phil Spector, "intimate" photos of John and Yoko just weeks before his murder and testimonies from 34 musicians, Keith Richards to Shirley Manson, about Lennon's impact and where they were when they heard the news of his death. http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/special/lennon/ <><><><> Celebrating Sideburns Badburns celebrates sideburns, those hairy facial things that get long, short, fat or skinny with fashion and taste. The King of Bad Burns offers photos scoured from the Internet, a celebrity gallery, burns news and an earnest effort to inaugurate the Burns Street Museum. http://badburns.bizland.com H. Michael Cunningham, Ph.D. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato +++++ Date sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:44:35 -0700 To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com From: radman Subject: Hillary & the Black Panthers (urban legend) Please run this in your next issue... ----- Urban legend: Hillary Clinton played a significant role in defending Black Panthers accused of torturing and murdering Alex Rackley. ** Editor's Comment ** It never fails... nothing worse then an Urban Legend that you publish that comes back to bite you on the ass. Sorry for not researching the post better that was in the last newsletter and thanks radman for keeping this newsletter on track! +++++ Date sent: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:27:22 -0700 To: .@nic.scruz.net From: monkerud Subject: ALSO FIND Your readers can also find Free Land: Free Love: Tales of a Wilderness Commune at http://www.BlackBearRanch.com best, Don Monkerud Don Monkerud http://www.BlackBearRanch.com Black Bear Mining & Publishing Company 2220 Pleasant Valley Road Aptos, CA 95003 831-724-2059 FAX 831-724-1893 ++++ From: "Joe" To: Subject: nosepilot/Oct ish Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:06:00 -0700 That Nosepilot art/movie/thingie from the October newsletter is incredible art! This old ex-mountain hippie bachelor is very glad he subscribes!! Thanks!! Joe ++++ To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:39:18 -0400 From: Judy Bayliss Hi - the question below appeared in the just-out issue of KOTRV. To respond: the phrase 'Keep on Truckin' was originally used in a blues song in the 1920's or 1930's. The cartoon using the phrase was published in 1968. Judy - who spent the late '60's slapping Ripple labels onto trees........ ===================================================== HI, I'm a writer trying to confirm that the term "keep on truckin'" was in common use in 1970. Can you help me? Thanks, 1,000,000. BH Bob Hodges (hodgesb@msn.com) 0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~0 COOL LINKS Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos ++++++ GREENPEACE.ORG Check it out! They are still out there working harder than ever to preserve the world for future generations. Drop In: http://www.greenpeace.org ++++++ WWF No, it's not the World Wrestling Foundation, it's so much better! -In their own words- Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands. The largest privately supported international conservation organization in the world, WWF has more than 1 million members in the U.S. alone. Since... Drop In: http://www.worldwildlife.org/ ++++++ What's a Hippy? OK, just to settle the argument(s).. Drop In: http://www.albany.net/~lauralee/what2.htm *thanks mark ++++++ Inspirational Quote for the Day Very cool site that mixes art and quotations with new setups everyday. Make it your browser start page! Drop In: http://www.genesisnetwork.net/users/fredd/quote.htm ++++++ HONOR THE EARTH -In their own words- HONOR THE EARTH is a national Native grant-making and political advocacy organization sponsored by: Indigenous Environmental Network and Indigenous Women's Network. Honor the Earth uses music, the media and the arts to accomplish this mission. They ask people to recognize their joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard. Drop In: http://www.honorearth.org/ *thanks mark ++++++ Picket Wire Canyon People -In their own words- An amazing discovery in Southeast Colorado suggests that ancient America could have been visited by a culture with roots in Asia. Rock carvings and other evidence are presented here for public scrutiny the first time. -In my own words- The area this site is about is located about 20 miles South of where I live in Southeastern Colorado. We make many trips a year out into the Canyons - sometimes we just walk, sometimes we try to catch the rising of the full moon, do a little drumming and a ton of soaking up nature in all its wonder. Drop In: http://www.viewzone.com/picket1.html While you are at it, drop back to the main Viewzone.com page and do a bit of exploring on your own. Drop In: http://www.viewzone.com/ ++++++ Silverhawk's Native American Indian Graphics An awesome collection of Native American web style graphics. Please honor the Terms of Agreement when using these beautiful graphics. Drop In: http://www.samsilverhawk.com/ ++++++ Stop the Hate -In their own words- There is a sickness eating away at the strength of humankind and that sickness is Hate. Daily, throughout the world, men, women, and children are tortured, brutalized, and murdered simply because of their beliefs, their race, their physical state, or their sexuality, and equally guilty as the perpetrators are those among us who remain indifferent and/or silent. When will it stop? Who will stop it? Will YOU?? NOW, here is a message that none of us should ignore! Drop In: http://www.stopthehate.net/ ++++++ The Ozark Rainbow Bulletin Download and enjoy the Ozark Rainbow Bulletin - great reading to keep you up on what's happening in the Rainbow community. Drop In: http://www.wholistic.net/rainbow/ ++++++ Your Expedition Join Ann Bancroft (USA) and Liv Arnesen (Norway) in their quest to be the first women to ski and sail across Antarctica — 2400 miles, 100 days, 250 pound sleds, 30 degrees below zero Plus there are other great expeditions to check out! Drop In: http://www.yourexpedition.com/ ++++++ Golden Moments - A Season for Nonviolence -In their own words- The overall mission of A Season for Nonviolence is to facilitate healing, using peaceful ways of thinking, speaking, and acting through the practice of nonviolence as a way of life. Believing that every individual has opportunity to move towards peaceful directions, we are creating a society that honors the dignity and worth of everyONE through education in online ventures and through speaking engagements, workshops. Follow the arrows at the bottom to go through the daily affirmations which are presented on weekly themed pages. Drop In: http://www.goldnmoments.com/inspiredthoughts/ASeason.htm *thanks mark ++++++ Robert Crumb A Virtual Exhibition at Lambiek.net - It just wouldn't be Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited without just a crumb of Crumb. Drop In: http://www.lambiek.net/crumb__exhibition/crumb_expo1.htm and Drop In: http://www.beam.to/crumb ++++++ A Namvets Poems Vipers Vietnam Veteran Page Award winning poems about Vietnam by Vietnam Veteran, E. W. Richardson - mailto:trumddp143@aol.com Drop In: http://members.aol.com/viperash5o/page/index.htm *thanks kat ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! +++++ EcoWorld - The Global Environmental Community URL: http://www.ecoworld.com/SignUp.cfm Monthly Description: An online resource for information on the status of the earth's species and ecosystems as well as efforts underway planet-wide to preserve and restore these species and ecosystems. Information is offered in seven different categories: air, water, earth, plants, animals, trees and people covering key global environmental issues, species/ecosystem profiles and projects pertaining to each earth category. +++++ Soul Snacks for Moms http://www.momscape.com/soul_snacks.htm daily Fifteen minutes is all it takes to refresh your spirit. With your soul snacks subscription, you'll wake up each morning to a new way of pampering yourself in fifteen minutes or less. These brief daily messages will inspire and empower you throughout the day while reminding you of the importance of nurturing yourself. +++++ The Cedarfire Newsletter http://www.cedarfire.com mailto:cedarfire-subscribe@egroups.com monthly Circulation: 90 The Cedarfire newsletter presents empowering information, tools, and techniques to help in your personal development. It includes articles, questions and answers, an affirmation or meditation, and much more. This publication will propel you forward with your spiritual growth through the use of positive thinking, remembering your true identity, and empowering you to take the steps necessary to change your thinking. ***************************************************************** The Poster Pad Oh, how terrible! There's a bare spot on that one wall you just have to cover up. Now is a good time to fix that nagging problem! Visit the Poster Pad @ http://www.vipgrafx.com/poster/index.htm ***************************************************************** QUOTES More Quotes on Music *-*-*-* If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. -- Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland *-*-*-* There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major. -- Sergei Prokofiev *-*-*-* I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? -- Dimitri Mitropolous *-*-*-* God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way. -- Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player *-*-*-* I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. -- Frederic Chopin *-*-*-* When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. -- Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller *-*-*-* In opera, there is always too much singing. -- Claude Debussy *-*-*-* An exotic and irrational entertainment. -- Samuel Johnson's definition of opera *-*-*-* If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. -- Pierre Beaumarchais *-*-*-* The Barber of Seville Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. -- Robert Benchley *-*-*-* Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers! -- Gioacchino Rossini *-*-*-* I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. -- Bing Crosby *-*-*-* Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulgent amateurishness of the musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.) -- Glenn Gould *-*-*-* It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. -- Jerry Garcia *-*-*-* A ponderous orchestral absurdity. -- Frank Zappa on his rock symphony Debuted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic *-*-*-* Thanks Kat! ***************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES --------------------------------- ** FEATURED BOOK ** The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles Hardcover - 368 pages (October 5, 2000) Chronicle Books; ISBN: 0811826848 Amazon.com After all these years, is there anything new to say about the Beatles? Only if you go straight to the guys who haven't had their full say: the Beatles themselves and their closest confidants. The Beatles Anthology has kaleidoscope eyes--and perceptive ones at that... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811826848/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) --------------------------------- ** FEATURED ALBUM ** The Collected...1965-1970 Country Joe & The Fish Audio CD (January 1, 1987) Original Release Date: 1987 Who can forget the unique sound of Country Joe? There is a lot of powerful music on this disk that helped to shape the times of the 60s and 70s. Still when I hear The Fish Cheer done at Woodstock, I get goose bumps - it's just a killer! Tracks 1. Superbird 2. Bass Strings 3. Section 43 4. Flying High 5. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine 6. Death Sound Blues 7. Porpoise Mouth 8. Sad And Lonely Times 9. "Fish" Cheer, The / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag 10. Rock Coast Blues 11. Janis 12. Eastern Jam 13. Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer 14. Rock And Soul Music 15. Untitled Protest, An 16. Here I Go Again 17. Maria 18. Crystal Blues 19. Rockin' Round The World http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000ECN/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) --------------------------------- ** FEATURED DVD ** Billy Jack (1971) Starring: Tom Laughlin, et al. Director: Tom Laughlin Edition Details: • Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only) • Color, Closed-captioned • Full-screen format • ASIN: 0790740729 Other Formats: VHS, VHS dubbed in Spanish, DVD Amazon.com This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy Jack's way of doing things and that of the school's founder (Delores Taylor), but their tension doesn't so much lead to an examination of principles as it leads to an excuse for Laughlin to incorporate fight scenes between hippie politics. Crude and brutal, the film is pretty exploitative of a viewer's torn sympathies, and in that way Billy Jack actually anticipates much of the simple-minded, violent fare that followed in the movies of the '70s and '80s. --Tom Keogh http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XPOM/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hey, don't Bogart this newsletter! Please forward this copy to all your friends. Thanks! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO List Owner/Editor - Vincent P. Gearhart KEEP ON TRUCKIN' RE-VISITED E-mail Address - mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com or mailto:kotrv-owner@egroups.com Subscribe/Unsubscribe & Misc. Information: To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-subscribe@egroups.com To UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-unsubscribe@egroups.com (Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.) To POST to the newsletter, send e-mail mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com or mailto:kotrv-owner@egroups.com The sister web site for KOTRV is located at Please stop by and see the changes and additions. KOTRV has an archive of past issues available on-line at =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Copyright 2000, VIP Graphics. All rights reserved. ISSN 1097-4156 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Disclaimer: Disclaim THIS!!