Volume 3, Issue 1        ISSN 1097-4156         August 1999

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Second Anniversary Issue

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS
CONTRIBUTIONS
COOL LINKS
COOL LISTS
QUOTES
COOL GOODIES
FEATURED WORDS & TUNES
SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO

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.

To SUBSCRIBE, e-mail kotrv-subscribe@onelist.com

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(Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.)

To POST to the newsletter, e-mail hippy@vipgrafx.com
or kotrv-owner@onelist.com

Second Anniversary Issue

I really want to thank you all for allowing me to share my thoughts and many moments of nostalgia of such a time and for all your thoughtful, wonderful participation.

Onelist.com

The transition to Onelist seems to be going ok. Sorry for the hassle but the list was just getting to big for me to handle in an efficient manner.

Woodstock 99

How about some thoughts on the latest Woodstock? I would like to hear how you all reacted to the mess that happened at the end of the concert and what your thoughts are in regards to people  (promoters) trying to re-kindle or relive the past. Post your thoughts and comment to mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com

Please visit the Psychedelic Gallery:

Would sure like to get some more great submissions for Gallery.

Comments

comment: "...Some people are in the tree tops, just looking for their kites..."

comment: Right on dude you web page rocks ,,

comment: all i can say is wow i love your web page! peace!

comment: THANX 4 THIS SITE..I AM IN LOVE WITH HIPPIES AND BEING ONLY19, IT IS HARD TO KNOW WHAT THE LIFE OF A HIPPIE WAS LIKE...THINGS LIKE THIS ARE GREAT TO HELP US YOUNG HIPPIE LOVERS FOLLOW THEIR FAITH AND LEARN WHAT THEY PREECHED AND TAUGHT, I BELIEVE HIPPIES WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR NATION AND SOCIETY TODAY....I BELIEVE THEY CHANGED THE WORLD...THANK YOU...PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS ALWAYS......

comment: can I please have some e-mails from anyone that was at woodstock or was even a hippy! I'll give you a buzz back I'm really interested in the 60's and love everything about the 60's and want to gather as much imformation as possible peace 4 eva -
corinne csullivan@trinity.sa.edu.au   (corinne sullivan)

comment: The 60's was a time where a teenager could just let loose and have a little fun without having to worry about the cops being in their way all the time. It was also a time when the U.S. was clean from most diseases and people didn't have to worry so much about catching STDS all the time. I think most people in the world today would really like for that time to come back and be revisited and even though we may try it will never be succeeded. We can only succeed it through our own minds!

comment: this is great finding you guys here that was a time of my life that i surely miss.maybe now that i can't do much than play with this here comp.ican refresh a whole lot of those memories......thanx and see ya..the wild turkey sez that........

> You can add your comments from the main page at the KOTRV Website: 
So please do!

More fluff... less stuff...

So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, be a Joker with Steve, 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.

Creativity

"Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling
its purpose."

-Charles Du Bos

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: hippy@vipgrafx.com

Date sent: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 21:35:25 -0700
From: leah <mehere4@airmail.net>
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Just a few thoughts...

Hey, everyone. First of all I'd like to thank you, Vincent, for putting together this list. It's always alot of fun to read the posts and to follow the cool links. I have a few comments on the meaning of the word hippie, to me, at least. In my opinion being a hippie has nothing to do with how you dress, what you look  like, how much or what sort of drugs you use or what language you use to express yourself. There were/are plenty of people who called themselves hippies then and now who don't have a clue. It's easy to have the look or talk the talk but being a hippie is a state of mind... an attitude. I was a teenager in the 70's and I did my fair share of things that would make a typical parent freak out ! Drugs were easy to get, and believe me, I got more than my share but that didn't make me a hippie. I wore my bell-bottoms with patches all over them, had my hair long and straight and walked barefoot but I wasn't a hippie because of that. What made me a hippy then and now has to do with the facts that I CARE about other people. I CARE about the earth and the plants & animals that live on it. I hope I've taught my own children, by example, how to show respect for those things and people that we share the planet with. I hope to see the day that we all get back to that hippie way of thinking.   One more thought on a much lighter note ! I wanted to invite you all to visit my website. If you like classic rock 'n' roll I think you'll wanna check out my site. I have over 400 full-length songs recorded in mpeg-layer3 stereo wavs, cool classic rock MIDI files, "Groovy Graphics" and much more. I'll leave the incense burnin' for ya !
The Classic Cafe
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Balcony/2509/

PEACE! ~pass it on~
Leah

Date sent: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:09:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brittany <jude_23_98@yahoo.com>
Subject: The Beat scene
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com

hello
In the last newsletter there were comments made by one particulary intelligent fellow about his experiences with the book "On the Road". I'd like to state that being in the middle of reading "On the road", I already see exactly what this man was saying. On the road makes me want to do all that Sal did too. I want to go on trips with Neal, Jack, Allen, William and all the rest. I feel being on a trip with the beat figures would be the most profound experience of anyone's life. Neal in particular was a genius. In the end with his trance-like state of hammer flipping and the beginning with his America. The Beat scene was DEFINITELY the beginning of the whole
sixties counterculture without a doubt. The Beat era started the new way of thinking. Thinking for yourselves, experiencing life with others, learning about what existence is really about, thinking, learning, experiencing! THe Beat scene was more than coffee houses and poetry, it was about changing the way you percieve yourself, others, life. It was the beginning of the beautiful sixties. Sorry if this sounds a bit on the melodramatic side but I love Beat culture as well. Thanks for listening.

Peace and love,
Brittany

Date sent: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 02:37:57 -0400
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: HONEYTREE <lollypop@annap.infi.net>
Subject: Musings From A Flower Child

Hey, what's happening? KOTR is far out! Thanks!

"You weren't there", an expression common among Vietnam Veterans, kind of sums up my feelings about trying to put the experience of the 60's into words or images for people who weren't there to understand what it was really like. Words and images will never reveal the strong feelings of love we had for one another, while having such disdain for "the establishment". The "establishment" included the government, big business and the pigs. I lived in the Maryland/Washington, DC area during the 60's. I graduated from high school in 1968.

The hippy movement, the flower child, peace, love and the have a nice day attitude that so permeated our very beings were all results of our environment. We learned that war is not a
good thing from WWII movies on TV. Then there was the atom bomb to deal with, so we convinced ourselves we could survive by building bomb shelters in our back yards. Then we saw a young man's life snuffed out by a sniper in Dallas, TX. Then we saw black men, women and children rioting and being beaten and attacked by dogs and fire hoses. We saw their leader, Martin Luther King Jr., murdered before his work was done. There was a glimmer of hope in Bobby Kennedy, but he also was killed. And, always constant in the background, the number of Americans killed each day in South Vietnam. The war was so distant, never affecting our lives back here in the world, until those killed were our neighbor, our friend, our brother.

We all were grief stricken and very angry. How could "they" watch the news and then immediately get on with their comfortable little lives and do nothing about it???????? We left, we found each other, and we comforted each other while we fought in the streets for changes. Those of us who could afford to would rent a pad close to DC and open it for people to stay during the times we were demonstrating. Sometimes we had 20+ people in a small apartment. We all shared whatever we had with each other, and no one ever ripped off anybody else. We were united in a just cause - end the war, NOW! While not out in "the field" (the Washington, DC memorial lawn) we relaxed by cooling off in the Jefferson Memorial pool, or the fountains, smoked a lot of pot and shared knowledge with each other. This is how the other movements arose, like back to nature and womens' lib. A very exciting time!! Everything seemed to be going well until the Kent State murders. 4 dead in Ohio. That really put a hurtin'  on the demonstrations, and most hippies just left. We ended up living in communes, or in other countries, a lot of city hippies moved to the country, but some are still out there on the road.
God bless 'em.

I was one that moved to the country, going organic. I married a Vietnam Veteran. Three years ago I went back to Washington, DC and have returned every year since. I attend the "In Memory" program they have there for Vietnam Veterans that  died as a result of their service in Vietnam. I go there to honor my late husband.

Well, I still love, I prefer peace, I hate war and injustice, and I still smoke a lot of pot! Thanks for letting me
share.

Peace.

Date sent: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:50:33 -0500
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: Héctor <hcabrera@ciateq.mx>
Subject: missing objects


Dear Vincent.
This is the part missing from my story...

The police went berserk after a girl dared to dance topless on a platform and after seeing the golden opportunity to kick the shit out of many longhairs. It was the first and last festival of its kind in México. Needless to say, rock concerts were banned. For many years we only had access to the top r+r bands via TV, records and magazines. Fortunately that is over now. Even an aging Mick Jagger trying still to get some Satisfaction was worth the wait.
Paz y amor desde México...
Héctor.

Thanx, I'll keep in touch.

> Moderators Comment:
This is (as they say) the rest of the story.. missing from the the last issue. Not sure what happened but here it is.. 

Thanks Héctor!

If you missed it, see it here...
http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/july99.htm
or
http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/july_99.txt

COOL LINKS

Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the
Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos

• Scrawl.org
  This is an interesting WebZine with a lot of current material.
  

• UBL.COM
  UBL.com is part of the ARTISTdirect network. Find your favorite Artists, MP3s, Official Merchandise, Contests, Ticket Giveaways and more.
  
  Great music connection site.

• art channel
  UNIVERSAL PLATFORM
  Visual, Graphic, Experimental,
  Tribal & Other Arts
  
  Great site for the arts.

• Biocorp USA
  Helping to eliminate the Polyethylene Bag.
  Spread the Word.

• Worm Digest
  Going to Montana to raise some earthworms....
  
  Learn all about these little critters at this site.
  I have been raising a few myself.

• Under the Western Sky
  a webzine for the west, and beyond
  
  This unique monthly Webzine is for the entire Western U.S. and beyond! Under the Western Sky... is your gateway to astronomy and much more on the Web.

• SpokenWar
  Poetry with a bite
  No Banners, No Bios, No Bull....
  Poetry with an edge
  All Audio, in Real Audio
  
  *Moderator's Comments*
  I have mentioned SpokenWar before, but now the audio version is here and it's real cool - Check it out!

• Circlemakers
  Beautiful Site about crop circles - well worth the trip.

• Aether
  with the tongue of a serpent
  and the heart of a saint
  
  Wonderful poetry and art.

COOL LISTS

Cool Lists from around the net!

THE SWINGING SHINDIG

THE SWINGING SHINDIG is an EMAIL pub covering MUSIC from the 60's to modern rock, electronica, "exotic" stuff and everything in between. We focus a lot on artists with work on MP3.com, and do musician spotlights, editorials, POP CULTURE commentary, and throw in other bits of weirdness. The Swinging Shindig is published haphazardly.

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Allspirit

Description: Allspirit is a list for sharing spiritual poetry and quotations, and for discussing the material sent. All paths are welcome on Allspirit, so please respect the views of  others even if they differ from your own.

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Owner/moderator address: gme@dial.pipex.com

QUOTES

On Growth

"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow."

-Goethe

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just,
that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."

-Norman Mailer

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only
to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other
somewhat higher."

-Thomas Henry Huxley

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system,
a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

-Anaïs Nin

"To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently,
and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that
one man can do another."

-Benjamin Jowett

Get the archive of quotes - send a blank email to:
quotes@vipgrafx.com

COOL GOODIES

Fun stuff from the digital ether

Kodak Picture Playground

Cool things to do with your pictures.

Easyfoto

Here is another place to put you pictures up online.

FEATURED WORDS & TUNES

FEATURED BOOK

FEATURED ALBUM

I have put together several pages on the sister web site for
KOTRV with a selection of books, CDs, and videos that I feel
in some way relate to the 60's and 70s.

Follow these links -
Books - Music - Videos

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
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Please stop by and see the changes and additions.

KOTRV has an archive of past issues available on-line at
<http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archive.html>

Copyright 1999, VIP Graphics. All rights reserved.
ISSN 1097-4156 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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