KEEP ON TRUCKIN' RE-VISITED ------------------------------------------------------------------ Volume 1, Issue 5 December 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: ** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS ++ FLASH BACK ** CONTRIBUTIONS ++ COOL LINKS ** COOL LISTS ++ FEATURED WORDS & TUNES ** SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO ****************************************************************** Introduction & Musings: Welcome to the 28 new subscribers who have joined us over the last month! 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 to help this community grow. First off, I want to wish you all a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON. I hope that you all are able to visit with loved ones and that your travels are safe. Next, I am sorry about the little mess up last month. I sent the November newsletter out with a December title to most of the list. I hope it didn't throw to many of you off. I would sure enjoy any feedback, contributions, etc. that you all might like to share with me and/or the rest of the group. I want to thank Garth and Jay for their contributions to this month's issue. ++++++++++++++++++++ More fluff - less stuff... So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, rock & roll with the Stones, put on your love beads, your headband, bell bottomed pants, get yourself in the proper state of mind, kick back, and experience the newsletter. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Flash Back So it was, back in the late 60's . . . . . After having to listen to the Army, Navy and Marine recruiters for a couple of hours trying to get us to join the armed forces, a group of us wild, long haired high school kids got together and formed a loosely organized Peace March through the streets of our small city. Wearing white arm bands and carrying our signs, I am sure we were quite a sight. I do remember it felt great to express our views and concerns. We do indeed live in a great country where we have the ability and the right to openly present our opinions and to express ourselves. I know this is because of the many great men and women who did serve in the military and fought for our freedom. To me it was just that this war (Vietnam) just didn't feel right - never did, never will. Of the many movements at the time, the Peace Movement was one I feel I had the strongest views on and connection with. It could be that time was getting near when I might be drafted, or the fact that I/we lost so many of my/our friends, or a ton of other reasons, but peace was something that really needed to happen. Now more than ever there are many serious threats to peace and freedom. There are still to many oppressed people, corrupt governments, etc.. See what others are doing to combat this problem. Please check out the info below to find out more about the continuing PEACE EFFORT. ----------- Please visit "Peace Torch 1997 is a global peace initiative uniting peace builders around the world. The goal of Peace Torch is to link those who dream of peace and care enough to do something constructive. Born in cyberspace, Peace Torch is circling the planet to encourage humanity and global community. Over 190 Peace Torch Bearers, representing more than 30 countries, participate by displaying the Torch on the World Wide Web. By raising global awareness, Peace Torch Bearers help establish humanity and brotherhood as the cornerstones of the next age. A peace map locates Torch Bearers around the world. Investigate the Torch Bearers sites. You'll find that the world is full of peace loving folks! The recent terroristic tragedies around the world echo the need for concerted peace efforts. These remnants of hatred, resentment, jealousy and bitterness must be cleared before the planet can evolve to the realm of global peace! Join the Peace Torch family. Find peaceworkers in your community and get involved!" <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different . . . we laughed at them. Smug in our certain awareness that . . . communal life must be more difficult even than nuclear family life, which we know, to our very nerve endings, is disastrous, we condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives. June Jordan (b. 1939), U.S. poet, civil rights activist. "Old Stories: New Lives," keynote address, 1978, Child Welfare League of America (published in Moving Towards Home: Political Essays, 1989). =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Contributions: Date sent: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:39:33 -0600 To: hippy@vipgrafx.com From: "Garth A. Buchholz/Global Island" Subject: Ram Dass et al Anyone remember Ram Dass, formerly psychologist Dr. Richard Alpert? He was buddies with Tim Leary, but moved on past the drug culture into higher realms, i.e., Hinduism. It's too bad the spiritual quest got tangled up in the ephemeral 60s culture shit, or else Ram Dass would be the Billy Graham for the 90s. I have the Ram Dass book, Be Here Now, which is like a manual for spiritual awakening. Hey, I'm not a adherent of Eastern mysticism, but the book was part of the times -- especially my times. It'll be rediscovered. Herein lies the problem: If something was happening in the 60s, it gets archived in Forrest Gump and other pop culture '60s museums, yet the dynamic life of it is cut off. Too bad. Garth A. Buchholz Not as Loopy as I Sound Winnipeg, MB CANADA +++++ From: JKenn10630@aol.com Date sent: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 11:25:29 -0500 (EST) To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Subject: KOTR - the underground press For posting: Vincent: It took until late 1969 or early 1970 for the sixties counter culture to reach the all white sedate middle class suburb of New York City were I was growing up as a young teenager. In previous issues of the KOTR newsletter other people have mentioned the impact that the music and drugs had on their consciousness. It was the underground comix and underground newspapers that so caught my imagination. People were self-publishing their art and thoughts and through those efforts they were reaching like-minded people they had never meet... and they were doing it in wildly eye-catching ways! I was amazed. It gave me a sense of belonging to a community of people who wanted to do something with their lives, which wasn't a sense I was getting in my hometown. In particular it was Robert Crumb's "Whiteman" story in ZAP COMIX #1 and his "Meatball" story in ZAP COMIX #0 that opened my eyes to what art could accomplish and that there were other people who saw things differently than my suburban surrounds taught. I sought out other underground comic books and found Justin Green's comix BINKY BROWN MEETS THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY. His work coupled with Crumb's had me sold, I started buying every counter-cultural comic book I could find. The comix would make references to sixties cultural events and wanting to know what those references meant, I'd go off and find stuff to read about them. Those references in turn would spark some other avenue of inquiry. One place all this lead to for me was the underground press. THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER was my local hippy paper. I'm happy to be able to say that I held onto everyone of the underground comix I bought through the years, but I can't say the same for the underground newspapers. I threw them away or passed them on after reading them - after all they were newspapers, no matter how different they were in form and content from THE NEW YORK TIMES. In recent years I have been trying to find and save copies of old underground newspapers, especially THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER, but also THE LA FREE PRESS, THE BERKELEY BARB, and others that I have come across. If anyone can help locate more issues of underground newspapers, I'd appreciate hearing from you (JKenn10630@aol.com). I'd also like to hear stories about other people's local hippy paper. There were lots of them, over 400 by my research. Most of them can be viewed on microfilm thanks to the foresight of Tom Forcade, the Underground Press Service and Bell & Howell. Back in the sixties, the Underground Press Service (a confederation of underground newspapers that agreed to share their content at no cost to each other) made arrangements with Bell & Howell to microfilm the papers each week to be made available later to libraries. This is one of the best reference sources there is on the sixties. The underground press microfilm series isn't perfect. It is in black & white thus muting the impact of the psychedelic color many newspapers used back then when normal papers used no color at all. There are also intermittent gaps in the runs of many (most?) titles because the underground newspaper editors would fail to send copies in on time to have them microfilmed in sequence. Some of these "missing" issues can be found elsewhere in the microfilm series through great digging because they were microfilmed later when the editors would get around to sending the issues they should have sent earlier. The difficulty of locating things in the series is its biggest drawback, but as I said what a great resource it is. I believe the series can still be purchased, but it is out of the price range of most individuals and then you have to have a microfilm viewer in order to read it. I see in the November KEEP ON TRUCKIN' RE-VISITED NEWSLETTER that you've posted on your sister web site a list of books, tapes, and CDs that related to the 60s and 70s. Well, I thought I'd add to that list by contributing this bibliography of books about the underground press. If anyone knows of any book on the topic that I have missed, please e-mail me (JKenn10630@aol.com). Thanks. Books give a broad historical overview of the underground press: OUTLAWS OF AMERICA THE UNDERGROUND PRESS AND ITS CONTEXT Roger Lewis, Pelican in 1972. PAPER REVOLUTIONARIES THE RISE OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS by Laurence Leamer Published by Simon & Schuster in 1972. TRUMPET TO ARMS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN AMERICA by David Armstrong. Published by J. P. Tarcher Inc.in 1981. UNCOVERING THE SIXTIES, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS by Abe Peck. Published by Pantheon in 1985. UNDERGROUND PRESS IN AMERICA by Robert J. Glessing. Published by Midland Books in 1970. Books that are collections of material reprinted from the underground press or are profiles of specific publications, or focus on a particular aspect of the history of the underground press: FAMOUS LONG AGO MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES WITH LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE by Raymond Mungo. Published by the Beacon in 1970. FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA by Olga G. and Edwin P. Hoyt. Published by the Seabury Press in 1973. (Has a short chapter on underground newspapers.) GONE CRAZY AND BACK AGAIN THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROLLING STONE GENERATION a history of Rolling Stone magazine by Robert Sam Anson. Published by Doubleday Books in 1976. GREAT AMERICAN NEWSPAPER - THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE VOICE by Kevin Michael McAuliffe. Published by Scribners in 1978. HOW OLD WILL YOU BE IN 1984? EXPRESSIONS OF STUDENT OUTRAGE FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL FREE PRESS by Diane Divoky. Published by Avon in 1969. IF YOU HAVE A LEMON, MAKE LEMONADE AN ESSENTIAL MEMOIR OF A LUNATIC DECADE by Warren Hinckle. Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1974. (History of Ramparts magazine). MOVEMENT TOWARD A NEW AMERICA THE BEGINNINGS OF A LONG REVOLUTION, A COLLAGE, OR WHAT? by Mitchell Goodman Published by Knopf in 1970. (A collection of material reprinted from the underground press) NOTES FROM THE NEW UNDERGROUND edited by Jesse Kornbluth. Published by Ace paperbacks in 1968. (A collection of material reprinted from the underground press) OPEN CONSPIRACY - THE UNDERGROUND PRESS by Ethel Grodzins Romm. Published by Stackpole Books in 1970. (A collection of material reprinted from the underground press) OUR TIME AN ANTHOLOGY OF INTERVIEWS FROM THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER compiled by Allen Katzman. Published by the Dail Press in 1972. OUR TIME IS NOW NOTES FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL UNDERGROUND edited by John Birmingham. Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. published by Bantam Books in 1970. PAUL KRASSNER'S IMPOLITE INTERVIEWS by Paul Krassner. Published by Lyle Stuart Press in 1961. (Reprints of interviews from the Realist magazine) RE-CREATION AND REPRESSION excerpts from the underground press by Marc Estrin. Published by Delta Books in 1971. UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE SMALL PRESS by Geoffrey Rips. Published by City Lights Books in 1981. UNDERGROUND READER, THE by Mel Howard & Thomas King Forcade. Published by Plume Books i 1972. (A collection of material reprinted from the underground press) VILLAGE VOICE READER, THE Published by Grove Press / Black Cat Editions in 1963. (A collection of material reprinted from the underground press) VOICE, THE - LIFE AT THE VILLAGE VOICE by Ellen Frankfort. Published by William Morrow in 1976. (A history of the Village Voice) Again, I would appreciate help from anyone who knows where I could buy copies of old underground newspapers or who knows of other books on the subject. I can be reached at JKenn10630@aol.com ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ COOL LINKS Sixties: The Players - This a great site to see photos of the players of the sixties from the photo Archives of Robert Altman. Just a few of the folks on this page - Peter Fonda, Tim Leary & Ceasar Chavez. Drop back to the main home page and explore a bunch more very nice links. Drop In: ++++++ Josh's Mega Midi Archive - Over 1450 midi music files you can download. From Hendrix to Primus, there is a great selection of music here to be had - and the price is right! Drop In: ++++++ Bagism - is the place for fans of John Lennon to come together and learn, educate, and have fun. It is an interactive site meaning that you will have to be an active participant rather than just being a passive observer. The underlying concept of John and Yoko's "bagism" idea is interactivity among people without prejudice. The Internet is a great place to achieve that ideal because you are judged only by your words -- not by your looks, age, gender, ethnicity etc,. Drop In: ++++++ ------------------------- Times They are a Changin' ------------------------- Bob Dylan's Home Page - you can check out all of his albums, lyrics, and concert dates. A very informative site for a great artist - and yes, Bob has a new album out and you can listen to samples of it at this site using RealAudio. Drop In: ++++++ SpokenWar - This site has great poetry on online (some via RealAudio - very neat.) Many thought provoking pieces with a clean and simple interface. You will need to check back often to read and hear the newest stuff. Drop In: ++++++ Global Showcase - Freedom of Music begins here. This is the World's Most Comprehensive (their words not mine) Website for Independent Music. Everything there is Free. They invite you to join the growing community of Showcase Musicians, Listeners and Industry Professionals. Another hot RealAudio Site. Drop In: ****************************************************************** His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways . . . while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness. Tom Wolfe (b. 1931), U.S. author, journalist. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, ch. 26 (1968). ****************************************************************** COOL LISTS Homestead-Work Contact: ThymeForEwe@nemaine.com (Robin Follette) Purpose: Managing the homestead, family, bartering and business. 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Owner: mailto:dcamp@epix.net (Duane Campbell) Owner: quiet:, mailto:crovo@ukcc.uky.edu (Bob Crovo) ****************************************************************** Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. Joseph Gallivan (b. 1964), British journalist. Independent (London, 30 Aug. 1990). ****************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES FEATURED BOOK The Indian Tipi : Its History, Construction, and Use By Reginald Laubin, et al / Paperback / Published 1990 Paper reprint of the 1977 second edition. This definitive work covers all aspects on the Indian Tipi including materials and construction to ceremonies, uses & transportation. Follow the link below to hook up with this book at Book Stacks *+*+*+*+*+* FEATURED ALBUM Led Zeppelin II This is one of my all time favorite albums. Track & Title 1 WHOLE LOTTA LOVE 2 WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE 3 THE LEMON SONG 4 THANK YOU 5 HEARTBREAKER 6 LIVING LOVING MAID (SHE'S JUST A WOMAN) 7 RAMBLE ON 8 MOBY DICK 9 BRING IT ON HOME Visit the following link and it will take you to CD Universe's Led Zeppelin list of albums. You can order it from there. *+*+*+*+*+* I have put together a page on the sister web site for KOTRV at with a bunch of other books, CDs, and tapes that relate somehow to the 60's and 70s. If you are looking for a certain classic album or book to finish out your collection, this just might be the place to start. *+*+*+*+*+* Use Pollstar to check out where your favorite band or musician is performing. You can search the tour database by: Artist, City or Venue. Check out: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 - Subscribe/Unsubscribe & Misc. Information: To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail To UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail (Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.) To POST to the newsletter, send e-mail For an updated FAQ on this newsletter visit: The sister web site for KOTRV is located at Please stop by and see the changes and additions. From the web site you can also post your comments, suggestions, and submissions. Please drop in and put in your 2 cents worth at . KOTRV has an archive of past issues available on-line at also, KOTRV is now being archived at - Reference.COM has begun archiving this list as of: Oct. 3, 1997 - Searchable archives for the lists are available at: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Copyright 1997, VIP Graphics & Video. 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