Volume 2, Issue 7     ISSN 1097-4156       February 1999

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS
CONTRIBUTIONS
COOL LINKS
COOL LISTS
QUOTES
COOL GOODIES
FEATURED WORDS,  TUNES & VIDEOS
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.

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Guitar Notes

Results from last issue's question:
Q - Who do you think was the best guitarist of all time?

A - All of the following...

From: "Riley Saunders" bestrye@hotmail.com
Subject: Jimi obviously.

Jimi Hendrex WOW!!!! He made the guitar sing. I can sit and zone out to his music anytime. One of the best guitar solo's done by him was the star spangled banner at Woodstock.

From: "Gregg Johnson"  g.johnson@worldnet.att.net
Subject: best guitarist of all time?

Jimi Hendrix

Back Up My Hard Drive? How do I Put it in Reverse?

From: Zack Bly  zack_web@yahoo.com
Subject: guitarists

Hi, this is my first time posting to one of these things, but I saw the survey and I knew that I just had to write... I think that Jimi Hendrix is my own personal best guitarist of all time. While Eric Clapton is a great player, Jimi was just so innovative and original. So cast my vote for Hendrix.

What more can I say? The newsletter is informative and I enjoy perusing each issue. Thanks for taking your time to make such a groovy mailing thing.

From: Alan Zabicky azabicky@lowe.com.mx
Subject: votation

I'M MEXICAN, SO I WILL DEFINITELY HAVE TO SAY:
VIVA SANTANA!!!!!!

From: "Lazy Lightning 78" lazylightning78@hotmail.com
Subject: Guitars

Trey Anastacio is the best guitarist by far. Thanks

From: WWWhatsup joly@dti.net
Subject: best guitarist

I will throw my vote to: Peter Green

From: "Gary Cohn" gary_cohn@bigfoot.com
Subject: Guitarist

Steve Howe of Yes. Best techniques, most tasteful

From: "Edmond P. Kida" epkida@the-kidas.net
Subject: Greatest Guitarist of All Time.....

Well, o.k., I'm a guitarist ( and I've beaten temptation to nominate myself) and I tend to look at all aspects of a guitarist's performance. At the same time I admire tonal control ( how a guitarist can produce sounds that correlate to the music they're performing.

So, with that in mind, I nominate Jeff Beck. Just take a look at some of his solo works and his work with the Yardbirds. Then grab a hold of Jeff playing Amazing Grace (on Merry Axemas
vol 1) then listen to his tribute album to the great Dwayne Eddy and you'll see what I'm talking about.

From: djazz djazz@megsinet.com
Subject: vote

Jimi Hendrix was definitely the best guitarist of all time!!!!!

From: Kathryn McCullough imtnwolf@mediaone.net
Subject: VOTE FOR BEST GUARTARIST

My vote is for Jimmy Page. He had such a profound influence on rock-n-roll.

From: "Stephanie Kluczykowski" sandoz@execpc.com
Subject: Best Guitarist

George Brigman, Terry Brooks. Two late 70s,early 80s retro guitarist in the manner of Hendrix with songs ranging from melodic to top of the line ,no holds barred,mother of all brain blasting, mind melting, cranium crunching, two in the morning, tripping

From: sandboy@netwide.net (John Bean)
Subject: Greatest Guitarist

Jerry Garcia....but then again that is another category all in itself!!! Thanks, and great job on the newsletter !

From: MVPW@webtv.net  (Molly Wills)
Subject: guitarist

Has to be Eric Clapton

From: Beatle-Freak@webtv.net (Beatle Freak)
Subject: Best Guitarist Vote

Pete Townshend

Why? Well.........if you can listen to the entire "30 Years Of  Maximum R&B" Anthology and disagree with me, that helps me weed out an idiot quickly.

From: chinacatjulie@excite.com
Subject: all time greatest

Steve Sweeney, ekoostik Hookah

From: "Carla Dean" carcar23@hotmail.com
Subject: jimmy hendrix

man, jimmy hendrix is most definitely the best guitarist EVER!!!! he was speaking through his music on a totally different level that blew everyone's mind. and that's what makes a GREAT musician. he opened up doors to a new style of rock and blues, and also wrote the new standards for guitar solos! no one has been that original since and nor will they.
peace,

From: Chinacatt7@aol.com
Subject: greatest guitarist of all time.

Wow, that's a very difficult question....because there have been (and still are) many great guitarists. Many of the old blues guitarists come to mind...as does Stevie-Ray Vaughn...and of course Robert Plant. I will admit that I'm completely partial in this response, but I am going to cast my vote for Jerry Garcia. The reasons I am choosing him are many, but here are a few:

1) He truly was one of the masters at his trade.

2) He was willing to play almost any kind of music: blues, country, rock-n-roll, bluegrass, folk,.... ballads or long great instrumentals. He obviously appreciated a good song, no matter what its "style", and was always willing to explore new and different ways of playing a song.

3) He seemed not to let "conventional popular music" of any of his given eras (60's - 90's) confine his musical style and exploration. His music wasn't driven by record sales.......or MTV.

4) His first love, and primary activity, was playing music live, improvisationally or traditionally arranged,....but always live, as though the music was most important (not the sales or $$)... and as though the audience was a part of his musical experience. One didn't watch a show...you "did" a show.....ie: participation.

5) At least once in his life he experienced an almost fatal illness and hospitalization that included a coma which erased his memory and coordination. He had to once again learn how to play guitar, from "scratch" almost (thanks to his long time friend, and fellow musician Merl Saunders. Now there's  friendship!!).

6) To the "very end" of his life, he continued to play live music, even as his body and stamina were quite clearly giving\ out. He may not have been able to play with the same kind of stamina he once had (because of his self-inflicted heart disease, no doubt), but he continued to play with passion...
and love for music.......and a genuine appreciation and respect for his audience and fans.

And so it goes.................

From: MusickalMe@aol.com
Subject: Best Guitarist

Jerry Garcia. hands down.

Very closely behind = Steve Sweeney of ekoostik Hookah
http://www.ekoostik.com

From: "chris schwartz" sweetleaf42@hotmail.com
Subject: gutairist

robert plant is by far the best gutairist ever but its a hard one between plant & hendrix!!!

From: hmc1@bigfoot.com
Subject: Guitarist

Frank Zappa...this is a no brainer.

From: Arthur Ouellette arty@interlog.com
Subject: favorite guitar player

I was first exposed to Johnny Winter at the first Toronto rock festival in '69, I think it was. I'm 53 now. It was his first appearance in T.O. and I remember the never ending flurry of notes saturating the Varsity Stadium's walls. He's been one of my favorites ever since. It was a three day event Dr. John was there. He made the rain stop. Ah memories. Some of the best guitar players I heard while in residence at Rochdale college. Players who will probably remain unknown in the blur that was the continuous series of daily events in our anarchic highrise.
arty@interlog.com

From: Deadfoot13@aol.com
Subject: Greatest Guitarist of All Time

Boy, that is a tough question, but in my opinion I would have to say it was Jimi Hendrix, followed closely by Jerry Garcia and the Indigo Girls...

From: DancnBers@aol.com
Subject: Best Guitarist

The best guitarist of all time has to be Stevie Ray Vaughn. He would practice so much that he would get blisters, and once they fell off, he would glue the blisters back on, and keep on playing. Takes devotion to do that, if you ask me. He played so many groovin songs, and kept me in such a far out state of mind for years. He's a legend..

From: Lou Mazza lumaz@worldnet.att.net
Subject: Best Guitarist of All Time

Hi!

My vote is for Eric Clapton.

Moderators Comment
Cool! Once again, everyone is correct!
Thanks to all of you for your participation. 

More fluff... less stuff...

So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, see the smoke on the water with the Deep Purple, 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.

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

From: "Vicki Dougan" <vdougan@jps.net>
To: "Vincent Gearhart" <vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: Re: subscribe
Date sent: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:13:32 -0800

Hi Vincent,
My name is Vicki. I am new to your site. I just found it accidentally, and I'm so glad I did. I think it's awesome. The sixties and seventies were some of the best years of my life. I am so thankful to have lived in those years at the age I was.

People who are younger I think try to imagine what those years were like. They try to wear some of the clothes and have the same thoughts and ideals, but in less you were there, there is no substitute.

My husband laughs at me sometimes because my heart will always remember those days and part of my mind too. What I mean by that is the way of thinking I had then; alot of it is still with me.

I really believe if we could have kept that era alive, the world would be a much better and loving place! We really believed in our causes, in ourselves, in each other. We (at least speaking for myself) really did love people just for themselves, no matter who they were. We never had to impress anyone. We were all accepted as individuals. We didn't hate each other, or think about killing someone because they turned their bright lights on us or even flipped us off.

I still have those same thoughts and I thank God every day that I do. If I were to ever have a wish to go back and relive any time in my life, I would not have to think about it twice.. I would deffinately be between 1966-1977 for me.

Thanks again!

From: pwolfe@mwe.com
Date sent: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 9:35:38 -0600
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: The Freakosystem

Hi - just thought I should pass along that the hilarious piece that a guy named Steve Lange was good enough to send to the newsletter in regard to the overloaded freakosystem was originally published in a peerless satiric weekly newspaper called "The Onion" , published in Madison, WI, natch, and available here in Chicago and in Boulder, CO, as well. For those not fortunate enough to be able to read it and nearly expire laughing each week, they do have a website:

It is simply brilliant. Be good to your funny bone and check it out.

Cheers to all,

Moderator Note:
I too have seen "The Onion" in some of the underground shops in Denver, and it is a blast. I have made some changes to the last issue (ASCII and HTML) to reflect where this story came from. Peg, thanks for the info..

Send reply to: "starduster" <starduster@abts.net>
From: "starduster" <starduster@abts.net>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: quoth the Raven, Nevermore
Date sent: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:09:49 -0500

HI Vince,

One of your recent quotes,

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

Stephen R. Covey"

was attributed to someone who (I believe) got his quote from this one:

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience" -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Just wondering, ya know? Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't mind being wrong, that's how I learn a lot of what I learn.  Talk with you later, Mr. Listowner. :-)

(At the very least, this might lead you into some interesting research.)

a chaoidh teabadaich,

starduster
http://members.tripod.com/~totherow/index.html

There is a chasm
of carbon and silicon
the software can't bridge
-- Rahul Sonnad.

Moderator Note:
Visit the startduster site above and read many more thought provoking quotes. This is a great site to explore.

Date sent: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 06:24:55 -0500
From: Arthur Ouellette <arty@interlog.com>
Send reply to: arty@interlog.com
Organization: Interlog Internet Services
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Re: Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited - January 99

http://www.opinion-pages.org/
If it weren't true it would be funny.

Date sent: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:05:40 -0400
From: "ALEX E. ROBINSON" <M077Y@unb.ca>
Send reply to: M077Y@unb.ca
Organization: University of New Brunswick, Saint John Campus
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: hello

Hi guys
Well I'd like to say that I have been getting this newsletter for about 5 months( I Think). Anyway I have really enjoyed the last 2. The quotes have been excellent and They have really gave me lots to think about, some truly inspiring words. I am 18, and I subscribed to this newsletter because I believe that our world has become to hectic with all the pollution, money, even they way people look at you, it's like they're scared to even say Hi. Well I think that everyone should have a chance, if the rest of us could be nice. The way I see it what goes around, comes around. So I'm get here to get away from it all and just enjoy the day!

Peace All,
Alex

Date sent: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:19:12 -0600
Subject: E-mail from The eZines Database user
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: dayton@drcnet.org
Send reply to: dayton@drcnet.org
Copies to:

I just read KOTRV and I was very impressed. While I did not grow up in the sixties or the seventies I would consider myself part of the new hippies. I am promoting an e-zine that deals exclusively with the Drug War and the growing reform movement to end it. A lot of people in your age group are disillusioned about changing drug policy but now is the time to act. THings are changing rapidly overseas and we are seeing big ripples here in the US. We need your help. Please put us as a cool link on your newsletter and feel free to ad our banner.

Check us out at http://www.stopthedrugwar.org and join in the loop with over 8,000 other concerned citizens.

In peace and justice,
Troy M.
Dayton

From: Arthur Ouellette <arty@interlog.com>
Send reply to: arty@interlog.com
Organization: Interlog Internet Services
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Electric Prunes

You gots to include the Electric Prunes in your sixties band list. Possibly one of the earliest British Psychedelic Bands.

Moderator Note:
Arthur, thanks for your suggestion - I do remember them but I can't seem to find them on either Amazon.com or CDUniverse. 
Will keep looking.

COOL LINKS
Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Cyber Cosmos

Crafts Fair Online

This is a Free Service to Crafts People of the web. Offering links to Individual Artists, Group Shows and Craft Malls,  Supplies, Publications, Newsgroups and Instruction and much more. Special assistance to help crafts people and artists create their own independent websites at little or no cost.

Amnesty International

Sign up! Add your name to the 6 million plus signatures that Amnesty International is presenting to the United Nations in support of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Help make human rights a reality.

The Midi-Place

Free Midisongs, Zip Packets and Keyboardstyles. Here you'll find a big collection of MIDI songs from the 90's, 80's, 70's, 60's,  Oldies, Movies, TV Shows, Keyboardstyles, Zip Packets and MORE...

Junk Radio

Hey, it's just another great site for music.

LiveConcerts.com

This site is brought to you by House of Blues and Real Networks, with live concerts online plus a great archive of past shows.

The Free Site

Home of the Web's best freebies.
Hey, the price-is-right.

Just Free Stuff

Another price-is-right place.

METAPHYSICAL GARDEN

The METAPHYSICAL GARDEN is an on-line directory of readers, psychics, mystics, seers, teachers, speakers, writers, retail stores, mail order businesses, and many more.

Whether you work in these areas or live your life in tune with them, the METAPHYSICAL GARDEN is a place for you to visit; to sit and relax; a place to find old friends, and to make new
ones.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are
always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always
emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding
to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

COOL LISTS
Cool Lists from around the net!

CHANGE - BackToBasics/SelfSufficiency

The original 'BackToBasics' mailing list has changed its name  to 'SelfSufficiency' as well as its host server.  SelfSufficiency is an open, lightly moderated discussion group for people who are interested in gaining more freedom from the traditional/established food and energy-distribution systems as we move toward the 21st Century.

To subscribe to SelfSufficiency, send an email to:
SelfSufficiency-subscribe@onelist.com
Leave the subject and message body blank.

Listowner: Jerry De Oreo
Email address: KELE@prodigy.net

Crazy Handy's Email Newsletter via AHandy4604@aol.com

What Crazy Handy's newsletter has to offer

Here you'll discover auction, yard sale, flea market, and collecting success tips. You will get great articles on how to profit from your hobby or passion. Where to get great free stuff on the net. Question and answer section. Site of the month spot light. News around the world that deal with the auction, yard sale, flea market, and collecting. What I collect section.

To start your FREE EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION to Crazy Handy's newsletter, send an email message to: AHandy4604@aol.com. IN THE SUBJECT LINE AND/OR BODY WRITE SUBSCRIBE. That is it.

QUOTES

On Life and Living

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort
zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Lucinda Basset

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that
myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more
powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience
-- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that
love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Guy Bellamy

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice,
love, passion.

Nadia Boulanger

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a
man.

Samuel Butler

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to
work and to play and to look up at stars.

Henry Van Dyke

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you
are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Lou Erickson

COOL GOODIES

The Dialectizer

You can Dialectize Text or a web site from English to Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, or Pig Latin.

For a real treat, try the Jive option on the KOTRV site.

Picturespace.com

Build you own free on-line photo album.

FEATURED WORDS,  TUNES & VIDEOS

FEATURED BOOK

Flashbacks : A Personal and Cultural History of an Era by Timothy Leary, William S. Burroughs Synopsis: From planning the psychedelic revolution with Allen Ginsberg, Peggy Hitchcock, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to discussing Dr.  Albert Hoffman's legendary bicycle ride home after the world's first deliberate ingestion of LSD, Timothy Leary's passion affected an entire culture and influenced modern world history. Leary's original, animated, and psychedelic autobiography is now repackaged in an all new edition.

FEATURED ALBUM

Machine Head Deep Purple Original Year 1972 Producer Deep Purple Engineer Martin Birch Studio/Live Studio Mono/Stereo Stereo Running Time 37 Minutes Label Warner Bros. Records Album Notes: Deep Purple: Ian Gillan (vocals); Richie Blackmore (guitar); Jon Lord (keyboards); Roger Glover (bass); Ian Paice (drums). Recorded in Montreux, Switzerland in December 1971. All selections written by Deep Purple. From the heady intro of "Highway Star", written in a couple of hours on a bus between shows, to the lazy beat of "Space Truckin", Machine Head would have remained one of the classic line-up's (Glover, Paice, Gillan, Blackmore, Lord) great albums. However, the hand of fate took them to Montreux at the same time as Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention, and their witnessing of the burning down of the Casino, immortalized in "Smoke On The Water" with Blackmore's plaintive riff, studied and dedicated to memory in a thousand guitar classes, and Gillan's simple retelling of events, elevated them and their record to legendary status. Da da da, dada dada, da da da, da da. Track Listing 1 Highway Star - 2 Maybe I'm A Leo - 3 Pictures Of Home  - 4 Never Before  - 5 Smoke On The Water 6 Lazy  - 7 Space Truckin'

FEATURED VIDEO

Up in Smoke If you were around then, you will appreciate the fun humor of this cult classic. I still watch it once in a while to get a good laugh. Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18. Edition Details: - NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only) - Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Video Description Cheech and Chong's first "hit" movie is a popular comedy for the red-eyed generation. The outrageous pair begin their search for green pastures and good grass. ITA winner.

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

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