K E E P O N T R U C K I N ' R E - V I S I T E D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Issue 7 ISSN 1097-4156 February 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------- Subscription information is at the bottom of the newsletter! ---------------- Couple of New Projects I am currently working on a couple of new projects dealing with this newsletter. 1. KOTRV-PDF - is going to be a quarterly PDF (Portable Document Format) edition of KOTRV. It is going to be more like a real paper type newsletter with a focus on ART, CULTURE and NOSTALGIA. The first edition is being scheduled for a first of April launch. You can get an idea what this will by like by going to: http://www.vipgrafx.com/kotrv-pdf/ You may need to get the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the newsletter. There are links at this same location to get the latest reader for your PC or Mac. If you check it out, I would love to hear your comments, suggestions, rants and/or ideas. This is planned to be an ad supported newsletter and if you are interested in an ad, or if you would like to contribute an article, or a piece of artwork, please let me know. 2. Not real sure of the time frame as I have never done this before, but in the near future I will be having a poster done of the Hippy KOTRV Dude and will be making it available via the web site and this newsletter. At this point in time, I am sending the necessary graphic elements to a company to be put together by their graphic arts people. I will keep you posted on the progress of this adventure. Hope you enjoy this issue of KOTRV! As always, Keep On Truckin' ---------------- Way Cool - we are finally getting into our new home (that's new to us anyway) this month! It has been 10.5 months since the flood that forced us to re-locate. We are purchasing, with help from a low-interest loan from the SBA, the house that we have been living in since the flood. This is an exciting event for us as we no longer have to live in limbo (yea, right). We love the location we are at almost as much as we did our other house. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with all of you - and to say thanks to all who helped with such wonderful support. THANKS! ---------------- NEW KOTRV-2 DISCUSSION LIST! The new list has started and you all are invited to join in! SUBSCRIPTION INFO: To SUBSCRIBE: mailto:KOTRV-2-subscribe@onelist.com To POST a message: mailto:KOTRV-2@onelist.com To UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:KOTRV-2-unsubscribe@onelist.com ---------------- Comments: comment: I am doing research on 1960's tp present pertaining to the developments, turning points, ideas,themes from a multiple perspective. Any information sent would be appreciated very much. tara may (tjbm49@yahoo.com) comment: Hi, I have created a link to your great web site from the song "Okie From Muskogee" in our Song Directory. Take a look. http://www.wpe.com/~musici You might also find this article about our educational program of interest. http://www.nysut.org/dept/nyt/98-99/990421technology.html Regards and thanks, JChase comment: Any one can tell me the history of counter-culture by detail (chronology)? John Muhammad (soehokgie) comment: Thank you very much for all your hard work!I'm happy to have found the site! comment: if you did not have this website my history fair project would be ruined since i could not find anything about hippies in the library!!!!! THANX :0) --> 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, flip on the black light, let's not go Uptown with Topley, 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. Note: Damn that sounds like a lot of things to do just to read this wacky newsletter? +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." Maya Angelou, on Success & Failure +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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: "Peter Jakobsson" To: Subject: eClassical.com/vipgrafx Date sent: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 14:01:25 +0100 The world's largest MP3 classical music shop. eClassical.com is set to become the leading provider of classical MP3 music on the Internet. "We're set to revolutionize the classical music industry, dedicated to satisfying the needs of classical music lovers and bringing the music of world-class musicians to a larger audience," says George Olvik, founder and president of eClassical.com. Coupled with the increasingly popular MP3 technology, eClassical.com plans to reverse current trends in classical music. Olvik, who previously worked for the Naxos label where he aggressively helped expand the label's market share, acknowledges the category is currently hampered by a stagnant market, as well as spot shortages of classical CDs worldwide. But Olvik is confident. "By giving people the ability to download music over the Internet any time of day or night in just a couple of minutes, we are providing instant accessibility and effectively removing distribution barriers. We are convinced we can significantly revitalize this dormant market." Search by composer, title or mood Once logged on the site, visitors can access music using any of several search engines. Searches are available under composer, title, performer or mood categories, among others. eClassical.com is expected to grow rapidly. Music sales on the Internet are forecast to reach US$ 3.9 billion by year 2004, with classical sales estimated at US$ 156, or four percent of that market, according to Music Business International (MBI) World Report and International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI). And that's only the tip of the iceberg. Olvik believes the market will be more widespread. Anyone with a PC, an Internet connection and a credit card is a potential buyer. "Most people every now and then enjoy classical music," says Olvik. With 150 million Internet users today and expected increases of 100 million every year, Olvik's certainty seems justified. Industry trends are likely to support the rapid growth of eClassical.com. A number of specialized companies producing digital music players will be joined by the major players, such as Sony and Ericsson, which are planning end-user products to take advantage of the popularity of MP3 technology. Expanding the MP3 catalog eClassical.com is in the process of making deals with record labels to make classical recordings available to a global audience. At eClassical.com, a record label will never sell out because there's no limit to the number of MP3 copies that can be made and sold. The labels will collect a substantial portion of the selling price of their music, and the site will enable musicians to get in touch directly with their listeners. To ensure quality control and a bridge between the musicians and their audience, eClassical.com has engaged renowned pianist Peter Jablonski as a consultant. eClassical.com will be one of the few MP3 sites on the Internet where music can be downloaded without breaking copyright laws. As such, it will create a virtually limitless inventory as compared to record stores constricted by physical space and distribution shortages. The Internet company will also make music available to advertising agencies, TV and radio programs, production companies and other commercial interests. As trends in the MP3 technology and the Internet converge, expectations are that the whole classical music industry will benefit enormously. Web address: www.eclassical.com Mail: info@eclassical.com Peter Jakobsson Co-founder www.eclassical.com +46 (0)709-633 120 Moderator's Comment: This sounds pretty cool for you Classical Music Lovers. +++++ To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Date sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:26:40 +0000 Subject: Fw: Cal o' mine by Kat From: kathy m wedeking If Id'a met Dylan you can bet yer bippie he'd have taken up with me and not some hippie Tangled up in love we'd a been instead of blues Some of his sad songs would'a been old news We'd a been happy down on the farm He'd not have missed Maggie not at all, by darn. Id'a made him happy and combed his hair Might even have been happy with nary a care! (But that's neither here no there) I married a hippie anyway and I'm probably richer than Dylan because this hippie of mine gives my heart daily that full of love feelin' kat the hippie 1/24/00 +++++ From: hmc1@bigfoot.com To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Subject: The Beatles Date sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:20 -0600 Vince, Something to do if you're bored in Germany. Mike If Sony had been there to dream up high-tech toys as cool as the Yellow Submarine virtual-reality ride, the Sixties might never have ended. Picture the Beatles' animated film as an interactive, multimedia adventure -- with kick-ass bursts of "Sky of blue, sea of green!" -- and you get the idea. It's hard to imagine that anything could feel so much like an acid-trip with no chemicals involved. That, of course, is just the point. The Beatles' Yellow Submarine Adventure is giddy good fun for anyone. But it has special meaning for anyone with fond memories of the 60s, the people who still feel like John and Paul and George and Ringo are almost family. "It's really OK to have fun," said Mike Swinney, president of Sony Development and a force behind the impressive new movie entertainment complex that opened Thursday in Potsdamer Platz with Yellow Submarine and related attractions. "That's what we do for a living." The spirit of lively good fun extends throughout the Music Box entertainment complex. Red carpet the size of a football field is inset with black type. Look closer and you'll see it's the script to Martin Scorsese's classic Taxi Driver. "They just scanned in the script," Swinney said. "We couldn't find 'You talkin' to me?' anywhere," added one of his assistants. The dizzying array of high-tech and interactive attractions would stop any reasonably playful person dead in his tracks. Music is a consistent theme in the gadgetry. One of the best was one of the simplest: Wasser Musik, or Water Music. A row of more than a dozen pencil-thick streams of water glow green as they plunge down into water. Pass your hand through to interrupt the flow and you trigger a breach in micro-voltage that sounds a musical note. A skilled hand can produce a recognizable tune. Richard Vaughn, executive producer for the Yellow Submarine, did just that, playing "Ode to Joy." "I kind of wish there were half-notes, because then we could get into the blues," Vaughn said. In a room nearby, even the unhippest of the unhip feels compelled to dance. Stand inside, and your image is projected against a far wall. Around it swirls a pulsing, throbbing, ever-changing mix of blues and reds and yellows and greens. Every movement changes the shapes, and that in turn changes the music. "It's hard for people to keep still, because you want to make the designs -- and the music," said Vaughn. Germans have a reputation for keeping a safe distance from experience. But all around the Music Box people were taking part: standing on their toes, or tapping buttons, making tentative moves, and flashing smiles. Inside the Yellow Submarine, which pitches and rolls as it does battle with the Blue Meanies in Pepperland, people were asked to shout "All you need is love!" on cue. ("It doesn't run on gas and kerosene, but love and music.") And they did. "Berliners are fairly taciturn," Vaughn said. "But we haven't had any problem with people shouting 'All you need is love' when we need it." The Sony complex is part of a huge development in an area that 10 years ago was no-man's land. It's less than one-third of the size of Sony's Metreon complex in San Francisco. A Tokyo showcase for the company's technology, still in the planning stages, will also be substantially bigger. The Beatles, always popular in Germany, seem to have been a good choice for a theme. "It says to guys who are my age 'Remember how much fun you had listening to this group before?'" said Sony's Swinney. "But the most fun is bringing kids. They just immediately latch onto the Beatles.... The Sixties are probably remembered by kids today as a time when there was turmoil and change. They are probably feeling that now, too, with the way technology is changing our lives." Swinney won't go so far as to say that the aggressively eye-catching complex, with its state-of-the-art sound and projection technology, is the wave of the future. It is, after all, a movie theater. "I have to believe people will always go out for the social experience," he said. "The wave is to clean up all these really crappy movie theaters that we built in the 60s and do it with current technologies. What's going to get really blurred is the difference between TV and the Internet, not movies and the Internet. It'll be awhile before we all have 80-foot screens in our living rooms." +++++ To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Date sent: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:15:17 +0000 Subject: hope I am sending this to the right place From: kathy m wedeking I was so glad to see this list! I was born in 1946 so I felt right at home when I read this.......as I said in a message already sent - I even had a truckin' banana patch on my jacket and I wish I knew where that jacket was! I was thinking of looking up some of the books I can add to the list. I will keep working on that. I lived in the San Francisco area in 1970 for a year and did not even think to go and check out the Haight. I did almost go to a Leon Russell concert at Berkeley, did visit Berkeley and wonder why NOW I did not decide to move over there and take some classes as I am a take some classes all the time kind of woman. If I could afford it I would even go back now and get a degree in Art but I hate to go and have someone else mess with the way I do art - which is MY way!!!! I still write - have written all my life and payed and sketched and doodled. I still am in love with Ken Kesey but my first love since 1969 has been Jack K and HE is the best. I read the book of his letters and fell in love all over again a couple of years ago and started buying all kinds of things about Jack and things Jack wrote - plus all kinds of beat books. I repurchased all of Richard Brautigan's stuff too - I really like it a lot. I remember reading that Jack taped a bunch of paper together when he was writing On The Road so that he could have the story one continuous written piece as being on the road was........he would have loved the computer paper!!!!!! he could have written endlessly as it flowed through his machine - Anyway glad to be here - Kat +++++ From: "Philippe Vandermeulen" To: Subject: New site online Date sent: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:43:50 +0100 New site proposing rare music posters over these last 25 years . Bye bye . Philippe . http://www.music-poster.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~o COOL LINKS Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos Anagram Fun Fun place to visit - just type in a few words and set a few parameters and see the results. I typed in "Peace On Earth" and got back 307 anagrams. My favorite was, "no ape teacher". Drop In: http://www.anagramfun.com/ ++++++ AVA - The Spirit of Walking Share the spirit of walking with the clubs and walkers of the American Volkssport Association. Meet friends, walk scenic trails and improve your physical and mental health with a natural, accessible, and low-stress activity. Ok, so walking is good for you.. hummmm. I know I need to get out and do more of this. Drop In: http://www.ava.org/ ++++++ Recycler's World In their own words... "Recycler's World was established as a world wide trading site for information related to secondary or recyclable commodities, by-products, used & surplus items or materials." This site has tons of info for the serious recycle folks. My daughter keeps reminding me that I need to take recycling more to heart. Will see what I can do. Drop In: http://www.recycle.net/ ++++++ Emerald Coast Geodesics Nice location to learn and buy a geodesic dome. I have had a fascination for domes since my high school years where I helped put a couple together. This is good place to learn a bit more about domes and their construction. There is just something special about laying back and exploring the geometric patterns inside a dome. Drop In: http://www.ametro.net/~bose/geodesics/geopage2.html ++++++ Wrybread.com Not real sure how to describe this sight, so I guess I won't. Strange but in a nice way. Drop In: http://www.wrybread.com ++++++ What the HELL is post-modern anyway? Let me know if you get to Buss Romps. Drop In: http://www.cyberbuss.com/ ***************************************************************** Thoughts To Ponder sent to me by MQuire@webtv.net (Mark Quire) Upon dying , nobody ever said they wished they had spent more time in the office. Remember to live before you work. - Source : Unknown Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. - Mark Twain ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! Zen-Spiration Description: Imagine the atmosphere of perfect quiescence, penetrating clarity, that comes over the sangha as Gautama Buddha, smiling gently, holds a lotus blossom between his fingers. Imagine hearing for the first time the Verses on Faith Mind at the feet of Seng-tsan. Imagine being present with the monastic community of Yellow Plumb Mountain as they read the extraordinary gatha of Hui-neng. Imagine sitting in meditation beside Dogen Zenji as the master shouts "Drop off body and mind!" "Zen-spiration" brings you wisdom from the great spiritual teachers. Its purpose is to liberate and transform, to support your practice with deep insight. Subscribe: http://www.lumin-escence.com/subscriptions.htm or e-mail:zen-spiration-subscribe@onelist.com Subscription instructions: Subscribe: http://www.lumin-escence.com/subscriptions.htm or e-mail:zen-spiration-subscribe@onelist.com Owner/moderator address: service@lumin-escence.com +++++ PhilosophyQuotes Description: Subscription method for this ezine has changed; please see below. PhilosophyQuotes is a semi-daily ezine featuring quotes from 3000 years of western and eastern philosophy. Each issue contains 3-5 hand-selected quotes, plus links to more information on the Web. Subscription instructions: Visit http://PhilosophySearch.com/ or mailto:join-philosophyquotes@lists.sparklist.com Owner/moderator address: PhilosophySearch.com +++++ Got this from CRUSHBUD@aol.com - the rest of the rant is to big to add to KOTRV but it was fun to read. Use the email address to subscribe. "This guy cracks me up. I'm on his list and once or twice a month I get an e-mail in which he goes off on whatever has been bothering him that week. Maybe you can give out his email address in a future zine issue. Spread the word!" Please forward and distribute randomly and freely. If this was forwarded to you, and you'd like to have the next rage filled rambling sent directly to you, please send your email address to mailto:OHTHERAGE@HOTMAIL.COM ***************************************************************** QUOTES Quotes on Truth ----- "It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." Jerome K. Jerome ----- "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain ----- "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." Oliver Wendell Holmes ----- "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken ----- "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley ----- "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings ----- "Be true to your work, your word, and your friend." Henry David Thoreau ----- "All great truths begin as blasphemies." George Bernard Shaw ----- "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson ----- "When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." William Blake ----- "Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!" H.R. Haldeman ----- "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde ----- "A lie told often enough becomes truth." Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov) ----- "The object of the superior man is truth." Confucius ---------- Get the archive of quotes - send a blank email to: mailto:quotes@vipgrafx.com ***************************************************************** COOL GOODIES Fun stuff from the digital ether! uRemember.com Can you remember? Try uRemember's free online reminder service to keep track of appointments, meetings and special occasions. http://www.uRemember.com +++++ Mixman Studio This is some cool software that enables anyone to easily create and remix music on a PC Compatible or Mac. The techno beat mix that comes with the demo is very nice. I spent a quite bit of time playing with this software. Even though I have about as much musical ability as a rock, I was able to create some danceable jams. Check this out - it is pretty amazing. http://www.mixman.com/ ***************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES FEATURED BOOK Divine Rights Trip : A Novel of the Counterculture by Gurney Norman, Ed McClanahan (Designer) Perhaps you can remember this story from the little side bars from The Last Whole Earth Catalog. Re-live some of the adventures of Divine Right and his girlfriend, Estelle as they travel across the county in Urge, D.R.'s psychedelic VW microbus. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0917788427/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) FEATURED ALBUM Mixed Blessing William Topley Audio CD (July 7, 1998) Original Release Date: 1998 Uni/Mercury/Polygram; ASIN: B000009CME This is some newer music but I have really become attached to Topley's gutsy singing style with more than enough blues to really grab your ass. The more I listen to this album, the more I listen to it. Compelling lyrics with beautifully matching music, this is one of the best in my collection. Tracks 1. Wake Up (You Dream Sounds So Sad) 2. Sycamore Street 3. Song Of A Seabird 4. Sophia 5. Uptown, (I Don't Wanna Go) 6. Drink Called Love 7. Soul Love 8. Sweetheart 9. Highway 5 10. Delta Rain 11. Hurricane Room http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009CME/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) +=+=+=+=+ I have put together several pages on the sister web site for KOTRV with a selection of books, CDs, and videos that relate somehow 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 mailto:kotrv-owner@onelist.com Subscribe/Unsubscribe & Misc. Information: To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-subscribe@onelist.com To UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:kotrv-unsubscribe@onelist.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@onelist.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!!