Volume 1, Issue 12
ISSN 1097-4156 July 1998
Contents:
Welcome to all the 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.
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More Questionnaire Results
1.) My email and list management software don't allow me to do an HTML version that I can send out properly. But in response to the many who said an HTML version would be nice, I now have the following newsletters converted to HTML pages.
HTML version of the May '98 Issue
< http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/may98.htm >
HTML version of the June '98 Issue
< http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/june98.htm >
HTML version of the July '98 Issue
< http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/july98.htm >
Please let me know how you like them.
2.) Others mentioned that either a chat area or a discussion area on the website would be nice... well, it's a done deal. I have just set up a new discussion area and I am still working the bugs out but I think it should work fine. I would really like it if you all would participate.
So....
Let's Talk!
The war, communes, music, equal rights, ecology, drugs, and anything else you might want to talk about.
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If you participate in any related newsgroups, listservs, chat rooms or mailing lists, please do me a favor and let them know about "Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited".
Here are a few newsgroups that I check out off and on. If you know of any other related newsgroups, please let me know.
alt.rock-n-roll.oldies
alt.rock-n-roll.classic
alt.lifestyle.barefoot
alt.gathering.rainbow
alt.fan.lava.lamps
alt.fairs.renaissance
rec.muisc.gdead
alt.culture.us.1960s
alt.culture.us.1970s
If you like art, follow the links.
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More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, let's all come together with the Beatles, put on your love beads, your headband, bell bottom pants, get yourself in the proper state of mind, kick back, and experience the newsletter.
Apathy
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the
worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
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: ydgroot@visuel.svb.nl
To: Hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: Beatles stories?
Date sent: Fri Jun 26 18:27:15 1998
Hey!
Is there anyone out there who has experienced something intresting related to the beatles? For instance met one of them, or just visited a concert? I'm very interested in personal reports for this band is one of my favourites. Things about the solo-periods are also welcome, especially John Lennon.
If you have anything great to tell, email me ( ydgroot@elnet.nl ) or post to the newsletter if it's worth it to share with everybody.
Thanks!
peace
Yvonne ;-)
From: JKenn10630@aol.com
Date sent: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:46:35 EDT
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: 60s underground newspapers
Everyone, Hello again:
In an early issue of KEEP ON TRUCKIN' REVISITED, I posted a bibliography listing books about the 1960s underground press. I am still out here looking for copies of these following underground newspapers from the 60s and early 70s. Does anyone have any issues to sell or trade?
I am especially interested in completing my run of THE LA FREE PRESS.
THE EAST VILLAGE OTHER (published in New York City)
THE LA FREE PRESS (published in Los Angeles, CA)
THE CHICAGO SEED (published in Chicago, IL)
THE L.A. STAFF (published in Los Angeles, CA)
THE AUSTIN RAG (published in Austin, TX)
THE SEATTLE HELIX (published in Seattle, WA)
THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT (published in Vancouver British Columbia,
Canada) THE BERKELEY TRIBE (published in Berkeley, CA) THE SAN
FRANCISCO ORACLE (published in San Francisco, CA) THE RAT
(published in New York City) THE GREAT SPECKELED BIRD
(published in Atlanta, GA) and many others... what do you
have?
Thanks,
Jay
JKenn10630@aol.com
COOL LINKS
Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Cyber Cosmos.2.0.1.3 Transmissions from Quantum Time
2.0.1.3. is a transmission from the next world about how to avoid the negative future.
Very well done!
Northern lights - The Aurora Borealis
This site is brought to you by the Department of Geological Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Technological University. This site contains many links, articles, tutorials, forecasts, and many awesome images.
This is a must see site!
MusicNewswire
MusiceNewswire is the ultimate guide to music news on the web.
Changes - celebrating our growing consciousness
In their own words -
"We welcome you to Changes, a page whose home was born in the Kosmos. We believe in the capacity of the human race to evolve. Knowing that life is changes, that energy follows attention, we feel the possibilities of transcendance inherent in every cell. These are the first steps towards conscious co-creation. You, and many thousands - perhaps even millions of us -- are a new family forming. As post homo-sapiens, our joyful sacred task is to remind each other of our essential divinity. This transformation, this new consciousness, reverberates through all Reality as we travel on together."
THE SCHWA CORPORATION'S ADVANCED TRAINING CENTER
Hey, I'm going to let you try and figure this one out.
The Vaults of Erowid
Erowid is a small not for profit organization dedicated to studying and providing information about humanity's never-ending search for meaning and spirit.
This is a powerful site and well worth the visit.
Answer and winner from last month's issue.
First the Question (just in case you forgot):
1. Identify this passage:
On stage: The Grateful Dead
At the door: Two brand-new galvanized garbage cans of ice-cold Kool-Aid. One can is also full of LSD-25. About one hundred micrograms a swallow.... "Who cares?" I hear some sister scream.
a. from Tom Wolfe's |The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test|
b. from Sandy Troy's |Captain Trips|
c. from Wavy Gravy's |Something Good for a Change: Random Notes
on Peace Through Living|
d. from Ken Kesey's |Demon Box|
Correct answer: C
Wavy finished his story:
"It takes me maybe twenty minutes of crawling around the place in mid-meltdown till I find this little alcove, slide inside, and there she is...the Who Cares girl in all her glory. I crawl over and complete this circle of loving, caring strangers that surround her--and she turns into jewels and light. And we turn into jewels and light.
"And that's when I passed the acid test. You understand, when you get to the very bottom of the human soul--to the place where the nit slams up against the grit and you're sinking pretty bad--some-how you manage to reach down and help someone who is sinking worse than you are. Well, that's when everybody gets high and you don't need any LSD and you don't need any jewels or light. Jesus and the Buddha were right!
"All you need is...love.
"Unconditional love."
From page 97 of _Something Good for a Change: Random Notes on Peace Through Living_
By the way, _Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads_ (p. 307) identifies Wavy's loving technique in the scene described above as the "compassionate model for talkdown still used today by the Rock Med emergency medical personnel." _Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadhead_) by David Shenk and Steve Silberman (Main Street Books)
This question was tricky because Tom Wolfe also wrote about this same incident and the "Who Cares girl" in _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_. If you've read both works recently, you may notice the difference in perspective, Wavy being clearly an insider, heavily involved in the young woman's pain and in her recovery.
Wavy's wonderful book is available through St. Martin's Press -- check with your local bookstores. Also check out Wavy's website at: < http://channel.isle.net/~mikerad/aboutwg.html >
And the lucky winner is:
Ted Smith < TedS@Worden.com >
Congrats Ted!
Hope you all enjoyed the review and the contest.
Looking for another product to review and give away.
Another nice page for happenings.
Visit: < http://www.changes.org/events/haps.html >
Cool Lists from around the net!
New American Folk Music discussion List
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Folk_music is a moderated discussion list dealing with the music of the recent wave of American singer/songwriters. List traffic consists of discussion, reviews, album release info and other information on artists like Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, David Wilcox, Nanci Griffith, Christine Lavin, The Sherpas, Dee Carstensen, Dar Williams, Cosy Sheridan, Hamell On Trial, Susan Werner, Jim Infantino, Buddy Mondlock, and others of their ilk.
Membership to this discussion list is free of charge and open to all interested individuals or organizations.
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Anarchism
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not
merely in nature, but in man.
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Lady Dynamite, let's dance quickly,
Let's dance and sing and dynamite everything!
French Anarchist Song of the 1880s.
FEATURED BOOKThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Synopsis:
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway. Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend, researcher Ford Prefect. Together they hitch a ride to parts unknown, encounter creatures unheard of, and take part in comic adventures unparalleled. Previously published by Pocket Books.
Goto: < http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/books.html#bookpick8 >
FEATURED ALBUM
Abbey Road
The Beatles
Street Date Tuesday, October 20, 1987
Original Year 1969
Running Time 47 Minutes
Label Parlophone
Album Notes:
The Beatles: John Lennon (vocals, guitar, keyboards); George Harrison (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Paul McCartney (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards); Ringo Starr (vocals, drums, percussion).
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except "Octopus's Garden" (Richard Starkey), "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun" (George Harrison).
ABBEY ROAD, recorded in the summer of 1969, was the last album recorded by the Beatles (LET IT BE was released in 1970, but recorded in early '69).
Track Listing
Track - Song Title
1 Come Together
2 Something
3 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4 Oh! Darling
5 Octopus's Garden
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7 Here Comes The Sun
8 Because
9 You Never Give Me Your Money
10 Sun King
11 Mean Mr. Mustard
12 Polythene Pam
13 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14 Golden Slumbers
15 Carry That Weight
16 End, The
17 Her Majesty
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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 - < http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/books.html >
Music - < http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/tunes.html >
Videos - < http://www.vipgrafx/hippy/videos.html >
If you visit these pages often, you may need to use the REFRESH
option as I am occasionally adding new books, groups and videos.
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Thanks!
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