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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS
CONTRIBUTIONS
COOL LINKS
COOL LISTS
QUOTES
COOL GOODIES
FEATURED WORDS & TUNES
SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE,
CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO
INTRODUCTION
& MUSINGS
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 and help this community grow.
This is NEW info here!
To SUBSCRIBE, e-mail kotrv-subscribe@onelist.com
To UNSUBSCRIBE, e-mail kotrv-unsubscribe@onelist.com
(Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.)
To POST to the newsletter, e-mail hippy@vipgrafx.com
Thankfully, KOTRV has just gotten bigger than I can handle using my Pegasus e-mail
program. As I mentioned, I have moved it to ONELIST to hopefully help me keep up with the
subscription process better.
I hope that the change over has not caused anyone much trouble and I apologize if it has.
Here are the new ways to manage the list via e-mail.
kotrv-owner@onelist.com - Sends email
to the list owner
kotrv-subscribe@onelist.com -
Subscribe to the list
kotrv-unsubscribe@onelist.com -
Unsubscribe from the list
You can also manage this list via the web at:
Please Click to Subscibe to KOTRV
As for our flood situation, it has been an interesting time. We are pretty much on hold
until we end up dealing with all the bureaucracy. Some housing was made available to help
us flood victims until we can sort through the mess and make a decision to either
repair/rebuild or to relocate.
At this point, it looks as if we will figure out a way to relocate.
Thanks to all of you who offered to help, it really means a lot to me. For now I should be
able to handle most of the KOTRV chores, at least until we start our next move - then I
may call on you again.
New Postcard System
I had mentioned the ABCard postcard site a few times in past newsletters and some of the
nice features that Martin R. Raskovsky <martin@atelier.demon.co.uk> had designed
into it so I found I enjoyed working with it so much I decided to use it for the KOTRV
Postcard link.
Please give it a try at:
http://www.abcard.net/home/english/kotrv.html
Visit the Gallery
Thanks to the great submissions I have been getting, the Gallery is continuing to grow.
Stop in and check out the new additions at:
http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/gallery.html
COMMENTS
comment: Glad to see the Family is still
together even though our leader is gone. It's good to see everyone is still keeping in
touch Greetings to everyone from Bob in Shelton Connecticut Have A Sunshine Daydream!
comment: Those of us that were in the 60's and
70's are just now realizing that what we believed in at that time and now days hasn't
changed only the government has changed. For the worst I believe!
comment: Today I do not feel commentarianistic.
Today I am exercising my right NOT to comment.
comment: I AM in the '60's when I'm
here.....Beautiful!
comment: Hippies are wonderful..i wish all people
would live in peace!!
comment: Thanks for the cool web-pad to look back,
kick back, and smile. :)
comment: We had the BEST of times, didn't we?
comment: im old hippie lost in the 90s but after
finding KOTRV
and your newsletter i think i can find my way out!
comment: HIPPIE'S ARE COOL. THEY HAVE SO MUCH IN
LIFE AND THEY ARE THE MOST BRILLIANT PEOPLE. PEACE, LOVE, HAPPINESS
Thanks all for your comments.
More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, --- 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.
Not real sure where I found this, but I felt I had to pass it on..
A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully, and
before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw the bud that would
soon blossom and also the thorns. And he thought, "How can any
beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with so many sharp
thorns?" Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the
rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died.
So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose.
The God-like qualities planted in us at birth grow amid the
thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see
only the thorns, the defects. We despair, thinking that
nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water
the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize
our potential.
Some people do not see the rose within themselves; someone
else must show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person
can possess is to be able to reach past the thorns and find
the rose within others. This is the characteristic of love, to
look at a person, and knowing his faults, recognize the
nobility in his soul, and help him realize that he can
overcome his faults. If we show him the rose, he will conquer
the thorns. Then will he blossom, blooming forth thirty,
sixty, a hundred-fold as it is given to him.
Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their
roses and not their thorns. Only then can we achieve the love
we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our
own garden.
~ Author Unknown ~
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: Jamie Deshaies <spunlikeakite@hotmail.com>
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject:
Date sent: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:49:13 PDT
Hi my name is Jamie and I'm 16 years old. I've always been in love with the time period of
the hippies. It seemed so free but confined, loving but cruel, peaceful but chaotic.
People seemed to care about things. Now the only thing of interest to most is money. I may
sound immature and idealistic but I guess I just long for better days where people are
happy. Peace,
Love, and Empathy, Jamie
From: robertleehoffman@prodigy.net
To: "Vincent Gearhart" <vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com>
Date sent: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:45:05 +0000
Subject: Re: subscribe
Priority: normal
Vincent,
I suppose my interest in the time frame comes because of my age. I was born in 1950. I
graduated from high school in 1968 and college in 1972. This was the height of the failed
cultural revolution and it influenced EVERYTHING.
My personal interest extends beyond the mundane. The problem, as I perceive it, is that
"the media" has decided to define the mid sixties to early seventies in terms
that I am uncomfortable with. For example: drugs were simply NOT that big a deal. People
acted more out of a sense of commitment rather than some drug-influenced reason. The main
reason that interests me as a writer is that this was and remains one of the only times
when people forgot their differences and concentrated on their commonalities.
At any rate I could go on for over four hundred pages and you only wanted a simple
introduction.
Best,
Bob
From: robertleehoffman@prodigy.net
To: "Vincent Gearhart" <vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com>
Date sent: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:45:05 +0000
Subject: Re: subscribe
Priority: normal
Vincent,
I am sorry this letter is disjoined but I had to take my son to high school. The reason I
found your site was that I am looking for information about what I call
"forgotten" music of the late sixties. Even the "oldies" stations seem
to have forgotten a good portion of the music from that era. I do not know why. For
example: when was the last time you heard: The Chambers Brothers, Blodwyn Pig, Cold Blood,
Spooky Tooth, David Peel and the Lower East Side, The Fugs, Tim Dawe, and on and on.
We seem to have chosen to forget some influential people and I do not understand why
. . .
Information about myself:
Born: 1950 in Muskegon, MI
Graduated high school: 1968
Graduated college: 1972
Married: June 10, 1972 (and still going)
Two sons: 11 and 15
Teacher by profession: inner city
Writer by choice: several novels
I guess that is enough information.
From: robertleehoffman@prodigy.net
To: mail to:<hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Date sent: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:51:19 +0000
Subject: Kent State
Priority: normal
Hippy,
I read with interest the letter from the young lady who was not "lucky"
enough to have lived during the time that we did. I don' t know if I would describe it as
luck or not. I was there the night Fat Jack took off for Canada instead of being drafted.
I was there the day I heard about two of my best friends dying
in some far-off place called VietNam. I suppose I even remember the music and culture of
the times.
This letter is a specific remembrance of a certain event: Kent State.
I attended a small mid-western religious college so we were far from the main stream when
it came to the student protest movement. Still, we were aware of what was happening. The
morning of Kent State was a time that will always stand out in my mind.
I had woke up with my usual skill and was about ten minutes late to my first class. As I
crossed Twelfth Street from my dorm. I could tell, even in my morning stupor, that
something was wrong. There were large groups of students congregating around both the
administration building and Dimnet Memorial Chapel. A friend of mine, Janice came to me
and hugged me tightly. Her face was flushed and her eyes were nearly swollen shut.
"Bob, did you hear?"
"Hear what?"
Through the sobs I heard, "Students. Dead. Kent State. Four. National Guard
killed them. Just shot them like dogs."
To this day her words are clear in my memory. I had never heard of Kent State. I did not
know why the National Guard had been called and I certainly did not know why they were
shooting people. Reaching in the back pocket of her jeans she thrust a piece of paper from
a mimeograph machine. The paper said that college classes were canceled and that there
would be a memorial service in the chapel at ten o'clock. From the mists of time it seems
to me that this happened on a Sunday Night but I am not sure. It seems to me that it was
Monday when I met the crying girl on the sidewalk between the administration building and
the chapel. I could look it up and check but it really doesn't matter.
What did we think about it? That is a harder question. First of all the memorial service
was very moving and there was hardly a dry eye. People expressed their fear that we would
be escalating what had been mainly a war of words into something much more serious. When
we got back to the dorm there were those who wanted to arm themselves against the guard.
But mostly these words of bravado were lost in the tears of the moment.
But it was an important event. It was like Kennedy being assassinated. It showed us that
we were not invincible and that we were following a path that was fraught with danger. It
did not deter us but we were a little more wisened from that day.
Veritas
http://members.tripod.com/~veritas2000/index.html
Priority: Normal
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: "Kenneth 'Gene' Bate" <GBate@blitz-it.net>
Subject: Email legislation
Date sent: Mon, 07 Jun 99 18:13:12 PDT
Hi, Vince!
Concerning the attempts to charge for emails, as reported in your latest newsletter, there
is a web site that reports that versions of this have been floating around the internet
for many months--please check out http://www.snopes.com
to confirm what I am saying. This is not to say that there are not attempts to do
what that report is saying, but there have been hoaxes based on this theme. By all means,
I enjoy getting to send free e-mail, and will definitely do my part to keep this
privilege, but so far, the reports to 'tax' the e-mails have been proven to be false up to
now...
Hope all is well where you are!
Date sent: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 09:00:46 -0700
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
From: Laurin Mair <coibs1@coibs.com>
Subject: Internet service charges
Another urban legend - no truth at all to the constant rumour ( note the Canadian
spelling) that ISPs will be charged at long distance rates.
check out the site at
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa012099.htm?pid=2733&cob=home
(you may have to cut and paste this line)
From: Jenisilyfr@aol.com
Date sent: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:16:55 EDT
Subject: Re: May 99 Special Issue - KOTRV
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
hmmmm.... Well, I know this is a little late and all but, I'm only 19 years old, and what
do I regret about not being born back in the day? Nothing. Don't get me wrong, it would
have been sweet to tour with the Dead a few times or seen Janis, Bob Dylan in his prime.
But, I am proud enough just being one of the few youngens trying to carry on the torch
that Jerry lit for us. I'm trying to keep it alive and I enjoy myself. When older people
ask me what i could possibly know bout the Dead (only happened once) I simply smile and
hug them. Anyway, I'm off now....
Jenifer
From: Sverrir Agnarsson <sverrir@habil.is>
To: kotrv-owner@onelist.com <kotrv-owner@onelist.com>
Subject:
Date sent: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:34:36 +0100
Hi
My name is Sverrir Agnarsson and I am from Iceland and living there. I am interested in
getting contact with some people who were trawelling in the east in the years 1970 - 1974
mostly in Afganistan and Pakistan in areas like Swat, Kashmir and Chitral. I heard Lennons
Imagin for the first time in Peshawar in Pakistan.
Sverrir Agnarsson
** Moderators Comment: **
Can anyone help Sverrir out?
COOL LINKS
Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the Cyber
Cosmos
- Acid Logic
From politics, to culture, to music, this E-Zine has some interesting subjects that it
covers. Worth the visit.
- Tequilas.com
Must be 21 to enter.. (didn't really see anyone checking IDs)
This site offers a recipe database, party planning guides and interesting games, as well
as a virtual gallery featuring Mexican artwork.
- Lyrics
World
Here you will find lyrics and links in English and Portuguese.
So grand a reward
So Tiny a sin
Ancient Hindu Proverb
COOL LISTS
Cool Lists from around the net!
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QUOTES
On Imagination
"There is a boundary to men's
passions when they act from
feelings; but none when they are under the influence of
imagination."
-Edmund Burke
"Reality can be beaten with enough
imagination."
-Anon.
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
"Consistency is the last resort of
the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde
"Live out of your imagination, not
your history."
-Stephen Covey
"Imagination grows by exercise, and
contrary to common belief,
is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
-W. Somerset Maugham
"You see things as they are and ask,
'Why?'
I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
-George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is the only weapon in
the war against reality."
-Jules de Gautier
Get the archive of quotes - send a blank email to:
mailto:quotes@vipgrafx.com
COOL
GOODIES
RealJukebox: For
those who are "sound" of mind:
RealNetworks' new ground-breaking free program turns your PC into a jukebox.
RealJukebox lets you record and play music from your CDs on your PC's hard drive. It also
allows you to manage thousands of songs and create customized playlists.
RealJukebox also records and plays back in MP3, RealAudio and WAV formats.
(For Windows 98/95 and NT).
Go to: http://www.real.com/realjukebox/index.html
FEATURED
WORDS & TUNES
FEATURED BOOK
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Paperback - 307 pages Reprint edition (January 1991)
Review
Soooo, you're dreaming about going on the road? Traveling from the west to the east coast
and the other wayround? Maybe this might help out to strengthen your dreams a bit.
Although it's not taking place in the sixties, more to the late forties, it's still the
kind of story that could as well happen during the summer of love. Sal Paradise meets up
with a hyper-hyperactive guy filled with the most strange ideas and therefore far to
fascinating to be ignored. So they become friends....and the rest tells itself. Of course,
the insiders know how autobiographic the story is but that's a whole story of it's own. It
might be sufficient to say that the hyper-hyper active guy was Neil Cassady in real life
(or so I'm told) and therefore it might be something like part of a biography about him.
And if you happened to know for how long he was on the bus, literally and
figurative....well this was just one phase. On little wording to end with: when you start
reading this book for the first time, you'll try your best to give up your whole life and
loves to read it out at once. So, good luck!
Moderators Note:
This month's review came from Yvonne - ydgroot@elnet.nl
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FEATURED ALBUM
The
Best Of The Marshall Tucker Band
The Marshall Tucker Band
This is some of my favorite down home kick-ass music. Many of these tunes I am sure you
will remember.
Producer Paul Hornsby; Stewart Levine
Guest(s) Charlie Daniels; Elvin Bishop; Richard Betts
The Marshall Tucker Band: Toy Caldwell (vocals, acoustic, electric, steel & slide
guitars, guitar); Jerry Eubanks (vocals, flute, alto, tenor & baritone saxophones,
saxophone, percussion); Tommy Caldwell (vocals, electric bass, bass, drums, tambourine,
percussion); Doug Gray (vocals, percussion); George McCorkle (acoustic, electric &
12-string guitars, guitar, banjo, percussion, bull whip); Paul Riddle (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Johnny Vernazza, Elvin Bishop (slide guitar); Richard Betts
(guitar); John McEuen (banjo, mandolin); Charlie Daniels (fiddle, background vocals);
Dezso Lakatos (tenor saxophone); Paul Hornsby (clarinet, acoustic &
electric pianos, organ, keyboards, Moog synthesizer).
Recorded live at Uhlein Hall Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 11,
1974; Capricorn Sound Studios, Macon, Georgia; Cirteria Studio, Miami, Florida.
Track Song Title
DISC 1:
1 Take The Highway - 2 Can't You See - (45 version)
3 Hillbilly Band - 4 See You Later, I'm Gone - 5 New Life, A - 6 Blue
Ridge Mountain Sky - 7 Another Cruel Love - 8 This Ol' Cowboy - (45 version) -
9 In My Own Way - 10 Where A Country Boy Belongs - 11 Try One More Time - 12 Ramblin' -
(live) - 13 24 Hours At A Time - (live)
DISC 2:
1 Fire On The Mountain - 2 Searchin' For A Rainbow - (45 version) - 3 Walkin' And Talkin'
- 4 Virginia
5 Bob Away My Blues - 6 Can't You See - (live)
7 Long Hard Ride - (45 version) - 8 Am I The Kind Of Man - 9 You Say You Love Me - 10 Fly
Like An Eagle - 11 Heard It In A Love Song - (45 version) - 12 Desert Skies - 13 I'll Be
Loving You - 14 Dream Lover |
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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 I feel
in some way relate to the 60's and 70s.
Follow these links -
Books - Music - Videos
Hey, where were you and what were you
doing in the 60s and 70s? Please share with us your insights, happenings, thoughts,
feelings and good-times. We would all love to hear from you.
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