K E E P O N T R U C K I N ' R E - V I S I T E D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 2, Issue 11 ISSN 1097-4156 June 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 To UNSUBSCRIBE, e-mail (Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.) To POST to the newsletter, e-mail ---------------- 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: http://onelist.com/subscribe/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 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: +++++ From: Jamie Deshaies 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" 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" 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: 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" 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 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 To: 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? 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 Cyber Cosmos ++++++ Time Capsule All you do is enter any date from 1900 to 1997 and the Time Capsule will let you know some great info, such as Top News Headlines, Sports Headlines, Top Songs, Birthdays and much more. Drop In: http://www.dmarie.com/asp/history.asp BTW, found this site via the Cool Web Sightings newsletter. You may subscribe at http://coolsights.listbot.com/ or by sending an email message to:mailto:coolsights-subscribe@listbot.com ++++++ The Onion More crazy stories from the Onion. Parody at its er, um, finest. http://www.theonion.com/onion3115/garciadead.html http://www.theonion.com/onion3001w/marijuana.html and this one's just weird: http://www.theonion.com/archives/monkgloats.html Thanks Shawn. ++++++ Acid Logic From politics, to culture, to music, this E-Zine has some interesting subjects that it covers. Worth the visit. Drop In: http://www.forbisthemighty.com/acidlogic/ ++++++ 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. Drop In: http://tequilas.com/ ++++++ Lyrics World Here you will find lyrics and links in English and Portuguese. Drop In: http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/summer.html ***************************************************************** So grand a reward So Tiny a sin Ancient Hindu Proverb ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! Backyard Nature Notes http://www.sodamail.com BACKYARD NATURE NOTES is a free, email newsletter published several times per week. Fun, informative articles, reviews, and resources about backyard wildlife, habitat, native plants, conservation, fun and games, landscaping, gardening and general enjoyment of backyard resources in urban, suburban and rural settings. Companion Web site: http://www.backyardnature.com 'BackyardNature.com' Resource center of articles and interactive activities, resources for sustainable products, etc. If you would like to receive Backyard Nature Notes for free, just send an e-mail message to: join-backyard-nature-notes@gt.sodamail.com If you want to cancel your free subscription send an e-mail message from your address: carolyn@allen.com to: leave-backyard-nature-notes@gt.sodamail.com Contact: Editor: Carolyn Allen Email: carolyn@backyardnature.com ***************************************************************** 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 Thanks.. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140042598/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) 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 http://cdu2.cduniverse.com/asp/albuminfo.asp?lc=2283+5027&frm=lk_vipgrafx (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 1999, VIP Graphics. All rights reserved. ISSN 1097-4156 Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Disclaimer: Disclaim THIS!!