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 8 ISSN 1097-4156 March 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: ** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS ** CONTRIBUTIONS ++ COOL LINKS ** SPONSOR AND CONTEST ** 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. ---------------- To SUBSCRIBE, e-mail mailto:subscribe@vipgrafx.com To UNSUBSCRIBE, e-mail mailto:remove@vipgrafx.com (Drop me a note and let me know why, if you would.) To POST to the newsletter, e-mail mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com For a more interactive & colorful KOTRV experience, please drop into - http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/archives/march99.htm Not sure why? Not very many people visit the html version of the newsletter. If you haven't checked it out, do - then let me know what you think. Thanks in advance..... ---------------- This month's question. What was your favorite concert, happening, or cool experience from those days, and why? I would like to hear from as many of you as possible - perhaps if I had enough feedback, I could cut some of the boring stuff out... yea, right... Time to get over being shy - it's time to spill the goods. Send your submission to mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com I realize that many of the subscribers to KOTRV were not around during this time so I am working on a question for you in next month's issue. ---------------- Folks seem to enjoy the quotes a lot, so I have compiled a file from all the past issues and wow! because of the magic of the internet, that file is now available via an easy to use autoresponder. In order to check it out, all you have to do is just send a blank email to: mailto:quotes@vipgrafx.com ---------------- The One to One Personals Network... Single? Looking for MR/MS Right? Browse the ads, and get introduced to the most interesting people on the planet. You can start by browsing the ads - for free. Then place your own ad - also for free. Then sign up for the Agent of Love so that they can e-mail you with new ads (yep, it's free too). This looked interesting and who knows.... Drop In: http://www.one-and-only.com/menu1.htm?MID=62086 ---------------- More comments submitted by you wonderful and gentle people that have subscribed to the newsletter via the sister KOTRV web site. Thanks for your participation. comment: let the 60,s and 70,s live forever comment: I don't get a lotta time on the net-but this newsletter's so groovy I HAD to sign up comment: This sight is so cool It brings back so many memories of my past. Those are days I never want to forget. Thanks to you, I don't have to. comment: I love being a hippie, I should have been born earlier. comment: Good day there ladies and gents, I just found my way home here and wanted to say hi. Have a Grateful Day, Mike. comment: I would like to subscribe to the keep on truckin newsletter. I love the sixties. I think it was the greatest decade in the history of the human race. comment: WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! THE PSYCHEDELIC HIPPISM, IS GONNA CAME BACK, IF WE DO SOMETHING!!!! comment: Hippies live on forever we are even coming back in our own kids... i love it comment: We are just freaks with open minds, open hearts, free spirits, healthy souls, nonconformist ideas, and a need to be nomadic! ... and my personal favorite. comment: I'm still stuck in the 60's, don't send help. ++++++++++++++++++++ More fluff... less stuff... So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, get into the Rocky Mountain Way with Joe, 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. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= New Words of the 1960s - H to Z happy hour, hatchback, high technology, hiphugger, hippie, hit man, humongous, immunosuppressive, in-depth, in-joke, incentivize, inner city, insider trading, instant replay, intensive care, jet lag, jetport, job action, jump jet, junk art, kilobyte, kludge, klutz, kung fu, launch vehicle, lib, lip-sync, love beads, love-in, macrobiotics, mainframe, margarita, maxi, megabyte, meltdown, microchip, microprocessor, microwave oven, mini, minimal art, miniskirt, mondo, monetarism, nacho, narc, newbie, no-fault, no-win, nose job, nunchaku, Obie, one-liner, Op-Ed, op art, pantsuit, pantyhose, paparazzo, pecs, peacenik, plate tectonics, plea-bargain, poor-mouth, prioritize, porn, pro-life, put-down, quark, quick fix, raunch, repo, reverse discrimination, ripoff, roadie, scam, schmear, scumbag, scuzzy, sitcom, security blanket, sexism, skinny-dip, skyjack, soft-core, soft lens, soul food, space shuttle, spacewalk, sports medicine, streetwise, stun gun, tae kwon do, third world, tchotchke, time frame, tokenism, tradecraft, trendy, unisex, videocassette, vroom, workaholic, workfare, yakitori, yucky, zilch, zit. Next month, some new words from the 70s =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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: +++++ Wrom: LEJGDGVCJVTLBXFGGMEPYOQKEDOTWFAOBUZXUWLSZLKBRN To: Subject: Intro Date sent: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:46:45 +0200 Yebo! Greetings from sunny South Africa. *sigh* I'm home! I guess I never did develop beyond the 60's, and now I find myself trapped outside my era. Somewhat like the country song "Old Hippie" (Waylon Jennings??) Still wear blue jeans an' long hair, still wear my beard and beads, still long for the Good ol' days (formally "these trying times") I didn't get into drugs, though I was curious. Just scared to destroy what little mind I had, I guess. For that matter, didn't get much "Free Love" either. *sigh* The Vietnam war? Well, I was WAY out of that one, not involved at all. To me, it was only another news item. That's not to say we didn't have our Causes. We did our fair share of "anti-whatever" protesting in one way or another. Bad times and good times they were! But in retrospect, "Even the bad times were Good" (Who sang that?) And those smoky basement Folk clubs, where the air was so thick you could cut it with a knife (*sniff-sniff* is that a whiff of sweet Mary Jane I smell?) As a non smoker, even in those days, I must have inhaled a pack a night. Uh-oh! Now you've got me started! Beware an old man trapped in nostalgia. Vincent, you did say >short< intro, right? - Well too late for that now! About me: Everyone calls me Boots (never mind why, they just do, OKAY?) I'm a 56 year old semi-domesticated, recycled hippie, trapped in suburbia with a tribe of 7 kids (no typo), 2 dogs, 5 cats, 2 rabbits, and at last count, 36 white mice, and, of course not forgetting the light of my life, my wife Helena, who sometimes actually seems to understand me. Because of my appearance, I'm sometimes (hell, mostly) considered to be a bit "eccentric". P's me off at times, but I've learned to use it to my advantage *chortle-chortle* Amazing what you can get away with sometimes. I'm a pacifist at heart, and I'm finding it extremely hard to adapt to the violence that has erupted in this beautiful country. There is no "normal" crime any more. Every crime is accompanied by what seems completely gratuitous violence. Murder, Rape and torture seem to be the object of all crimes, while anything that may be gained in the process seems to be just a little something extra. Guess it's true what they say, "There can be no growth without change, but there can be change without growth" Looking forward to the newsletter(s), and it's nice to know I have some Kindred Spirits out there. Anyone want to drop me a line? Feel free. Till then, Peace man. TTFN Boots :-{)> jspear@global.co.za http://home.global.co.za/~jspear +++++ From: MJBramham@aol.com Date sent: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:35:01 EST To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com Subject: Intro Hi Y'all, My name's River, I just signed up to this newsletter. I myself am 15 years old and do not believe that you had to be there to know what it was all about. I admit to wearing the clothes, listening to the music etc. but it goes a lot deeper. My thoughts and feelings mirror those of my brothers and sisters who lived to see the times. The reason I signed up was to learn more about the generation of flower children who went before my own. This newsletter is the greatest thing, and I hope it can work to bring us all together! Peace out, River +++++ Date sent: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:28:26 -0800 (PST) From: Karen Eutsler Subject: Mother Earth News for Sale To: hippy@vipgrafx.com Greetings, I have a complete set of Mother Earth News, issues #1-#125, including indexes through issue #90. Any interested buyers out there? Please e-mail me! Thank you, Karen +++++ Send reply to: "William Erwin" From: "William Erwin" To: Subject: newsletter post Date sent: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 21:53:07 -0800 Hi! I'm doing a research project and would like some information about life in the late sixties, specifically from people who spent some time living nomadically. I'm interested in relatively wholesome stories of your experiences, where you camped or stayed, how you provided life's basic necessities, etc. Please email me at this address: erwins@hughes.net Thank you very much. Peace! 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 ++++++ DazedHippie's Corner of the Web Lots of fun graphics and nice links. Drop In: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Birdland/7732/ ++++++ Garden Guides Wow, tons of info here on all aspects of gardening. Check out the Guide Sheets on items such as annuals, bulbs, perennials, vegetables and herbs. Also look at all the TIPS AND TECHNIQUES covering, just to mention a few, ground cover, raised beds, rock gardens, starting seeds and much more. Drop In: http://www.gardenguides.com/ ++++++ Companion Gardening This site presents concise, easy to read tables organized by name of plant for proper companion planting. Drop In: http://www.hitech.net.au/utegrrl/table.htm ++++++ Urban Agriculture Notes by City Farmer Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture This non-profit society promotes urban food production and environmental conservation from a small office in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia and from their demonstration food garden in nearby Kitsilano, a residential neighbourhood. Urban Agriculture is a new and growing field that is not completely defined yet even by those closest to it. It concerns itself with all manner of subjects from rooftop gardens, to composting toilets, to air pollution and community development. It encompasses mental and physical health, entertainment, building codes, rats, fruit trees, herbs, recipes and much more. There is much excellent information located at this site. Take some time to explore it and learn more about urban agriculture. Drop In: http://www.cityfarmer.org/ ++++++ Robman76 Just interesting... Drop In: http://members.tripod.com/~Robman76/ ++++++ **Moderator's Comment** Sorry, I got a bit carried away with the gardening stuff this issue. Seems the season is almost upon us and the smell and touch of fresh earth is becoming a wondrous prospect. ***************************************************************** The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. John Muir ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! +++++ List name: Earthworm growers Title: Earthworm growers of the world Purpose: Inform and educate Benefits: Interact with others who share the same interest URL: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/earthwormgrowers To subscribe: Go to above website List owner: Robert Holt Email: Bobarooney@aol.com This list just started a couple of months ago but the first two issues were pretty good. +++++++ Cool Web Sightings To subscribe go to http://coolsights.listbot.com/ Cool Web Sightings is a weekly newsletter containing links and short reviews of cool web sites, Day in History (with links for more information) for the upcoming week and recipes. Check this list out - John does a great job finding some awesome web sites from across the net! Contact mailto:comments@dailyalmanac.com John Reese Quincy Illinois http://www.virtualquincy.com/ **************************************************************** QUOTES Food for Thought ----- One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on yesterdays. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson- ----- A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men! Willy Wonka ------ Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ----- You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. ------ Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. Mark Twain ------ The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurements anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. George Bernard Shaw **************************************************************** COOL GOODIES More again on ABCARD by Martin. (In his own words) I developed the ABCard system not long ago to be able to send my images with my poetry as electronic cards. Such was the success, that I have extended the system so that anybody can now create their private page to be initially exactly like mine, and optionally replace my images with their own, and same for the poetry and audio. Pre-set text can be in English and/ or Castellano (Spanish), the text is read in the language chosen by the recipient, not by the sender, hence the name ABCard (A Bilingual Card). The system allows you to send one card to one recipient at a time or to multiple recipients through a "mailing list file" in a personalized way. Private ABCard pages remain always in the ABCard server, where as the images/text and audio remains in the owners server. To send a card, go to the main ABCard site: http://www.abcard.net/ and find your way to "Send Card" Or to create a page, find your way to "Create Page" If you have any question, or need any assistance when creating your page please do not hesitate in contacting me. martin@atelier.demon.co.uk warm regards Martin +++++ Y2KCPR Call 1-877-492-5277 for a free 48 page booklet and tape or cd on Y2K preparation. They would really like you to subscribe to their news magazine, and for some it might be worth it. In the news magazine they send you is a great 12 step plan to help you with your preparation strategy for Y2K. If you haven't really given this subject much thought perhaps the time is now to do that. I feel that this is a good place to start. +++++ Yamp (Yet Another Music Player) is a music player that handles WAV (all formats, including compressed), MIDI, RMI, MOD, S3M, XM, IT, AVI, MPA, MP1, MP2, and MP3 files. It features powerful play lists; command line support for single songs, a number of songs, play lists and folders; drag-and-drop support for songs, play lists, and folders; and more. This is a very cool media player that comes with many neat designs. If you haven't checked out the world of MP3, get this free program and check it out. Yamp (Yet Another Music Player) Home Page http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~aka/myprgs_s.html **************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES FEATURED BOOK 1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips : Timeless Bits of Wisdom on How to Grow Everything Organically, from the Good Old Days When Everyone Did by Roger Yepsen (Editor) Hardcover - 352 pages (February 1998) Rodale Pr; ISBN: 0875967663 Get your hands dirty! Synopsis Discover the secrets of old-time gardeners and their time-tested organic techniques to make a garden grow more beautiful and bountiful. "1,001 Old-Time Garden Tips" features an incredible selection of advice from successful 17th-, 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century gardeners on everything from how to read weather signs to how to improve soil quality, plus recipes for tasty dishes, drinks, and herbal seasonings. 150 illustrations Targeted national ads. . Get It Here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875967663/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) FEATURED ALBUM Greatest Hits: Little Did He Know Joe Walsh Was wanting to use "The Smoker you Drink, The Player you Get" album, but Joe had so many great songs that were scattered over several albums that I figured a Greatest Hits would be much better. After seeing Joe on the Drew Carey show, it brought back many memories of his music and situations I was in when I heard them (mostly good). This is some great classic music from a classic artist. Album Notes: Personnel: Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion); Joe Vitale (vocals, flute, keyboards, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Dale Peters (vocals, bass, percussion); Waddy Wachtel, Joe Murcia (guitar); Kenny Passarelli (guitarone, trumpets, bass); Paul Harris (piano); Jay Ferguson, Rocke Grace (keyboards); Tom Stephenson (organ); Rick Rosas, George Perry, Mark Andes, Bryan Garofalo, Willie Weeks (bass); Jim Fox (drums, percussion); Jim Keltner (drums); Bill Szymczyk (marching cymbals, background vocals); James Gang (hand claps); Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner, Bob Webb, Mary Sterpka, Jody Boyer (background vocals). Joe Walsh's blues-edged guitar riffs helped define the `take no prisoners' approach to the rowdy rock & roll party of the seventies. His vocals and guitar work were a call to arms to cut loose and get down. Prior to his well-received service with the Eagles, ,Walsh headed the James Gang, writing and singing their hits, "Walk Away," "The Bomber" and the Beatles-influenced "Midnight Man." All of these and more are contained in this best-of compilation. Along with a healthy portion of his work with the James Gang, this disc also features selections from his solo releases of the '80s, including the sardonic "Life's Been Good" and the rocking "All Night Long." Track Listing Bomber, The (Medley): 1 Funk #49 2 Tend My Garden 3 Closet Queen 4 Cast Your Fate To The Wind 5 Bolero 6 Walk away 7 Midnight Man 8 Mother Says 9 Turn To Stone 10 Meadows 11 Rocky Mountain Way 12 Help Me Thru The Night 13 Life's Been Good 14 All Night Long 15 Confessor, The 16 Life Of Illusion, A 17 Ordinary Average Guy Get It Here: http://cdu2.cduniverse.com/asp/albuminfo.asp?lc=7674+11679&frm=lk_vipgrafx (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) FEATURED VIDEO Easy Rider (1969) Oh yes, the wind blowing through your hair and bugs plastered to your bright smile, the life on the road following your heart and your head to the freedom that is yours. Another one of my favorite movies that to me captures some of the essence of that time - for good or for bad. Nick, nick, nick.... Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18. Starring: Peter Fonda, et al. Director: Dennis Hopper Synopsis The ultimate paean to 1960's countercultural life, featuring a rock score that includes The Byrds, The Band, Steppenwolf and Jimi Hendrix. Two dropouts, hoping to understand the meaning of freedom and the land that is America, hit the road on their motorcycles and head to New Orleans. Their freewheeling journey, filled with psychedelic drugs and encounters with a variety of outcasts, teaches them tragically more about the United States than they'd ever expected to learn... Get It Here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6302752337/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. Check out some of my past selections by following 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 Subscribe/Unsubscribe & Misc. Information: To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:subscribe@vipgrafx.com To UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail mailto:remove@vipgrafx.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 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!!