K E E P O N T R U C K I N '
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Volume 4, Issue 4 ISSN 1097-4156 November
2000
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Contents:
** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS
** CONTRIBUTIONS
++ COOL LINKS
** COOL LISTS
++ QUOTES
++ FEATURED WORDS & TUNES
** SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO
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! H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G !
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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.
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All the subscribe and un-Subscribe
info is at the end of this mess!
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Kicks!
This issue is one of the most fun I have done in a while. There
are a ton of links, several e-zine resources, and many quotes in
this issue. I sincerely hope you all get as big a kick out of
reading it as I did putting it together!
Onward and Upward!
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Conformity
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he
becomes a conformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your mission this month, should you choose to take it, is ...
Now is your chance to express yourself on the role that this
dirty little word (conformity - not to be confused with
responsibility) has had on your life. Were/are you able to
avoid it, or did you just have a light brush with it, or did it
grab you (like it did me) and pull you in with full force, head
first?
Just drop us a note and tell us of your experience and/or
thoughts on the subject. - mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com
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Karma Points
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No big deal, it's just that easy.
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Comments:(or just ads?)
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Peace out.
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comment: Do you guys know where I can find the original picture
with keep on trucking. I had a T-shirt many years ago with the
pic and text on it
Michael Larsson (snezzer@hotmail.com)
Can anyone help?
--> You can add your comments from the main page at the
KOTRV Website: http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/hippy.html
So please do!
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More fluff... less stuff...
So, warm up the lava lamp, pull the trash bag up over your head
(to keep the rain off) and stomp in the mud to the Fish Cheer
jams of Country Joe, flip on the black light, then 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.
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Benefits of Growing Older!
1. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first
2. It's harder and harder for sexual harassment charges to
stick.
3. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
4. No one expects you to run into a burning building.
5. People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?"
6. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
7. There's nothing left to learn the hard way.
8. Things you buy now won't wear out.
9. You buy a compass for the dash of your car.
10 You can eat dinner at 4:00
11 You can live without sex but not without glasses.
12 You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to
watch television.
13 You consider coffee one of the most important things in life.
14 You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.
15 You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
16 You get into a heated argument about pension plans.
17 You got cable for the weather channel.
18 You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.
19 You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
20 You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks
into the room.
21 You send money to PBS.
22 You sing along with the elevator music.
23 You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's
lawn.
24 Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper.
25 Your back goes out more than you do.
26 Your ears are hairier than your head.
27 Your eyes won't get much worse.
28 Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to
pay off.
29 Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather
Service.
30 Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't
remember them either.
31 Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable
size.
32 People send you this list ...
** Editor's Comment **
Don't ask!
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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
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From: hmc1@bigfoot.com
To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Subject: John Lennon Remembered
Date sent: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:51 -0600
John Lennon Remembered
This special section of Rollingstone.com coincides with the
release of The Beatles Anthology, the third entry in the
mammoth chronicle of the band's career, and RS' own re-release
(with new material) of Jann Wenner's Lennon Remembers, the
1970 Rolling Stone interviews.
The site trots out several old Lennon interviews, wrapping
them with new features: an interview with producer Phil
Spector, "intimate" photos of John and Yoko just weeks before
his murder and testimonies from 34 musicians, Keith Richards
to Shirley Manson, about Lennon's impact and where they were
when they heard the news of his death.
http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/special/lennon/
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Celebrating Sideburns
Badburns celebrates sideburns, those hairy facial things that
get long, short, fat or skinny with fashion and taste. The
King of Bad Burns offers photos scoured from the Internet, a
celebrity gallery, burns news and an earnest effort to
inaugurate the Burns Street Museum.
http://badburns.bizland.com
H. Michael Cunningham, Ph.D.
"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end
up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato
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Date sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:44:35 -0700
To: vipgrafx@vipgrafx.com
From: radman <resist@best.com>
Subject: Hillary & the Black Panthers (urban legend)
Please run this in your next issue...
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Urban legend: Hillary Clinton played a significant role in
defending Black Panthers
accused of torturing and murdering Alex Rackley.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/panthers.htm
** Editor's Comment **
It never fails... nothing worse then an Urban Legend that you
publish that comes back to bite you on the ass. Sorry for not
researching the post better that was in the last newsletter and
thanks radman for keeping this newsletter on track!
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Date sent: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 17:27:22 -0700
To: .@nic.scruz.net
From: monkerud < monkerud@Scruznet.com >
Subject: ALSO FIND
Your readers can also find Free Land: Free Love: Tales of a
Wilderness Commune at http://www.BlackBearRanch.com
best, Don Monkerud
Don Monkerud
http://www.BlackBearRanch.com
Black Bear Mining & Publishing Company
2220 Pleasant Valley Road
Aptos, CA 95003
831-724-2059
FAX 831-724-1893
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From: "Joe" <jtruck@willapabay.org>
To: <hippy@vipgrafx.com>
Subject: nosepilot/Oct ish
Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:06:00 -0700
That Nosepilot art/movie/thingie from the October newsletter is
incredible art! This old ex-mountain hippie bachelor is very
glad he subscribes!!
Thanks!!
Joe
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To: hippy@vipgrafx.com
Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:39:18 -0400
From: Judy Bayliss <hippychicks@juno.com>
Hi - the question below appeared in the just-out issue of KOTRV.
To respond: the phrase 'Keep on Truckin' was originally used in a
blues song in the 1920's or 1930's. The cartoon using the phrase
was published in 1968.
Judy - who spent the late '60's slapping Ripple labels
onto trees........
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HI, I'm a writer trying to confirm that the term
"keep on truckin'" was in common use in 1970. Can you help me?
Thanks, 1,000,000. BH
Bob Hodges (hodgesb@msn.com)
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COOL LINKS
Cool links to sites from the outer recesses of the
Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos
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GREENPEACE.ORG
Check it out! They are still out there working harder than ever
to preserve the world for future generations.
Drop In: http://www.greenpeace.org
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WWF
No, it's not the World Wrestling Foundation, it's so much better!
-In their own words-
Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is
dedicated to protecting the world's wildlife and wildlands. The
largest privately supported international conservation
organization in the world, WWF has more than 1 million members
in the U.S. alone. Since...
Drop In: http://www.worldwildlife.org/
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What's a Hippy?
OK, just to settle the argument(s)..
Drop In: http://www.albany.net/~lauralee/what2.htm
*thanks mark
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Inspirational Quote for the Day
Very cool site that mixes art and quotations with new setups
everyday. Make it your browser start page!
Drop In: http://www.genesisnetwork.net/users/fredd/quote.htm
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HONOR THE EARTH
-In their own words-
HONOR THE EARTH is a national Native grant-making and political
advocacy organization sponsored by: Indigenous Environmental
Network and Indigenous Women's Network.
Honor the Earth uses music, the media and the arts to accomplish
this mission. They ask people to recognize their joint dependency
on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.
Drop In: http://www.honorearth.org/
*thanks mark
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Picket Wire Canyon People
-In their own words-
An amazing discovery in Southeast Colorado suggests that ancient
America could have been visited by a culture with roots in Asia.
Rock carvings and other evidence are presented here for public
scrutiny the first time.
-In my own words-
The area this site is about is located about 20 miles South of
where I live in Southeastern Colorado. We make many trips a
year out into the Canyons - sometimes we just walk, sometimes
we try to catch the rising of the full moon, do a little drumming
and a ton of soaking up nature in all its wonder.
Drop In: http://www.viewzone.com/picket1.html
While you are at it, drop back to the main Viewzone.com page
and do a bit of exploring on your own.
Drop In: http://www.viewzone.com/
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Silverhawk's Native American Indian Graphics
An awesome collection of Native American web style graphics.
Please honor the Terms of Agreement when using these beautiful
graphics.
Drop In: http://www.samsilverhawk.com/
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Stop the Hate
-In their own words-
There is a sickness eating away at the strength of humankind and
that sickness is Hate. Daily, throughout the world, men, women,
and children are tortured, brutalized, and murdered simply
because of their beliefs, their race, their physical state, or
their sexuality, and equally guilty as the perpetrators are those
among us who remain indifferent and/or silent.
When will it stop? Who will stop it? Will YOU??
NOW, here is a message that none of us should ignore!
Drop In: http://www.stopthehate.net/
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The Ozark Rainbow Bulletin
Download and enjoy the Ozark Rainbow Bulletin - great reading
to keep you up on what's happening in the Rainbow community.
Drop In: http://www.wholistic.net/rainbow/
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Your Expedition
Join Ann Bancroft (USA) and Liv Arnesen (Norway) in their quest
to be the first women to ski and sail across Antarctica — 2400
miles, 100 days, 250 pound sleds, 30 degrees below zero
Plus there are other great expeditions to check out!
Drop In: http://www.yourexpedition.com/
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Golden Moments - A Season for Nonviolence
-In their own words-
The overall mission of A Season for Nonviolence is to facilitate
healing, using peaceful ways of thinking, speaking, and acting
through the practice of nonviolence as a way of life. Believing
that every individual has opportunity to move towards peaceful
directions, we are creating a society that honors the dignity
and worth of everyONE through education in online ventures and
through speaking engagements, workshops.
Follow the arrows at the bottom to go through the daily
affirmations which are presented on weekly themed pages.
Drop In: http://www.goldnmoments.com/inspiredthoughts/ASeason.htm
*thanks mark
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Robert Crumb
A Virtual Exhibition at Lambiek.net - It just wouldn't be Keep On
Truckin' Re-Visited without just a crumb of Crumb.
Drop In: http://www.lambiek.net/crumb__exhibition/crumb_expo1.htm
and
Drop In: http://www.beam.to/crumb
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A Namvets Poems
Vipers Vietnam Veteran Page
Award winning poems about Vietnam by Vietnam Veteran, E. W.
Richardson - mailto:trumddp143@aol.com
Drop In: http://members.aol.com/viperash5o/page/index.htm
*thanks kat
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COOL LISTS
Cool Lists from around the net!
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EcoWorld - The Global Environmental Community
URL: http://www.ecoworld.com/SignUp.cfm
Monthly
Description: An online resource for information on the status of
the earth's species and ecosystems as well as efforts underway
planet-wide to preserve and restore these species and ecosystems.
Information is offered in seven different categories: air, water,
earth, plants, animals, trees and people covering key global
environmental issues, species/ecosystem profiles and projects
pertaining to each earth category.
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Soul Snacks for Moms
http://www.momscape.com/soul_snacks.htm
daily
Fifteen minutes is all it takes to refresh your spirit. With
your soul snacks subscription, you'll wake up each morning to a
new way of pampering yourself in fifteen minutes or less. These
brief daily messages will inspire and empower you throughout the
day while reminding you of the importance of nurturing yourself.
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The Cedarfire Newsletter
http://www.cedarfire.com
mailto:cedarfire-subscribe@egroups.com
monthly
Circulation: 90
The Cedarfire newsletter presents empowering information, tools,
and techniques to help in your personal development. It includes
articles, questions and answers, an affirmation or meditation,
and much more. This publication will propel you forward with
your spiritual growth through the use of positive thinking,
remembering your true identity, and empowering you to take the
steps necessary to change your thinking.
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The Poster Pad
Oh, how terrible! There's a bare spot on that one wall you
just have to cover up. Now is a good time to fix that nagging
problem!
Visit the Poster Pad @
http://www.vipgrafx.com/poster/index.htm
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QUOTES
More Quotes on Music
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If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony
like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.
-- Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland
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There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.
-- Sergei Prokofiev
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I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion
tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?
-- Dimitri Mitropolous
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God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the
way.
-- Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player
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I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists
than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos
anywhere.
-- Frederic Chopin
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When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally
and rubbed his name off the piano.
-- Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller
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In opera, there is always too much singing.
-- Claude Debussy
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An exotic and irrational entertainment.
-- Samuel Johnson's definition of opera
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
-- Pierre Beaumarchais
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The Barber of Seville Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in
the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
-- Robert Benchley
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Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were
no singers!
-- Gioacchino Rossini
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I think popular music in this country is one of the few things
in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
-- Bing Crosby
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Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently
resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the
Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulgent amateurishness of the
musical material, though closely rivaled by the indifference of
the performing style, is actually surpassed only by the
ineptitude of the studio production method. (Strawberry Fields
suggests a chance encounter at a mountain wedding between
Claudio Monteverdi and a jug band.)
-- Glenn Gould
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been
some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old
chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
-- Jerry Garcia
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A ponderous orchestral absurdity.
-- Frank Zappa on his rock symphony
Debuted by the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Thanks Kat!
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FEATURED WORDS & TUNES
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** FEATURED BOOK **
The Beatles Anthology
by The Beatles
Hardcover - 368 pages (October 5, 2000)
Chronicle Books; ISBN: 0811826848
Amazon.com
After all these years, is there anything new to say about the
Beatles?
Only if you go straight to the guys who haven't had their full
say: the Beatles themselves and their closest confidants. The
Beatles Anthology has kaleidoscope eyes--and perceptive ones at
that...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811826848/vipgraphivideo
(you may need to cut and paste
the url if it's on two lines)
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** FEATURED ALBUM **
The Collected...1965-1970
Country Joe & The Fish
Audio CD (January 1, 1987)
Original Release Date: 1987
Who can forget the unique sound of Country Joe? There is a lot
of powerful music on this disk that helped to shape the times of
the 60s and 70s. Still when I hear The Fish Cheer done at
Woodstock, I get goose bumps - it's just a killer!
Tracks
1. Superbird
2. Bass Strings
3. Section 43
4. Flying High
5. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
6. Death Sound Blues
7. Porpoise Mouth
8. Sad And Lonely Times
9. "Fish" Cheer, The / I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag
10. Rock Coast Blues
11. Janis
12. Eastern Jam
13. Good Guys/Bad Guys Cheer
14. Rock And Soul Music
15. Untitled Protest, An
16. Here I Go Again
17. Maria
18. Crystal Blues
19. Rockin' Round The World
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000000ECN/vipgraphivideo
(you may need to cut and paste
the url if it's on two lines)
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** FEATURED DVD **
Billy Jack (1971)
Starring: Tom Laughlin, et al.
Director: Tom Laughlin
Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned
• Full-screen format
• ASIN: 0790740729
Other Formats: VHS, VHS dubbed in Spanish, DVD
Amazon.com
This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having
one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker
Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack
concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a
free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out
of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension
between Billy Jack's way of doing things and that of the school's
founder (Delores Taylor), but their tension doesn't so much lead
to an examination of principles as it leads to an excuse for
Laughlin to incorporate fight scenes between hippie politics.
Crude and brutal, the film is pretty exploitative of a viewer's
torn sympathies, and in that way Billy Jack actually anticipates
much of the simple-minded, violent fare that followed in the
movies of the '70s and '80s.
--Tom Keogh
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XPOM/vipgraphivideo
(you may need to cut and paste
the url if it's on two lines)
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