K E E P O N T R U C K I N ' R E - V I S I T E D ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 3, Issue 4 ISSN 1097-4156 November 1999 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: ** INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS ** CONTRIBUTIONS ++ COOL LINKS ** COOL LISTS ++ QUOTES ** COOL GOODIES ++ FEATURED WORDS & TUNES ** SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, CONTRIBUTE & MISC. INFO ***************************************************************** I'M FEELIN' KIND OF FREAKY! ( Hey, just wanted to start this out a bit different.. ) ***************************************************************** 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. ---------------- 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 or ---------------- Random Thoughts - (like I had any other kind...) - I have been swimming in a pool of nostalgia this last month and it has been a great time - checked out the 'SF Oracle', got 'Haight Ashbury In the Sixties' CDROM set via an Amazon.com auction for $12.95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling (W. Redman at said he still had about 50 left.) In addition, I found a used Pioneer turntable in great shape at a local second hand store and found an in-line amp to hook it up to my present sound system - wow, so cool to throw on the ole vinyl and listen to tunes I haven't heard for years. - Looked all over the place for one of those stupid looking bright yellow election style hats (the styrofoam ones) with a red, white and blue hat band that says ECLECTIC on it.. Not sure why I didn't find one? Like I said, "I'M FEELIN' KIND OF FREAKY!" Oh well, I will keep an eye out. - A wonderful American holiday is coming up this next week - (Thanksgiving.) It is a great time to remember all the things we need to be grateful for and a time to share with our families and friends. I want to extend to all of you out there, a heart inspired best wishes for your future and a _BIG THANK_ you for helping to make this newsletter possible. ---------------- This month's question. Q. How many of you would like for me to create a new (in addition to this one) list but make it into more of the individual listserve forum style? It would be easy to create a new list, maybe called KOTRV-2 or something like that, that would be a lightly moderated, real time list or a daily digest at Onelist. If anyone is interested, please let me know and I will see what I can do to get it going real soon. Send your answers to mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com. ---------------- Comments: comment: Hi! Stumbled across your site and thought you'd like to take a look at ours. We'd love to be listed as a suggested link on your page. We're at http://www.hippieskivvies.com comment: I grew up in the 80's and 90's (and in some ways, I am still growing), but I have an infatuation with the 60's: the time of peace, love, war, drugs, traveling, friends, music, life, and death. Even though the new millennium looms over our heads, the ideals of the 60's will always live on, in many of you and also in me. I'll keep on truckin' until the day that my body dies, and I would like to do it through the newsletter. I can never get enough to satisfy my thirst for the groovalicious era of love. mccaulej@uwplatt.edu (Jaime McCauley) comment: hey, people, I do love this list! anybody with a cool story from the sixties - please e-mail me. Also, any hippies out there - let's keep in touch! Rainbow Hippie (julia_twistin@yahoo.com) comment: I still have an 18 foot tipi. In the Last Whole Earth Catalogue, Access to Tool, there is a company in bend oregon named Nomadic Tipis, I am glad to say that they are still alive and kicking, still in bend, and have a web site--www.tipi.com. I've owned a few in my time and checked out three different makers over the last 22 years, none compare to nomadic's stuff. good people, good products, good prices. Just thought you should know. Keep up the good work. Much love, RC strawdog58@netscape.net (reed alan crill) Moderators Note: Nomadic's is where I got my first (and only) tipi - long since gone but what a wonderful dwelling it was. --> You can add your comments from the main page at the KOTRV Website: http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/hippy.html So please do! ++++++++++++++++++++ More fluff... less stuff... So, warm up the lava lamp, flip on the black light, get feelin' eight miles high with the Bryds, 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. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Can we even start to put as much emotion & feeling into our lives as Janis Joplin puts into even one of her songs? Me, Vincent =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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: RainboMama@aol.com Date sent: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:18:10 EST Subject: Hello! To: kotrv-owner@onelist.com Hi Vincent! I've been getting your nl for a few months now, and have been meaning to post, but I am usually pretty busy, and have not taken the time to do so. However, Loretta's post caught my attention, and I decided to write back to her, and decided then to send you a copy of my letter to her. BTW, I'm really glad you are doing this newsletter, and know that there are people out here who really appreciate what you are doing! Hello Loretta, and anyone else who reads this post! I read your post in Keep On Truckin', and although I was not in the Haight at that time, I was in NY's lower east side, living the hippie life, and my dream was to go to SF (remember the song, if you're going to SF, you might wear some flowers in your hair? - It can still make me cry)...and I did make it to SF - hitchhiked there while pregnant, in the middle of January of 1972, with my ex-husband (because I didn't want my baby's astrological chart to read NYC...but that's another whole story of it's own)! I lived in the SF Bay Area (Marin County,home of the Grateful Dead) from 1972 until this past January, when I moved to Tulsa, OK. At any rate, I wasn't in the Haight, but I was definitely of that mind-set. I actually RAN AWAY FROM Westchester (Dobbs Ferry) in 1964, and was living on the lower east side and tripping by 1965, I was also at the first Easter Be-In in NYC in 1967, and got to see the Grateful Dead give two free concerts that summer in Central Park and Tompkins Square Park...two years later I got to be backstage (and onstage with my then-guru Swami Satchidananda who spoke) at Woodstock, and all in all I would have to say that I have led a pretty tripped out counter-culture kind of life. Since those days it's been hard for me to normalize myself...I'm still different, being a 54 year old hippie who still likes to go out and hear live music and owns a tie dye store and web site, and is a vegetarian! But the truth is I LIKE being different! At any rate, if you want to talk, get in touch! Peace, Love and Tie Dyes, Tara Thralls very interested in anyone with a background from the 60's early seventys and the Haight ashbury scene. Done that been there and now living a semi normal life in westchester loretta ricci (popoos@aol.com) +++++ From: "Hande Taylan" To: Subject: Ynt: [kotrv] Keep On Trucking Re-Visited October 99 Issue Date sent: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 03:27:58 +0200 Hey man, don't have any motivational problems. I am looking forward to these very much. They are a highlight. I love those days and never could forget them. Never such times again. When we were young and beautiful inside and out. Keep them coming man. Thanks for doing this. Bless your heart. Laughter ("does anybody remember laughter?" Robert Plant) Moderators Comment: Thanks so much for your support Hande and to everyone else! Feeling much better this last month and still cookin'. +++++ From: Mattryes@aol.com Date sent: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 20:47:02 EDT Subject: A brief contribution To: mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com Hello Friends, My name is Matt. Please consider this brief thought for submission to your newsletter: If you have something which someone else will get more pleasure from than you yourself ever will, then you will get more pleasure and put this thing to its highest and best use by giving it to them. +++++ From: SixFive175@aol.com Date sent: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 15:10:20 EDT Subject: hitchhiking To: mailto:hippy@vipgrafx.com One thing lost today is hitchhiking. Serial killers came along and scared off almost all hitchhiking. But it didn't used to be that way. A pop hit, "Hitchin A Ride" was out in 1970: putting to song what ALOT of kids were doing then. I remember summers, circa 1969-1971, in which kids literally left home for the summer and hitchhiked all over the West. Some small towns were literally emptied of their 16-20 yr. olds for the summer: off hitchhiking. "See ya later, Mom. I'll be back in Sept. Bye." Then, in the Fall, they returned to their college or high school. For some reason, parents didn't seem to mind. I could never figure that out, either: had I have tried that, I would have been disowned. In the summer of 1969, the Trans-Canada Highway was FULL of young hitchhikers: you saw 3 or 4 at every exit, and this was up in sparse areas like Kenora, Ont. and east of Winnipeg, MB. Alot of them were probably from the USA. I worked 3 summers at a church camp, called Holden Village, which was located 60 miles from the nearest town, in the Cascade Mtns. of north-central Washington. (You got there by ferry, up Lake Chelan, the ride took 4 hrs. each way). Anyway, I can't tell you how many kids came through Holden: backpacking over the Cascades, or ones who hitchhiked out there from the East or Midwest. Probably as many young people arrived at Holden by thumb (Minnesota to Wash. State is about 2000 miles) as by car or Amtrak. And alot of them hitched up from Calif. I can't tell you how many 16-18 yr. olds I encountered, who thought nothing of hitchhiking from Minneapolis (where I went to school) to Calif. or Wash. College students routinely, hitchhiked from MN to CA, and back, during the 7-day Fall and Spring breaks. "Caught a ride with a trucker who took me from Reno right to my door here in Northfield!" Less common (but far more so than today) was riding the rails. As I say, hitchhikers were everywhere in the summer then (and other seasons as well). Girls thought nothing of hitchhiking alone. And there were almost no bad incidents then; people trusted each other to a degree that seems beyond foolish today. I'll tell you what killed hitchhiking, I think. Several famous trials and murder cases put chills on things. In my opinion: 1. The Charles Manson murder trial killed hippie-dom and hitchhiking. Suddenly, hippies were now equated with the word "crazed" in front of it. Moral: Watch who you associate with; there are Charles Mansons out there. 2. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" killed random sex in the 1970's, or atleast helped. AIDS helped later. But now, the moral became: "Watch who you sleep with; you might end up killed". Hitchhiking today is rarely practiced. The few hitchhikers you see out there look ragged and dangerous. It has been this way now, for atleast 20 years. People don't pick up hitchhikers, and people don't hitchhike: and those that do, could be dangerous. But it sure wasn't like that in 1969-1971! Your Friend: Doug SixFive175@home.com, or else: SixFive175@aol.com ICQ = 15469455 Des Moines, Iowa 50311 12:24 PM Central Time, Saturday, October 30, 1999. 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 Psychedelic Cyber Cosmos ++++++ That 70s Show Not sure if there any fans of that crazy 'The 70s Show' out there, but here's a cool place to start if you are. Drop In: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cabaret/2791/ ++++++ The Grand Illusions This site is for the inquiring mind. With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Drop In: http://www.grand-illusions.com/ I particularly enjoyed this one: http://www.grand-illusions.com/pinwheel.htm ++++++ E-Music.com Sample and download alternative, rock hip hop, jazz, blues and more. By the song or album, get some hot mp3 files at this great site. Drop In: http://www.emusic.com/ ++++++ Humor.... The Ultimate Poseur Sport Utility Page The only SUV satire page on the web! Please check this out before you go out and get yourself one of those SUV things. Drop In: http://poseur.4x4.org/index.html ++++++ Austin Cyber Limits This site is the web home of the popular PPS TV program, Austin City Limits. This site provides the history of the show and provides descriptions of the performers, past and present. You will also be able to see who will be appearing in future episodes. Drop In: http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin ++++++ Just a couple of links to brighten up you day! Drop In: http://www.always-safe.com/dance.html Drop In: http://www.whoohoo.net/flower/ ++++++ Wallpaper Factory A wonderful collection of very nice wallpapers for your desktop. Drop In: http://www.designworks.clara.net/Wallpapers/ ++++++ The Yoga Site An eclectic collection of yoga connections. Find teachers in your area, learn the different positions, find a yoga retreat plus much more at this site. Drop In: http://www.yogasite.com/ ***************************************************************** COOL LISTS Cool Lists from around the net! +++++ PhilosophyQuotes Description: PhilosophyQuotes is a free daily ezine bringing you quotes from 3000 years of western and eastern philosophy. Each issue includes 3-5 quotes from a great thinker as well as links to additional information on the Web. NOTE: These are not your typical feel-good quotes. If you don't like to think a little (or a lot), you probably shouldn't subscribe ;-) Subscription instructions: Visit http://PhilosophySearch.com/ or mailto:subscribe@philosophyquotes.com Owner/moderator address: brian@philosophysearch.com +++++ The Country Cottage Herb Gardener Description: The Country Cottage Herb Gardener is a new, free e-mail newsletter published monthly. It covers herb gardening (from beginner to experienced), cooking with herbs, herbal crafts and florals, book reviews, sources and resources. Subscription instructions: To subscribe, send any e-mail to: CCHG-subscribe@onelist.com URL: http://www.LimestoneLedge.com Owner/moderator address: bobbi.chukran@mindspring.com ***************************************************************** QUOTES Spiritual insights from the East ----- "The man of virtue...can see where all is dark. He can hear where all is still. In the darkness he alone can see light. In the stillness he alone can hear harmony." Chuang-Tzu ----- "He who neither hates nor desires, is to be known as one who constantly renounces. For free from dualities, he is easily released from bondage." Bhagavad Gita V.3 ----- "Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!" Atharva Veda 6.121.4 ----- "To be empty is to be full" Lao Tzu ---------- Get the archive of quotes - send a blank email to: mailto:quotes@vipgrafx.com ***************************************************************** COOL GOODIES Fun stuff from the digital ether! +++++ MP3 Players Here is a list of sites that provide MP3 players of one sort or another - some PC and some MAC. Real Jukebox http://www.real.com/products/realjukebox/index.html FreeAmp http://www.freeamp.org/ MusicMatch Jukebox http://www.musicmatch.com/jukebox/ Sonique http://www.sonique.com/ Winamp http://www.winamp.com/ SoundJam MP http://www.soundjam.com/ MacAMP http://www.macamp.net/ Xmms http://www.xmms.org/ SoundPlay http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/soundplay.html ------------ i-drive i-drive offers 25 megabytes of free, secure on-line disk space, letting you store and access your files from any web browser in the world. No more worries about lost and corrupted disks: i-drive makes file transfer a breeze, and with the new Sync feature, you can send whole folders up to your i-drive with just one click. Upload important files to your i-drive, and download them whenever, and wherever you want! If you go to MP3.com and get a file to transfer, you get twice the space! Check it out at: www.idrive.com ***************************************************************** FEATURED WORDS & TUNES FEATURED BOOK The San Francisco Oracle (Facsimile Edition) by Allen., Editor Cohen Hardcover Reprint edition (September 1990) Regent Pr; ISBN: 0916147118 Mentioned this beautiful book in last month's issue. Way cool - the graphics, articles and the advertising.. just enjoyed the hell out of this wonderful publication. Book Description: The San Francisco Oracle, published in the Haight-Ashbury from 1966 to 1968, was one of the most unique and beautiful publications of the 60's. It is remembered for it's extraordinary graphic design by major San Francisco artists, its rainbow colors and the cultural explorations and breakthroughs in its articles, interviews and poetry. At its height, over 120,000 copies of each issue of The Oracle were printed and distributed, and each copy was read by many people. The Oracle is quoted and praised in most of the histories of the 60's. Writers who appeared in The Oracle include: Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Alan Watts, Stephen Levine, Lenore Kandel, Tim Leary, Michael McClure, Paul Krassner, Buckminster Fuller, Carl Rogers, Richard Alpert (Ram Dass), Robert Theobald, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others. Artists include many of the great San Francisco Poster artists such as: Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelly, Bruce Conner, Michael Bowen and Gary Grimshaw. Read the rest at Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0916147118/vipgraphivideo (you may need to cut and paste the url if it's on two lines) 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Featured Album Greatest Hits [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] Byrds Audio CD (March 30, 1999) Sony/Columbia; ASIN: B00000ICO0 Reviews Amazon.com The 12-string electric guitar may never recover. As long as there are baby boomers roaming the earth, its airy jangle will signify psychedelic innocence and optimism refracted through the peculiar light of mid-'60s Los Angeles. With Roger McGuinn leading, the Byrds kicked off American rock history with a merger of Bob Dylan's words and the Beatles' melodic energy. The results are here: "Mr. Tambourine Man," "The Bells of Rhymney," and "Eight Miles High" still jump off the airwaves. The midpoint between Dylan and the Beatles is a one-of-a-kind place, where optimism and innocence still sound smart. --Steve Tignor Tracks 1. Mr. Tambourine Man 2. I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better 3. The Bells Of Rhymney 4. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) 5. All I Really Want To Do 6. Chimes Of Freedom 7. Eight Miles High 8. Mr. Spaceman 9. 5D (Fifth Dimension) 10. So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star 11. My Back Pages 12. It Won't Be Wrong 13. Set You Free This Time 14. Have You Seen Her Face http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000ICO0/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. 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!!