KEEP ON TRUCKIN' RE-VISITED

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Volume 1, Issue 2                                   September 1997
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                         C O N T E N T S 

INTRODUCTION & MUSINGS

FLASH BACK

CONTRIBUTION(S)

COOL LINKS

COOL LISTS

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Introduction & Musings:

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 others to share their
feelings, thoughts and experiences from that time.

This is the second issue and all is going great! In just little
more than a month, there are 80 plus like minded individuals from
over 6 different countries who have subscribed to this list and I
would personally like to welcome you all. If you enjoy this
newsletter, please pass a copy on to your friends.

Also in this newsletter, we have a great submission from Gary 
of New Hampshire. His contribution is pretty much right on for
what I had envisioned when I put this thing together. Thanks Gary!
Gary received a Munchies T-Shirt as I promised for his submission.
I still have 5 more shirts to give away (actually it's a trade
but who is keeping track) to the next 5 folks that send in a
submission _that I can use_ in one of the future newsletters.

The sister web site for Keep On Truckin' Re-Visited is at
<http://www.vipgrafx.com/hippy/hippy.html> and it is starting to
take off and with almost daily improvements and additions. As
time goes on, I will be adding a page to it for archiving
of the newsletter, perhaps after this second issue goes out. I
also plan to have an on-going comments page were you can post
your comments and insights so they can be added to the newsletter.
There is also an on-line registration form, past and current
links, the KOTRV FAQ, and a few other things. Check it out if you
can and please offer any recomendations you might have.

So, warm up the lava lamp, crank up a little Hendrix, put on
your love beads, your headband, bell bottomed pants and do
whatever it takes to put your mind in the proper state and kick
back, and experience the newsletter.

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Flash Back

I was needing some inspiration for this newsletter so I headed
down to the local video store and checked out one of my all time
favorite movies. It has been many years since I have watched "Easy
Rider", and as I had hoped, it provided me with the inspiration I
was seeking. It reminided me how far we have come and how much
farther we still need to go. It also reminded me of an idealistic
youth out of control - wow! what a great time it was to be alive.

I would like to pose this question to you, towards the end of
the movie, just before the rednecks get to them, what do you 
think Wyatt meant when he told Billy "We blew it"?

How ironic it is that now-a-days the cowboys have the long hair.
If you can handle it, watch a few C & W music videos or try
something that might be a bit harder and go to a C & W bar - 
do proceed with caution, as you may get stuck in a line dance - 
heaven forbid. I say we take some dull scissors to them there
longhairs <joke>. Please, someone kick that soapbox out from 
under me!

Recently I read an article by James S. Kunen in Time magazine, the
September 1, 97 issue entitled "IT AIN'T US, BABE" that I found
very interesting. It was about the effects of the 60s generation
on their offspring. One of the comments the kids made was - "Every
thing has been done, and everything has been stood for, everything
has been fought over, and now it's basically like there is no more
debate." Kind of made me nervous - I'm not sure that most of the
present youth is aware of the things still going on such as
global environmental destruction, severe human rights violations,
and a still as yet corrupt government just to name a few. So I
guess, it's never to late for change.

In many aspects, I feel very good knowing that our actions in 
that time, helped to bring and end to the war and upset and
wakeup the social conscienceness for the many changes that were
needed.

Anyway, onward and upwards.

->vip<-

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Contribution

                      60s & 70s ramble

I was born in 1951.  That makes me 16 in the summer of '67, 
when my mother moved my brother and I from Pacific Palisades,
CA to South Chatham, NH... population 120 or so.  Talk about
culture shock!  I went from the 'cradle State' to a rural,
agricultural community where everyone not only knew each other,
but they knew what everyone ate for dinner, what they wore for
underwear, what was on their minds.  Well, I sure hadn't a clue
what was on the minds of my new neighbors...  indeed, there was
a bit of a communications gap.  If you've ever been to northern
New England (rural, that is) then you know what I mean.  The 
accent takes some getting used to.

Anyway, I was a sophomore in HS and spent the next three years
getting through a semi-private academy populated by the wildest
dichotomy of studenthood you could imagine.  The locals were a
little outshined by their more sophisticated dorm-student 
classmates.  This created two worlds in one - the local kids
who hung out in their cars, parked on Main Street (1 block
long) and watched traffic go by every Saturday night, and the
dorm-students, who held weekend-long, surreptitious parties
that not a single local attended...  besides myself...  and I
never missed one.

After this 3 year hiatus from reality I graduated and moved to
Boston... now, there's a town.  In the 60's and 70's its people
grooved to the sound of WBCN, one of the nation's first - and
best - album rock oriented stations.  The streets were full of
'freaks' and the sweet smell of hemp was everywhere. 

There was a hippie coffeehouse in Harvard Square in Cambridge,
called The Hungry I.  I think it might have been part of a 
grassroots coffeehouse 'franchise', but I'm not sure.  I used
to play guitar there every night, soon falling into the life
of a full time musician...  a path I followed for the next 20
years.

The 70s seemed like a long extension of the 60s for me here in
New England. I moved back to New Hampshire - a more populated
area than before, but still pretty rural, and continued my
musical career, playing clubs and local concerts 5 nights a
week.  Maybe it was the life of a musician, maybe it was the
time warp that rural America imposes, maybe it was a
combination of both, but it took until around 1982 for the
60s and 70s to wear off and I began to think about something
beyond today.  Oh, well...  I guess I'm just a late bloomer.

Here are some things I remember experiencing in those days;

1961 thru 1965 - Beatnick coffeehouses (My Mother was a
closet 'beat) where there was always someone named Big Daddy
and they really did snap their fingers instead of clapping
their hands for a performance.  I smelled pot for the first
time at one of these places.  I also met Timothy Leary (who
was introduced to my Mother as a prospective 'date'.  They
never did go out together).

1966 & 1967 - Sunset Strip at night.  Spoon necklaces on
hippies wandering the Strip.  Hullabaloo Afterhours where I
saw the Animals, the Kinks, Nickelbag of Soul, Paul Revere and
the Raiders and lots more.  Pacific Ocean Park and some of the
most dangerous amusement park rides you could ever imagine.

1968 - Rural New Hampshire.  Cows, deer, chipmunks, farmland,
mountains, snow (cold stuff!), downhill skiing (fun!), manual
labor (chainsaws, logging trucks and the like), The Four
Freshmen in concert, also Roger Miller and the Tijuana Brass.
Wahoo!  <g>

1969 - Much the same as 1968, long and grey.

1970 - 7 days at the Strawberry Fields concert at the Mosport
Speedway near Toronto, Canada.  Boston.  Panhandlers everywhere.
Free concerts in Boston Common every weekend.  The inside of
the beginnings of a long succession of nightclubs where I 
played.  A tipi closeup - it was owned, and lived in by a 
guitar player I worked with.  He lived there year-round...
in -30 degree weather in winter!

It seems to me that the 70s were a makeup time for those who 
missed out on Woodstock.  Many parties.  Many, many parties. <g>
The decade ended with this country bogged down in overt
consumerism and plagued by cocaine use. It was then that I
became convinced I had made the right decision... that I had
stayed in rural America, rather than going back to my roots
and riding the 'A Train to Personal Disaster" like so many of
my contemporaries.

Later Dude,

Gary, NH

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                           COOL LINKS

EYE-DYE - Some of the hippest tie-dye t-shirts in the free world.
Drop In: <http://www.eye-dye.com>

Internet Underground Music Archive - A great selection of music
from many diverse groups of musicians. GREAT SITE!
Drop In: <http://www.iuma.com>

HIPPYLAND - in their own words - "This is the place for old
hippies, new hippies, web hippies, amnesiac hippies, cyber
hippies, etc. Here you can tune-in, turn-on and drop"dead".
You can find anything you need here from astral travel to
Zeppelin. Just trip around our web space, you never know what
you'll find.... So take your sandals off and enjoy the grass. 
Drop In: <http://www.hippy.com/index.html>

Ticketmaster Online - Visitors can learn about more than 25,000
events and 1,000 major venues.
Drop In: <http://www.ticketmaster.com/>

Burning Man Festival:

Burning Man Home Page - Not real sure how to describe this site?
The Burning Man Festival is an annual event staged on the great
Nevada desert. It is billed as the ultimate anarchist party.
This year's event was visited by up to 16,000 people. Practically
overnight this event became the 6th largest town in Nevada.
Drop In: <http://www.burningman.com>

Burning Man on the Web - This site has the most complete
collection of links to other Burning Man sites. If you want to
know more about this great project, this is the place to start.
Drop In: <http://www.nepenthes.com/Burning/burning.html>

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An old (environmentally friendly) toilet use motto:

If it's yellow, let it mellow.
If it's brown, flush it down.

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