“1970’s Record Store Album Divider Cards L-Z” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

Experience 1970’s Record Store Culture

The Record Store Album Divider Cards in the photo are original unrestored heavy-duty thick 12” by 14″ plastic alphabetized archival artifacts from the early-to-mid 1970’s.

For a quick in-depth overview of the 1970’s Classic Rock Era of Record Stores as Counter-Culture Churches, and the Divider Cards’ purpose as literal touchstones of a Culture, check out: Record Store Culture and Divider Card Artifacts A – K and Vinyl Rises From The Grave! and The Issue Of Digital vs Analog!

In the meantime . .
as a ’70s L.A. Record Store Manager and Record Rack Jobber, 00individual had many strange and wonderful tales during a time when anything was possible.  The “Leaders” had yet to grasp what was brewing, and a strange brew it was, for them, not for the Counter-Culture who embraced strange experiences.

During the early ’70s the “sophistication” of the Hippie Drug Culture and Psychedelia permeated and influenced nearly every level of life, and why not? It added a little colorful, introspective, extraordinary fun into peoples’ lives. The psychedelic acceptance was reflected in newspapers, magazines, TV ads and TV shows, fashion, movies, interior design, journalism, architecture, car design, and even with freeform variations on the Bohemian life-style.

Debt to Psychonauts

Those pioneers and psychonauts who explored cosmic lands returned with abilities beyond those of mortal men and took the sights, sounds, and sensations they experienced and created new levels of expression in art, literature, dance, performance, design, and music. This emergence of creativity righteously resonated with Counter-Culturists, Rockers, Free Spirits, and Music Lovers who were just dying to hear sounds and see images that equaled their own phantasmagoric audio and visual experiences.

This is a strange dichotomy when one considers that the actual sight and sound fun that people take for granted today was built upon ideas, creations, and manifestations of people and amazing artists who were demonized and criminalized for deciding to take the plunge, to drop a tab, and to see what was out there.

After experiencing expanded consciousness many explorers expressed themselves through recorded music with album cover art created by other explorers.  These explorers were visual artists, and upon their return from alternate realities and visionary views were obsessed with imagery and getting it down on a 12″ by 12″ cardbord LP cover.

Eventually these audio and visual, vinyl and cardbord, shrink-wrapped albums would find their way alphabetized in between Record Store Album Divider Cards; as shown in the header photo.

1970’s Top 23 Album Cover Art

QUATERMASS – QUATERMASS – May 1970
Pterodactyls in the city – cool. Nice perspective.

DEEP PURPLE – IN ROCK – June 3, 1970
Classic title choice. “In Rock”, easy concept. but they got there first.

SANTANA – ABRAXAS – September 1970
Perfect imagery for the music inside.

PETER GREEN – THE END OF THE GAME – December 1970
This album needed to be approached like the Leopard on the cover –
with a keen sense of appreciation – as these tracks could eat you up!

SAVOY BROWN – LOOKING IN – 1970
A great Jack Davis/Bubble Gum Monster Cards homage of the early ’60s.

AMON DUUL II
DANCE OF THE LEMMINGS – March 1971
PSYCHEDELIC!

The ROLLING STONES
STICKY FINGERS – April 23, 1971
This vinyl LP and this cover are why the Rolling Stones are the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band!

FUNKADELIC – MAGGOT BRAIN – July 1971
Sometimes ya jus’ gotta let it out!

The WHO – WHO’S NEXT – August 1971
Baptizing the Monolith!

ZAPPA/MOTHERS – 200 MOTELS – October 4, 1971
ZAPPAMANIA!

PINK FLOYD – MEDDLE  – October 30, 1971
An underwater ear – and the sounds that go with it.

TRAFFIC – LOW SPARK OF HIGH-HEELED BOYS
November 1971
A fun surreal cover that was made even more so with cut corners.

DEEP PURPLE – MACHINE HEAD – March 1972

“In Rock” – carved in stone. “Machine Head” – stamped in metal. Get the message?
That’s right, Heavy Metal Rock!

APHRODITE’S CHILD – 666 – June 1972

It gets one’s attention.

DAVID BOWIE
The RISE and FALL of ZIGGY STARDUST and the SPIDERS FROM MARS – June 6, 1972
Looking like a hand-tinted print (maybe it was) the lighting, street, and the sky create a beautiful grungy atmospheric effect, perfect for Ziggy.

NEKTAR – A TAB IN THE OCEAN – December 1972
Surreal and Psychedelic Art done masterfully and displayed in art museums of the mind.

PINK FLOYD – DARK SIDE OF THE MOON – March 1, 1973
A simple design became well-known world-wide

DAVID BOWIE – ALADDIN SANE – April 13, 1973The one true iconic image to represent the entire 1970s.

GOLDEN EARRING – MOONTAN – July 1973

Burlesque in Outer Space evidenced by the creamy pale Moontan of the Dancer.

ROBIN TROWER
TWICE REMOVED FROM YESTERDAY – 1973
The the mood of the covers went through the cardboard and paper sleeve and into the vinyl!

SENSATIONS’ FIX – Fragments of Light – 1974A mysterious image to match the surreal music inside.

The TUBES – the TUBES – June, 1975
Tubular font – Glam red nail polish and clear plastic bracelet – anarchistic Punk attitude.
W.P.O.D!

The GRATEFUL DEAD – BLUES FOR ALLAH
September 1, 1975Fiddle me this. No, really.

For fun here are some samples of the popular artists and bands and their albums that filled the bins of the early-to-mid ’70s record stores and music / record departments of major department stores –
L through Z:

L – Led Zeppelin – IV, Loggins & Messina – Sittin’ In, Little Feat – Sailin’ Shoes, Lynyrd Skynyrd – Second Helping
M – Van Morrisson – Moondance, Moody Blues – A Question of Balance, Lee Michaels – Barrel
N – Nektar – Remember The Future, Nazareth – Hair Of The Dog, New Riders of the Purple Sage – Powerglide, New York Dolls – New York Dolls
O – Michael Oldfield – Tubular Bells, Osibisa – Heads
P – Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of The Moon,, Procol Harem – Broken Barricades, Poco – Poco, The Partridge Family – The Partridge Family Album
Q – Queen – Queen, Quatermass – Quatermass, Quicksilver Messenger Service – What About Me
R – The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St., Ramones – Ramones
S – Sly & The Family Stone – There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Santana – Abraxas, Savoy Brown – Looking In,
T – T. Rex – Electric Warrior, Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die, The Tubes – The Tubes
U – Uriah Heep – Demons and Wizards, UFO – Force It
V – Velvet Underground – Loaded
W – The Who – Who’s next, War – All Day Music
X – X-Ray Spex – Germfree Adolescents
Y – Yes – Fragile, Neil Young – Harvest
Z – ZZ TOP – First Album, Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy

Of the Record Album Divider Cards pictured in the header photo above,
there are two that are suspiciously missing; X and whY.

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The 00INDIVIDUAL GIF(T) COLLECTION: 2012 – 2018

Over the last few years 00individual has accrued a nice little collection of GIFs which he created as header artwork for various posts and is making them available for viewing all in one post.
Additionally, most gifs have a link to their subject matter for further fun.

So, here ’tis:

All gifs created and copyright 2012 – 2018 00individual  TLL

Winter 1970 Hippie Acid Road Trip: L.A., CA to Aspen, CO and The Race Back!

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TOP 30 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1960′s & 1970’s ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK ALBUMS

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Mind-Blower #21  –  late 1970 “PRETTY COOL POT RETURNS!

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Hippie Pentagon Levitation – October 21, 1967

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TOP 79 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970s ROCK ALBUMS

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BEACH PAD ON ACID

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VANILLA FUDGE – August 1967

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DAVID BOWIE – ALADDIN SANE – April 13, 1973 

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MOODY BLUES – DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED

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“69”

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RICHARD HARRIS – “MACARTHUR PARK”

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TOP 23 HISTORIC AND CLASSIC ’60S AND ’70S ROCK ALBUMS

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ARGENT – I AM THE DANCE OF AGES – 1972

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Top 13 HALLOWE’EN Album Track Gems

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TOP 79 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970s ROCK ALBUMS

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HENDRIX

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives  “The Vibe” – The Counter Culture’s Cosmic Unity

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 TONIO K. – “THE FUNKY WESTERN CIVILIZATION”

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Top 13 Historic & Classic Psychedelic Albums 1967

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 RICHARD WRIGHT – “WAVES”

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MIND-BLOWER #16  –  late ’60s – MESCALINE’S MAGICK – Part One

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“Happy Little Xenomorph On Jello” 

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MIND-BLOWER #6 – Winter 1971 – SUPERNATURAL  SUPER  NATURAL

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MIND-BLOWER #20 . . . late-’60s thru mid-’70s . . . . LSD : LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE

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EXPERIENCE TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS!
MIND-BLOWER #17 – MID – ’70s
A PEEK BEHIND THE CURTAIN

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00individual is not responsible for this gif but includes it as a fun ending to this post.
PSYCHEDELIC HALLUCINATION ACTIVATOR
While the Psychedelic Activator locks into a steady double spiral on your viewing screen:
1. Pre-select a place in the vicinity of your viewing screen to focus your localized hallucination – such as a wall with bookshelves, a large painting or poster, a magazine page – experiment.
2. Position yourself no more than 12 inches from your screen; concentrate and stare at the very center of the spirals for a complete 30 seconds to get the full effect.
3. After 30 seconds, immediately move your eyes directly to your predetermined place of focus and see what Psychonauts see – living, breathing, boiling imagery – TRIPPY!

COSMIC

Experience A High-Point In ’60’s Culture

PEANUTS!

Among the many benefits 00individual experienced during the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s was to grow up with Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and Snoopy, and all of the Peanuts Gang of endearing characters created by Charles M. Schulz’ in his globally-loved phenomenally-successful “Peanuts” comic strip.

At the height of Peanuts’ popularity in the ’60s, as a then aspiring artist / cartoonist, 00individual’s appreciation of the strip transcended from the public’s universal appreciation of Snoopy’s adventures and the spirit that he represented, Charlie Brown’s attempts at fighting the good fight only to see that “no good deed goes unpunished”, Linus’ introspection of the world and life, and Lucy’s independent fussbudget personality.  00individual’s transcendent appreciation took on an almost reverence toward the Peanuts Gang.  He saw that while speaking about the times Schulz never was political or outspoken, however, he got many a point across through the simplest words and images that rang true to the hearts and minds of millions. These simple words and images are actually at the Jackson Pollack level in that every ink line and word is purposeful, in Schulz’ case, it was the exquisite art of economy.

Take a look at Linus in the first quarter panel below – he is perfect, every casual inked line is perfect, he is effortlessly walking, his exaggerated proportions are of a child, but an aware child, a child beyond his years. In the fourth quarter panel his head tilts down just enough to indicate thought of what was said.

Even though the Peanuts Gang are perpetually in Elementary School, their thoughts and ideas and adventures evoke the wisdom of the ages portrayed in the magical world of childhood.

“That Point When One Has Had Enough Of The Lies”

00individal collected all of the ’50’s and ’60’s paperback books of collected strips as they were released and read them over and over, and there was one six panel series that always stuck with him. It depicts the breaking point when the lies are just too much too ignore – lies that eventually make one sick – lies that eventually reveal the truth.

That breaking point was so clever and humorous in the way that it revealed and showed the propaganda used by so many people, groups, beliefs, parties, institutions, and governments that one deals with throughout one’s life that 00individual felt compelled to share this timely, and timeless, wit, wisdom, and talent of Charles M. Schulz.

It shouldn’t take long to connect the dots –
unfortunately there are so many dots to connect that it can become overwhelming.
So before letting the insanity get to you remember that good ol’ saying:

“Life is a Comedy to those who Think, a Tragedy to those who Feel.”

. . . and an entertaining intelligent emotional Trip to those who do both.

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“00individual Easter Bunny Celebrates April 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

The year 1968 was to be a very bold step away from the Summer Of Love serendipity of 1967.  While still wildly psychedelic, life’s rainbow colors would soon bring deep, dark ominous tones to the front of the spectrum. The unthinkable would happen again, and again.

As a mid-term student 00individual began the 12th grade in the first quarter of 1968. At seventeen his world was a swirl of the freedom of his own car, girlfriends, Marijuana (eventually Psychedelics), a part-time job, incredibly fun weekends – and the social experiment that was high school.  At this point 00individual’s mind had been opened to a whole new way of seeing the world through a “lens of importance” that helped define priorities.  School was no longer a place of academic learning, instead it became a place for social interaction that would ultimately far outweigh the benefits that academics could supply in real-world situations where street-wise knowledge was needed.

APRIL 1968!

There were three distinct cultural events that took place during April 1968 that have become everlasting important historic impressions that still influence, and have created discussion every day since.

1) The film “2001 A Space Odyssey” became a Quasi-Trip Counter-Culture must see.  This was a mind-bender and not just for the Psychedelic Head Trip Visual Ending, but for the filmed reality of space flight to back up the underlying mystery of life itself.
2) The nation had been numb since JFK’s asassination in 1963 with only time to heal those wounds, when on April 3rd another beloved leader was shot down; Civil Rights Leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was asassinated.  Things were getting ugly.
3) “Hair: the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” was a celebration of the Counter-Culture centered around the zeitgeist theme; “Make Love Not War”.  Along with the top ten songs, the important current societal issues, and the popularity of the Broadway show that triggered performances around the world; the free-spirit of “Hair” paved the way for new attitudes toward theater – and life.

April was a huge month on every level. Dig it.

Happenings:
Apr 2 The Beatles form Python Music Ltd
Apr 2 Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
Apr 2 “2001: A Space Odyssey” story by sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
Apr 3 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
Apr 3 “Planet of the Apes” United States wide premiere
Apr 4 Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned
Apr 4 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
Apr 6 With EMI getting impatient for another record and the ‘new’ quartet clear that they would carry on without their founder, an announcement was made to the press that Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd had parted company.
Apr 8 Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000
Apr 9 Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta
Apr 10 “George M!” opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
Apr 10 40th Academy Awards: “In the Heat of the Night”, Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win
Apr 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 11 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
Apr 12 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah
Apr 14 First NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
Apr 18 178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
Apr 18 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
Apr 18 Mart Crowley’s “Boys in the Band” premieres in NYC
Apr 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Apr 24 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
Apr 24 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 26 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
Apr 26 US underground nuclear test, “Boxcar,” 1 megaton device
Apr 27 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
Apr 29 “Hair” premeires on Braoadway at the Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances

Let’s Rock:
Apr 3 – Simon & Garfunkel -Bookends
In a weird way, Bookends served as a prescient album that echoed the mood of 1968.  Side one of this concept album dealt with stages of life with the standout track “America”. Side two was enigmatic, a perfectly rare set of album tracks that capture a moment in history when songs like these elicited the heights of what the power of voice and lyric can achieve. Besides the mini-anthem”Fakin’ It”, and the  playful “Punky’s Dilemma”, S & G delivered some heavy Rock with “Mrs. Robinson”, “A Hazy Shade of Winter”, and “At the Zoo”.
Apr 3 – Moby Grape – double LP – Wow/Grape Jam
Apr 6 – Cilla Black – Sher-oo!
Apr 8 – Merle Haggard – The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde
Apr 19 – The Zombies – Odessey and Oracle
Apr 22 – The Monkees – The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees
Apr 27 – Sly & the Family Stone – Dance to the Music
Apr 29 – The Temptations – The Temptations Wish It Would Rain
Booker T and The MG’s – Doin’ Our Thing
Tiny Tim – God Bless Tiny Tim
James Brown – I Got the Feelin’
Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of the Mind
Spanky and Our Gang – Like to Get to Know You
Spanky’s vocals counter-point the male choruses, and the lead male vocal is sublime – and then there’s that righteous coda.
Linda Ronstadt – Stone Poneys and Friends Vol. III
1910 Fruitgum Company – Simon Says
Eric Burdon & The Animals – The Twain Shall Meet

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending April 20, 1968:
1 HONEY – Bobby Goldsboro (United Artists)
2 YOUNG GIRL – The Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett (Columbia)
3 CRY LIKE A BABY – The Box Tops (Mala)
4 LADY MADONNA – The Beatles (Capitol)
5 (Sweet Sweet Baby) SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
6 (Sittin’ On) THE DOCK OF THE BAY – Otis Redding (Volt)
7 THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE – Georgie Fame (Epic)
8 DANCE TO THE MUSIC – Sly and the Family Stone (Epic)
9 I GOT THE FEELIN’ – James Brown and the Famous Flames (King)
10 MIGHTY QUINN (Quinn the Eskimo) – Manfred Mann (Mercury)
11 SCARBOROUGH FAIR (Canticle) – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
12 LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU – The Delfonics (Philly Groove)
13 VALLERI – The Monkees (Colgems)
14 IF YOU CAN WANT – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Tamla)
15 LOVE IS BLUE – Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra (Philips)
16 SUMMERTIME BLUES – Blue Cheer (Philips)
17 PLAYBOY – Gene and Debbe (TRX)
18 COWBOYS TO GIRLS – The Intruders (Gamble)
19 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – Hugo Montenegro, Orchestra/Chorus (RCA Victor)
20 THE UNICORN – The Irish Rovers (Decca)

April Movies:
April 2 – The Scalphunters
April 3 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
April 4 – The Party
The Party was a hoot with the genius of Peter Sellers on full display.
Fired as an extra from a movie set when he causes a disasterous and costly “accident” he is mistakenly invited to a swinging Hollywood party at the mansion home of the movie producer that fired him. Like a magnet for mayhem, Sellers’ mostly improvised interactions with the guests serve as an amazingly funny and continuously amusing journey through the escalating happenings one night at The Party.
April 10 – Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
April 10 – Will Penny
April 24 – Yours, Mine and Ours

After cosmic upgrades and modifications at the underground Secret Garage and R & D Labs,
the Psychedelic Train takes off into 1968 space to commune with the 2001 A Space Odyssey StarChild.

“The Psychedelic Train Communes With The 2001 A Space Odyssey StarChild.”
copyright 2018 00individual TLL

Next stop May 1968!
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1967 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November

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HEY, HOLLYWOOD!

The vast consensus reveals that Hollywood is depressingly uninspired, relying on comic book superheroes, endless sequels, boring tentpoles, fanciful no fun universes, miserable retreads of vintage television series, and horribly miscalculated “reinventions” of classic beloved movies.

So, 00individual has a solution that will relieve Hollywood of the agony of creative thought!
Grab the rights to any of the following songs to create a decent; and by decent 00individual means nothing less than an engaging, fun, entertaining, audio and visual mind-bending film experience.

’60’s and ’70’s
Top 13 Rock Song Movie Potentials
Part One:

“The Boxer” – Simon and Garfunkel
(Although the song serves as a metaphor; it therefore makes for a great real character-driven film)
“In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the remainders Of every glove that laid him down  And cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame “I am leaving, I am leaving” But the fighter still remains.”

“Cowboy Movie” – David Crosby
(word for word the song sells itself)
“Now I’m dying here in Albuquerque I must be the sorriest sight you ever saw You know the reason I’m the only man here to tell it . . .”

“Ce Soir” – Golden Earring
(Great Rock ‘n’ Roll noir thriller)
“Sing your song, you can’t go wrong No need for alarm Attempted his business adviser You’ll come to no harm He didn’t mention the sniper Ce soir, Ce soir.”

“Positively 4th Street” / “Like a Rolling Stone” – Bob Dylan
(Karma with a real-time body switch, à la Freaky Friday, only a mind-bender.)
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I could be you Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes You’d know what a drag it is to see you.” “How does it feel? To hang out on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?”

“1983… (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)” – Jimi Hendrix
(The cosmic transition back to existing within liquid, like everyone has done for 9 months before birth.)
“So my darling and I make love in the sand to salute the last moment ever on dry land our machine has done its work played its part well without a scratch on our bodies and we bid it farewell starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile before our heads go under we take a last look at the killing noise of the out of style… the out of style, out of style.”

“Born on the Bayou” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
(A righteous supernatural Bayou mystery.)
“And I can remember the fourth of July, Runnin’ through the backwood, bare. And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin’, Chasin’ down a hoodoo there.”

“Wooden Ships” – Crosby, Stills, Nash
(Apocalyptic survivors.)
I can see by your coat, my friend You’re from the other side There’s just one thing I got to know Can you tell me please, who won?

Tumbleweed Connection album – Elton John
(A treasure trove of tracks that are immediate movie potentials)
“Ballad of a Well-Known Gun”,  “Country Comfort”,  “Son of Your Father”, “My Father’s Gun”, “Where to Now St. Peter?”,  “Talking Old Soldiers”, “Burn Down the Mission”.  Whew!

“Livin’ In The USA” – Steve Miller
(What Steve said then is true now. Exploit it, in a good way – what way is that?)
“I see a yellow man, a brown man, A white man, a red man Lookin’ for Uncle Sam To give you a helpin’ hand But everybody’s kickin’ sand Even politicians We’re living in a plastic land Somebody give me a hand, yeah.”

“Riders On The Storm” – The Doors
(Leave it to The Doors to deliver the horror/thriller/supernatural entry.)
“Into this house we’re born  Into this world we’re thrown Like a dog without a bone  An actor out on loan, Riders on the S torm. There’s a killer on the road His brain is squirmin’ like a toad Take a long holiday Let your children play If you give this man a ride Sweet family will die Killer on the road.”

“The Heart of Saturday Night” – Tom Waits
(. . . what if one found the Heart of Saturday Night?)
“And you got paid on Friday, your pockets are jingling Then you see the lights and you get all tingling Cause you’re cruising with a six You’re looking for the heart of Saturday night Then you comb your hair, you shave your face Trying to wipe out every trace Of all the other days in the week You know that this’ll be the Saturday you’re reaching your peak.”

“Voodoo Chile” – Jimi Hendrix
(Psychedelic adventures of a Voodoo Chile.)
“Say, I make love to you in your sleep, And lord knows you felt no pain (Have mercy) ‘Cause I’m a million miles away And at the same time I’m right here in your picture frame (Yeah! What did I say now) ‘Cause I’m a voodoo chile Lord knows, I’m a voodoo chile (yeah!).”

“Sally Go ‘Round The Roses” – The Jaynetts (the Original Hammond Organ Version)
(Drug use, madness, suicide, murder, lesbianism, “illegitimate” child, posession, or the supernatural?
To this day it’s all a mystery. If someone can capture the haunting quality of this song  – there is at the very least the potential for major cult film status.)
“Sally baby cry, let your hair hang down Sit and cry where the roses grow You can sit and cry, not a soul will know.”

Granted there are some movies already with these titles, and some scenarios and plotlines may seem familiar, BUT helmed with the right creativity these could all be refreshing newly-minted gems.

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As a Los Angeles Native who lived through the Golden Age of Hollywood, whose Father worked at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Culver City Studios as a Cinetechnician, and who enjoyed the Movie Culture all of his life, 00individual is doing his part to strive for a film industry based once again on “Ars Gratia Artis” (Art For Arts Sake; M.G.M.’s motto) for the benefit of Hollywood’s survival and for a return to a much-needed “New Hollywood” where entertainment, not politics, is celebrated and rewarded by everyone.

However, if none of the above inspire the Suits, then there is always
the Best Unproduced Property in Hollywood waiting for a greenlight: Click on above logo for a mind-bending experience.
KARMA OUTLAWS: A MOVIE THAT PUSHES NOTHING –
EXCEPT THE LIMITS!
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STEVE MILLER BAND – ANTHOLOGY
Capitol SVBB-71114

This two record set compilation includes hits from 1968 to 1972, before Steve Miller concocted the perfect recipe for extremely successful ’70’s Pop Rock Hits.

After Steve Miller’s eventful musical childhood that included family friend Les Paul, the “Steve Miller Blues Band” made its way from Texas through Chicago and then out on the West Coast to become one of the highlights of the San Francisco Sound of the mid-to-late ’60s as the “Steve Miller Band”.

Steve Miller always delivered a ear-pleasing balance of supreme Rock and exquisite Ballads; but it was when he took off and let loose that Miller clicked with Rockers and Psychonauts. His songs aligned with the Psychedelic Vibe: Living In The U.S.A. – 1968, Song For Our Ancestors – 1968, Space Cowboy – 1969, Going To Mexico – 1970, and the totally righteous Jackson-Kent-Blues – 1970 were mini-anthems that totally Rocked and went straight to the core of the Best of the ’60s and ’70s Classic Rock.

ANTHOLOGY
Side 1:  “I Love You” (Miller) – 2:46,  “Going To The Country” (Miller, Sidran) – 3:14,  “Baby’s House” (Hopkins, Miller) – 8:07,  “Kow Kow Calculator” (Miller) – 4:26
Side 2:  “Your Saving Grace” (Davis, Miller, Sidran) – 4:50,  “Going To Mexico” (Miller, Scaggs) – 2:29,  “Space Cowboy” (Miller, Sidran) – 4:55,  “Living In The U.S.A.” (Miller) – 4:06
Side 3:  “Journey From Eden” (Miller) – 6:25,  “Seasons” (Miller, Sidran) – 3:51,  “Motherless Children” (Traditional) – 4:22,  “Never Kill Another Man” (Miller) – 2:44
Side 4:  “Don’t You Let Nobody Turn You Around” (Miller) – 2:29,  “Little Girl” (Miller) – 3:24, “Celebration Song” (Miller, Sidran) – 2:32,  “My Dark Hour” (Miller) – 3:08

Steve Miller – guitar, vocals, harmonica, bass,  Boz Scaggs – vocals, guitar, Tim Davis – vocals, drums, percussion, Ben Sidran – piano, keyboards, Lonnie Turner – organ, James Curley Cook – guitar, Buddy Spicher – violin,  Charlie McCoy – harmonica,  Nicky Hopkins – piano, organ,  Richard Thompson – piano, organ,  James Peterman – organ, vocals, Lee Michaels – organ,  Gerald Johnson – organ,    Bob Winkelman – bass, Gary Mallaber – drums,  Glyn Johns – vocals, Paul McCartney on backing vocals, drums, guitar and bass guitar on “My Dark Hour” and he performed additional backing vocals on “Celebration Song”.

STEVE MILLER BAND Top 13

Living In The U.S.A. – Miller* – 4:04 – 1968
Song For Our Ancestors – Miller* – 6:00 – 1968
Quicksilver Girl – Miller* – 2:43 – 1968
Dear Mary – 3:34 – 1968
My Dark Hour – Miller* – 3:09 – 1969
Your Saving Grace – Davis* – 4:50 – 1969
Space Cowboy – Sidran*, Miller* – 4:57 – 1969
Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around – Miller* – 2:30 – 1969
Going To Mexico – Scaggs*, Miller* – 2:28 – 1970
Jackson-Kent-Blues – Miller* – 7:18 – 1970
Evil – Miller* – 4:36 – 1973
The Joker – Ertegun*, Curtis*, Miller* – 4:25 – 1973
Fly Like An Eagle – Miller – 3:20 – 1976

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1970’s PCP ADVENTURES

00individual was living out of his suitcase after saving up from an art department job that he quit after a year and a half. He got the job at 19 after a very short stint in junior college after high school graduation in February 1969.

Rounding the very memorable psychedelic spring, summer and fall bend of 1970, 00individual and friends were experiencing the new body and mind bender PCP, also known as Angel Dust.

Phencyclidin (PCP) is a dissociative anesthetic, but this was not the superhuman maniac PCP/Angel Dust popularized in the media, no, this was the original “good stuff”.  This early strain was a very fun, goofy, spacey, tactile-intensive, sensory-distorting, time-warping, laughter-causing sound-enhancing mind-bender. The “Rocket Fuel” strain came later and that was it for 00individual.

It all started in the early summer of 1970 when he received a phone call from a fellow dope fiend who told him to get to Doctor Dean’s pad as he had some Pretty Cool Pot.  Being that this was during the ever-evolving very fun period of drug experimentation, he need not say more, 00individual was there!

Once he arrived he went to the back room where he came upon a half dozen known zombies and was immediately offered a toke of a joint that was being passed around.  He took a long slow drag of the strangely-tasting herb and inhaled deeply and before he finished passing the joint he was beginning to feel its effects. He was slowly melding with the piano bench he was sitting on as it began to move up the side of the room’s wall.  By the time the joint came back around he was half way up the side of the wall!  This was too cool!  He took another hit and a peaceful feeling of pure ambivalence overtook him, but he was in full control – other than being part of a wooden bench that was attached halfway up the side of the wall.

After some mutual giggling with the other zombies, he somehow detached himself when Doctor Dean told him he was going to Hawaii in a few days and wanted to know if  he wanted to purchase some of his PCP stash, 00individual said yes and thus began the beginning of a very memorable psychedelic summer and winter. This stuff was potent just a very little sprinkled on a joint was enough to allow a small group a hit or two each to gain entrance to Wonderland.

A good friend’s parents were away for the summer so 00individual crashed at his not-too-far-from-the-beach house and celebrated their Lords of the Manor dominion by lacing a joint with 00individual’s new stash of PCP.  Since his house was also situated not far from the Los Angeles International Airport, they could hear the jet airliners fire up their engines in preparation for takeoff; this sound was the equivalent to “Vacuum Cleaners in the Sky”. They were having so much fun that they wanted to share this high with all of their close friends and decided to throw a party that coming weekend.

But first they had an exciting concert to attend on Wednesday; Ten Years After and Grand Funk Railroad at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood on July 22, 1970.  On their way they stopped by a friend’s and got him and his friend so dusted on PCP that they couldn’t get out of their chairs. They left them reaching out for help – they were in no danger and recount fondly to this day on their bizarre experiences.

00individual and friends had great seats for the concert and decided to drop some Double Dome Acid on top of the waning PCP. They met up with their usual group of Rock Fiends and were witness to a true unplanned World Class Battle of the Bands.

That weekend at the manor the more devout and eager drug fiends had begun to arrive early to partake in the evenings’ festivities.  By this time 00individual was starting to have a Tarzan swing from tree-to-tree connection of PCP weirdness peppered with the acid from the concert and never really had come down since his first introduction at Doctor Dean’s. Not to worry, all good things come to an end and he knew that it was just a matter of time before he’d eventually come down and be back to the real world.

As the house filled with partiers who were slowly, or rather quickly, experiencing the fun-filled bizarreness that this drug provided, 00individual was in a back room with his then girlfriend and his friend and as they sat on the floor the house felt as if it were levitating about 5 feet off the ground. And for some reason they were all wearing different hats that were laying about the room, and as they passed around a PCP laced joint, a new level of truly bizarre things began to happen.

Just like with Alice, his two friends were beginning to grow and he watched as his girlfriend went right through the roof like in Jack in the Beanstalk and all he could see was her “tree-trunk” bare leg! Before he could comprehend what was happening they began to shrink back down, thankfully, until they continued shrinking and disappeared into the shag rug carpet!

The next thing he knew another buddy of theirs was at the door and said they’d better come see this. They all got up as if nothing happened and proceeded down the hall.  As they peered into the living room from the hallway they could see a small group of people doing different things. One guy was teaching his dog (a girl) tricks (she thought she was a dog) and others were spacing out, when down from the kitchen hallway came a guy who thought he was a plane and started flying in circles around them.

00individual continued to the kitchen and when he leaned his arm against the wall, the wall sunk in like foam. He could press into the wall and leave a hand-print and then it would recede back flat.  Although this new high was semi-incapacitating, after somewhat getting used to its rubbery distorting influence he found that he had become its master and could operate heavy machinery, like a car.

For some reason he found himself the volunteer driver for a liquor store run. This was really fun as the steering wheel became huge like an old time cartoon steering wheel and the seats seemed to drag on the asphalt as he could barely see the road through his new extremely low-rider position. Cruising took on a real-time “truckin’” atmosphere as everything was rubbery and swooshing in a slow motion speed but relative to his actions, so all was cool.

The next morning of going into the fourth day of Pretty Cool Pot shenanigans, a good buddy showed up with his converted-into-a-home step van with the invite to go on a road trip up north. 00individual felt that this would be a good opportunity to come down; as he was feeling that the effects were lasting or staying with him longer than he expected.  His vision was kinda tunneled and he was still experiencing Rubber World sensations.

The Driver was his best friend at the time and they had rented places together, beach pads and alley joints over the years and had taken several road trips too, so riding for several hours and smokin’ several joints and listening to music and not talking was highly enjoyable.

As they pulled into Santa Cruz and got more supplies, they also stopped at a totally cool but required for the times, Hippie bookstore, with Hippie posters and big sofa couches, incense, and rockin’ over the speakers was Free’s “All Right Now”. As 00individual browsed the aisles he came across Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” and sat in a big sofa and started reading.  Soon he realized that this was some heavy shit – and at the same time that it must be some long version of  “All Right Now” that he had never heard before because it felt like it had been on for at least a half hour.

The PCP was not letting go. Everything was still distorted in little ways; objects felt over-sized and somewhat spongy, there was a constant ethereal echo – of everything, of every sound; kinda like the swooshing echoey sounds heard on acid but more subtle, and still a little tunnel-vision. These weren’t bad side effects, just the slight headache that came with it was. However, he had to face the fact that this time he may have gone too far.

00individual bought the Velikovsky book and they got back on the road.  They lit up another joint as they headed into Big Basin National Forest.  The sunlight became less and less as they got deeper and deeper into the forest.  Soon they were in this rich natural forest domain with trees on either side of the road that towered and canopied the forest bed like a cathedral. The Driver pulled over and without saying a word to each other they answered Mother Nature’s call and instinctually nuded-up and ran through the lush blue-green slightly sunlight-sifted forest with the pine needles serving as nature’s carpet under their bare feet – for that moment they were Natives in a Primeval Forest.

After a spiritual “getting back to the Garden” experience they decided to head back for L.A. the next day. On the way back 00individual told the Driver about his condition and said that he’d resigned himself to this state. The Driver laughed.  00individual got it, the irony of finally going too far, but the Driver continued to chuckle.  Man, …” he said, “What do you think we been smokin’ all this time!”  00individual thought his pot tasted like PCP essence but attributed it to the lingering taste from the binge.  The Driver had also purchased some from Dr. Dean!

On the one hand 00individual was fairly angry; his friend had been dosing him since they left L.A.!  But on the other hand he was relieved – the cure was to stop the continual smoking of the Pretty Cool Pot.  He did and lived to tell the tale.

Jackson/Kent Blues: “The PCP Theme Song”

As the winter months set in Steve Miller’s righteous “Jackson-Kent Blues” track from his #5 album became their PCP theme song. It is an epic classic and was so good that one almost forgot it was a protest song about the killing of four students by the United States National Guard during student demonstrations against the Vietnam war at Kent State University in Ohio and two at Jackson State College, Mississippi by police..

After laying down the hard-rockin’ rant, Miller takes off on a classic hard rock space jam showing his Space Cowboy roots; complete with LSD-laced watery echoes with trailing, surging guitar wrangling and wah-wah wizardry throughout – it quickly became their fave background / foreground music for Pretty Cool Pot shenanigans any day of the week.

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00individual reminds anyone reading this that the above represents a moment in history when drug exploration was a integral part of the Counter-Culture.
Drugs were not taken to escape, they were taken to explore – other levels of thought, of human interaction, of creativity, of consciousness, of insight, of communication, and yes, other levels of fun.

PCP’s popular usage in the U.S. peaked in the 1970s –
as did most everything involving Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
(nostalgic sigh)

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HISTORIC 1960’s and 1970’s CARTOON TV SHOWS!

Crusader Rabbit was the first animated series produced specifically for television back in 1952 and ran up through the ‘60s and the ‘70s.

Once animation became affordable via the clever use of “limited” animation pioneered by Clark Haas’ “Clutch Cargo” and then perfected by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, TV cartoon shows flourished.

This gave many shows the opportunity to literally explore the imagination’s limits while staying within a fun and entertaining delivery during the prolific peak of the Classic ’60’s and ’70’s cartoon series’ reign.

The Beatles cartoon debuted in 1965 and ran for two years signaling the Rock Pop Psychedelic Mod Culture influence which became obvious in the wild colors used, the wacky show titles, the psychedelic landscapes and environments, and the highly-stylized crazy characters that populated them.

00individual admits to many, many hours watching nearly all of these cartoons as a kid and as a pre-teen. And then as a late-teen early twenty’s Psychonaut cartoons took on a campy bit of colorful zeitgeist candy with gems of intelligence to be found by the discerning eye and ear.  Back then, as now, cartoons were loaded with adult issues dressed in colorful costumes and crazy names skewed to the child in everyone. One learns of a great many important things through cartoons – not from the deliberately preached ones – but from the entertaining cause and effect ones.

This is a very condensed list that includes title, number of episodes, origin, and dates ran.
Titles in bold match the referenced images.

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse 130 US 1960–1962
Popeye the Sailor 220 US 1960–1962
The Flintstones 166 US 1960–1965
Davey and Goliath 72 US 1960–1965, 1971–1973 Stop-motion
King Leonardo and His Short Subjects 203 US 1960–1963 Mister Magoo 26 (+1 TV special) US 1960
Q.T. Hush 100 US 1960–1961
The Bugs Bunny Show US 1960–2000 Compilation show
The Nutty Squirrels Present 30 US 1960–1961
Supercar 26 UK 1960
The Alvin Show 78 US 1961–1962
Clyde Crashcup US 1961 The Alvin Show segment
Dudley Do-Right 38 US 1961–1970 Rocky and Bullwinkle
Top Cat 30 US 1961–1962
Calvin and the Colonel 26 US 1961–1962
The Dick Tracy Show 130 US 1961–1962
The Yogi Bear Show 33 US 1961–1962
Deputy Dawg 34 US 1962–1963
The Jetsons 75 US 1962–1963; 1985; 1987
Beany and Cecil 26 US 1962–1969
Space Angel 45 US 1962–1964
Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har 52 US 1962–1963 Touché Turtle and Dum Dum 52 US 1962–1963
Wally Gator 52 US 1962–1963
Snuffy Smith & Barney Google 27 US 1962
Fireball XL5 27 UK 1962 US on NBC (1963–1965)
The Mighty Hercules 128 US/Canada/Japan 1963–66
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales 70 US 1963–1966 Astro Boy 193 Japan 1963–1966
Hector Heathcote Show US 1963–1965
The New Casper Cartoon Show US 1963
Fractured Flickers US 1963–1964 Mixed live/cartoon
Space Patrol UK 1963
Bewitched 254 US 1964-1972
Jonny Quest 26 US 1964–1965
Hoppity Hooper 104 US 1964–1975
Underdog 124 US 1964–1967
Peter Potamus/Magic Balloon 27 US 1964-65
Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long 23 US 64-67
Punkin’ Puss & Mushmouse 23 US 1964–1967
The Porky Pig Show US 1964
Magilla Gorilla 31 US 1964–1967
Sugar Bear US 1964
Linus the Lionhearted US 1964–1969
Stingray UK 1964
Kimba the White Lion Japan 1965–1967
Space Ace Japan 1965–1966
Atom Ant 26 US 1965–1967
The Beatles UK/US/AUS 1965–1967
Milton the Monster US 1965–1967
Roger Ramjet 156 US 1965
Secret Squirrel 26 US 1965–1966
The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show 26 US 1965-66
The Hillbilly Bears 26 US 1965–1966
Squiddly Diddly 26 US 1965–1966
The New 3 Stooges 156 US 1965
Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt 86 US 1965–1966
Thunderbirds UK 1965
The King Kong Show 25 US/Canada/Japan 1966-69
Frankenstein Jr. 18 US 1966–1968
The Impossibles 18 US 1966–1968
Space Ghost 40 US 1966–1968
Dino Boy in the Lost Valley 20 US 1966–1968
Cool McCool 26 US 1966–1969
Batfink 100 US 1966–1967 The New Adventures of Superman 68 US 1966–1970
The Beagles US 1966
Space Kidettes 20 US 1966–1967
Laurel and Hardy 156 US 1966
The Road Runner Show US 1966
The Super 6 US 1966
The Lone Ranger US 1966
Mighty Heroes US 1966
Klondike Kat US 1966
Marvel Superheroes Show Canada 1966
Little Rascals Color Specials Japan 1966
George of the Jungle 17 US 1967
Journey to the Center of the Earth 17 US 1967–1969
Samson & Goliath 26 US 1967–1968
The Superman/Aquaman Hour 36 US 1967–1968
Abbott & Costello Cartoon Show 156 US 1967-68
The Herculoids 18 US 1967–1969
Shazzan 36 US 1967–1969
Birdman 40 US 1967–1969
Galaxy Trio 20 US 1967–1969
Spider-Man 52 US 1967-1970
Fantastic Four 20 US 1967–1968 Tom Slick US 1967
Mightor 36 US 1967–1968
Yakky Doodle US 1967
Moby Dick 18 US 1967–1968
Super Chicken 26 US 1967
Snagglepuss US 1967
Super President US 1967
Justice League of America US 1967 Superman US 1967
Teen Titans US 1967
The Atom US 1967 The Flash US 1967
Johnny Cypher/Dimension Zero US Japan 1967
Off To See The Wizard US 1967
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons UK 1967
Mach Go Go Go/Japan Speed Racer/U.S. 1967 Fantastic Voyage 17 US 1968
The Batman/Superman Hr. 34 US 1968–69
Aquaman 36 US 1968–1970
The Archie Show 34 US 1968–1970
GeGeGe no Kitaro 65 Japan 1968–1969
The Adventures of Gulliver US 1968
Wacky Races 34 US 1968–1969
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour 31 US 1968–1970 Also live action
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 20 US 1968–1969 Also live action
Go Go Gophers US 1968
Joe 90 UK 1968
Hot Wheels (TV series) 17 US 1969–1971
Sesame Street 4384 US 1969–present
Skyhawks 17 US 1969–1971 The Adventures of Batman 34 US 1969–1970
Dastardly & Muttley/Their Flying Machines 34 US 1969–1970
The Hardy Boys 34 US 1969–1971
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop 17 US 1969–1970
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 25 US 1969-70
Cattanooga Cats 9 US 1969–1971
Around the World in 79 Days 17 US 1969-71
Motormouse and Autocat 34 US 1969–1971
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch US 1969
Heckle and Jeckle US 1969
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse US 1969
The Pink Panther Show US 1969
Groovie Goolies 16 US 1970–1971
Harlem Globetrotters 22 US 1970–1971
Josie and the Pussycats 16 US 1970–1972
Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies US 1970
Family Classic Tales US 1970
Help!… It’s the Hair Bear Bunch! 16 US 1971–1973
The Funky Phantom 17 US 1971–1972
The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show 20 US 1971–1976
The Jackson 5ive US, UK, Spain, Japan 1971–1973
Archie’s TV Funnies 16 US 1971–1973
The Brady Kids 22 US 1972–1973
The ABC Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids 109 US 1972-84
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space 16 US 1972–74
The New Scooby-Doo Movies 24 US 1972–1974
The Osmonds 17 US 1972-1973
Sealab 2020 13 US 1972
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home 48 US 1972–1974
Lassie’s Rescue Rangers 15 US 1972–1973
Kid Power US 1972
The Addams Family 16 US 1973
Butch Cassidy 13 US 1973
Goober and the Ghost Chasers 16 US 1973
Inch High, Private Eye 13 US 1973
Jeannie 16 US 1973
My Favorite Martians 16 US 1973
Schoolhouse Rock! 78 US 1973–1985
Speed Buggy 16 US 1973-1973
Star Trek: The Animated Series 22 US 1973–1974
Super Friends 109 US 1973–1985
Yogi’s Gang 17 US 1973
Hong Kong Phooey 16 US 1974-1977
The New Adventures of Gilligan 24 US 1974–1975
Partridge Family 2200 A.D. 16 US 1974
Valley of the Dinosaurs 16 US 1974-1975
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch 13 US 1974
Undersea Adventures/Captain Nemo 78 Canada, US 1975–78
Fraidy Cat 18 US 1975–1976
The Great Grape Ape Show 16 US 1975–1978
The Oddball Couple 16 US 1975
Return to the Planet of the Apes 13 US 1975
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty 13 US 1975
The Tom and Jerry Show 48 US 1975
Paddington 56 UK 1975–1986
Clue Club 16 US 1976-1979
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder 20 US 1976–1977
Jabberjaw 16 US 1976-1978
The Scooby-Doo Show 40 US 1976–1978 The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour 16 US 1976
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 36 US 1976–1984
The Mumbly Cartoon Show 16 US 1976-1977
Captain Caveman & Teen Angels 40 US 1977-80
CB Bears 13 US 1977
Fred Flintstone and Friends 16 US 1977–1978 Block consisting of The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Jeannie, The Partridge Family in Outer Space, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, & Yogi’s Gang I Am the Greatest: Adventures/Muhammad Ali 13 US 1977
Laff-A-Lympics 24 US 1977–1978
The New Adventures of Batman 16 US 1977
The New Archie and Sabrina Hour 13 US 1977
The Robonic Stooges 32 US 1977–1978
Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics 16 US 1977-78
Block consisting of Laff-A-Lympics, The Scooby-Doo Show, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels, and The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.
Space Sentinels 13 US 1977
The All-New Super Friends Hour 15 US 1977
The Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour US 1977
Wonder Wheels 16 US 1977
Godzilla Power Hour 26 US, Japan 1978-81
Battle of the Planets 85 US, Japan 1978-85
The All-New Popeye Hour 35 US 1978–1983
Challenge of the Super Friends 16 US 1978
Fabulous Funnies 13 US 1978
Fangface 32 US 1978–1980
Jason of Star Command 28 US 1978–1981
The New Fantastic Four 13 US 1978
Tarzan and the Super 7 33 US 1978–1980 Also live-action.
Buford and the Galloping Ghost 13 US 1979
Casper and the Angels 13 US 1979
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon 32 US 1979–1980
The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse & Heckle & Jeckle
32 US 1979–1982
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo 16 US 1979–1980
Spider-Woman 16 US 1979–1980
The Super Globetrotters 13 US 1979
The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show 130 US 1979
The World’s Greatest Super Friends 8 US 1979The New Fat Albert Show US 1979

HISTORIC ’80’S CARTOON LICENSED TOYLINE UPROAR 

The 1980’s made cartoon history on two fronts: 1) The licensing of TV cartoon characters to be made into toys exploded to incredible heights with cartoon properties filling up the aisles of toy stores everywhere. 2) Complaints by the Action for Children’s Television (ACT), an out-of-touch and unofficial “spokesgroup” for the supposed protection of children from TV shows that they felt were actually half hour advertisements for licensed toys.

He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, ThunderCats, Care Bears, The Real Ghostbusters, Transformers, Inspector Gadget, Rainbow Brite, My Little Pony, Rubix Cube, Pac Man, and others were on their hit list.

In reality what they demonized was actually Heaven for any kid or anyone who appreciated current cartoon / animation art culture. This was something that 00individual wanted to see in 3D during his whole formative years. He was so frustrated in the dearth of tangible cartoon characters in action figure form that he made his own out of classic Pink Erasers. (H-B’s Baba Louie and Quick Draw McGraw).

The toys and action figures of favorite characters collected, and the hours of fun experienced, is appreciated even now by grown up children of the ’80s who overwhelmingly look back upon those times with the fondest of memories.

Eventually, ACT’s “act” fell apart at the seams and fun continued on without their interference.

Many animated series were very well done and delivered the goods; Inspector Gadget (great shadowing and depth blurring plus a really fun concept and a funny main character, and the 12″ Bandai toy figure is amazing), He-Man Masters of the Universe (an iconic heroic fantasy with great characters and a great toyline), and The Real Ghostbusters; a show that was actually very witty and funny. The Ghostbusters “powers that be” should have expanded on any one of the excellent cartoon scripts for the so eagerly awaited Ghostbusters 3, but alas . . . this will never be.

And while on the subject:

GHOSTBUSTERS 3 / BILL MURRAY RANT

Ghostbusters 3 with the original cast could have been filmed at any time up to Harold Ramis’ death, they had the scripts, but it didn’t happen, and 00individual blames this “disappointment of a generation” squarely on Bill Murray.  The “Oscar nominated star” was above it all – it had to be the perfect script for the “star”. Any Ghostbusters 3 would have been better than nothing – it wouldn’t have been horrible – unless it was an unfunny all female cast.

To extinguish the sour ecto-plasm that is Bill Murray, let’s enjoy a few streams from the proton pack of movie-worthy random quotes from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon show:

Egon Spengler: Notice the vacant stare, the completely mindless look. That could only mean one thing.
Winston Zeddemore: She’s from California?
Egon Spengler: No. She’s been hypnotized.

Peter Venkman: This is not fun! I’ve had fun! This isn’t it!

Man: Would you be Mr. Raymond Stantz?
Egon Spengler: No, not by choice.

[Peter and Egon are going to search for a troll in the Holland Tunnel]
Ray Stantz: [shouting] Remember there could be giant ants, like in Santa Clara, in 1950!
[Egon backs the car up and Peter rolls down the window]
Peter Venkman: Not funny.

Peter Venkman: It’s times like this that I wish I’d listened to what my dad used to tell me.
Winston Zeddemore: Yeah? What was that?
Peter Venkman: I don’t know. I never listened.

Man: I’d like to welcome you to the studio.
Ray Stantz: Wow! This is really fantastic! It looks just like the real thing!
Man: That’s why we wanted you here to advise us, make sure we’re doing it right. After-all, this is your life story.
Peter Venkman: No problem. As long as you got the right people to play us. Admit it, Redford was dying to play me, right?
Man: Not exactly. Here’s the cast list.
Winston Zeddemore: Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis? What’s that – a law firm?

“THAT’S ALL FOLKS!”

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“May 1968 – Vive la Révolution” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

MAY 1968!

May 1968 belongs to the phenomenal world-wide impact and domino effect of the
French student protests. Dates highlighted in bold:

Happenings:
May 2 Student protests in France over out-dated universities and lack of employment for graduates led the administrators of the Paris University at Nanterre to temporarily shut down the educational institution. Instead of quelling the demonstrations, the act led to more protests and the calling of riot police by the university

May 3 A group of 500 students at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, protested against the closure of Paris University at Nanterre and the proposed expulsion of some students. Police arrived to disperse the protesters, and “the first riot of mai 68 ensued” and led to riots and university closures across the country.

May 3 The first heart transplant in the United Kingdom was performed by Dr. Donald Ross and a team of surgeons at the National Heart Hospital in London. The patient, Frederick West, would survive for 46 days until dying from complications of an infection.

May 6 More than 20,000 protesters marched towards the Sorbonne, and the police charged the crowd with batons. When some protesters created barricades and threw paving stones, the police respond with tear gas. Hundreds were arrested. A riot breaks out between police and more than 5,000 university students in Paris. Within a week workers throughout France are staging sympathy strikes, threatening the economy.

May 7 In Paris, the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (UNEF), France’s largest student union, along with the union of university teachers, staged a march to protest against police actions at the Sorbonne.

May 10 The government of France issued an order prohibiting the state run ORTF from televising the student demonstrations in France, but ORTF radio correspondents were allowed to make live reports. The independent Radio Luxembourg sent its own journalists to France and kept them there despite harassment from the French police.  Because of the live broadcasts, news of the rebellion spread from Paris to the rest of France and to media around the world.
At nightfall, college and high school students began erecting makeshift barricades to seal off the streets around the Latin Quarter of Paris and to keep the police from entering the area. The action was imitative of the history lessons taught about the barricades erected by the crowds of the Paris Commune in 1871 and by the French Resistance fighters against the German occupation in 1944.

May 11 French police stormed the Latin Quarter of Paris in order to clear away the demonstrators in a chaotic end to the “Night of the barricades” that called worldwide attention to the chaos in France.

May 11 A crowd of 30,000 students marched to the parliamentary building in Bonn, the capital of West Germany, where members of the Bundestag were going to vote on the “Emergency Laws” (Notstandgesetze) which would authorize the West German executive branch to suspend basic rights during a national crisis. The “Sternmarsch” would be unsuccessful in blocking the enactment of the emergency measure.

May 11 The psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft performed at The Fillmore in San Francisco . A recording of the event would be released 23 years later, in 1991

May 12 Reginald Dwight, who played the piano for the English R & B group Bluesology, chose the stage name that would make him famous while on an airplane flight back to London after his final concert with Bluesology in Edinburgh. After a discussion with his bandmates, Dwight chose to use the first names of saxophonist Elton Dean and lead vocalist John Baldry to coin the pseudonym Elton John.

May 13 In France, a one-day general strike was called by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO) as organized labor groups walked off of their jobs as a show of support to striking students. Prime Minister Georges Pompidou announced the release of prisoners and the reopening of the Sorbonne, but protests continued.

May 14 Workers at the Sud Aviation aircraft factory near Nantes followed the example of France’s university students and went on a sit-down strike, becoming “the very first of the French factories to go on strike” and setting a precedent that would soon spread to the Renault automobile factories, then to western France and eventually to the entire nation.

May 14 In Tokyo, Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Company (now Panasonic) introduced what was, at the time, the world’s smallest television set. The tiny device, “so small it can be slipped into a coat pocket”, had a 1 1⁄2 inch (3.8 cm) screen and weighed 1 1/3 pounds (600 grams).

May 14 The Beatles announced the creation of Apple Records, a division of Apple Corps Ltd, at a press conference in New York City.

May 16 Two weeks after students in France had closed most of the nation’s universities with a student strike, employees seized control of the automobile factories owned by the nationalized Renault company, taking control at Boulogne-Billancourt, Rouen, Le Havre, Le Mans and Flins.  Employees of Sud-Aviation, the state operated aircraft factory at Nantes, welded the factory gates shut. Workers struck two factories at Lyon, several newspapers in Paris, and shut down Orly, the Paris international airport.

May 17 The social revolt and labor unrest in France spread as the number of striking laborers reached 100,000 employees of dozens of factories. As the takeover continued, red flags were hoisted in and around Lyon over the Rhône-Poulenc chemical plant; ; the Berliet truck factory; and the Rhodiaceta textile factory.  The airports at Orly and at Le Bourget remained closed.

May 17 Nine antiwar activists enter a Selective Service office in Catonsville, Maryland, remove nearly 400 files and burn them in the parking lot with homemade napalm.

May 17 In Paris, students, teachers and young workers gathered at the Arc de Triomphe to demand that criminal charges against arrested students be dropped and that the authorities reopen Nanterre and Sorbonne universities. The example of the Catonsville Nine (later convicted of destruction of government property and sentenced to jail terms between 24 and 42 months) spurs some 300 similar raids on draft boards over the next four years.

May 18 The two-week long Cannes Film Festival ended on its 9th day after members of the judges panel resigned in sympathy for striking French students and workers, and several hundred workers in the film industry seized control of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. An attempt to resume the festival was halted the next day when film technicians (including projectionists) refused to work, and directors of the films scheduled for performance refused to allow the screening.

May 18 The first Miami Pop Festival was staged at the Gulfstream Park horseracing track at Hallandale, Florida. The rock concert included The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and Blue Cheer. Their return performances for the second day of the scheduled two day concert were rained out, but the success of the first event led to a larger second Miami Pop Festival that took place at the end of the year.

May 21 France’s President Charles de Gaulle exercised his constitutional power to grant amnesty for the leaders of the students who led the strike against French universities, but the number of French workers on strike increased to 8,000,000 as two million people walked off of their jobs during the day. Banks were closed as panicking depositors sought to withdraw their money, and the stock marked in Paris did not open for trading.

May 24 President Charles de Gaulle appeared on national television in France and made a plea to viewers for help in ending the strike by 10,000,000 workers and rioting in French cities. He announced a referendum for June and asked for voters to approve a grant of emergency power to force reforms and to halt the “roll to civil war”. “Frenchmen, French women,” he said, “you will deliver your verdict by a vote. In case your reply is ‘no’, it follows that I would no longer assume my functions.” [128] In the hours leading up to the speech, thousands of demonstrators, many from outside the city, were converging on the center of Paris, while riot police prepared to contain the violence.

May 25 The world’s 17th human heart transplant was performed at the Medical College of Virginia by Dr. David M. Hume and Dr. Richard Lower, but the hospital initially refused to disclose the name of the recipient or the donor, and an armed guard was kept on the floor where the patient was recovering. . Reporters soon learned from other sources that the recipient was a white man, Joseph G. Klett, and that the heart came from an African-American, Bruce O. Tucker, who had suffered a traumatic brain injury the day before the surgery and whose body was unclaimed;  and then found the reason for the secrecy. William Tucker, the donor’s brother, brought a lawsuit on behalf of the family on grounds that the heart had been removed without consent and that Bruce was technically alive when he had been was taken off of life support. The suit, Tucker v. Lower would be “the first case to present the question of the ‘definition of death’ in the context of organ transplantation”. Four years to the day after Tucker’s death, a Virginia jury would become “the first anywhere to accept the new medical concept of brain death, the idea that a man is no longer living if his brain is dead.”

May 27 The government of France and representatives of its striking trade unions informally settled on the Grenelle agreements that would end the strike in return for a 35% increase in the minimum wage and an average increase of 10% in overall wages.

May 27 The Supreme Court rules 7-1 that burning a draft card is not an act of free speech protected by the First Amendment.

May 30 – The Beatles begin recording The White Album (officially titled, simply, The Beatles). Sessions would span over 4 months, ending on October 14.

Let’s Rock
May Album Releases:
May 1 Speedway Soundtrack – Elvis Presley
May 4 Just Because I’m a Woman – Dolly Parton
May 24 Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake – Small Faces
Live At Folsom Prison – Johnny Cash
Basic Blues Magoos – Blues Magoos
The Beat of the Brass – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
La La Means I Love You – The Delfonics
The Papas & The Mamas – The Mamas & the Papas
Quicksilver Messenger Service – Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Tom Jones Fever Zone – Tom Jones
A Tramp Shining – Richard Harris – “Macarthur Park”

When MacArthur Park, sung by Richard Harris, first came out it became an easy target for ridicule, however coming a year after The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s and The Moody Blues’ Days Of Future Passed, this psychedelic swingin’ mind-bender quickly went from ridicule to a track that was held in high esteem,

00individual has always heard and felt this track as sincere and moving, never to be made fun of, as for some it was harder to admit to connecting to the depth of sincere heartbreaking emotion, which Richard Harris achieved and presented honestly and with no tongue-in-cheek attitude whatsoever, than to admit to experiencing a very dramatic and heartfelt portrayal via orchestration and word.

The fact that it was released during the height of the psychedelic period only added to the far-out aspects of the lyrics which simply, or complexly, convey the emotions within the break-up of a relationship.

Richard Harris’ debut solo album “A Tramp Shining” written, arranged and composed by the highly prolific Jimmy Webb (Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.) reached #4 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums of 1968 – and – MacArthur Park reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 – the album and track were well-received and well-liked worldwide.

Richard Harris, was a great Irish actor, singer, theatrical producer, film director, and writer; known off camera for his rowdy and robust hard-drinking lifestyle he was loved by friends and fellow actors alike for his kind, considerate and gregarious ways.  He was a man who lived life to it’s fullest – right up to the end as Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films.

MacArthur Park is a telling rarity; at nearly seven and a half minutes with lush orchestration, harpsichords and swingin’ ’60s interludes driven by dramatic symbolic psychedelic lyrics and imagery sung mostly in a spoken word style, it stands as a true example of the heights that Psychedelic Pop/Rock’s creativity, through overwhelming acceptance, would and could achieve.

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 “MACARTHUR PARK”
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
Birds like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers, by the trees

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo

(Short instrumental interlude)

There would be another song for me
For I will sing it
There would be another dream for me
Someone will bring it

I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life, you’ll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky

And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I’ll be thinking of you – and wondering why

(Longer instrumental interlude)

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh noooooo, o-oh no-ooooo

“MacArthur Park II” copyright 2014 00individual  TLL
(Created in Classic ’60’s Mad Men-era Painting Style.) Click on image for full-screen enjoyment!

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending May 18, 1968:
1  TIGHTEN UP – Archie Bell and the Drells (Atlantic)
2  MRS. ROBINSON – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
3  HONEY – Bobby Goldsboro (United Artists)
4  THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – Hugo Montenegro Orchestra & Chorus (RCA Victor)
5  A BEAUTIFUL MORNING – The Rascals (Atlantic)
6  COWBOYS TO GIRLS – The Intruders (Gamble)
7  LOVE IS ALL AROUND – The Troggs (Fontana)
8  THE UNICORN – The Irish Rovers (Decca)
9  YOUNG GIRL – The Union Gap Featuring Gary Puckett (Columbia)
10 DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE – Dionne Warwick (Scepter)
11  SHOO-BE-DOO-BE-DOO-DA-DAY – Stevie Wonder (Tamla)
12  CRY LIKE A BABY – The Box Tops (Mala)
13  TAKE TIME TO KNOW HER – Percy Sledge (Atlantic)
14  AIN’T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell (Tamla)
15  LADY MADONNA – The Beatles (Capitol)
16  SUMMERTIME BLUES – Blue Cheer (Philips)
17  I GOT THE FEELIN’ – James Brown and the Famous Flames (King)
18  FUNKY STREET – Arthur Conley (Atco)
19  MONY MONY – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
20  LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU – Spanky and Our Gang (Mercury)

May Movies:
May continues to make a juggernaut impact with a potent line up of classics:
May 2
The Odd Couple
Historic Classic Neil Simon, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon comedy.

May 15
The Devil’s Brigade
The Swimmer
Classic psychological mind-bender – a real acid trip.
At a neighborhood pool party Burt Lancaster’s character Ned realizes that there are a series of backyard swimming pools that could form a “river” back to his house, making it possible for him to “swim his way home” – and the journey trip begins . . .

Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm}
May 23
Prudence and the Pill
May 28
The Detective
May 29
Villa Rides
Wild in the Streets
The psychedelic classic of a Rock ‘n’ Roll 24 year old President who puts adults over thirty in LSD camps. Movie has the righteous cult-hit
“ The Shape Of Things To Come” by Max Frost and the Troopers!

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After last month’s outer space excursion The Psychedelic Train lands back on Earth and is rip-roarin’ ‘n’ ready to continue cruisin’ the 1968 landscape.

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Back in the day 00individual rarely brought a camera to concerts as he was a participator and preferred to view concerts through the lens of his eyes.  But on these rare occasions he did.

So to commemorate the experience please allow for the less than perfect photos shot, and view them as reference to the height of Pink Floyd’s illustrious caeer and as an archive of those times.

The Minolta SRT-101 SLR 35mm camera is not to blame – the lack of professionalism lies in human error courtesy of 00individual and his three friends – LSD, Thai Stick, and the Thrill of it all.

As the ticket stub artifacts reveal, 00inbdividual was gifted, in the spiritual sense, to have received Front Row Center Seats for Three Nights of Pink Floyd’s sold out five nights in a row concerts at the L.A. Sports Arena in 1975.  Details on how 00individual acquired these tickets.

There was no one between 00individual and the band so he could only fit one Floyd per photo at a time!!  Thirty years later he could photoshop the individual shots into one – see post header image.

And as an extra treat;
PINK FLOYD 9-22-72 Hollywood Bowl Dark Side Of The Moon debut!
00individual had good box seats so this time he brought his camera and caught a split-second classic Pink Floyd moment-in-time during “Careful with that Axe, Eugene” as the crescendo builds, and just as Waters screams; pink-lit smoke bombs explode and fill the stage! A truly amazing analog shot from that era.

AT THIS CONCERT PINK FLOYD DEBUT THE COMPLETE “DARK SIDE OF THE MOON”
SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE ALBUM’S RELEASE.
IN QUADRAPHONIC SOUND!

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“REPHR (Psychonaut Representatives for Responsible Heads Everywhere)”
Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

Back in the late ’60s and early ’70s there was a definite serious game taking place in small towns and big cities between the Cops / Narcs and the Drug Culture Community. If an individual decided to experiment with drugs it was the authorities’ power to arrest and jail the individual for doing so –  for something as miniscule as a roach, or even a Marijuana seed!

When “Drug Culture” is said aloud images of crime, violence, addiction, and worse are imagined.
But there was another side to the Drug Culture that was not seen, not heard. It was among the responsible stoners, the ones who represented the psychedelic world with wit, personality, intelligence, and a bit of cosmic swagger.

There was a truth known, still is, that real life people, while stoned out of their skulls, were responsible and conscientious. They held down good jobs, paid bills, had cars with insurance, voted, read books, entertained themselves and others, engaged in meaningful conversations, and allowed the Marijuana-induced insightful personalities that they honed in high school in their teens, to continue to psychedelic heights out of school that assisted them greatly in the real world.

These were the unseen Psychonaut Representatives for Responsible Heads Everywhere;
REPHR.  Prounounced reefer, they were everywhere, connected by knowing glances and sly smiles.

It has been said that the real threat of drugs, (especially mind-expanding, consciousness raising hallucinogens like LSD, Mescaline, Peyote, and to some degrees Marijuana and Hashish), is not the supposed  “harm” it does, but rather the fear it instills in those who are afraid of the knowledge found that they will never know – and that scares them. That’s the real threat. “I don’t want you to know something I’ll never know – so let’s outlaw it.”

REPHR were the ones who avoided the spotlight, yet contributed greatly to balance drug’s negative connotations. And even though they could be outlandish in their behavior and style, they knew how to exist within the Drug Culture and within the general populace without getting busted – even though they were “breaking the law” every day of their lives. They lived an exciting life during exciting times – still do.

Eventually the negative side of the Drug Culture surfaced on every newspaper, magazine, and TV and radio news program.  This was understandable, there was a very dark side as parts of the Drug Culture became this dangerous, mysterious way of life that most people could and never will understand, or would ever want to. And while the negative was constantly reported and sensationalized in movies and TV, the positive aspects when explained, were laughed at as “talk of fools”.

The positive aspects of experimenting with drugs were; introspection, a heightened awareness, brotherly love, loss of ego, a heightened sense of humor, the ability to see and consider different aspects of topics and situations, experiencing euphoric states, empathy, understanding, a connection to nature, an appreciation of things never considered before, deep and witty conversations, altruism, realizations, emergence of artistic traits, expanded consciousness, dedication to a cause or effort, and a sense of unity with all mankind and animals. Oh, and the MOST FUN EVAH!

The Tribe that 00individual ran with back then where, for the most part, REPHR. Meetings were held at known places where current events were discussed and plans for the future were made. The “current events” consisted of drug deals, and other cool transactions, and “plans for the future” were usually what concerts were happening, and if any LSD trips were scheduled.

In reality every REPHR knew that at any time and at any level of drug involvement it could mean arrest and jail, yet,
when you’re a REPHR you’re a REPHR all the way
From your first reefer To your last dyin’ day
When you’re a REPHR Let them do what they can
You got brothers around You’re a family man!
You’re never alone You’re never disconnected!
You’re a REPHR!
Oh . . . see what drug use can do?  Drugs allow for heightened stream of consciousness thoughts that can trigger detailed recall and/or premonitions, or epiphanies even, or cause one to break into a Broadway show tune, in this case, tripping on West Side Story.

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The times are very different today in the future world of 2018 where a myriad of drugs are available legally, and as always, illegally. Standing proud amid the first-time, casual, recreational, and hardcore drug users, REPHR still exists – you know who you are.

REPHR are the individuals who made life-long friends with a lifeform that opened locked doors of the mind and revealed a cosmic environmental lifestyle of continued wonder and excitement.  Now that’s a good friend.  And REPHR returned that special gift of friendship by having that lifeform in their lives and sharing the highlights of their life together.

A lifeform that thrives and sacrifices it’s life so that expanded consciousnesss can be achieved in another lifeform is . . .  love. Cosmic Love.

And if you can’t dig that . . . WELL, EXXXXCCCUUUUUUUUSSSSSEEE MEEEEEEEEE! 

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“00individual’s The Morning Bowl Of Marijuana” Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

The Morning Bowl Of Marijuana

For those individuals who picked up on last week’s post please consider the following subject matter an example of a REPHR sacred daily ritual and reason as to why for many there’s no better way to start any day than with a nice Bowl of Marijuana and a nice cup of coffee.

In 00individual’s younger years a Morning Bowl of Marijuana was early morning – before sunrise. Later it was great with coffee before or after a breakfast. For the decades past the Morning Bowl has been appreciated between nine and ten.

It’s a great way to start the day whatever the tasks. The Morning Bowl of Marijuana creates an invigorated sense of doing the impossible, thus possible things happen.

Coffee, a world-wide favorite beverage, has been a staple of 00individual’s since his late teens, and like all coffee fiends its all about the taste, the smell, the elevated exhilerated rush, the sense of well-being, and the fact that it tastes good. These are all descriptions of a Morning Bowl of Marijuana – only Marijuana adds a few more sensations and it puts a smile on your face – so watch it.

With that in mind, here’s an example of a typical morning for REPHRs, Counter-Culturists, the Drug Community, and Individuals everywhere.

Morning Bowl Coffee Magick

After smoking a Morning Bowl and somewhat still psychedelized from the previous night, 00individual joined his close buddy at the local Marina restaurant for breakfast.  As they waited for their breakfast to be served, but before their first sip of steaming hot coffee, they would add a couple drops of cream just to opaque the coffee a bit, but not to spoil the taste.  Then with a spoon they’d stir the coffee intensely until there were several Gs of Centrifugal Force pressing against the inside walls of the coffee mugs, and as the coffee swirled they’d lower a small to medium-sized ice cube into the center vortex.

Then the magick began; the melting ice stayed in the center vortex and as it melted it created a clear core of water that went all the way down to the bottom of the coffee mug – and for a few seconds they could look down into their mugs and see what appeared to be a hole in the liquid coffee that went all the way to the bottom of the mug! Trippy!

If you think this sounds lame, then try it sometime when the Morning Bowl’s tinges of psychedelic weirdness loom in the ethers, and a mug of hot coffee with a hole down the center becomes a whirlwind epiphany of scientific data involving mutual yet proportionately different dissipating heat to degrees of frozen H2O ratios and suddenly the macro and the micro of the universe is within the swirling magick of the coffee mug.

This just goes to show that they were not easily entertained, but creatively entertained, and they appreciated the small wonders in life, of life.

And a Morning Bowl.

And by noon, well, it was time to recharge with a Noon Bowl, or two.

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“00individual Welcomes Summer June 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

JUNE 1968

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

June is the official beginning of Summer.

The Summer of 1968 was to be a very bold step away from the Summer Of Love of 1967.  While still wildly psychedelic, life’s rainbow colors would soon bring deep, dark ominous tones to the front of the spectrum. The unthinkable would happen again.

Still healing from the wounds of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963; the year 1968 again stunned the nation on April 4, when Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated, then almost exactly two months later on June 5, Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s was assassinated.

1968 was the true turning point in U.S. history, and not just because of the assassinations, but because the ever-expanding Counter-Culture’s Fower Power aspect of the Vibe was peaking.   Soon the last year of a phenomenal decade would mark as a monolith to the end of the sixties, a solemn impending monument to a definite end.

No tears were shed however because the ’70s would only create a whole new level of the Vibe and of the known fun, but there was still a bittersweet feeling of separation from something very strong but intangible – the innocence of the Vibe,

Happenings:
Jun 3 Poor Peoples March on Washington, D.C.
Jun 3 Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times
Jun 4 Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings
Jun 5 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day
Jun 6 Senator Robert F. Kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night
Jun 7 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
Jun 7 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York
Jun 8 Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
Jun 8 Gary Puckett and Union Gap release “Lady Will Power”
Jun 8 James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured.
Years later Coretta Scott King said, “The civil jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame.
Jun 8 Rolling Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”
Jun 8 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
Jun 10 “Danny Thomas Hour” last airs on NBC-TV
Jun 10 AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert F. Kennedy
Jun 12 U.S. premiere of horror film “Rosemary’s Baby”, based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ira Levin
Jun 18 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing
Jun 19 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People’s Campaign
Jun 20 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
Jun 28 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
Jun 29 “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” by Tiny Tim peaks at #17

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
Jun 14 Aretha Franklin – Aretha Now
Jun 14 Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Jun 14 Rahsaan Roland Kirk – The Inflated Tear
Jun 21 John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Bare Wires
Jun 24 The Beach Boys – Friends
Jun 24 The Rascals – Time Peace: The Rascals’ Greatest Hits
Jun 29 Pink Floyd – A Saucerful of Secrets 
Chicken Shack – 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve
Joan Baez – Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
Steve Miller Band –   Children of the Future
Fairport Convention – Fairport Convention
José Feliciano – Feliciano!
Otis Redding –  The Immortal Otis Redding Compilation
Spooky Tooth –  It’s All About
Johnny Cash – Old Golden Throat
Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes
The Pentangle – Pentangle
Randy Newman – Randy Newman
Vanilla Fudge – Renaissance
Silver Apples – Silver Apples

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending June 22, 1968:
1  THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU – Herb Alpert (A&M)
2  MACARTHUR PARK – Richard Harris (Dunhill)
3  MRS. ROBINSON – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
4  YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)
5  THE LOOK OF LOVE – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
6  MONY MONY – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
7  THINK – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
8  ANGEL OF THE MORNING – Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts (Bell)
9  TIGHTEN UP – Archie Bell and the Drells (Atlantic)
10 REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS – Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast)
11 HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Shorty Long (Soul)
12 JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH – The Rolling Stones (London)
13 I COULD NEVER LOVE ANOTHER (After Loving You) – The Temptations (Gordy)
14 I LOVE YOU – People (Capitol)
15 THE HORSE – Cliff Nobles and Co. (Phil-L.A. Of Soul)
16 A BEAUTIFUL MORNING – The Rascals (Atlantic)
17 LICKING STICK – LICKING STICK (Part 1) – James Brown and the Famous Flames (King)
18 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY – Hugo Montenegro, His Orchestra and Chorus (RCA)
19 A MAN WITHOUT LOVE (Quando M’innamoro) – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)
20 LADY WILLPOWER – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia) 

June Movies:
June 1
Bandolero!
June 5
For Singles Only
Jigsaw
June 10
Petulia
June 12
Rosemary’s Baby
While there were many Horror films released during the late ’60’s height of Theaters and Drive-In’s popularity, Rosemary’s Baby was the beginning of the oncoming “A Class” Horror film.
New visions, film direction, style, thrilling chilling scripts, sophisticated effects, and new and classic composers’ suspenseful sound attracted “A” List actors and directors to this new more cerebral, yet visceral view of Horror.
So, in reality, Rosemary’s Baby wasn’t what one was led to believe,
but in reality the Child of Horror Films To Come.


Speedway
The Sweet Ride
June 19
The Green Berets
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Lost Continent
00individual will dedicate a post this month to commemorate the 50 Year Anniversary of this
LSD-infused mondo mindbender, as this film was no mere movie, it cast a spell, it had a mood,
it was a weird experience.

June 25
The Secret Life of an American Wife
June 26
Never a Dull Moment

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The Psychedelic Train hosts a “Beginning of Summer” allnight party for 99 close personal Psychonauts with 36 Rooms, a Concert Hall, a Restaurant, and a full-length Topside Pool!

“The Psychedelic Train Hosts An Allnight Party!” Copyright 2018 00individual TLL

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“00indivdual 1969 Collage Excerpts” Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

From the March 31, 1970 album, “It Ain’t Easy”
Mama Told Me Not To Come

Three Dog Night, led by vocalists, Chuck Negron, Cory Wells, and Danny “Roses and Rainbows” Hutton, were a spirited Funk-inspired Rock Band who became serious hitmakers and Rock Icons.

Three Dog Night’s hits include: Harry Nilsson’s “One” (US #5), the Gerome Ragni-James Rado-Galt MacDermot composition “Easy to Be Hard” (US #4) from the musical Hair, Laura Nyro’s “Eli’s Comin'” (US #10), Randy Newman’s “Mama Told Me Not to Come” (US #1), Paul Williams’ “Out in the Country” (US #15), “The Family Of Man” (US #12), and “An Old Fashioned Love Song” (US #4), Hoyt Axton’s “Joy to the World” (US #1) and “Never Been to Spain” (US #5), Arkin & Robinson’s “Black and White” (US #1), Argent’s Russ Ballard’s “Liar” (US #7), Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s “Lady Samantha” and “Your Song”, Daniel Moore’s “Shambala” (#3), and Leo Sayer’s “The Show Must Go On” (US #4).

“Mama Told Me Not To Come” was written by the always witty, clever, and hard rockin’ when he wants to, Randy Newman. Newman was gifted with the ability to really poke pointed fun at serious issues, at and on, every level. The subjects and issues usually boiled down to levels of ignorance. And while everyone sang along happily, Randy smiled.

Which brings the focus on one of his early songs written for Eric Burdon as far back as 1966; “Mama Told Me Not To Come” became a very successful Billboard #1 hit by Three Dog Night and the very first #1 song played on the July 4, 1970 broadcast of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem.

Beyond the obvious that is plainly-stated in the lyrics, there was a very timely vibe created by this song. The vibe was not only a parallel between the lyrics and 00individual’s current 1970 reality, but the music itself seemed very psychedelic to experienced ears. The perfectly-paced looney tempo gave the song an “already on drugs” feel – a woozy kinda cool – whereby with stoned eyelids half-closed one saw clearer than they ever had before.

00individual remembers cruisin’ the beach towns on acid listening to the car radio, and even before the vocals for MTMNTC could start, the beginning strains of the fuzzy organ intro of this song became an ambient vibe trigger of psychedelic rockin’ days and nights of the summer of 1970 and beyond.

Told from a surprised, semi-naive viewpoint, this song had a much deeper feel to experienced Psychonauts as the lyrics took on descriptions of an average weekday/workday fun night.

Mama Told Me Not To Come
(Popular radio version)
“Want some whiskey in your water Sugar in your tea
What’s all these crazy questions they askin’ me
This is the craziest party there could ever be
Don’t turn on the lights, ’cause I don’t want to see
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, That ain’t the way to have fun, no
Open up the window Let some air into this room
I think I’m almost chokin’ From the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you’re smoking ‘Bout scared me half to death
Open up the window, sucker Let me catch my breath
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun, son That ain’t the way to have fun, son
(Instrumental)
The radio is blastin’ Someone’s knocking at the door
I’m lookin’ at my girlfriend She’s passed out on the floor
I seen so many things I ain’t never seen before
I don’t know what it is Somebody shut that door
Mama told me not to come, oh lord Mama told me not to come
She said, that ain’t the way to have fun, son That ain’t the way to have fun, son.”

Memo
To: Mama
Re: Not to Come
Advice rejected.

Psychonauts, Hippies, Counter-Culturists and Individuals did not need nor heed non-experienced outsiders advice.  That was one of the first of many realities that was revealed by experimenting with drugs: the ability to avoid the BS and streamline one’s life and make room for important advice and information to be considered.

People who had experienced that of which they spoke, who spoke truth, and had no axe to grind, no benefit to lie, were revered.  With the new lens of bustability provided by Marijuana and Psychedelics; the self-serving phonies were spotted immediately.

Unfortunately, those who knew the least proclaimed to know the most. It was like nuns teaching sex education; who are you going to listen to, a nun or a hooker, if about drugs, a cop or your dealer, if about the Vibe, your parents or your friend, and if about the truth, any authority figure or your dog.

For most, other than those few who mastered the art of “Sincerity, and once you fake that, you’re in.” – sizing-up anyone’s bullshit level was easy. Easier still once one had dropped their own egotistical ways.

And besides, that was just one of the many ways to have fun.
Yes, that’s the way to have fun, son.

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For those who do not know the meaning of a Three Dog Night would cerainly appreciate it on a cold night when not one, nor two, but three dogs up on the bed were needed to keep you and them warm ‘n’ toasty throughout the night.

“How cold was it last night? It was a three dog night.”

This is Tribal Truth, 00individual has been sleeping with dogs for decades.
No double entendre intended.

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EXPERIENCE PSYCHEDELIC MIND-BENDER HORROR

“The LOST CONTINENT” – June 19, 1968 U.S.

Whenever 00individual starts out with “Back in the’60s (or ’70s)” it is not simply a reference to a time period, but an invitation to truly try and erase all one knows, briefly, to see and appreciate what those decades offered.  But more importantly, to see everything related as though new.

00individual was so very fortunate to experience the incredible newness that started in the early ’60s. For nearly two decades life was straight up amazing; from Rock to the Moon and everything in between, each day revealed something new. And by new he means never seen, heard, read, or experienced.

Movies were in an exploratory phase of discovery where new techniques (Cinerama), soundtracks (Easy Rider is noted to be the first film soundtrack made up entirely of Rock songs), subject matter (pushed realistic and surrealistic boundaries), and many became future classic films.

Not all were classic, most weren’t, but most all were seen, because back in the Drive-In days of the late ’60s and early ’70s it really didn’t matter what was playing as most of the time the movies were a front for an evening of hot sex in a safely-parked car. However, there were those occasions where the movies were just too good and sex was saved for the second feature.

The late ’60s had some truly psychedelic-inspired movies; Fantastic Voyage, Our Man Flint, The Trip, The President’s Analyst, Wild In The Streets, the Abominable Dr. Phibes, Five Million Years To Earth, the insane trip of The Magic Christian, and then there was the truly bizarre atmospheric insanity of Hammer Films’ “The Lost Continent”.

Agreed by most all film critics as the sole outcast for typical Hammer productions, (even though Hammer could get pretty gritty and hit the right spots with The Conquerer Worm, The Pit And the Pendulam, Scream and Scream Again, among others); but here Hammer succumbed to the psychedelic zeitgeist and produced a Gem of Weirdness.

This Lost Continent had no Professor Challenger or Dinosaurs – this Lost Continent exists on the LSD vapors that come from the Killer Seaweed and a Vagina Dentata Monster in the boy king’s galleon’s hull. The Lost Continent had George Lucas’ Sarlacc Pit Monster before Star Wars – way before.

There is no way to explain the weird allure of this movie; one waits for the next surreal plot twist that defies any rationale, all the while soaking in the psychedelic thick mist that seems to float off the screen and into the air around you. It is like a portal into a darkly weird universe where fever dream transitions come and go.

Amid all of this, hard-core dramatic acting by a gathering of known professionals was also on display – no tongue in cheek,, no puns, no humor, this was serious stuff, with serious consequences at every turn.

The original version of this film had some very sexually lurid scenes and dialogue, hence the UK rating of X, those scenes were later cut. The original uncut version shown in the US, the Drive-In version, had those scenes intact which further fueled the gears of the mind to incorporate that level of drama into the overall madness and mood.

Based on the book by Dennis Wheatley, the mood of this movie is central, an always foreboding atmosphere; no matter the scene, the movie’s weird vibe actually over-rides the not-too-special effects and sometimes absurd but trippy plotlines.

Dana Gillespie’s monster camel-toe defeats the monster giant scorpion .

Dana Gillespie was David Bowie’s first girlfriend and singer associate, and Rock Star in her own right – 00individual had her “Weren’t Born A Man” album – and played it.

To travel across the seaweed on foot by helium ballons and tennis racket shoes is demonstrated in the film by the amply-endowed Dana Gillespie.

Remember kids this was 1968 – there was a lot goin’ on, and the psychedelic floodgates had opened and soaked many professionals, such as, film writers, producers, directors, and actors – even a few studio heads.  The Lost Continent is one of those films that would not have ever been greenlighted except for within that exact time, in that era, under psychedelic influence.

The plot includes passengers on a steamer lost in a Sargasso Sea of sharks, octopus and killer weed, and not the good kind.  Besides all of the salacious undercover actions of the seemingly all guilty-of-something passengers, they run into Spanish Inquisition descendents ruled by a boy king on the previously mentioned galleon.

Had this played out with an undercurrent of light humor it could’ve gone camp like BARBARELLA (released later in ’68), but no, and that’s what made this bizarre acid-drenched film more involving.

00individual could not look away, but lit up a joint; backseat sex would have to wait.

“The Lost Continent”
A bizarre psychedelic horror mystery thriller monster film from a half a century ago.
A True Gem!

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00individual sincerely thanks all the Rockers, Individuals, Music and History Lovers, and Fellow Bloggers world-wide who have attended and continue to attend this 6 year thus far ongoing concert.
ROCK ON!

The ’60s and the ’70s were massively historic decades and no matter what was happening Rock ‘n’ Roll Ruled!

Over the past six years within these posts 00individual has tried his best to relate “the Vibe” that existed for nearly two decades.  The Vibe was a connecting force and a cross-cultural feeling of unity with those who understood the moment.

Each day had a certain thrill of expectation, whether it was fulfilled or not the thrill continued even in the simplest of things. New music, new ways of thinking, new ways to live, new ways to look at life, and new ways to enjoy life were daily experiences. Plus getting high was a constant reminder of what one thought they knew, versus the truth, or close to it.

The 1960’s and the 1970’s term that defined those interlocking decades; “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll”, has become a staple in the lexicon referring to a time when excess and exploration was a lifestyle – and as simple shorthand for an incredibly complex time.

However, “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll” is much more than a referential term; when each element is experienced individually during that timespan they were extremely potent – combined they were nothing less the the best time in history. Period. Tribal Truth. Wish You Were There. And if you weren’t, take a dip in the pool, the vibe is perfect . . .

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“Individuals” Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

So you think that you are an individual?  Many people do.
Take this 13 question test and see if you really are.

This test’s algorhythms were manually set by 00individual.

Dictionaries state an individual as: a single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.

Individual’s are generally honest people
so let’s put that to the test with your answers to these questions:

1)  Are you influenced by opinions heard, read, or seen?   YES   NO
2)  Would you rather make the rules or obey them?   MAKE   OBEY   NEITHER
3)  How many “faces” do you wear during a single day?   1     2     3    AS MANY AS NEEDED
4)  Do you like to leave online comments on issues you are interested in?   YES   NO
5)  Do you think for yourself?   YES   NO
6)  Do other people’s opinions of you matter?   YES   NO
7)  Have you ever questioned your sanity?   YES   NO   MAYBE
8)  Are you happy?   YES   NO   MAYBE
9)  Do you see the world and life as a tragedy?  a comedy?  an opportunity?
10) Are you passionate?   YES   NO
11) Do you work well with others?   YES   NO
12) How many real friends do you have?   1   2   3   500 or more
13) Do you feel the need to let others know all about your life and your rights as an individual?   YES   NO

Now let’s see how you did.
As long as you answered YES to 5 and NO to 6 you are an individual. The rest of the questions, while they may be very revealing, are there to serve as thought processes for the truth.

5) As an individual you have strong feelings and opinions of your own based on your own personal experience, reliable sources, self-education, and common sense facts; and as an individual your time is precious and thinking for yourself is a top priority.  Individual thought comes naturally and is not the thoughts of others, or groupthink.

6) If other peoples opinions of you mattered to you, you would not be an individual.
While others’ opinions and thoughts may be considered, individuals trust their own judgement and have the confidence in themselves to see things for what they really are. While most everyone wants to be liked, individuals are secure in their individuality and know that other peoples’ opinions of them, good or bad, are nothing more than just that, opinions. These can vary from honest assessments to opinions influenced by their psychological debris.

This ends the test, but the real test is out in the real world with real human interaction – that’s where being an individual can be the hardest, or easiest, depending on one’s own definition.

But for those who may feel cheated by this test, here are the answers to all of the questions:
1) NO  2) NEITHER  3) AS MANY AS NEEDED  4) NO  5) YES  6) NO  7) YES  8) YES  9) AN OPPORTUNITY 10) YES  11) YES  12)  THERE IS NO CORRECT ANSWER  13) NO
This test’s algorhythms were manually set by 00individual – which means that he can twist it into any preferred favorable outcome or point of view.

Regarding #13: Remember real individuals mostly keep it to themselves, however, 00individual’s
00 clearance allows for his autobiographical experiences to be chronicled.  He’s earned his status.

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“00individual Welcomes Summer July 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

JULY 1968

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
and the Year that Shattered American and World History

Happenings:
Jul 1 John Lennon’s 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Jul 1 The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
Jul 5 The Doors persorm at the Hollywood Bowl
Jul 7 Rock group “Yardbirds” disband
Jul 15 “One Life to Live”, American soap opera, premieres on TV
Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
Jul 18 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
Jul 20 Iron Butterfly‘s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free

Let’s Rock: Album Releases:
1 The Band – Music from Big Pink – July 1, 1968
3 The Doors -Waiting for the Sun
5 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tyrannosaurus Rex –  My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair
12 Tom Jones – Delilah
18 Grateful Dead – Anthem of the Sun
19 Family – Music in a Doll’s House
22 Miles Davis – Miles in the Sky Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Stephen Stills – Super Session
26 The Moody Blues – In Search of the Lost Chord
30 Buffalo Springfield – Last Time Around
Savoy Brown – Getting to the Point
West End cast – Hair
Waylon Jennings – Only the Greatest
Deep Purple US – Shades of Deep Purple
Phil Ochs – Tape from California
Cream – Wheels of Fire 

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending June 22, 1968:
1 THIS GUY’S IN LOVE WITH YOU – Herb Alpert (A&M)
2 THE HORSE – Cliff Nobles and Co. (Phil-L.A. Of Soul)
3 JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH – The Rolling Stones (London)
4 LADY WILLPOWER – Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (Columbia)
5 GRAZING IN THE GRASS – Hugh Masekela (Uni)
6 THE LOOK OF LOVE – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 (A&M)
7 ANGEL OF THE MORNING – Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts (Bell)
8 STONED SOUL PICNIC – The 5th Dimension (Soul City)
9 HERE COMES THE JUDGE – Shorty Long (Soul)
10 INDIAN LAKE – The Cowsills (MGM)
11 REACH OUT OF THE DARKNESS – Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast)
12 HURDY GURDY MAN – Donovan (Epic)
13  MONY MONY – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
14 MACARTHUR PARK – Richard Harris (Dunhill)
15 YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY – The Ohio Express (Buddah)16 MRS. ROBINSON – Simon and Garfunkel (Columbia)
17 I LOVE YOU – People (Capitol)
18 THINK – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
19 D.W. WASHBURN – The Monkees (Colgems)
20 SHE’S A HEARTBREAKER – Gene Pitney (Musicor) 

July Movies
July 12
Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
A Lovely Way to Die
July 17
For Love of Ivy
Yellow Submarine
July 19
Inspector Clouseau
July 24
Anzio
July 31
5 Card Stud
Asterix the Gaul
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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The Psychedelic Train Surfs The Perpetual Pipeline!

“The Psychedelic Train Surfs the Perpetual Pipeline!” Copyright 2018 00individual TLL

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EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

The ROLLING STONES – “FLOWERS” –  June 26, 1967

The Rolling Stones’ “Flowers” compilation album was sandwiched in Between The Buttons and Their Satanic Majesties Request album releases and was a righteously brilliant album of unreleased, previously U.K. released, and never released in the U.S. tracks.

The Summer of Love was epic for many cultural reasons and music was at the forefront presenting truly historic albums by truly historic bands; “Flowers” was a perfect example. Besides the righteous vinyl tracks, the album cover featured a perfect expression of the fun to look at and fun to read 1960’s psychedelic lettering. The mugshot portraits of the band are taken from the Decca UK album cover of “Aftermath”, and it is rumored that Brian Jones had no leaves as a joke perpetuated by Jagger.

Over-looked and slightly derided as a quick buck grab from mostly US fans (thank you!); this was nothing less than an exquisite greatest hits of the “evolved” Stones. This album captures some monster era classics as well as the first peek of what was to come in ’68’s “Beggars Banquet” and ’69’s “Let It Bleed”.

Although a compilation, “Flowers” has a concept album feel as all of the tracks are about women, and relationships.

00individual easily played this album more than Sgt’s and even more than Satanic, and here’s the reason:
Side one
“Ruby Tuesday” – 3:17
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?” – 2:34
(a September 1966 single release)
“Let’s Spend the Night Together” – 3:36
(a January 1967 single release also featured on the American edition of Between the Buttons)
“Lady Jane” – 3:08
(Also featured on Aftermath in 1966, as well as the b-side of the U.S.-only “Mother’s Little Helper” single in July 1966)
“Out of Time” – 3:41
(An abridged alternate mix of the version originally released on the British edition of Aftermath in 1966)
“My Girl” (Smokey Robinson/Ronald White) – 2:38
(Previously unreleased; recorded in May 1965, with strings added in autumn 1966)
Side two
“Backstreet Girl” – 3:26
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Please Go Home” – 3:17
(Originally released on the British edition of Between the Buttons)
“Mother’s Little Helper” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath; first released in the U.S. as a single in July 1966)
“Take It or Leave It” – 2:46
(Originally released on the British edition of Aftermath)
“Ride On, Baby” – 2:52
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
“Sittin’ on a Fence” – 3:03
(Previously unreleased; recorded during the 1965 sessions for Aftermath)
All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

Vinyl Record Listening Culture
Back then there were two main competing AM radio stations in Los Angeles, KHJ 93 and KFWB 98, and the great KRLA 1110 the “oldies” station, and then there was Wolfman Jack on XERB 1090 the 250,000 watt ‘border blaster’ station in Rosarito, Mexico, but beyond those stations, and any appearences of bands and singers on television shows like Shindig, Hullabaloo, and late night shows In Concert, Midnight Special, and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, the way to really get the most of the music was to buy the album or single.

Repeated listenings of any album allowed Record Collectors, Rockers, and Music Lovers the abilty to savor every bit of every song, over and over again; this was the Vinyl Record Listening Culture.
You bought an album and basically played it so much that you could remember every nuance (even the occaisional pop and/or click – Imported virgin vinyl eventually solved that issue) to the point that those special anticipated moments of joy uplifted the soul.

And then there was the social aspect; 00individual and friends actually sat and listened to music silently while getting stoned, or as background ambient music. Righteous album sides stacked on a turntable provided continuous self-programmed music choices – 00individual was great at gauging the “room”.

Granted, not all albums had both sides worthy of repeated listenings, but with “Flowers” it was an absolute pleasure – still is.

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EXPERIENCE FOLK ROCK HISTORY!

THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Columbia CS 9516 – August 7, 1967

To hear Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time back in early 1965 was a exciting introduction to a new level: Electric Folk Rock.  Here’s where the separation between Pop and Rock become a genre unto itself. With the phenomenal response and success of the single, Mr. Tambourine Man, #1 US and #1 UK, The Byrds created Pop Rock history.

Excepting Turn, Turn, Turn, side one is entirely from The Byrds debut album – these tracks were so ingrained from repeated listenings that at fourteen, 00individual and his teenage cohorts would exaggerate the Byrds’ lyrics and vocals, Jim McGuin’s mainly, in a sort of Lollipop Guild nasal tweak – a twist on previous exaggerations of current Bob Dylan vocal impersonations.  In doing so, each song’s lyrics, timing, and accents were memorized – and sung – out loud – with enthusiasm and raucous fun.

The BYRDS:
Jim McGuinn – guitar, vocals (Solo, Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”, McGuinn, Clark and Hillman)
Gene Clark – tambourine, vocals (Solo, Dillard & Clarke)
David Crosby – guitar, vocals (Crosby, Stills & Nash, C S N & Young, Solo, Crosby & Nash)
Chris Hillman – electric bass, vocals (Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Souther-Hillman-Furay)
Michael Clarke – drums (Flying Burrito Brothers, Firefall)

THE BYRDS GREATEST HITS
Side 1
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Bob Dylan) – 2:29
“I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” (Gene Clark) – 2:32
“The Bells of Rhymney” (Idris Davies, Pete Seeger) – 3:30
“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)” (Book of Ecclesiastes/Pete Seeger) – 3:49
“All I Really Want to Do” (Bob Dylan) – 2:04
“Chimes of Freedom” (Bob Dylan) – 3:51
Side 2
“Eight Miles High” (Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, David Crosby) – 3:34
“Mr. Spaceman” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:09
“5D (Fifth Dimension)” (Jim McGuinn) – 2:33
“So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star” (Jim McGuinn, Chris Hillman) – 1:50
“My Back Pages” (Bob Dylan) – 3:08

Dylan was covered by everyone from Cher to Hendrix, but the Byrds took Dylan’s songs to a much wider audience and in doing so served as the pioneers and inspiration for Folk Rock’s rise in the ’70s, and its continued popularity as a solid music category.

As much as they wanted to make excuses for the basis of “Eight Miles High”, it was posssibly the first real Psychedelic Hit Single. Donovan’s “Sunshine Superman” is deemed by some to be the first, but it was released four months later in ’66. With the oncoming tide of psychedelia, there became a wide interpretation of what was psychedelic; while Sunshine Superman is trippy, within a Pop Rock level, Eight Miles High is cosmic, high energy, Psychedelic Rock.

and then there’s this:

“My guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow
Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”

My Back Pages – Bob Dylan / The Byrds

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“Psychedelic Rapidograph Pen Doodle!” 12″ x 12″ Copyright 1970 00individual  TLL

PSYCHEDELIC DOODLE!
and
Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph Pen Mania!

From 1969 and throughout the 1970s, 00ndividual’s artistic medium weapon of choice was Koh-In-Noor Rapidograph Pens. Although they could be like brain surgery to clean, when the ink flowed so did the creativity.

He was introduced to technical pens through his first professional job in 1969 at eighteen at SWRL: SouthWest Regional Labs’ art department doing production work and wrangling Rapidograph ink pens.

“Psychedelic Dream” 12″ x 14″ Copyright 1971 00individual  TLL

This scene was from a very vivid dream in 1970. Not all elements were in the dream but the structure, city in a cauldron, the Lizardman, and stairs to a portal were as if real. Trippy still.

“Psychedelic Rapidograph Pen Ancient Future Bar Scene” 11.5″ x 12″
Copyright 1971 00individual  TLL

Five years before Star Wars, this 1971 Rapidograph drawing of an ancient future barscene has all the elements; a wookie, a slave girl, a bar band, a lizard alien, a humanoid, a sea horse globe aquarium, and a castle and a floating sea space ship in the background. 00individual was going by Terry Dactyl back then.

Here is an original ’70s artifact and 00individual’s ’70s arsenal: Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph humidifier carousel with pens from 000, 00, 0, 1, 2, 2 1/2, 3, 4, and with a perfectly-sized Playboy magazine cut-out insert half-Moon nude visual lid enhancer.

00individual progressed in his art in many mediums, but back then Rapidograph pens were quick and fun. Just to show the extreme detail that was achieved here are two samples of a mid-to-late ’70s series of African animals done on Bristol board. Above is a Leopard in a tree. Approx. 10″ x 12″.

Above is a Lioness in a tree. Approx.  9″ x 12″.
Somewhere there is Waldo, find Waldo – let’s not find Waldo, there is no Waldo . . . but let’s find a nude woman!

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