To Celebrate The First Day of Summer 2017 and the 50th Anniversary of 1967’s Summer Of Love 00individual Presents The 00individual Counter-Culture Compendium 1960’s and 1970’s Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll “Volume 1 The 1960s”

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EXPERIENCE THE FIRST OF THREE VOLUMES!
VOLUME 1  The 1960S

Through the visionaries at Akashic Publishing, the first Volume of this significant, insightful, entertaining, and educational Three Volume Compendium is now available.

The Compendium uses personally reviewed historic ‘60s and ‘70s Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Cultural events to reveal and reflect the spirit of the times; and was designed to be of beneficial use as:
•    A factual reference and in-depth source of information on Historic and Classic Concerts, Albums, Events, and of the Hippie, Pop, Rock, Drug, and Counter-Cultures.
•    A chronological journal of Counter-Culture life in Los Angeles and West Coast Beach Communities during the early ‘60s up through the mid-to-late ‘70s.
•    An easily categorized source for ‘60s subjects, interests, and research.
Five categories cover and detail historic topics, events, and pertinent era subjects.
•    A portal to a world of further knowledge.  Each Volume is loaded with precise internet search terms.

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The 00INDIVIDUAL COUNTER-CULTURE COMPENDIUM
1960’s and 1970’s Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll
“Volume 1 The 1960s”

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The early-to-mid 1970s saw the height of both the Counter-Culture and the Drug Culture’s exploration of, well, any Entheogen available.  The ‘60’s favorites; Marijuana, Hashish, Pharmaceutical Pills, Mescaline, and LSD, quickly joined the ‘70’s new favorites; Psilocybin, Thai Stick, Opium, PCP, Cocaine and Heroin. 

And while the ubiquitous Drug Culture is conveyed throughout “Volume 2 The 1970s”, the focus on the Drug Culture, and specifically on the Psychedelic Drug Culture – including over twenty classic in-depth chronological True Trips – is reserved for the Unique Unity of the 1960s and the 1970s in: The 00individual Counter-Culture Compendium Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Volume 3 The 1960s and 1970s featuring Psychedelic Culture.

Psychedelic Culture expanded the social mind as well as the individual mind.
Psychedelic influence is virtually ingrained within society on every level.
It is a fascinating subject that goes back to when the first upright ate a mushroom.
00individual relates.

COMING IN 2018

GROOVY!

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS! – Mind-Blower #26 – TV on LSD – “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll” – 1960

EXPERIENCE TRUE PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS!
Mind-Blower #26 – TV on LSD  “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll” – 1960

Here’s a quick “shot in the arm” true tale Mind-Bender that 00individual experienced.

Back in the early to mid-’70s late night TV would show old ’40s, ’50 and early ’60’s comedies, mysteries and horror movies from the usually “B” or lower movie category.  However, there were some actually excellent Hammer films made before they went camp – and even those were trippy.

One night in the early ’70s, 00individual arrived at his place of abode after midnight still stoned on Acid, but glazing down the backside of the Trip where mellow self-realization, contemplation, and extreme thoughts hangout.

He turned on the TV and this is what he saw:

Watching TV on LSD can run the gamut from observing the inane drivel and farce of it all, to gleaning highly introspective revelations, as well as providing the customery kick-ass hallucinations and visuals.

The psychedelic mind can also travel from the truly absurd to stark reality as quickly as Dr. Jekyll realized he was having a highly-emotional conversation with himself.

00individual was immediately drawn-in to the convincing perspective of watching someone so evidently mad and having a full blown conversation with himselves in a mirror, that when the rational moment of the realization that it was only himself, well, this really impressed and delivered an imprint on young psychedelic 00individual.

While realizing that he was watching a movie, the synchronicity of turning the TV on to this scene while on LSD was not lost on him, this was meaningful on some level.  And since aspects of the LSD experience can be associated with szhizophrenia and other mental issues, through his experienced mind he could empathize for Jekyll, and Hyde.  This was truly horrific.

To see someone witness their own break with reality gave 00individual the psychedelic chills. Kudos to the actor Paul Massie to pull off truly (un)believeable emotions – even if the beard was lacking.

00individual came away with the cheap thrills of LSD collateral advantage; seeing and somewhat feeling a psychotic break – and what it would be like to be that “uninhibited”.

Everyone talks to themselves, all of the time, but when it reaches this level of dedication, it’s time for different medication.  Consult your local Shaman.

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Due to the fact that the administration of drugs via needle injection should be aimed in the direction of the heart (the exact opposite angle is pictured in the movie’s poster) is why it’s called “shooting up” not “shooting down”.
Forgiveness will be allowed for artistic exploitation rather than a realistic, lurid depiction.
Although, totally wrong, the movie poster art department got it right.

Groovy!

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1970′s Historic & Classic Rock Albums . . . . . . . . . . JETHRO TULL – AQUALUNG – 1971

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY!

JETHRO TULL – AQUALUNG – March 19, 1971 – Reprise MS 2035

It is a strange human reaction to feel that the normal roll-over of months into years is somehow magnified when that roll-over is from the end of one decade and the beginning of another. Although there is no difference, the significance is great.

Back in 1969 the review of the past ten years was truly historic so looking forward to the 1970s seemed like venturing into some stranger land filled with unknown possibilities of furthering sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, in the best sense.

That willful mind-bend added to the ongoing tide of an ever evolving reality with a high level of optimism and anxiety similar to the 1999 roll-over into 2000 and this was due to the fact that the Counter-Culture was in full-force – while the ’60s built an incredible cultural framework – the ’70s followed-through with vigor.

While individuals and groups progressed in their chosen fields, musicians, singers and bands also took this opportunity to show the “future of the ’70s”.  There were a few bands who debuted strong and Rock stalwarts who flexed their muscles – one of those muscular types was Jethro Tull.

After the very impressive time-stamp albums, “This Was” (Hard Rockin’ Blues with an Ian Anderson twist), and “Stand Up” (full-blown Renaissance Jazz Flute Rock) and both with sublime folk ballads, Tull released “Aqualung”; the album most fans agree to be their best, and is always highly-ranked as one of the Best Rock Albums ever.

The let down of Tull’s third album, “Benefit” (with the exception of the most excellent track, Teacher), was totally redeemed by the impact of a near perfect album, Aqualung.

Back in ’71 the world had a different Vibe from the late ’60s, yet most all would agree that nothing had really changed, it just evolved. Yet the early ’70s seemed to release a strong but subtle ubiquiteous feeling that the time was right to explore; it was now or never, no holds barred, live for today, Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Unlimited and it was the perfect environment and time for all of it.

This was the spirit shared by many individuals, including many bands that filled arenas, concert halls, and garages.  This spirit was not lost on Jethro Tull – Ian Anderson gifted Rockers with a near perfect album; rockin’ riffs, bass hooks, infectious drums, and lyrics that questioned authority, religion, and life  –  and who knew the stone rockin’ value that a flute could produce, by the right person – Ian Anderson.

In the process of Aqualung’s success, Jethro Tull became a perfected version of Jethro Tull.  With what many saw as a concept album, and much to his chagrin, The Mad Flutist created a real “mock concept album” with the single track covering both sides of the monster album, “Thick As A Brick”.

Up until “Thick As A Brick” 00individual saw Jethro Tull as a Rock band featuring Flute Wizardry, with TAAB Tull embraced and helped define Progressive Rock.

But before the TAAB Monster was unleashed, Jethro Tull hit the highest eschalons of early ’70s Rock with Aqualung; an album that traveled strong with Rockers the rest of the way to the Pinnacle of Rock – that was so near, yet so far away.

AQUALUNG
Side one: 1. “Aqualung” 6:34, 2. “Cross-Eyed Mary” 4:06, 3. “Cheap Day Return” 1:21, 4. “Mother Goose” 3:51, 5. “Wond’ring Aloud” 1:53, 6. “Up to Me” 3:15.  Side two: 1. “My God” 7:08, 2. “Hymn 43” 3:14, 3. “Slipstream” 1:13, 4. “Locomotive Breath” 4:23, 5. “Wind-Up” 6:01

Tull were perceived – due to not knowing how to classify them – as: Progressive, Hard Rock, Metal, Folk, Blues, Classical, Jazz, Psychedelic, Rockin’ Minstrel Balladeers.

00individual was a Record Store Manager in the early-to-mid ’70s, Jethro Tull was alphabetically filed in the “J” section in the “Rock” section.

JETHRO TULL – AQUALUNG – 1971

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1970′s Album Track Gems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RANDY NEWMAN – a “POLITICAL SCIENCE” lesson (Let’s Drop The Big One Now) – 1972

Pink Floyd at the Hollywood Bowl 1972 stand in for “The Big One!” imagery.
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1970’s Album Track Gem
Randy Newman – POLITICAL SCIENCE
(Let’s Drop The Big One Now)
from the album “Sail Away” Reprise 2064 – 1972

Randy Newman is the Bomb!
As an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist, known for his voice, satirical pop songs, and his many and varied film scores he had/has a very nice sardonic edge that aligned with Zappa, where great music and social satire flowed seamlessly.

Although Anti-War Protest Songs had been a staple since the mid-’60s, by 1972 they had become somewhat obligatory and less urgent as the Draft ended the next year in 1973, and then two years later the Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975.  The two decade long Vietnam War climaxed – and once it shot its wad, this is the historic result:
senseless deaths of U.S. Soldiers 58,156 (average age; 19),
senseless deaths of 1 million Vietnam military soldiers,
senseless deaths of up to 1/2 million S. Vietnamese civilians,
senseless deaths of up to 65,000 N. Vietnam civilians.

To combat the insanity there was the newly-acquired awareness that arrived on the scene at just the right time in history.  Like the Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Marijuana and other mind-expanding drugs awakened people to Question Authority, and Reality.

Randy Newman’s nihilistic satire Political Science was not lost on many, and could be appreciated as quite a lovely tune.

That was then, this is now.

Living in a current era when unheard-of events and mind-boggling realities take place daily leaves one not knowing what is real and what is not.  All of this takes place in a surreal environment that creates a present-day real-time future dystopian sci-fi comic book/TV/movie atmosphere where the gangs that roam the streets of A Clockwork Orange and Batman The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel are benevolent compared to today’s Barbaric “rape and beheading culture” reality.

If you haven’t taken LSD before, you have now. Only there’s no coming down from this dose – you will continue to see and hear things like never before, and for those who can handle it, it’s just another Trip to ride out, but for those who can’t, they’ve got some major head-trippin’ to overcome.

So, embrace the negative and positive thrill and experience the trip – as in get the most out of it – because when the trip ends, and it will, eventually, you will realize the gift (and sometimes curse) that can be achieved, and that is; “Once your consciousness is raised, it can never be lowered.”

Here’s the acid-test: if you can appreciate the insanity as the price for living on the physical plane, then you can appreciate the song, remember;
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”

So let’s sing along with the soothing lyrics of a thinker, Randy Newman, while we listen to
POLITICAL SCIENCE

“No one likes us, I don’t know why, We may not be perfect, But heaven knows we try.
But all around, Even our old friends put us down, Let’s drop the big one, And see what happens.

We give them money, But are they grateful? No, they’re spiteful, And they’re hateful.
They don’t respect us, So let’s surprise them, We’ll drop the big one, And pulverize them.

Asia’s crowded, And Europe’s too old, Africa’s far too hot, And Canada’s too cold,
And South America stole our name, Let’s drop the big one, There’ll be no one left to blame us.

We’ll save Australia, Don’t want to hurt no kangaroo,
We’ll build an all American amusement park there, They’ve got surfing, too.

Boom goes London, And boom Paree, More room for you, And more room for me.
And every city the whole world round, Will just be another American town.
Oh, how peaceful it’ll be, We’ll set everybody free,
You’ll wear Japanese kimonos, baby, There’ll be Italian shoes for me.

They all hate us anyhow. So let’s drop the big one now, Let’s drop the big one now.”

TURN ON!
One of 00individual’s All Time Favorite Tracks from the acid-drenched 1970 film, “Performance”
written by legendary Jack Nitzsche, and Russ Titleman;
“Gone Dead Train”
sung with sexually-frustrated bravado by a Rockin’ Randy Newman,
with classic slide guitar by Ry Cooder!

And if you’re an honest male, you’ll admit to experiencing a Gone Dead Train – at least once.

00individual’s Train always arrives on time.

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PEACE

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Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture with the 50th Anniversary of 1967 – featuring JUNE!

“00individual Celebrates 1967’s 50th Anniversary!” copyright 2017 00individual  TLL

EXPERIENCE ROCK HISTORY and the COUNTER-CULTURE’S COSMIC UNITY

The MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL June 16-18, 1967

The Monterey International Pop Festival was the brainchild of John Phillips of “The Mamas and The Papas”, and legendary super producer Lou Adler – timed perfectly to kick-start the historic Summer of Love cultural Vibe.

The cosmic level of Rock Pop Counter-Culture History that was produced at Monterey served as a cultural debut of the future, not only for the populace, but more importantly for the Counter-Culture itself.  Monterey Pop was the beginning of what could be, and what was to be.

There was so much happening, evolving, and being quickly assimilated in 1967 that the intricacies of what was really happening – a generational ideological music-oriented liberating socio-political drug-fueled movement that would change society forever – had become a multi-layered lifestyle.

For the Historic Archives here are the performers: Friday, June 16. Evening – 1 The Association 2 The Paupers 3 Lou Rawls 4 Beverley (Kutner) 5 Johnny Rivers 6 Eric Burdon & the Animals 7 Simon and Garfunkel Saturday, June 17. Afternoon – 1 Canned Heat 2 Big Brother and the Holding Company w/Janis Joplin 3 Country Joe and the Fish 4 Al Kooper 5 The Butterfield Blues Band 6 Quicksilver Messenger Service 7 Steve Miller Band 8 The Electric Flag Saturday, June 17. Evening – 1 Moby Grape 2 Hugh Masekela 3 The Byrds 4 Laura Nyro 5 Jefferson Airplane 6 Booker T. & the M.G.s 7 Otis Redding Sunday, June 18. Afternoon – Ravi Shankar Sunday, June 18. Evening – 1 Blues Project 2 Big Brother and the Holding Company 3 The Group With No Name 4 Buffalo Springfield 5 The Who 6 Grateful Dead 7 The Jimi Hendrix Experience 8 The Mamas & the Papas 9 Scott McKenzie 10 Mamas & Papas & Scott McKenzie

The Monterey International Pop Festival’s peaceful sucess introduced the Summer of Love . . .
and while considered trite today, Scott McKenzie’s Top 20 Hit, “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”, was heartfelt and was highly representative of the Vibe; the emergence and cosmic feeling of empathy and love and rock ‘n’ roll.

The Vibe is a hard feeling to describe.  Imagine waking up in the morning and going about your daily business only there is a subtle feeling of excitement coming from within.  This feeling was unique and ubiquitous and became part of every level of life.  It had no judgement or appropriation of class, it existed in the knowing recognition of another like-minded Brother or Sister who was also exploring life through an entirely new viewpoint with clarity, priority, vision, truth, reality, and empathetic Brotherly Love.

Arguably the catalyst for all of this stemmed from the enlightened experiences of Marijuana and LSD.  The unique part of the Vibe was that stoned or straight, longhair or shorthair, a symbiotic bond was known and felt among those whose world had opened up to many new ways of thought and to an acquired awareness.  And when a good Vibe is transferred, Cosmic Unity spreads.

This was exemplified by the emerging Counter-Culture’s celebration of music and performers in a peaceful, joyful outdoor environment was communal, tribal, respectful, appreciative, enjoyable, fun-loving, and empowering.  These were emotions that were obviously felt to varying degrees by everyone at Monterey, and the feelings continued at concerts and events thereafter, serving as evidence of the Unity of Music, People, and Rock ‘n’ Roll that re-inforced the Vibe.

THE SUMMER OF LOVE!

The Main Attraction of the Summer of Love was centered in and around the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco with Psychedelic Rock bands; The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger Service creating an allure that was magickal.  The West Coast Sound included a similar scene in Los Angeles centered in and around the Westside and the Canyons; Topanga and Laurel.  The Doors, The Byrds, The Seeds, Love, and Buffalo Springfield pioneered Folk Rock and Psychedelic Rock.

Although the Summer of Love had inadvertent negative repercussions, especially in the Haight, it historically represents the idealized moment in time when individuals joined in peace for alternative lifestyles not burdened by status, materialism, and consumerism; instead they appreciated the simple things in life like Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Equality, Civil Rights, Freedom of Speech, enjoying life, and Love.

00individual’s contribution to the Summer of Love:
On June 16-18, 1967 00individual was not 320 miles up the coast at Monterey.  He was 16, just got his license, and for a total of ninety-nine dollars purchased a spacious ’51 Buick, and contributed to the Summer of Love parked in the backseat having sex with his girlfriend.

Let’s Rock:

June 1: The Beatles release “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in the US.
While there were many iconic images, music, performances, and historic events that took place within 1967, The Beatles not only created thee indelible stamp of the Height of Psychedelia, Height of Pop Rock, Height of Music, and Height of an Era, but also served as the unified umbrella of the Counter-Culture – The Beatles owned the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album at #1 for 15 weeks.

June 3: Aretha Franklin‘s “Respect” reaches #1.

June 6: Moby Grape release eponymous album “Moby Grape”.

June 7: Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors.

June 8: Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen.

June 9: The Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl.

June 10: 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Tamalpais Mountain Theater, CA – This festival should be recognized as the Prelude to Monterey and the Summer of Love, but has been relegated to Rock Obscurity.

June 10: USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel.

June 11: Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes.

June 12: Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested).

June 12: US Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages.

June 12: “You Only Live Twice”, 5th James Bond film starring Sean Connery, screenplay by Roald Dahl, premieres in London.

June 13: Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice.

June 14: “Steve Allen Show” premieres on CBS-TV.

June 15: Governor Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill.

June 16-18: 50,000-100,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival.

June 17: Jefferson Airplane‘s “Somebody To Love” peaks at #5.

June 17: Barbra Streisand performed: “A Happening in Central Park”.

June 17: China becomes world’s 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power.

June 19: Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD.

June 20: Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services.

June 23: Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA).

June 25: 400 million watch The Beatles “Our World” TV special.

June 25: Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years.

June 26:  The Rolling Stones release “Flowers” compilation.

June 27: Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested).

June 27: The world’s first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.

June 28: George Harrison is fined £6 for speeding.

June 29: Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge.

June 30: Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.  named 1st black astronaut.

June: Tom Jones releases “Tom Jones Live!”.

June: Leonard Nimoy Presents “Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space” album is released.

June: UK band Procol Harum have a #1 UK and #5 US hit with “Whiter Shade of Pale”.

June: Florence Ballard is fired from The Supremes, who would hereafter be known as Diana Ross and the Supremes.

June: Van Morrison, formerly of the Northern Ireland band Them, has a #10 US, #60 UK hit as a solo artist with “Brown Eyed Girl”.

June: UK based Australian band, The Bee Gees score three US Top Twenty hits off their US debut album.

US Top 20 Singles for the week ending June 17, 1967:
1 GROOVIN’ – The Young Rascals (Atlantic)
2 RESPECT – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
3 SHE’D RATHER BE WITH ME – The Turtles (White Whale)
4 RELEASE ME (And Let Me Love Again) – Engelbert Humperdinck (Parrot)
5 SOMEBODY TO LOVE – Jefferson Airplane (RCA Victor)
6 LITTLE BIT O’ SOUL – The Music Explosion (Laurie)
7 WINDY – The Association (Warner Brothers)
8 ALL I NEED – The Temptations (Gordy)
9 I GOT RHYTHM – The Happenings (B.T. Puppy)
10 MIRAGE – Tommy James and the Shondells (Roulette)
11 CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF YOU – Frankie Valli (Philips)
12 SUNDAY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME – Spanky and Our Gang (Mercury)
13 COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT – Every Mothers’ Son (MGM)
14 7 ROOMS OF GLOOM – The Four Tops (Motown)
15 LET’S LIVE FOR TODAY – The Grass Roots (Dunhill))
16 HIM OR ME – WHAT’S IT GONNA BE – Paul Revere and the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
17 DING DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD – The Fifth Estate (Jubilee)-5 (17)
18 NEW YORK MINING DISASTER 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife, Mr. Jones) – The Bee Gees (Atco)
19 DO IT AGAIN A LITTLE BIT SLOWER – Jon and Robin and the In Crowd (Abnak)
20 SAN FRANCISCO (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie (Ode)

JUNE MOVIES

HOW FRESH IS THIS STORY?NOW THAT’S FRESH!

June 7: Caprice
June 7: El Dorado
June 13: You Only Live Twice
June 14: Thoroughly Modern Millie
June 14: To Sir With Love
June 15: The Dirty Dozen

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OK, Cosmic Kids, 1967’s Psychedelic Train is again in Off-Rail Mode soaring over psychedelic sixties landscapes and headed for six more monthly psychedelic stops and psyide-trips on the way through Historic Psychedelic 1967!

“Psychedelic Train shifts into AntiGravAeronaut Mode and Surfs the Skies”
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The Psychedelic Train shifts into AntiGravAeronaut Mode and takes to the skies above the beachtowns of the California Coast headed for the Monterey International Pop Festival and then on to the Summer of Love. 

Next stop – July 1967!

The Summer Of Love Heats Up!

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1967 Archives

January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May

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TWIN PEAKS – the REAL and the SURREAL . . . . . . A 1993 Photo Journal Trip of TWIN PEAKS! . . . . “May The Forest Bewitch You”

 “Actual unretouched 35mm photo taken by 00indiviual while on a 1993 trip to Twin Peaks”
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TWIN PEAKS – the REAL and the SURREAL
A 1993 Photo Journal of TWIN PEAKS

To celebrate the return of TWIN PEAKS 00individual shifts gears to focus on an event that was born in the ’70s that did not come to fruition until decades later. Honoring that spirit is David Lynch’s 1977 Cult Film “Eraserhead”.  This black and white work of subtle unnerving anxiety and otherworldly dystopian horror is drenched in disturbed beauty that got everyone’s attention; especially legendary Mel Brooks, who produced Lynch’s 1980 “The Elephant Man”. That  film was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor.

Lynch then took on the Herculean task of his 1984 majestically-real “Dune”, followed by the 1986 twisted classic “Blue Velvet”, and then the wickedly whacked 1990 “Wild at Heart”; which all led up to the anticipation of the April 8, 1990 debut of the TV series; TWIN PEAKS.

Other than a true Rock and Music Fan, 00individual had never been a “fanatic” to the point of being psychologically-involved and mysteriously obsessed with a television show.  The feeling must be how it is for Star Wars/Star Trek Fans and Lord Of the Rings/Harry Potter Fans – in some weird way these “events” speak to people and they seem like home – like where their souls should be.

For 00individual the whole environment of Twin Peaks; the location, the people, the otherness of the wilderness, the reality of Good verses Evil, the alternate dimensions – the coffee, the donuts, and Angelo Badalementi’s extremely hip “sounds from another place” soundtrack – was all very thrillingly comfortable.

But 00individual needed more, he wanted to drink damn good coffee at the Double R Diner; he wanted to cruise by the Roadhouse to jam with the Bookhouse Boys, he wanted to fill-up at Big Ed’s Gas Farm, and he wanted to stay at the Great Northern and see the Whitetail Falls.

So, 00individual thought, why not take a trip to Twin Peaks, for real?  And so, in 1993, 00individual, with his wife and son, set out on a surreal trip to discover the Real and the Surreal TWIN PEAKS.

Let The Trip Begin:

TWIN PEAKS . . . Signals Mysteriously Sway Outside The Double R Diner / Mar-T Cafe At The Corner Of Bendigo Blvd. And North Bend Way

TWIN PEAKS . . . The Great Northern / Salish Lodge

TWIN PEAKS . . . Cherry Pie And A Good “Cup of Joe” At The Double R Diner

TWIN PEAKS . . . Ronette Pulaski’s Bridge . . . Ronette’s Trance-Walking Across State Lines Brings The FBI’s Agent Cooper On The Case

TWIN PEAKS . . . Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department / Weyerhauser Corporate Office

TWIN PEAKS . . . Train Boxcar Site Where Laura Palmer Was Murdered

TWIN PEAKS . . . Big Ed’s Gas Farm / Windstreamers

TWIN PEAKS . . . Roadhouse / Colonial Inn

TWIN PEAKS . . . Twin Peaks Road “Trip” Ends – But The Story Continues!

TWIN PEAKS . . . My Residence In TWIN PEAKS . . . 119 Steeplejack Road
Steeplejack Road is the western-most road of town that runs from Twin Peaks High School southwest to the Kettle Falls and crosses Moon Valley Road.

TWIN PEAKS . . . Sherilyn Fenn (Audrey Horne) Outside The Entrance To The Real Great Northern; The Salish Lodge

TWIN PEAKS . . . “BOB” Wanted Poster

TWIN PEAKS . . . A Good “Cup Of Joe”

TWIN PEAKS . . . Who’s Who In TWIN PEAKS

TWIN PEAKS . . . TWIN PEAKS GAZETTE – Vol.1 No.2 1991 “Give Peaks A Chance”

TWIN PEAKS . . . COOP: Citizens Opposing the Offing of Peaks . . .Variety:  ABC-TV Pulls Plug On ‘Peaks’

For additional TWIN PEAKS mania please visit:

TWIN PEAKS ARCHIVES – The REAL and the SURREAL

“May The Forest Bewitch You”

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NEIL YOUNG – “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” May 14, 1969 and “Harvest” February 1, 1972

NEIL YOUNG with CRAZY HORSE – EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Reprise RS 6349 – May 14, 1969

Neil Young’s career is truly legendary with both hit recordings and live SRO performances – solo or with the historic, classic Rock bands; Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – as well as with a solid fan base over the decades.

This second solo release after leaving Buffalo Springfield saw him reach a righteous balance of Ballads and Hard Rock. Joined with the solid musicians of Crazy Horse, the hooks and beats became infectious classics.  Cinnamon Girl packs a head-nodic three minute punch, and both ten minute classics Down by the River, and Cowgirl in the Sand serve as the basis for countless bands’ songs ever after.

“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” Side One: 1. Cinnamon Girl 2:58, 2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 2:26, 3. Round & Round 5:49, 4. Down by the River 9:13.  Side Two: 5. The Losing End (When You’re On) 4:03, 6. Running Dry (Requiem for the Rockets) 5:30, 7. Cowgirl in the Sand 10:06.

Young would soon be etched in Rock History in 1970 by joining ex-Byrd David Crosby, his Springfield bandmate Stephen Stills, and ex-Hollies Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and release the era’s defining album “Déjà Vu”.

He would take another place in Rock History Hierarchy with “Harvest”, his fourth solo album, and the Best-Selling Album of 1972 in the United States.  00individual can testify that as a So. Cal. Record Store Manager in the early ‘70s, “Harvest” was a monster!

One of the lost gems in Rock History is the rousin’, rockin’ eponymous 1971 debut album by the truly great band Crazy Horse: Danny Whitten – guitars, lead vocals, Nils Lofgren – guitars, vocals; legendary Jack Nitzsche – piano, vocals; Billy Talbot – bass, vocals, Ralph Molina – drums, vocals.
The whole album is aces with stand-out classics Gone Dead Train and Beggars Day.

NEIL YOUNG – HARVEST
Reprise RS 2032- February 14, 1972

1971 – After defeating hundreds of other applicants for a job at the notoriously-discounted and famously-known Crane’s Records in Inglewood; the Home of the Fabulous Forum!  00individual was able to land the coverted job!  Well, …actually at $1.00 an hour, ten hours a day from 10 AM until 8 PM, Monday through Sunday (seven days a week) – for three months straight – no one else wanted the job.  But he was in – and after the crash course of record store boot camp, and upon achieving super-human knowledge via his trivia-obsessed mutant form of Hyperthymesia (blessing/curse), and with a $3.00 an hour raise, he was put in charge as sole manager of Crane’s Palos Verdes Record and Tape Store on Highway 1, located near the beach, just north of Malaga Cove, which was around the point from the original “Marineland” of the Pacific.  Groovy.

At twenty, for nearly a year, from ’71 to ’72, that store became his second home and he really styled and customized the place.  He took the fixtures from a clothes store next door that had closed and installed their slanted shingled “roof” over the length of the whole cash register area; supported by slender real tree trunk poles braced at both ends, this gave the counter area a “natural” environment and a nice place to do business.

With a wall of cassettes behind him, 00individual would look out across his domain and down all of the aisles as his satisfied subjects flipped and sifted through bins of choice records while rockin’ to the cranked-up sounds of Hendrix’ “In the West”, or T-Rex’ “Electric Warrior”, or Led Zeppelin IV, or Deep Purple’s “Machine Head”, or America’s debut album – or Alice Cooper’s “Schools Out”, or Neil Young’s “Harvest” – and those were just the most recent Warner/Reprise/Atlantic releases! Good times?  No, epic times!

“Harvest” sold so well that 00individual just stacked the sealed factory boxes with the top box open – no need to file or display “Harvest” – just keep it in stock.

“HARVEST” Side one 1. “Out on the Weekend” 4:35, 2. “Harvest” 3:11, 3. “A Man Needs a Maid” 4:05, 4. “Heart of Gold” 3:07, 5. “Are You Ready for the Country?” 3:33  Side two 1. “Old Man” 3:24, 2. “There’s a World” 2:59, 3. “Alabama” 4:02, 4. “The Needle and the Damage Done” (recorded in concert January 30, 1971) 2:03, 5. “Words (Between the Lines of Age)” 6:40.

Apparently Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” in response to Young’s racist portrayal of the South with the “Harvest” track,  Alabama and the “After The Goldrush” track, Southern Man.  So basically Neil Young is responsible for one of the most loved and famous songs of the ’70s.
But . . .
in his 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, Young commented on his role in the song’s creation, writing “My own song ‘Alabama’ richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue”.

A rarity; a man owns up – and that’s why Neil Young is a Legend – well, that, and all that other music stuff.

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