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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring March

Posted by 00individual on March 1, 2021
Posted in: 1970's Rock Concert and Culture Chronicles, 1970s Historic & Classic Rock Albums. Tagged: 00individual, March 1971, the Psychedelic Train. Leave a comment

“She’s a Knock-Out” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
March 1971

March 1971 Happenings:

Mar 1 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Mar 5 “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones

Mar 8 Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali’s 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, NYC; and retains heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in the “Fight of the Century”. Sinatra is the focus of attention as he prepares to take his ringside shots and, at right, the controversial Life magazine cover picture that the singer took.Sinatra is the focus of attention as he prepares to take his ringside shots and, right, the controversial Life magazine cover picture that the singer took
Mar 8 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner”
Mar 10 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
Mar 11 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.
Mar 12 The Allman Brothers Band record their live album “Live at Fillmore East” on this date and the following day
Mar 14 Barbra Streisand appears on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS TV
Mar 14 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
Mar 14 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
Mar 15 Chatrooms make their debut on ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet
Mar 16 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
Mar 16 Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy Award
Mar 21 Vermont seasonal snowfall totals 132.2″
Mar 22 6th Academy of Country Music Awards: Merle Haggard and Lynn Anderson win
Mar 25 Tom Jones’ “She’s a Lady” goes gold
Mar 26 “Benny Hill Show” tops TV ratings
Mar 29 1st Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in the My Lai (Vietnam) massacre; he was sentenced to life, but only served three years of house arrest

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending March 27, 1971:

1  ME AND BOBBY McGEE – Janis Joplin (Columbia)
2  JUST MY IMAGINATION (Running Away With Me) – The Temptations (Gordy)
3  SHE’S A LADY – Tom Jones (Parrot)
4  PROUD MARY – Ike and Tina Turner (Liberty)
5  FOR ALL WE KNOW – The Carpenters (A&M)
6  DOESN’T SOMEBODY WANT TO BE WANTED – The Partridge Family (S. Jones & D.Cassidy) (Bell)
7  WHAT’S GOING ON – Marvin Gaye (Tamla)
8  HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT – Sammi Smith (Mega)
9  ONE BAD APPLE – The Osmonds (MGM)
10 WHAT IS LIFE – George Harrison (Apple)
11 (Where Do I Begin) LOVE STORY – Andy Williams (Columbia)
12 AMOS MOSES – Jerry Reed (RCA)
13 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND – Gordon Lightfoot (Reprise)
14 ANOTHER DAY / OH WOMAN OH WHY – Paul McCartney (Apple)
15 OYE COMO VA – Santana (Columbia)
16 TEMPTATION EYES – The Grass Roots (Dunhill)
17 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN / HEY TONIGHT – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
18 MAMA’S PEARL – Jackson 5 (Motown)                 
19 WILD WORLD – Cat Stevens (A&M)                                                       
20 CRIED LIKE A BABY – Bobby Sherman (Metromedia)   

March 1971 Album Releases:
Notable releases in bold

1 Search and Nearness – The Rascals
5 The Cry of Love – Jimi Hendrix Compilation
– Friends – Elton John Soundtrack
6 Bryter Layter – Nick Drake
– Stone Age – The Rolling Stones Compilation
8 Love It to Death – Alice Cooper Straight Records; re-issued on Warner Bros. Feb. ’71
16 Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon – James Taylor
19 Aqualung – Jethro Tull
– Songs of Love and Hate – Leonard Cohen
22 You’ll Never Walk Alone – Elvis Presley Compilation
24 Histoire de Melody Nelson – Serge Gainsbourg
26 Percy – The Kinks Soundtrack
– Back to the Roots – John Mayall
La Biblia – Vox Dei
Black Oak Arkansas – Black Oak Arkansas
Dave Mason & Cass Elliot – Dave Mason & Cass Elliot
Electronically Tested – Mungo Jerry
A Message to the People – Buddy Miles
Moments – Boz Scaggs
Motel Shot – Delaney & Bonnie
Please to See the King – Steeleye Span
Present Company – Janis Ian
Rat On! – Swamp Dogg
Rock On – Humble Pie
She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina – Buffy St. Marie
Tanz der Lemminge – Amon Düül II
Wildlife – Mott the Hoople
With Friends and Neighbors – Alex Taylor
Split -The Groundhogs
Assagai – Assagai
In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry 
Mythical Kings and Iguanas – Dory Previn  
Wildlife – Mott The Hoople 
Layla – Derek and The Dominos 
Junipher Green – Friendship
The Real Thing – Taj Mahal
Dive Deep – Quintessence 
We’ll Talk About It Later – Nucleus
Stray (II) – Suicide
Samurai – Kappa
Manna – Bread
Gold: Their Great Hits – Steppenwolf
Want Ads – Honey Cone
Woodstock Two – Various Artists 

March 1971 Movies:

THX 1138 March 11, 1971
 
The Andromeda Strain Poster
The Andromeda Strain March 12, 1971
 
Vanishing Point March 13
The Beguiled March 31, 1971
 
Get Carter March 3, 1971
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Poster
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth March 17, 1971
 
The House That Dripped Blood Poster
The House That Dripped Blood March 31, 1971
 
Friends Poster
Friends March 24, 1971
A New Leaf Poster
A New Leaf March 11, 1971
 
Melody Poster
Melody March 28, 1971
 
Ginger March 1, 1971

Blood and Lace March 17, 1971
 
Ransom for a Dead Man Poster
Ransom for a Dead Man March 1, 1971

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Death in Venice (France/Italy)) March 2
 
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Yuma March 8

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The Emigrants (Sweden) march 9

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When Eight Bells Toll march 11
 
Lawman (1971) - Burt Lancaster DVD – Elvis DVD Collector & Movies Store
Lawman 11 March
 
Up Pompeii (1971) - IMDb
Up Pompeii 11 March
 
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The Barefoot Executive 17 March

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Making It 21 March

BROTHER JOHN (1971) 682   SIDNEY POITIER Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet Poster (27x41).   Average Used Condition
Brother John 24 March

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The Deserter 25 March

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Taking Off 28 March
 
B.S. I Love You
B.S. I Love You 31 March

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Just Before Nightfall (France) March
 
 
The Psychedelic Train in “off-rails mode” stops for breakfast at the Psychedelic Coffee Shop.

“The Psychedelic Train Stops For Coffee” copyright 2017 00individual TLL.

Next stop April 1971!

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Artists do not have to explain their work, but for anyone interested, 00individual grew up with Playboy magazine, back when it was the only form of seeing women nude. It was glorious. But what he also found exciting and fun were the comics like Annie Fanny and ALL of the sexy illustrated comics throughout the mag.

To honor those truly innocent and playful issues filled with artists like: Robert Brown, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Will Elder, Jules Feiffer, Jerry King, Kliban, Harvey Kurtzman, Bobby London, Roy Raymonde, Charles Rodrigues, Alberto Vargas, Shel Silverstein, Gahan Wilson, Rowland B. Wilson, and Dean Yeagle, 00individual features his own lovingly innocent but sexy “comic illustration” of an alluring female to present each month’s 50th anniversary highlights.

 

 

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00individual ERA: Essential Record Award . . . . . LOVE – FOREVER CHANGES – November 1967

Posted by 00individual on February 22, 2021
Posted in: 1960s Historic & Classic Rock Albums. Tagged: 00individual, Love Forever Changes. 1 Comment

Delving into the 00individual Era (the Classic Rock Decade of roughly 1965 through 1975), the mind boggles at the amount of musical and lyrical creativity that was produced, recorded, and performed. Absolutely amazing – a once in a lifetime, once in history of this world event.

Even within the innumerable releases there were many that not only stood out, but withstood the test of time.

00individual has a theory that some albums contain more than just music; some saturate the aural, mental, and physical senses and connect with something real. “Forever Changes” created a sound that transcended normal Rock recordings, live or studio, and therefore receives the 00individual Essential Record Award.

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EXPERIENCE PSYCHEDELIC ROCK HISTORY!

For a belated Valentine’s Day 2021, 00individual gives you the gift of
LOVE
FOREVER CHANGES
November 1967

YOWZA!
Well, here it is kidz! The Real Deal. Possibly the Best Album Ever.

LOVE’s eponymous debut album release and their second Da Capo were perfect creative stepping stones to the masterpiece that is Forever Changes.

LOVE was Arthur Lee’s band and as multi instrumentalist leader he evoked the best of mid-sixties: the unique creativity of Lennon and McCartney – only darker, attitude and hipness that Jagger emulated, really, look it up, remember this was ’67, creativity was exploding and everyone influenced everyone else.
Then there were Lee’s “Johnny Mathis Rock” vocals and Herb Alpert-esque trumpet cool that all crisscrossed perfectly within Pop, Folk, Ballad, Rock genres.
With orchestral strings, Morricone brass, flamenco-esque guitar and arrangements to die for, all delivered with LOVE’s underlying original 7&7 is punk attitude and mixed evenly with Lee’s meaningful poetic, psychedelic lyrics, that rivaled Dylan’s best, really, all together created the epic Forever Changes.

Forever Changes is/was a totally original West Coast, yet universal, non-concept concept album – a brilliant piece of Rock Art.

love280Love billboard on Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, 1967. Chateau Marmont in the background.

However, the album was not initially received with the adulation and praise that would come with the growing numbers who would eventually connect with this Stone Classic Album.
(See Rock History accolades below.)

LOVE were never as big as The Beatles, but back in the Summer of Love 1967, with Sgt. Pepper’s dominating the atmosphere, a little band in L.A. touched a far deeper groove of Soul-Searching, Psychedelic Rock Grandeur – this was the true essence of 1967 – this wasn’t about carnival characters, this was about us, this spoke to us.

And what’s more it was honest. These didn’t seem like songs, they somehow achieved a higher level and became an exchange of sonic altruistic feelings. A gift for those who Lee knew would appreciate his efforts.
In the classic way that legends are created; Forever Changes surpassed its unique modest intent to become a Major Rock Icon – now, that’s honesty.

There are very few bands, let alone single songs, that reach that level of intimacy – and here we have a solid album – every single track is honest, beautiful, truly unique and Rocks harder on a deeper level of psychedelic reality.

Here’s the Acid Test: one listen to this album and it could be heard as the next best Album of the Year, of any year, in the past or the future.
Although a time stamp of a specific era, it delivers a timeless yet unique sound.

It is a truly archival piece of Rock Music History Sound and Lyric – the Best of the Best.

LOVE – FOREVER CHANGES – 1967

All songs written by Arthur Lee, except for Bryan MacLean where noted.
Side one
“Alone Again Or” (Bryan MacLean) – 3:16
“A House Is Not a Motel” – 3:31
“Andmoreagain” – 3:18
“The Daily Planet” – 3:30
“Old Man” (MacLean) – 3:02
“The Red Telephone” – 4:46
Side two
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale” – 3:34
“Live and Let Live” – 5:26
“The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This” – 3:08
“Bummer in the Summer” – 2:24
“You Set the Scene” – 6:56

Arthur Lee: lead vocals, guitar, Johnny Echols: lead guitar, Ken Forssi: bass guitar,
Bryan MacLean: rhythm guitar, background vocals,  Michael Stuart: drums percussion

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00individual was fortunate to be one of the select of L.A. to experience

ARTHUR LEE with LOVE
at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood
2004!

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A righteous nod to LOVE’s iconic and visually-striking psychedelic album cover art by Bob Pepper, design by William S. Harvey – and – to Jac Holzman at Elektra Records back in ’66 for signing LOVE and The Doors. Both bands played on the Strip back then and both created extremely unique Rock, both with a mysterious edge and both seminal in their creativity and both signed to Elektra.
This was the first time that 00individual really took to branding with the association of that capital E for Elektra that meant cool bands and albums.

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LOVE FOREVER CHANGES ROCK HISTORY!

The 1979 edition of The Rolling Stone Record Guide gave the album a rating of five stars (out of five). It also received five stars in the 1983 edition of the guide and in the fourth edition that was published in 2004.

In a special issue of Mojo magazine, Forever Changes was ranked the second greatest psychedelic album of all time.
In the January 1996 issue, Mojo readers selected Forever Changes as #11 of the “100 Greatest Albums Ever Made.”

Forever Changes was praised by a group of Members of the British Parliament in 2002 as being one of the greatest albums of all time.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album 40th in its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in the December 11, 2003 issue.

In 2003, NME ranked the album #6 on their list of greatest albums of all time.

In 1998, Q magazine readers voted Forever Changes the 82nd greatest album of all time.

In a 2005 survey held by British television’s Channel 4, the album was ranked 83rd in the 100 greatest albums of all time.

The album was included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

As of 2021 the album is one of 00individual’s Top 13 Rock Albums of All Time.

and one of the Top 13 Historic & Classic Psychedelic Albums 1967

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BOO-BIP-BIP BOO-BIP-BIP
YEAH!

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You Set The Scene, whew, what a powerhouse throughout on all levels – legendary!

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00indivdual Presents POPCULTICONS – Original One Of A Kind Pop Culture Figure and Card Art 2

Posted by 00individual on February 15, 2021
Posted in: 1960's and 1970's Culture Archives. Tagged: Altered States, Ash’s Evil Hand, Buckaroo Banzai, Dr. Emilio Lizardo, Hendrix action figure, Hendrix Voodoo Child, Hunter S Thompson, One Million Years BC, POPCULTICONS, Radu Molasar, Raquel Welch, The Evil Dead, The Keep. Leave a comment
00individual thought it might be fun to create some custom action figures for collectors of the extremely rare. So here is the Second Trip of seven fun pieces.

POPCULTICONS, through the awesome auspices of The Polyvinyl Science Institute (PSI), manifest the esoteric allure of PVC into Original Art featuring Icons of Rock, Pop, Sci-Fi, and Horror.

Each one-of-a-kind piece features an original custom figure representation and original background card art presented in classic action figure style.

Click here to see Trip One of seven pieces

And click here to see more photos of the unsold pieces of Trip One and Trip Two on 00individual’s Etsy site doing biz as Rock Oat.

POPCULTICONS Trip Two:

Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) – 1968
Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play. Figure is glued in a stationary position.
Real “metal” chain necklace and real psychedelic fabric vest.
One Of A Kind.

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One Million Years B.C. – Raquel Welch – 1967

Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play.  Figure is glued in a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.
SOLD

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The Keep – Radu Molasar – 2005
Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play. Figure is glued into a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.
A light source directly behind his head lights up his eyes.

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Hunter S. Thompson – H.S.T. – ‘60s and ‘70s
Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play.  Figure is glued into a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.

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Buckaroo Banzai – Lord John Whorfin (Dr. Emilio Lizardo) – 1984
Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play.  Figure is glued into a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.
SOLD

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Altered States – Primordial Mass of Conscious Matter – 1980
Original Custom 3.75″ Action Figure.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play.  Figure is glued in a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.

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The Evil Dead – Ash’s Evil Hand – 1981
Original Hand Sculpt of a Full Three Dimensional Hand – not a 3D Print.
Matierial: Sculpey
Hand is 3.75″ tall.
Original Custom 6″ x 9″ Card Art.
For Display – Not For Play.
Hand is glued in a stationary position.
One Of A Kind.

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POPCULTICONS Trip Three will consist of seven pieces and will debut Fall of 2021.

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ROCK ‘N’ ROLL – THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!

Posted by 00individual on February 8, 2021
Posted in: 1960's and 1970's Culture Archives. Tagged: 00individual, Fountain of Youth, Robin Trower, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL - THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!. Leave a comment

“Rock ‘n’ Roll: the Fountain of Youth” Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL – THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH!
(excerpt of a June 2015 post)

No need to search for the legendary Fountain of Youth, Rockers world-wide have had access to it all along – that Fountain of Youth is Rock ‘n’ Roll!

Watching, listening, and rockin’ to Robin Trower last night with the Canyon Club’s sold out capacity of 1600 brought some insightful revelations to 00individual’s awareness.
These revelations were more like deep confirmations of the fact that his generation’s positive youth-minded experiences during the ’60s and ’70s of their Rockin’ Youthful Free-Spirited Lifestyle carried throughout the decades of their everyday lives and into the present – not for all – but for most of those who reveled in the Vibe – this kept them young.

A prime example of the regenerative powers of Rock’s Fountain of Youth is none other than Rock Guitar God Robin Trower.
At 75, Trower is an unstoppable inspiration, not just for his incredible teenage stamina, and not just as a soulfully-meticulous Guitar God, but for his exuberance and joy that he warmly displays, that is evident and contagious, which in turn invigorates the Soul of those Rockers fortunate to see this exceptional Man’s gift live.
His Rock Stock continues to rise, year after year, as a true pillar among the Historic Rock Gods.

Unlike past generations, the Counter-Culture, Hippies, and  Individuals didn’t lose their youthful sensibilities – society’s “old age” was not, is not, in their future, and it was/is the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fountain of Youth that keeps them young at heart, mind, body, and soul – Trower is proof, The Stones are proof, Dick Dale was/is proof, and 00individual, this month at 70, is proof.

On the short drive to the local Canyon, Trower’s title track from For Earth Below came to mind, but 00individual felt that it was too esoteric to ever hear live – imagine his karmic cosmic surprise when after the encore of Too Rolling Stoned Trower finished the evening with For Earth Below.
Sigh.

Canyon Club Setlist: Somebody Calling, Rise Up Like The Sun, See My Life, Daydream, Lady Love, Snakes and Ladders, Day of the Eagle, Bridge of Sighs, Confessin’ Midnight, The Turning, Not Inside – Outside, Little Bit of Sympathy
Encore: Too Rolling Stoned, For Earth Below

After the concert was over 00individual walked out into the night; invigorated, empowered, and filled with youthful spirit – reminiscent of the many, many nights of experiencing the same feelings after classic concerts of the ’60s and of the ’70s.

Rock, the Fountain of Youth?
Damn Right!

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This was 00individual’s sixth time seeing Trower live and it all started when he and his concert buddy, Agent Tomas, attended the Whiskey A Go Go in 1973 for Trower’s first solo US tour performing his debut Twice Removed From Yesterday album with Reg Isadore and James Dewar.

Long Live the Fountain of Youth!
Long Live Rock!

 

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring February

Posted by 00individual on February 1, 2021
Posted in: 1970, 1970's Rock Concert and Culture Chronicles, 1970s Historic & Classic Rock Albums. Tagged: 00individual, February 1971, the Psychedelic Train. 5 Comments

“Valentines’ Day 1971 Babe” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
February 1971

February 1971 Happenings:

Feb 1 – After months of feuding in the press, Ginger Baker and Elvin Jones hold a “drum battle” at The Lyceum.
Feb 3 – Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees.
Feb 4 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks
Feb 4 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
Feb 5 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
Feb 5 28th Golden Globes: “Love Story”, George C. Scott, & Ali MacGraw win
Feb 6 1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
Feb 8 – Bob Dylan’s hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, is premièred at New York’s Academy of Music and includes footage from Dylan’s 1966 UK tour.
Feb 9 Probably 1st gay theme TV episode – All in the Family



Feb 9 – 6.66 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 & causes over one-half billion damage
00 WAS THERE!
Check out the internal link for “A True Account of a Full 24 Hour Day In The Life of a Los Angeles Hippie during February 8 -9, 1971.

Feb 9 Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball hall of fame
Feb 10 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
Feb 10 “Tapestry”, second album by Carole King, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972)
Feb 15 After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons pence & shilling system for decimal currency
February 16 – Alan Passaro of the Hells Angels, who was acquitted on January 19 of the stabbing death of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, files a lawsuit against The Rolling Stones for invasion of privacy because the documentary film Gimme Shelter showed the stabbing.
Feb 20 National Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn’t resolved for 30 minutes

Feb 21 – 00individual turns 20!
Born on this day in 1951, 00individual was extremely fortunate to have experienced life during the classic eras of the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and on up into the futuristic 2000s where flying cars and personal jet-packs flourished, ah, um, well that turned out to be a big disappointment. But instead he was blessed to be raised with respect for all others, “please and thank you” were meaningful, the only bullies were few and all wore tight-fitting horizontal-striped t-shirts, innocence was a way of life, decency came naturally, men, women, and children enjoyed actual real human social networking by in-person interaction, friends really were, imagination created life-long fun entertainment and experiences that required individual thought and action rather than isolating digitally-fed “games”, music was at the high-point of excellence and was shared in groups not cut-off from reality with earplugs, cars were big and roomy, every day was an opportunity for adventure, role models from many fields of interest never swore or were rude, sports were fun, movies were fun, TV was fun, books were fun, no one “preached” only the Preachers, heroes really were, kindness ruled, trust was earned and honored, and life was good, very good, the best it could and will ever be.
00individual was and is eternally grateful everyday to have been chosen to have been raised and lived during the peak era of world history that was the definition of sanity, humanity, and grace.

Feb 21 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances was signed at Vienna at a conference attended by representatives of 71 nations. Under the agreement, which would become effective upon ratification by 40 nations, governments would maintain strict restrictions of four different classes of drugs and 32 identified substances, with the strictest controls over hallucinogens including LSD and mescaline. No restrictions for alcohol.
Feb 23 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
Feb 23 US army officer William Calley confesses & implicates Captain Medina during his trial for the My Lai Massacre
Feb 28 Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel set a world record by jumping over 19 cars prior to the beginning of the 1971 Miller High Life 500 stock car race in Ontario, California. .

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending February 20, 1971:

The commercial-friendly and inoffensive genre of Soft Rock became extremely popular in the ’70s. Taking the sound of the emerging singer / songwriter phenom and lighter pop / rock, Soft Rock was a mellow alternative with simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. This trend was an obvious and successful backlash to the previously dominating Hard Rock, Pop Rock, and Psychedelic Rock of the late ’60s.

This Top 20 shows this trend to be true with only Dave Edmunds “I Hear You Knockin'” and a watered-down CCR song, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” as the only “Rock” songs.

However, Rockers had their own Top Hit Singles and most were on FM radio stations and mostly tracks from albums. Rockers were still mesmerized by the 1969 “hits” on Led Zep I and II; these were the album listening days when hit albums could be heard coming from houses, car stereos, head shops, and from your own backyard.
Rock “singles” had yet to become “classic” as Rockers were livin’ it real time.

1 ONE BAD APPLE – The Osmonds (MGM)
2 KNOCK THREE TIMES – Dawn (Bell)
3 ROSE GARDEN – Lynn Anderson (Columbia)
4 I HEAR YOU KNOCKING – Dave Edmunds (MAM)
5 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND – Gordon Lightfoot (Reprise)
6 MAMA’S PEARL – Jackson 5 (Motown)
7 GROOVE ME – King Floyd (Chimneyville)
8 SWEET MARY – Wadsworth Mansion (Sussex)
9 MR. BOJANGLES – The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Liberty)
10 LONELY DAYS – The Bee Gees (Atco)
11 WATCHING SCOTTY GROW – Bobby Goldsboro (United Artists)
12 AMOS MOSES – Jerry Reed (RCA)
13 YOUR SONG – Elton John (Uni)
14 (Theme From) “LOVE STORY” – Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus (RCA)
15 AMAZING GRACE – Judy Collins (Elektra)
16 MY SWEET LORD / ISN’T IT A PITY – George Harrison (Apple)
17 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN / HEY TONIGHT – Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)
18 IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN – Gladys Knight and the Pips (Soul)
19 ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER – The 5th Dimension (Bell)
20 IT’S IMPOSSIBLE – Perry Como (RCA)

February 1971 Album Releases:

1 Love’s Lines, Angles and Rhymes – The 5th Dimension
3 Love Story – Andy Williams
5 Once Again – Barclay James Harvest 
6 Little Fauss and Big Halsy – Johnny Cash Soundtrack
9 Carly Simon – Carly Simon 
10 Church of Anthrax – John Cale and Terry Riley 
Tapestry – Carole King 
15 Bridge Over Troubled Water – Buck Owens 
19 The Yes Album – Yes 
22 If I Could Only Remember My Name – David Crosby 
24 One Way… or Another – Cactus 
26 Straight, Clean and Simple – Anne Murray 
28 Fourth – Soft Machine 
– Crazy Horse – Crazy Horse 
Earth, Wind & Fire – Earth, Wind & Fire 
The Hawk – Ronnie Hawkins 
Jack Johnson – Miles Davis 
Jack-Knife Gypsy – Paul Siebel
James Taylor and the Original Flying Machine – James Taylor
Live at the Sex Machine – Kool & the Gang Live
Long Player – Faces 
Love Story – Johnny Mathis 
Mary – Mary Travers 
The Polite Force – Egg 
Ring of Hands – Argent 
Rita Coolidge – Rita Coolidge 
Stoney End – Barbra Streisand 
Tago Mago – Can 
The Taker/Tulsa – Waylon Jennings

February 1971 Movies:
 
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Raid on RommelFebruary 12, 1971

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The Pursuit of HappinessFebruary 23, 1971

How to Frame a Figg (1971) - IMDb
How to Frame a FiggFebruary 1, 1971

The Night Visitor Poster
The Night VisitorFebruary 10, 1971
 
Doctors' Wives Poster
Doctors’ WivesFebruary 3, 1971
 
Alamo On Demand | The Point
The PointFebruary 2, 1971
 
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The Hour of the FurnacesFebruary 25, 1971
 
Julius Caesar Poster
Julius CaesarFebruary 3, 1971
 
The Priest's Wife Poster
The Priest’s WifeFebruary 26, 1971
 
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Beyond Love and EvilFebruary 28, 1971
 
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Love Hate LoveFebruary 9, 1971
 
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LongstreetFebruary 23, 1971
 
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Road to SalinaFebruary 16, 1971
Some Girls Do (1969) - IMDb
Some Girls DoFebruary 10, 1971
 
Mean Justice Poster
Mean JusticeFebruary 8, 1971
 
Frank Sinatra: In Concert at Royal Festival Hall Poster
Frank Sinatra: In Concert at Royal Festival HallFebruary 4, 1971
 
Wow, It's Cindy Poster
Wow, It’s CindyFebruary 23, 1971
 
The Selling Of The Pentagon Poster
The Selling Of The PentagonFebruary 23, 1971
 
Ramparts of Clay Poster
Ramparts of ClayFebruary 7, 1971
 
Pure Goldie Poster
Pure GoldieFebruary 15, 1971
 
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The Exotic Dreams of CasanovaFebruary 22, 1971
 
Innocents Abroad Poster
Innocents AbroadFebruary 1, 1971
 
The Neon Ceiling Poster
The Neon CeilingFebruary 8, 1971
 
The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou Poster
The Boy from Dead Man’s BayouFebruary 9, 1971
 
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters Poster
Dancing at Hitler’s HeadquartersFebruary 12, 1971
 
The Wishing Machine Poster
The Wishing MachineFebruary 12, 1971
 
Secret Places, Secret Things Poster
Secret Places, Secret ThingsFebruary 17, 1971
 
Neil Young - BBC In Concert 1971 Poster
Neil Young – BBC In Concert 1971February 23, 1971
 
The Body Poster
The BodyFebruary 24, 1971
 
The First Nine Months Are the Hardest Poster
The First Nine Months Are the HardestFebruary 24, 1971
 
The 300-Year Weekend Poster
The 300-Year WeekendFebruary 26, 1971
 
The Manson Massacre Poster
The Manson MassacreFebruary 26, 1971
 
The Haunted House Poster
The Haunted HouseFebruary 26, 1971
 
Incident in San Francisco Poster
Incident in San FranciscoFebruary 28, 1971
 
 
The Psychedelic Train Leaves Winter And Cruises Into Spring 1971
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“The STONED PRIVATE EYE” – Season 3 – Tonight’s 1974 Episode: “Karma Outlaws: The Showdown”

Posted by 00individual on January 24, 2021
Posted in: 1960's and 1970's Culture Archives. Tagged: 00individual, Karma Outlaws, The STONED PRIVATE EYE. Leave a comment

For those who may have missed part one of this two part episode
“Karma Outlaws” Part One

Tonight’s 1974 Episode: “Karma Outlaws – The Showdown”

Before setting out to trackdown the killer, David Robert Bowie, Will needed to know why things got by him, signs he should have heeded, and why he did not sense the vibes of a killer that he not only helped to escape the law but that he invited into his own home?

Time was of the essence, so Will bypassed his normal investigation mode and went to a tried and true source. He grabbed his duffle bag filled with essentials, got in his GTO and took off to Hollywood. 

Once there, he pulled to the curb in front of an old Gothic wrought iron fenced home, hustled up the stairs, knocked on the door, and was greeted by a special friend, Juanita Touthre’.

Juanita had a gift, she could “see” without anything other than knowing the situations, any known people, and the area. She was in her sixties and had been doing this all her life – involuntarily at first, then she got control, and has since helped more people than anyone will ever know.

She invited Will in, and after a short polite conversation.
Juanita: “Will I see that you are in an urgent state, what can I do to help?”
Will explained the situation.
Juanita: “Will, what you are dealing with, this former friend, goes deeper than the goal you have in mind.”
She pauses, closes her eyes: “You opened karmic doors when you allowed him into your life.”
She opens her eyes and leans forward across the table where they are sitting: “Will, you need to be very careful, this man has no soul, no accounting for his behavior.”
Will exasperated: “How could I not see it?”
Juanita: “Sometimes evil reaches a point that becomes unnoticeable. That is when karma comes calling where good needs to match evil’s level.”
There is a stillness, then Juanita speaks: “Did he mention that no good deed goes unpunished?”
Will: “Yes, yes he did.”
Juanita: “You’ve experienced that, sometimes for certain people a time comes when the karma seems to hit hard, but it’s an opportunity to learn and move on as a wiser person, or conversely, a wiser evil person.”

Juanita closes her eyes once again; Will can nearly feel the vibrations emanating from her.

Juanita: “The man you seek is still in the city, he’s in pain, trying to numb it in a Downtown bar.”
Will smiles sincerely: “Thank you Juanita.”
She walks him to the door: “The reason you could not read him is because you had never experienced the level of evil this man hides.”
Will looks to Juanita: “Then I guess it’s about time I did.”

She blesses him before he leaves.

Will got on the 101 freeway south and headed straight for Downtown.

Will figured that David probably stole a car and was in a bar on the outskirts of Downtown, most likely near a room-for-rent hotel as he would still be in pain from the self-inflicted stab wound.

Will cruised the outer Downtown border streets, street by street, concentrating on being as sensitive to the killer’s vibe as he could.

He passed a few bars and hotels but none together or close by. He had just crossed from the Fashion District into the Toy District, and as he turned east down a street of warehouses and stores he saw the lights from a lonely gas station down at the end of the street. As he approached the intersection there it was, the “The Pinnacle Hotel” and right next to it was “The Pinnacle Bar”. For a second Will felt good, then the feeling dissolved into overwhelming dread. It was David, the killer, the one who was able to deceive him.

At the very least he was picking up on his vibe, and it was not good, sickening actually, but he realized that this was the new part of the territory he ventured into where evil exists just for evil’s sake. Will got the chills like never before, confirmation that he was absolutely right.

He parked, pulled out his .38 and put it in his right side leather jacket pocket.
Normally he would take a few seconds to down a pill, snort a line, or take a few puffs on a joint, but right then he knew that he was already in those states without the assist. This was new and he remembered what Juanita once said that rang true and that was that “like attracts like within their equal levels”. What this meant to Will was that since he had not come across true sociopathic evil he could not detect it, he needed to allow himself to match this evil equally.

He crossed the street and entered the Bar.
A quick scan revealed no David. He checked the men’s room, not there – he was in his hotel room next door.

No-Tell Hotels like this one asked no questions and gave no answers, unless paid. Knowing this Will entered and went to the check-in desk: “I’d like a room; on the first floor?
Clerk: ”Third floor is all I got, ya want it?”

Will paid, took the keys, and walked the hall of the first floor. He did not feel a negative vibe.
He climbed the stairs to the second floor and slowly walked the hall, he felt tinges of negativity, but not coming from any of the rooms behind the closed doors.
He continued to the third floor and tightened the grip on his gun.
Will’s room was 303, there were ten rooms on each floor; the killer was in one of the remaining nine rooms.
At that moment Will knew which room the killer David was in, he sensed it strongly as he unlocked the door to his room – it was room 304, the room right next to his.
Will closed the door, left it unlocked, and gave the room a quick examination for anything off. All was clear.

He sat down in a chair that was up against the wall facing the door and to the right of a window. He checked his left leather jacket pocket for handcuffs, and as his blood pumped and his temperature rose the cold metal cooled his hot hands.

Will had been very lucky in his dealings with criminals and killers; he’d been knocked around a bit, shot at but never hit, even involved in a couple of life or death situations. He was wise and street-wise, but he knew that even though David was wounded that it wasn’t going to be easy. 

And as he saw himself sitting in a chair in a third story hotel room Downtown with fluorescent lights from the gas station across the street serving as the only ambient light, he quickly thought of what it was that brought him to this situation; was it actually karma in action that he was there because of past actions for helping out a friend, or even if he hadn’t run into David would he still there, in that chair, for the same reason – to catch a killer.

It was then that Will knew the answer, the answer had been debated between a good friend and Will back in the philosophical days of youth.
The question was: If you see someone about to commit suicide and could prevent it, would you?
For most people the answer would be “yes”, but Will and his friend went deeper.

There are two answers; one, is that you leave it to them whether to choose to live or end their life and you not only don’t disrupt their life’s plan but do not take on any of their karma. 

And two, if you do prevent it, you interfered with the life of someone whose destiny and their own personal karma was disrupted by your “good deed”. And you have become an intimate participator in the most important moment of their life, a moment that is extremely personal to them – and now to you – as you have a karmic attachment to them – whether you like it or not.

Will realized that in his own way in this situation, he did number two, and it stunk.

It was time for action, enough cosmic thought.
Will quietly got up and walked close to the adjoining wall.

He heard nothing. Will turned on the room’s radio with the volume down low on a jazz station to cover his movements.

He slowly opened the window, leaned outside to see if there was any movement through 304’s curtain – and there was; the killer was in there.

Will suddenly got gut-wrenching pains in his stomach, it felt like a hot iron had stabbed him. The pain came from the same place that David had stabbed himself.
Will was feeling a symbiotic pain that the killer felt, or was feeling, just on the other side of the wall in the next room.

Will had reached a new level of reading this evil. 

He could just bolt in, take him by surprise, and cuff him. But something was holding him back. That would be an easy move under normal conditions, but Will realized that if he could now read this level of evil that meant that David had been reading him ever since he arrived at the hotel, or even sooner.

Just then the door was kicked open by David who held a sawed-off shotgun aimed straight at Will.
Will had his hand on his revolver, finger on the trigger, in his leather jacket pocket.

David: “Don’t move a muscle my friend, don’t move a muscle.”
Will: “What happened to you?”
David: “Nothing happened to me, I’ve always been like this, only now I’m driven.”
Will: “And why’s that?”
David: “You know why, the same thing that drives you, drives me – we’re the same only different.” 

David stepped inside and closed the busted door with his bootheel.
Will contemplated his move but once again resisted.

David: “You know, your fault is that you think you don’t go by the rules, but you do.”
David pumps the shotgun: “Me, I make the rules. And just like this isn’t your first case, Gloria wasn’t my first kill.”

Will’s finger tightens on the Smith and Wesson’s trigger.

David: “Like I said in the note, I appreciated your help back there, but you know how this will end.”
Will: “Just one thing, I’m gonna need you to take the first shot, so I’ll be in the clear after I kill you.”

And that was all it took to get under evil’s skin, Will felt it, he knew it, a statement, a fact, a taunt that gave Will his edge – he immediately dove to the floor just a split-second before David pulled the trigger and the shot grazed Will’s leather jacket and blew a hole in the wall.

Through his jacket pocket Will fired squarely at David, then again, and again, sending evil back to Hell.

Will put his cuffs on the fallen David, he was taking no chances, he called Detective Valdez from a pay-phone in the lobby, then went back up to the room and stayed until the police arrived with an ambulance.

He explained to Det. Valdez that David Robert Bowie was the real killer of Gloria at the party, not Dolph Layton. Valdez told him that Layton’s guilty display upon arrest was from being caught for an outstanding warrant from back East. 

Will felt his shoulder where the shot grazed his jacket, there was a bit of blood, nothing serious. He left the scene, got in his GTO, and drove home.

On the drive back Will pondered deeply on the whole case and the way he was deceived by David.
Karma had placed Will exactly where he needed to be; in a position where he would never be deceived again.


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Copyright 2020 00individual  TLL
Written spontaneously over a few hours between September 28 and October 3, 2020 with only The Stoned Private Eye, the 1970s, Karma, and a Noir Vibe as inspiration.

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THE STONED PRIVATE EYE – Season 3 Premiere – Tonight’s 1974 Episode: “Karma Outlaws”

Posted by 00individual on January 16, 2021
Posted in: 1960's and 1970's Culture Archives. Tagged: 00individual, 1970’s Noir Thriller, 1970s, Karma Outlaws, The STONED PRIVATE EYE. 1 Comment

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This is the first episode of Season 3
Tonight’s 1974 Episode: “Karma Outlaws”
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It was Saturday morning, Will got up, made a pot of coffee, and listened to his messages. On one of the messages there was a somewhat excited man who seemed like a possible client. Will phoned him back and agreed to meet him at his beachhouse in the Malibu Colony.

After a short but refreshing sea-air drive up the coast to Malibu, Will turned left off Pacific Coast Highway at Webb Way and cut back south on Malibu Road, then turned right, and slowed down at the guard gate to the Malibu Colony – but Will was expected, and was waved through by the gate security guard.

Once in the small Malibu Colony; home to actors, musicians, singers, and stars of TV and film, and the writers, directors, and producers of the same, he turned left down the alley which served as the main street with beach houses on the beach and “beach houses” across the alley.

Will had been to the Colony several times for clients, for business, and for fun. Today he was to meet with Lee Edwards, a B-Movie auteur that had recently scored big with his first major studio-backed hit, “Karma Outlaws”.

Will hung a U at the end of the alley and parked across from Edwards’ house. Once at the door, he was about to use the intercom when the door opened and he was greeted by Edwards.
After introductions, Edwards and Will went out onto the deck and sat down at a table to discuss business and soak up the sun and the rolling waves that came all the way up to the toes of two starlets sunbathing in the nude.

Edwards, while retrieving a nicely rolled joint from an antique box on the table: “Thank you for seeing me, I’ve heard a lot of good things about you.”
Will smiles, but says nothing.
Edwards lights the joint, takes a hit, and passes it to Will: “Mr. Trent . . .  ?
Will interrupts, corrects: “Will.”
Edwards: “Will, I think I can safely assume you are well aware of karma and its ramifications?”
Will slowly exhales the hit he was holding: “Your movie shined an excellent er, um, light on the subject.”
Edwards: “You are good, that hesitation tells me that my creative license is showing.”
Will smiles again: “Listen, I get it, it was entertainment, not a documentary.”
Edwards: “Yes, there had to be thrills and chills, even though you and I know that in reality, karma is not as “instant” as Lennon would have it.”
Will: “Mr. Edwards . . “
Edwards interrupts, corrects: “Lee.”
Will: “Lee, while I enjoy speaking with open-minded people about esoteric subjects, I’m getting a feeling I’m not here about a case.”
Edwards smiles: “No, don’t get me wrong, I want to hire you.” (he leans forward in his chair)  “I’ve written another script, and well, I’d like to hire you as a consultant.”

Will had done minor consulting before, but usually declined, as it took him off his game.

Before Will could respond, Edwards sensed Will’s reticence: “Here’s the thing, it’s a murder mystery with a karmic twist. The studio wants a trilogy, a “karmic” trilogy, that’s two more movies, this is a huge break for me, and I need your expertise, (he pauses) because it also involves a psychedelic element, that’s why I need the Stoned Private Eye.”

Will took the last puff of the joint and placed the roach in the ashtray, then he slowly exhaled, smiled at Lee, and then asked: “What kind of consultant?”
Edwards, enthusiastic, but careful: “Well, I really wanted to get the feel of a guy like you, a private eye in L.A., you see I get to direct as part of my contract, so I want to get real, to know what it’s like.”
Will sees where this is going: “You want to shadow me on a case.”
Edwards, excited: “Yes, see, you know.”
Will raises his eyebrows and grins: “Well, it was obvious.”
Edwards: “Yes, to you, I need to see that in action, I’ll pay you whatever it’s worth.”
Will: “It’s not the money, I can’t do my job with a (he pauses) partner, it’s inhibiting, besides I cannot be responsible for someone else’s life, things can and do get dangerous, you understand.”

Edwards’ shoulders slumped in disappointment.

The starlets both got up on their knees, straightened out their beach towels, and laid down on their backs – no tan lines for these two.

Will looks to Edwards: “But I’ll agree to consult regarding the whole karma subject, and offer insights that might help.”
Dejected Edwards agrees, puts Will on retainer, but perks up as he walks him to the door: “OK, so I’m deep into the script, I’ve taken notes already, and will get back to you soon.”
They shake hands and Will leaves.

Will drove past the guard and waved to him, but instead of turning right and merging with southbound PCH traffic toward home, he turned left onto Malibu Road and backed in to a parking space at the Malibu Colony Pharmacy and Coffee Shop – they had really good coffee. He went in; it was a small place but had local charm.

Will took the booth at the back nearest the kitchen and in full view of the establishment, it was an ingrained safety habit, no one behind him and a quick exit out the kitchen if necessary.

The waitress brought him a cup of coffee, and as he sipped the hot stimulating brew his thoughts brought him back to the karmic situations, actions, and results that he had encountered and experienced in his life thus far. There was one, maybe two, well, maybe a half-dozen that stood out, and while karma is initially personal, it can also be a vicarious experience.

While taking another sip of coffee, and as the cup’s rim just dropped below eye level, he immediately raised it back up obscuring his face.
For the second or two that the rim was dropped Will saw a man, two booths down, a man he knew, a dangerous man, a wanted man.
Will set down his cup and looked straight at the man.
The man ordered coffee from the waitress and as his eyes left her they came to rest on Will staring right at him.

Will knew the man could be armed, so Will needed to be quick, then through the Coffee Shop’s window he saw the police lights coming up PCH, sirens blaring.

Will got up and moved toward the man: “Let’s go!”
The Man got up and followed Will to his car, they both got in, Will revved the engine, and the GTO pulled out of the lot and around the corner, north on Malibu Road.

The Man: “Trent! My Man, wow, am I glad to see you! Have you been following me – who are you working for?”
Will: “Settle down, this was just a co-in (he pauses) coincidence, I just happened to be in the area. Why are the cops after you this time?”
The Man: “Ever hear of “no good deed goes unpunished?”
Will looks at him and knows the term well: ”Yes.”
The Man: “Well, I did a good deed and now I’m being punished.”

Will exited Malibu Road onto PCH south, down the grade, past the police cars at the Colony Coffee Shop, through Malibu proper, and straight on to his place in Venice.

On the drive to Will’s, the Man, David Bowie, (his real name – unlike the English rock star David Bowie, whose real name was David Jones) told Will a tale of trying to do the right thing and then getting demonized for it.

Will listened careful to spot tells in his story, but all Will could hear was a prime example of karma. Karma is not a negative act followed by a slip on a banana peel and a cracked head, in fact there really is no “good” or “bad” karma, it’s just cause and effect, and how those two play out. This can appear to be positive or negative, but it is neither.

Will sympathized with David’s predicament but there was nothing he could do except let his wayward friend stay off the grid at Will’s place for a day until the heat settled, and then David agreed to move on.

Will had several new messages on his machine, one was from Lee Edwards. Lee really wanted him to come to an impromptu party that night. Will decided a little fun wouldn’t hurt, called Lee back, asked if he could bring a friend, and then told David to spruce up while he ordered take-out for both of them from Wing Dang Noodles, a favorite place of his just down the block, they delivered.

After chowing down, Will took a quick shower, got dressed, and then he broke out his stash.
They both took a drug break consisting of a pill, a couple snorts, and a few puffs before heading out to the party.

The sun was setting as they drove to the Colony and were waved through at the gate. A car coming from the right of the alley slowly made the turn in front of them toward the gate. As Will and the driver saw each other, they both smiled, nodded, and waved, but kept in forward motion; the driver toward the gate and Will turned left towards Edwards’ house.

David, curious: “Who was that?”
Will: “William Peter Blatty, he lives on the beach at the other end. We’ve chatted on occasion.”
David: “Man, you get around more than I do.”
Will, as he parks: “Yeah, about that, remember after tonight you gotta get a move on tomorrow. I pulled you out of harm’s way today, but I can’t take on what is basically harboring a wanted criminal.
David interrupts: “Will, Man, I told you . . . (and then he stops) cool Trent, Man, I understand, and I appreciate it.”
Will: “Good, now let’s go inside and have some fun.”

Will felt the drugs’ magic come-on and knew David did too by the happy grin on his face.

They were greeted at the door by Edwards who was introduced to David and then all three made their way through the fairly crowded main room then out onto the expansive deck with a pool at the north end.
The sun had just set leaving a vibrant orange that underlit the clouds.
Will’s attention was diverted by a tap on the shoulder. He turned to see a joint was being offered by one of the starlets from earlier that day; the nicely-tanned blonde one.

Will: “Thank you.”
He lights it, takes a hit, and hands it back, the starlet takes a dainty, but full hit.
Will exhales: “What’s your name?”
Starlet: “Jamie.”
Will: “Well, Jamie, I’m . . .
Jamie interrupts: “I know who you are, William Trent, the Stoned Private Eye, Lee’s been talking about you all day. Are you as good as they say?”
Jamie moves closer to Will.
Will: “They?”
Jamie moves close enough that Will is feeling her body heat, or was it his?
Jamie: “If so, you must be incredible in bed.”

Will was aware that he had a sort of built-in savoir faire, looks, and masculinity that attracted women; these traits had served him well, mostly, so while this was not surprising, he didn’t get a bad vibe, as a matter of fact it felt good.

Jamie led Will down a hall, up a flight of stairs to a bedroom overlooking the beach and the ocean.
Will wanted to feel that body warmth again and pulled her to him and firmly held her just above the lower arch of her back. She looked into his eyes as they kissed. And that was all it took before there were two bodies on the bed, naked, and writhing as one.

After some truly incredible love-making they both laid on their backs staring at their fronts in the mirrored ceiling.

Jamie: ”Willian Trent, you sure measured up, in more ways than one.”
She coyly smiles at Will in the ceiling mirror.
Will, joining in the fun: “Well, if we’re rating, and this is no lie, a 10 doesn’t describe you – oh, and the no tan lines was a turn-on, but you knew that.”
Jamie smiles again, then gets up to get dressed.
Will: “What are you doing?”
Jamie: “Getting back to the party, Lee probably wonders where we are.”
Wil, getting dressed: “He’s bright, he’ll figure it out.”

They both leave the bedroom and head to the stairs and as they began to descend the stairs, Lee was at the bottom looking terrified: ”Will, there’s been a murder!”

Will and Jamie follow Lee down the hall, out to the deck, and to the pool. There was a woman floating face down with blood spreading out from her body.

Will: “Lee, who is it?”
Jamie, sobbing: “It’s Gloria!”
Will: “Is that your friend from earlier.”
Jamie, through her sobbing: “Yes.”
Will turns to Lee: “How’d this happen?”
Lee: “I don’t know, I just heard a woman scream, and . . “
Will: “Who screamed?”
Lee points to a female guest.

As Will walks over to the stunned woman he looks around and doesn’t see David.

Will to the Woman: “What happened?”
Woman: “I just walked out and over to the pool and there she was.”
Will: “No one was with you?”
Woman: “No, I was just getting some air.”
Will: “You saw no one out here, on the deck, or down on the beach?”
Woman: “No, no, there was, no one (she pauses and points) but I heard something near the side fence, like movement.”

Will hopped the deck’s railing and saw fresh tracks in the sand that led alongside the house to the alley.
He quickly backtracked into the house and asked Lee to phone the security guard.
Lee handed the phone to Will – Will told the guard what happened and if he noticed a car leave, he said no, that meant the killer was on foot.
Will didn’t like the picture that no car, and on foot, and no David painted.

Lee to Will: “This could ruin me, and just when things were . . . Will, I need you to forget the consulting, I need you to make this go away.”

Will was in many ways what would be termed as a fixer, but murder was a whole different matter, the police had to be called-in, the word would get out, but shouldn’t reflect on Lee – but it would.

He told Lee he would do what he could, but now he needed Lee to tell everyone to stay until the police arrived, if anyone left, Lee would give their names to the police. Everyone nervously complied.

Will felt that the easiest way to eliminate possible suspects was to read each individual’s vibe, but he felt no evil from the partiers, they were just scared. Besides he was certain it was none of them.

Will called his “inside man” at the local P.D, Detective Erik Valdez, his father was Mexican and his mother Scandanavian, hence Erik’s sandy blonde perpetually tan look. Eric was the young buck of the P.D. and had a much more open mind than most. Their unspoken kindred spirits created a mutual respect that helped each other fight evil – and solve cases – he would be right over.
In the meantime Lee and Jamie provided Will with as much info about the victim, Gloria Morrison, as they knew.
It was late, Will told Lee he’d get back to him tomorrow and left. As he pulled out of the Colony the police were pulling in. He cruised home half-thinking he’d see David hitch-hiking or in the shadows along the highway.

When he backed-in to his space in the garage he got a strange feeling, he got out of his car and there in the shadows was David. As he staggered into the light toward Will he was holding his side, there was blood, he collapsed.
Will helped him up the stairs to the bathroom and checked his wound.
Will: “What happened?”
David, in pain: “I was on the deck near the pool with Gloria, when someone, a guy, jumped up out of the shadows at the edge of the deck and attacked Gloria.”
David winces in pain as Will listens while attending his wound.
David continues: “As I went to stop him, he turned and stabbed me, then he stabbed Gloria, she fell in the pool, and then he jumped the railing and disappeared.”

Will didn’t need to ask why David didn’t stick around.

Will: “Did you get a look at the guy?”
David: “Yes, I did, better than that I got a name, Gloria looked horrified before he stabbed her and said, “Robert?!”.
Will: This wound is pretty deep, you need to see a doctor.”
David: “I can’t.”
Will: “I know, you’ll see my doctor.”

Will went to his desk and made a call. Then returned to David: “The doctor will be here soon.”

Within minutes Will’s good friend arrived and began tending to David.
Will: “David, this is “The Doc” and that’s all you need to know.”
David smiled through the pain.
Will to them both: “I have to make a couple calls.”

Will goes to his desk, sits down, opens a drawer, opens a small engraved box and loads a bowl with Hashish crumbles, sits back, lights it slow, inhales, and then his lungs expand, the feeling of the downside-ride of a rollercoaster wants his lungs to burst and he holds on for as long as possible as he slowly exhales while holding back the massive urge to cough.

With a straighter head Will makes a call to his connection Detective Valdez and leaves a message of what he knows in confidence, Will was only known as Valdez’ informant to the rest of the department – but Will left out the identity of his informant, David.

The Doc entered the room: “He’ll be fine, eventually, the blade missed the important stuff, I stitched him up, he’ll be out for a while.”
The Doc hands Will a small container of pain pills: “”Have him use these sparingly, you know the deal. Oh, and it will take some time for him to heal completely, he’s a lucky guy.”
Will thanks him, and The Doc leaves.

Those last words The Doc said, “he’s a lucky guy”, got Will thinking; he hadn’t seen David in months maybe even a year or so, and then just briefly at another party. Even though he knew him as a teenager didn’t mean that he knew him now; and if he was telling the truth then there should have been two sets of footprints leading to the alley, but there was only one, the killer’s.
This didn’t look good in Will’s eyes, the thing that bugged him was that he wasn’t getting any evil, or even a bad vibe from David, so either he was losing it, or David was good at blocking his underlying emotions, or he was innocent.

Will gave Lee a call to let him know that the police had a lead and had the resources and the man-power to catch the killer, and he also advised him to not talk to anyone, the press, reporters, anyone, until he sat down with his publicist – he considered it as part of his job at this point. He then told him he would be in touch.

He picked up his pipe and took another hit, then another to finish it off.

Will was well aware that anytime one interacts with another there are degrees of karma at work. Each case Will took on required a certain amount of karma transference if not for the mere fact of involving one in someone else’s life.
It is the degrees of involvement that dictate the degree of the karmic outcome.
Will’s immediate degree of karma started with his involvement with Lee Edwards, a seemingly innocuous action, yet it got him in the vicinity of David Bowie, at that point instead of letting the scene play out he inexplicably involved himself in David’s plight. Which in turn while attending a party turned into a murder case, which then led to his present predicament – was he harboring a murderer in the next room?

Will decided to call it a night and meet with Lee tomorrow to help with a public statement which would also give him a daylight look at the murder scene. He wouldn’t have to be concerned with David, he’d be dealing with pain.

The next day at Lee’s, Will assisted Lee’s publicist with a statement that would portray Lee as an unfortunate host of a party where, no fault of his own, became the place of a murder.
But just as his statement was finished, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety were delivered in his mail, both had breaking news with similar headlines, “Starlet Murdered At Producer’s Malibu Home”.

Will looked at Lee: “This is Hollywood, the “entertainment” capital, where gossip is God, this was inevitable.”
Lee looks dejected, then remorseful: “That poor girl, why? And why here?”
Will walked over toward the pool.
Lee: “The police were here earlier to look the scene over in daylight.”
Will circles to the backside of the pool.
Lee: “Looked like they were pretty thorough, not much to see,. really.”
Will: “Sometimes I see things others don’t, that’s why you hired me.”
Lee, suddenly surprised: “I’ve been so out of it I didn’t realize that we’re on a murder case together!”
Will, about to say no, but then realized that it was true, whether he liked it or not Lee was not only a client, but an integral part of the case. He’s getting what he wanted; “to get real, to know what it’s like.”

Will, knowing that since he already stuck his big toe in the karmic pool that he might as well go for a swim: “Lee, grab your things, we need to go to your studio.”

Once on the road, Lee: “Man, this GTO is great I gotta get one.”
Will: “What’s your ride?”
Lee, now a little embarrassed: “A Cadillac.”
Will changes the subject: “Listen, about Gloria, you told me earlier she was in your new movie.”
Lee: “Yes, she was in one of my slasher films too, “Beach Party Hell”, she was the first to die . . . but she had a bigger part in Karma Outlaws as a quirky dancer at a club and girlfriend of the main bad guy –  and she lives.”

Will: “I found out that the killer’s name was Robert, did Gloria ever mention a Robert?”
Lee: “I have a good memory, but beyond what I need to know, it kinda doesn’t register.”
Will: “And no Bob, Bobby, Roberto?”
Lee: “Sounds like the film crew, it’s a pretty common name.”

As they clear the main entrance at M.G.M Studios in Culver City, Will asks Lee to take him to the sets used for Karma Outlaws.

Will: “To your knowledge have the police been here?
Lee: “Why? I mean no, I don’t think so.”

Lee directs Will to what is essentially an airplane hanger. Will parks, they go inside.
No movies were being shot and most of the interior sets were still standing.

Will singled-out the Club set where Gloria danced, he had seen the movie and remembered that scene. It wasn’t about Gloria’s dancing that stuck but the villain, her onscreen boyfriend that did. Upon that thought he got chills, that was Will getting a confirmation that he was on the right track. He had long acknowledged his gifts and stopped questioning them; they were gifts that most humans have but never take seriously. He did and they served him well.

Will: “Who was the actor who played the villain?
Lee: “That was a talented actor out here from back East that moved up in the ranks of my B-Movie era, Dolph Layton, he was convincing don’t you think?”
Will: “Was he in Beach Party Hell with Gloria, where she gets killed?”
Lee: “Well, yes, I use a lot of the same actors; many directors do.”
Will: “Was he the villain? Was he the one who killed her in the movie?
Lee: “No. And yes.”
Will: “I need to speak with his agent.”
Lee: “I know that agency, I’ve got their number at my office, (Lee perks up) I’ve got my own on-studio office now.”

Once inside; Lee flips through his Rolodex, here it is “Spartan Talent.”
Will: “Call, ask for his agent and find out what his real name is, his complete name, tell them it’s important for his career, they’ll believe it coming from you.”
Lee called and the agent was willing to reveal his real name; Adolph Robert Layton.
Will: “Get Layton’s residence address.”
Lee told the agent that he wanted to speak to him personally about a new role, but wanted it to be a surprise, so could he have his address, once again the agent was happy to oblige.

Will and Lee get in the GTO.
Will: “He’s our Robert, they knew each other intimately, to the point of familiarity of her calling him by his middle name.”
Lee: “Not again! They’ll probably pull my movie from the theaters, – a murdered actress and her killer boyfriend,”
Will: “We don’t know if he’s her boyfriend yet.”

They pulled up across the street from the address in Westchester, a suburban neighborhood just north of LAX.

Will told Lee to stay in the GTO, but if he turned around and looked at him to wave.
Will crossed the street and knocked on the door.
A male voice from behind the door: “Who is it?”
Will: “Lee Edwards would like to speak with you, I’m his driver.”
Layton opens the door.
Will turns to face Lee in the GTO, Lee waves.
Will turns on the homo act: “It must be some-thing spe-cial because he wants to ask you in per-son.”
Layton opens the door and walks with Will.
Layton: “Why in a car?”
Will: “Listen he’s really excited, and whoops (he fake trips on the sidewalk and bumps into Layton) sorry, I almost fell, he couldn’t wait, plus I think he has some great news for you.”

Will senses Layton’s apprehension despite the semi-believable ruse and politely opens the car door, Layton gets in the backseat, Will gets in the driver’s seat, with Lee riding shotgun.
Lee turns in his seat: “Dolph my boy, have I got a surprise for you that just couldn’t wait.”
Layton smiles, but not for long, as he sees cop cars coming up the street.
Layton: “Let me out or I’ll kill you both!”
He reaches for his knife, but it’s not there.
Will holds out the knife he lifted from Layton when he tripped and bumped into him: “You mean with this?”
Will holds Layton’s knife just out of reach so when he grabbed for it Will elbowed him in the face whereby Layton crumbled into the back seat unconscious.

Will and Lee exit the GTO, Det. Erik Valdez meets up with them.
Will: “Here’s your killer, and the murder weapon.”
Will hands the knife to Valdez.
Valdez, looking in the backseat: “What happened to him?”
Will: “He was resisting a citizen’s arrest.”

The next day Will let David sleep and met Lee at his house for his final payment and to cancel any ”consulting” going forward.

Will: “Well, you got what you wanted, the real deal, and you played a big part, sorry for any fallout from this on your career.”
Lee: “Are you kidding, this is insane, I just got a call this morning and the demand for Karma Outlaws has it reopening across the country. The studio has doubled the budget on the next two films of the trilogy – Karma Outlaws has become a cultural classic! What I thought would doom me just jettisoned my career. I’m even getting offers to direct! Even the critics are taking another look and are seeing the karma in the story – and now in real life.”

All Will could do was smile and shake his head: “Hollywood.”

Back at his place Will found that David had left. There was a note on his desk, it read;
Will, thanks for everything, you were a real Brother, I won’t forget it. But there’s just one thing, you got the wrong guy, Gloria was my cheating girlfriend, it was a self-inflicted wound, and my middle name is Robert.

Will began the immediate trackdown of the killer, David Robert Bowie.

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NEXT WEEK

KARMA OUTLAWS: THE SHOWDOWN

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Copyright 2020 00individual  TLL
Written spontaneously over a few hours during August 31, and September 7, 2020 with only The Stoned Private Eye, the 1970s, Karma, and a Noir Vibe as inspiration.

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For those who may have missed part one of this two part episode
“Karma Outlaws” Part One

Tonight’s 1974 Episode: “Karma Outlaws – The Showdown”

Before setting out to trackdown the killer, David Robert Bowie, Will needed to know why things got by him, signs he should have heeded, and why he did not sense the vibes of a killer that he not only helped to escape the law but that he invited into his own home?

Time was of the essence, so Will bypassed his normal investigation mode and went to a tried and true source. He grabbed his duffle bag filled with essentials, got in his GTO and took off to Hollywood. 

Once there, he pulled to the curb in front of an old Gothic wrought iron fenced home, hustled up the stairs, knocked on the door, and was greeted by a special friend, Juanita Touthre’.

Juanita had a gift, she could “see” without anything other than knowing the situations, any known people, and the area. She was in her sixties and had been doing this all her life – involuntarily at first, then she got control, and has since helped more people than anyone will ever know.

She invited Will in, and after a short polite conversation.
Juanita: “Will I see that you are in an urgent state, what can I do to help?”
Will explained the situation.
Juanita: “Will, what you are dealing with, this former friend, goes deeper than the goal you have in mind.”
She pauses, closes her eyes: “You opened karmic doors when you allowed him into your life.”
She opens her eyes and leans forward across the table where they are sitting: “Will, you need to be very careful, this man has no soul, no accounting for his behavior.”
Will exasperated: “How could I not see it?”
Juanita: “Sometimes evil reaches a point that becomes unnoticeable. That is when karma comes calling where good needs to match evil’s level.”
There is a stillness, then Juanita speaks: “Did he mention that no good deed goes unpunished?”
Will: “Yes, yes he did.”
Juanita: “You’ve experienced that, sometimes for certain people a time comes when the karma seems to hit hard, but it’s an opportunity to learn and move on as a wiser person, or conversely, a wiser evil person.”

Juanita closes her eyes once again; Will can nearly feel the vibrations emanating from her.

Juanita: “The man you seek is still in the city, he’s in pain, trying to numb it in a Downtown bar.”
Will smiles sincerely: “Thank you Juanita.”
She walks him to the door: “The reason you could not read him is because you had never experienced the level of evil this man hides.”
Will looks to Juanita: “Then I guess it’s about time I did.”

She blesses him before he leaves.

Will got on the 101 freeway south and headed straight for Downtown.

Will figured that David probably stole a car and was in a bar on the outskirts of Downtown, most likely near a room-for-rent hotel as he would still be in pain from the self-inflicted stab wound.

Will cruised the outer Downtown border streets, street by street, concentrating on being as sensitive to the killer’s vibe as he could.

He passed a few bars and hotels but none together or close by. He had just crossed from the Fashion District into the Toy District, and as he turned east down a street of warehouses and stores he saw the lights from a lonely gas station down at the end of the street. As he approached the intersection there it was, the “The Pinnacle Hotel” and right next to it was “The Pinnacle Bar”. For a second Will felt good, then the feeling dissolved into overwhelming dread. It was David, the killer, the one who was able to deceive him.

At the very least he was picking up on his vibe, and it was not good, sickening actually, but he realized that this was the new part of the territory he ventured into where evil exists just for evil’s sake. Will got the chills like never before, confirmation that he was absolutely right.

He parked, pulled out his .38 and put it in his right side leather jacket pocket.
Normally he would take a few seconds to down a pill, snort a line, or take a few puffs on a joint, but right then he knew that he was already in those states without the assist. This was new and he remembered what Juanita once said that rang true and that was that “like attracts like within their equal levels”. What this meant to Will was that since he had not come across true sociopathic evil he could not detect it, he needed to allow himself to match this evil equally.

He crossed the street and entered the Bar.
A quick scan revealed no David. He checked the men’s room, not there – he was in his hotel room next door.

No-Tell Hotels like this one asked no questions and gave no answers, unless paid. Knowing this Will entered and went to the check-in desk: “I’d like a room; on the first floor?
Clerk: ”Third floor is all I got, ya want it?”

Will paid, took the keys, and walked the hall of the first floor. He did not feel a negative vibe.
He climbed the stairs to the second floor and slowly walked the hall, he felt tinges of negativity, but not coming from any of the rooms behind the closed doors.
He continued to the third floor and tightened the grip on his gun.
Will’s room was 303, there were ten rooms on each floor; the killer was in one of the remaining nine rooms.
At that moment Will knew which room the killer David was in, he sensed it strongly as he unlocked the door to his room – it was room 304, the room right next to his.
Will closed the door, left it unlocked, and gave the room a quick examination for anything off. All was clear.

He sat down in a chair that was up against the wall facing the door and to the right of a window. He checked his left leather jacket pocket for handcuffs, and as his blood pumped and his temperature rose the cold metal cooled his hot hands.

Will had been very lucky in his dealings with criminals and killers; he’d been knocked around a bit, shot at but never hit, even involved in a couple of life or death situations. He was wise and street-wise, but he knew that even though David was wounded that it wasn’t going to be easy. 

And as he saw himself sitting in a chair in a third story hotel room Downtown with fluorescent lights from the gas station across the street serving as the only ambient light, he quickly thought of what it was that brought him to this situation; was it actually karma in action that he was there because of past actions for helping out a friend, or even if he hadn’t run into David would he still there, in that chair, for the same reason – to catch a killer.

It was then that Will knew the answer, the answer had been debated between a good friend and Will back in the philosophical days of youth.
The question was: If you see someone about to commit suicide and could prevent it, would you?
For most people the answer would be “yes”, but Will and his friend went deeper.

There are two answers; one, is that you leave it to them whether to choose to live or end their life and you not only don’t disrupt their life’s plan but do not take on any of their karma. 

And two, if you do prevent it, you interfered with the life of someone whose destiny and their own personal karma was disrupted by your “good deed”. And you have become an intimate participator in the most important moment of their life, a moment that is extremely personal to them – and now to you – as you have a karmic attachment to them – whether you like it or not.

Will realized that in his own way in this situation, he did number two, and it stunk.

It was time for action, enough cosmic thought.
Will quietly got up and walked close to the adjoining wall.

He heard nothing. Will turned on the room’s radio with the volume down low on a jazz station to cover his movements.

He slowly opened the window, leaned outside to see if there was any movement through 304’s curtain – and there was; the killer was in there.

Will suddenly got gut-wrenching pains in his stomach, it felt like a hot iron had stabbed him. The pain came from the same place that David had stabbed himself.
Will was feeling a symbiotic pain that the killer felt, or was feeling, just on the other side of the wall in the next room.

Will had reached a new level of reading this evil. 

He could just bolt in, take him by surprise, and cuff him. But something was holding him back. That would be an easy move under normal conditions, but Will realized that if he could now read this level of evil that meant that David had been reading him ever since he arrived at the hotel, or even sooner.

Just then the door was kicked open by David who held a sawed-off shotgun aimed straight at Will.
Will had his hand on his revolver, finger on the trigger, in his leather jacket pocket.

David: “Don’t move a muscle my friend, don’t move a muscle.”
Will: “What happened to you?”
David: “Nothing happened to me, I’ve always been like this, only now I’m driven.”
Will: “And why’s that?”
David: “You know why, the same thing that drives you, drives me – we’re the same only different.” 

David stepped inside and closed the busted door with his bootheel.
Will contemplated his move but once again resisted.

David: “You know, your fault is that you think you don’t go by the rules, but you do.”
David pumps the shotgun: “Me, I make the rules. And just like this isn’t your first case, Gloria wasn’t my first kill.”

Will’s finger tightens on the Smith and Wesson’s trigger.

David: “Like I said in the note, I appreciated your help back there, but you know how this will end.”
Will: “Just one thing, I’m gonna need you to take the first shot, so I’ll be in the clear after I kill you.”

And that was all it took to get under evil’s skin, Will felt it, he knew it, a statement, a fact, a taunt that gave Will his edge – he immediately dove to the floor just a split-second before David pulled the trigger and the shot grazed Will’s leather jacket and blew a hole in the wall.

Through his jacket pocket Will fired squarely at David, then again, and again, sending evil back to Hell.

Will put his cuffs on the fallen David, he was taking no chances, he called Detective Valdez from a pay-phone in the lobby, then went back up to the room and stayed until the police arrived with an ambulance.

He explained to Det. Valdez that David Robert Bowie was the real killer of Gloria at the party, not Dolph Layton. Valdez told him that Layton’s guilty display upon arrest was from being caught for an outstanding warrant from back East. 

Will felt his shoulder where the shot grazed his jacket, there was a bit of blood, nothing serious. He left the scene, got in his GTO, and drove home.

On the drive back Will pondered deeply on the whole case and the way he was deceived by David.
Karma had placed Will exactly where he needed to be; in a position where he would never be deceived again.


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Copyright 2020 00individual  TLL
Written spontaneously over a few hours between September 28 and October 3, 2020 with only The Stoned Private Eye, the 1970s, Karma, and a Noir Vibe as inspiration.

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The Last Objects Produced By Humanity That Will Still Be Identifiable In Fifty Million Years After People: Plastic Goods. 00individual’s Contribution For The Preservation Of Human Culture: Plastic Goods.

Posted by 00individual on January 8, 2021
Posted in: 1960's and 1970's Culture Archives. Tagged: 00individual, 3D Batman comic cover, Goro, hand sculpt, Heavy Metal Embrace, Legend of Sharkman, WWF Superstars. Leave a comment


Heavy Metal Magazine’s first licensed piece was of cover artist Chichoni’s “Embrace” 1997
12″ hand-sculpt by 00 cast in Polyurethane Resin / Plastic as a Model Kit for Streamlline Pictures.

PLASTIC GOODS

As speculated by authorities in various relevant fields in the series “Life After People”, all that will still survive in 50,000,000 years buried under layers of sediment will be various human artifacts made of plastics. Plastic goods will be the last objects produced by humanity still identifiable.

PLASTICS
ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) is an opaque rigid thermoplastic and amorphous polymer.
PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) is the world’s third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene. About 40 million tons of PVC are produced each year.

ABS and PVC are the plastics used to produce nearly all toys and action figures.
Polyurethane Resin / Plastic and hybrids make up most of the collectible market of figural statues and the immensely varied worldwide giftware and home decoration market.

That being said, here are a few examples of 00individual’s creations from the classic era when action figures and toys were hand-sculpted, (before the advent of digital sculpts in computer files and 3D printing), that will still be around in 50 million years:

WWF Superstars first series 1996
Original design of Bone Crunching Action (BCA) and hand-sculpts by 00 for Jakks Pacific
00 would go on to design and sculpt over 40 lines of A/Fs for Jakks from ’96 thru early 2000’s
ABS and metal joints within flexible PVC – 6″ tall

The Legend of Sharkman first series 1997
Design and hand-sculpts by 00 for Maui and Sons
ABS and PVC – Approx. 5.5″, 6″, 6.5″, 7″ tall

“What’s Opera, Doc” Ltd. Ed. 1997
Polyurethane Resin Art for the Warner Brothers Stores hand-sculpt / design / background by 00.
Approx. 12″ x 14″

First Batman Comic Book Cover Ltd. Ed. 1997
Polyurethane Resin Art for the Warner Brothers Stores hand-sculpt / design by 00
Approx. 14″ x 18″
Michael Jackson bought two!

Mortal Kombat GORO Ltd. Ed. 1999
Polyurethane Resin pre-painted statue hand-sculpt / design by 00 for Infinite Concepts
Approx. 12″ x 13″

Mortal Kombat first series 2000
Original C.O.G.J.I.T. (Center Of Gravity Joint Integrity Technology) Design
and hand-sculpts by 00 for Infinite Concepts
PVC – Females 7.5″ Males 8.5″ tall

T.E.X. (Test and EXperimental) Animated Robot 1998
Original design and hand-sculpt and storyline by 00 for Everbright Toys
ABS and PVC and Electronics – T.E.X. approx. 12″ tall

P.O.D.Z. interactive “Asteroids with Attitude” character toys 2002
Original character designs and hand-sculpts by 00 for Playmates
Shown: “2-up” resin casts of original sculpts with one hand-painted master,
and finished products in and out of packaging.
ABS and Interactive Electronics – Approx. 3.5″ tall

And here’s the earliest attempts at action figure design and figural art by 00 – in desperation, due to the total lack of action figures in 1959-60 at about 9 years old he carved rubber pink erasers into “action figures” of Hanna-Barbera’s cartoon characters Quick Draw McGraw and his sidekick Baba Looey.

00individual created many other fun items throughout the decades that were produced, but suffice it to say that he invested his energies into the one true element to withstand time – PLASTICS.

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A PVC State Of Bliss
There’s nothin’ quite like the initial pleasing, aromatherapy reaction by the olfactory senses
when the freshly-opened blister off the card of a action figure is removed –
and the inhalation of its intoxicating wafts of PVC goodness fills the soul.
Ahhh yes, sublime.

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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of 1971 – featuring January

Posted by 00individual on January 1, 2021
Posted in: 1970, 1970's Rock Concert and Culture Chronicles, 1970s Historic & Classic Rock Albums. Tagged: 00individual, December 1970, January 1971. Leave a comment

“January 1971 Babe” Copyright 2021 00individual TLL

EXPERIENCE the HISTORICAL HEIGHT of POP and ROCK and PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE!
January 1971

January 1971 Happenings:

Jan 2 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV and radio but not in magazines or the printed page. The accepted culture of smoking by men and women didn’t need to be promoted, but those interested or tired of their current brand did, and so, these ads touted their flavor, but mostly their image of smiling, satisfied smokers at leisure by a pool, or on a horse out on the range. The one thing they all had in common was that they were mostly full of sexual innuendo – with way too many examples to show here – but it was usually done with the basic advertising motto in mind, “sex sells”, so there’s that. And if not sexy, there was the straight-forward approach of endorsement by sincere doctors and celebrities. Back in the early ’70s during 00individual’s record store manager days he smoked Benson and Hedges menthol – he liked to crystalize his lungs.

Jan 4 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
Jan 5 Body of former world heavyweight boxing champion Charles “Sonny” Liston (40) is found by his wife Geraldine at their Las Vegas home; he had been dead for an estimated 6 days; foul play suspected
Jan 6 Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones
Jan 6 Neil Young returns to his homeland of Canada for his first concert there since his pre-stardom days
Jan 8 29 pilot whales beach themselves & die at San Clemente Island, California
Jan 12 “All in the Family” premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV
Jan 12 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
Jan 12 US Federal grand jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
Jan 12 Negotiations over price of petroleum begin in Tehran between 6 OPEC Persian Gulf states and 22 oil companies
Jan 15 George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord” single in the UK – he is ultimately sued and loses for plagerism of the The Chiffons “He’s So Fine”
Jan 18 Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in New York, to become WWF champ
Jan 19 The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter” is played at Charles Manson trial
Jan 20 Single “What’s Going On” by Marvin Gaye about police brutality is released
Jan 22 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record “Power to the People”
Jan 25 Charles Manson & 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
Jan 25 Military coup in Uganda under Major General Idi Aminan
Jan 30 UCLA starts 88 basketball game winning streak
Jan 31 “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison hits #1 on UK pop chart
Jan 31 Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands

US Top 20 Singles for the Week Ending January 23, 1971:

1  KNOCK THREE TIMES – Dawn (Bell)
2 MY SWEET LORD / ISN’T IT A PITY – George Harrison (Apple)
3 ONE LESS BELL TO ANSWER – The 5th Dimension (Bell)
4 LONELY DAYS –The Bee Gees (Atco)
5 BLACK MAGIC WOMAN – Santana (Columbia)
6 STONEY END – Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
7 GROOVE ME – King Floyd (Chimneyville)
8 YOUR SONG – Elton John (Uni)
9 ROSE GARDEN – Lynn Anderson (Columbia)
10 IT’S IMPOSSIBLE – Perry Como (RCA)
11 I THINK I LOVE YOU – The Partridge Family (Shirley Jones and David Cassidy) (Bell)
12 STONED LOVE – The Supremes (Motown)
13 IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN – Gladys Knight and the Pips (Soul)
14 RIVER DEEP-MOUNTAIN HIGH – The Supremes and the Four Tops (Motown)
15 LOVE THE ONE YOU’RE WITH – Stephen Stills (Atlantic)
16 I HEAR YOU KNOCKING – Dave Edmunds (MAM)
17 THE TEARS OF A CLOWN – Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (Tamla)
18 IMMIGRANT SONG – Led Zeppelin (Atlantic)
19 DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS – Chicago (Columbia)
20 FOR THE GOOD TIMES – Ray Price (Columbia)

 January 1971 Album Releases:
Check out these rock classics in bold: – underlined are the full albums:

1 Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda
1 Cluster – Cluster ’71
1 Karen Dalton – In My Own Time  – a 00 favorite, unique voice – first track is perfection – Ms Dalton is the white Billy Holiday..
2 Elvis Country (I’m 10,000 Years Old) – Elvis Presley
3 McDonald and Giles – Ian McDonald and Michael Giles
11 Chicago III – Chicago
11 Pearl – Janis Joplin
12 Love It To Death – Alice Cooper
13 Deliverin’ – Poco Live
15 Hooker ‘n Heat – John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat
16 ZZ Top’s First Album – ZZ Top
Extraction – Gary Wright
Greatest Hits – Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes – Ian Matthews 
Jerry Butler Sings Assorted Sounds – Jerry Butler
Little Feat – Little Feat
Melting Pot – Booker T & the MG’s
Nantucket Sleighride – Mountain
The Point! – Harry Nilsson
Salisbury – Uriah Heep US
Sister Kate – Kate Taylor
Straight Life – Freddie Hubbard
There Must Be More to Love Than This – Jerry Lee Lewis
You’re Not Alone – Dion
B.B. King – Live in Cook County Jail
Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun
Various Artists – Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Kris Kristofferson – The Silver Tongued Devil and I
The Rascals – Peaceful World
Rory Gallagher – Deuce
Jade Warrior – Released
Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
Bob Dylan – Live at the Isle of Wight Festival
 
January 1971 Movies:
1 Punishment Park
Something Big
15 Vanishing Point
21 Zachariah
24 The Music Lovers
25 City Beneath the Sea
28 10 Rillington Place
28 The Last Valley
 
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1970 – 50th Anniversary Year-End Celebration! . . . . . Top Happenings, Albums, Singles, TV Shows, Movies, and Cost Of Living of the Epic Year 1970!

Posted by 00individual on December 26, 2020
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“1970 – 50th Anniversary” Copyright 2020 00individual  TLL

LIVE, FROM A HALF CENTURY IN THE PAST!
HIGHLIGHTS OF AN EXCEPTIONAL YEAR – 1970!

Back in 1969 the review of the past ten years was phenomenally historic, so looking forward to the 1970s seemed like adventuring 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, created a high level of optimism due to the fact that the Counter-Culture was in full-force.  While the ’60s built an incredible cultural framework – the ’70s continued the work and followed-through with vigor.

PREPARE TO BE AMAZED!
00individual tallied up the Top Happenings, Albums, Singles, Movies, and TV Shows of 1970 presenting the highlights of the World Class Creativity of all of those responsible for a very entertaining and mind-blowing year – 00individual knows this to be true – he was 19 and he was there.

MONTHLY HAPPENINGS of 1970:
January
3 – Ex-Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett releases his first solo album The Madcap Laughs.
January 4 – The Who drummer Keith Moon fatally runs over his chauffeur with his Bentley trying to escape a mob outside a pub. The death is later ruled an accident.
January 4 – Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
January 5 – The first episode of All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
January 7 – Max Yasgur, owner of the New York farm where the 1969 Woodstock Festival was held, is sued for $35,000 in property damages by neighboring farmers.
January 9 – Led Zeppelin performs at The Royal Albert Hall. John Bonham plays a fifteen minutes rendition of “Moby Dick”.
January 14 – Diana Ross & The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas
January 16 – John Lennon’s London art gallery exhibit of lithographs, Bag One, is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying “erotic lithographs”.
January 24 – James “Shep” Sheppard, of The Heartbeats and Shep and the Limelites, is found murdered in his car on the Long Island Expressway.
January 26 – Simon & Garfunkel release their final album together, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The title track and album stay #1 on the Billboard charts for six weeks and go on to win a record six Grammys at the 13th Grammy Awards, including “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year”, and “Album of the Year.” In Britain it tops the album chart at regular intervals over the next two years, and becomes the best-selling album in Britain during the 1970s.
January 27 – Miles Davis makes the final recordings for his experimental album Circle in the Round, featuring sitar and tabla.
January 28 – The newly formed Band of Gypsies breaks up when guitarist Jimi Hendrix walks out after playing just two songs, telling the audience “I’m sorry we just can’t get it together”.
January 31 – Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges

February 11 – The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, is premiered in New York City. The film’s soundtrack album, including Badfinger’s “Come and Get It” (written and produced by Paul McCartney), is released on Apple Records.
February 13 – English band Black Sabbath release their self titled debut album in the U.K., credited as the first major album in the heavy metal genre.
February 14 – The Who records Live At Leeds in Yorkshire, England. The Grateful Dead plays an equally historic concert on the same date at the Fillmore East, New York City.
February 17 – Joni Mitchell announces that she is retiring from live performances, following her show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. She would be back performing concerts within a year.
February 17 – MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out “hippies” did it.
February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.
February 23 – Ringo Starr appears on the television show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
February 26 – Beatles release “Beatles Again” aka “Hey Jude” album
February 27 – Jefferson Airplane is fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
February 28 – Led Zeppelin perform in Copenhagen under the pseudonym The Nobs, to avoid a threatened lawsuit by Count Eva von Zeppelin, descendant of airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

March 4 – Janis Joplin is fined $200 for using obscene language during a concert performance in Tampa, Florida.
March 6 – Cult leader and suspected murderer Charles Manson releases an album titled Lie: The Love and Terror Cult to help finance his defense.
March 5 – “Airport” based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released
March 6 – A bomb constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey explodes, killing three members of the organization.
March 7 – Mountain, one of the many bands credited as having influence in the development of heavy metal music, releases Climbing!, their debut album.
March 11 – The 12th Annual Grammy Awards are presented in Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and Atlanta. Blood, Sweat & Tears’ self-titled album wins Album of the Year, The 5th Dimension’s “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” wins Record of the Year and Joe South’s “Games People Play” wins Song of the Year. Crosby, Stills & Nash win Best New Artist.
March 15 – West German pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka features 5½ hours’ daily live performances of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (to September 13).
March 17 – My Lai massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
March 18 – United States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
March 19 – David Bowie marries model Angela Barnett.
March 21 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
March 21 – In Amsterdam, Dana wins the 15th annual Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with the song All Kinds of Everything. She is elected to the European Parliament some 29 years later.
March 26 – Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14-year-old girl in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1969.
March 30 – Miles Davis’s influential double album “Bitches Brew” released
March 31 – NASA’s Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

April 1 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
April 1 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971.
April 1 – American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.
April 2 – The London Magistrate’s Court hears arguments on John Lennon’s indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs during his art exhibit on January 16.
April 10 – Paul McCartney publicly announces that he has left The Beatles in a press release, written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album and headlined in the Daily Mirror newspaper in the United Kingdom.
April 11 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon.
April 11 – Beatles’ “Let It Be” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
April 13 – Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in 4 days.
April 14 – Michael Nesmith announces he has left The Monkees.
April 17 – Johnny Cash performs at the White House at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon.
April 17 – Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
April 17 – Paul McCartney’s 1st solo album “McCartney” is released
April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
April 24 – Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair planned to spike Nixon’s tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD. Slick is recognized (although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.
April 26 – “Company” opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 690 performances
JIMI HENDRIX. 04-26-70 Fabulous Forum, Inglewood – 00individual was there!
April 29 – The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large anti-war protests occur in the United States.

May 1 – Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000 people.
President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking nationwide riots and leading to the Kent State Shootings.
May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and nine wounded by Ohio State National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
May 4 – Charles Wuorinen, 32, becomes the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
May 7 – “Long & Winding Road” becomes Beatles’ last American release
May 8 – The Beatles release their last album, “Let it Be”
May 8 – Hard Hat riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.
May 13 – Beatles movie “Let it Be” premieres
May 14 – In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing two and injuring twelve.
May 16 – Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who to start up Brave Belt.
May 16 – The Who release Live at Leeds which is their first live album. Since its initial reception, Live at Leeds has been cited by several music critics as the best live rock recording of all time.
May 18 – Beatles’ last released LP, “Let It Be”, released in US
May 20 – Beatles’ “Let it Be” movie premieres in UK
May 20 – The Beatles’ film Let It Be premières in London and Liverpool. None of the four band members are present at either screening.
May 23 – Grateful Dead’s 1st performance outside US (England)
May 24 – Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
May 23–24 – Grateful Dead make their first British appearance at Hollywood Festival, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on a bill also featuring Black Sabbath, Free, and José Feliciano. Everyone is completely upstaged by the previously unknown Mungo Jerry, whose debut single “In the Summertime” becomes the best-selling hit of the year.

June 1 – “Everything Is Beautiful” by Ray Stevens hits #1
June 3 – The Kinks Ray Davies makes a 6000-mile round trip from New York to London and back- interrupting the band’s American tour- to re-record one word on their latest single “Lola”. In order to get any airplay in Great Britain he has to change the word “Coca-Cola” to a more subtle “cherry cola”.
June 6 – A D-Day celebration is held in Washington, D.C. on the 26th anniversary of the event.
June 7 – The Who play two shows of Tommy, at the New York Metropolitan Opera House.
June 7 – The Who’s “Tommy” is performed at NY’s Lincoln Center
June 9 – Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University
June 11 – The United States gets its first female generals: Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
June 12 – Rocker and blues singer Janis Joplin debuts in Kentucky
June 13 -“The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles’ last U.S. Number 1 song, though it is never released as a single in Britain.
June 13 – The Stooges play at the Cincinnati Pop Festival, Midsummer Rock.
June 13 – “In The Summertime” by Mungo Jerry hits #1 in UK
June 13 – Beatles’ “Let It Be” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
June 13 – Beatles’ “Long & Winding Road” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
The WHO with Leon Russell, John Sebastian and Blues Image 06-14-70 Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim – 00individual was there!
June 17 – Led Zeppelin begin their last European tour
June 20 – “Ray Stevens Show” debuts on NBC-TV
June 22 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970, a measure lowering the voting age to 18.
Jun 23 – Rocker and singer Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession
June 24 – The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
June 28 – U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.

July 3 – 200,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival
July 4 – Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
July 4 – American Top 40, a nationally syndicated radio program featuring a countdown of the Top 40 hits of the past week according to the Billboard Hot 100, premieres. Hosted by Casey Kasem, the show is a major success.
July 17 – The Guess Who perform at the White House for President Nixon and his guest The Prince of Wales. At Pat Nixon’s request, they do not play their breakthrough hit “American Woman” due to the song’s supposed anti-American lyrics.
July 25 – “(They Long to Be) Close to You” sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
July 26 – Guitarist Jimi Hendrix plays at his hometown of Seattle at Sicks Stadium where, under the influence of drugs, he starts verbally abusing members of the audience.

August 3 – Janis Joplin makes her final TV appearance, on the Dick Cavett Show.
August 4 – Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
August 7 – Christine Perfect (McVie) joins Fleetwood Mac
August 7 – Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
August 10 – Jim Morrison’s trial for “lewd and lascivious behavior” begins in Miami
August 17 – August 18 – The U.S. sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.
TEN YEARS AFTER with GRAND FUNK RAILROAD  World -Class Rock ‘n’ Roll Battle of the Bands 7-22-70 Fabulous Forum, Inglewood –  00individual was there!
August 25 – Elton John’s 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)
August 26 – The Women’s Strike For Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
August 26–30 – The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include The Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull.
August 27 – Jimi Hendrix creates his last studio recording at Electric Lady Studios in New York, an instrumental called “Slow Blues”
August 28 – “I’ll Be There” single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
August 29 – Rubén Salazar is shot and killed during a rally in East Los Angeles.
August 30 – The Rolling Stones open their European tour in Malmö, Sweden.

September 3 – Bill Haley & His Comets reject $30,000 for 15 date tour of Australia
September 4 – Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the West while on tour with the Kirov Ballet in London and is granted political asylum
September 6 – Terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijack four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich.
September 6 – During his final European tour, guitarist Jimi Hendrix is greeted by booing and jeering by German fans as a result of his late appearance on stage and incoherent stage performance. Bassist Billy Cox quits the tour and returns to the United States.
September 7 – An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and future Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
September 9 – Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958, in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
September 10 – The Chevrolet Vega is introduced.
September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
September 13 – The first New York City Marathon begins.
September 15 – Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
September 17 – Jimi Hendrix makes his last appearance, with Eric Burdon & War jamming at Ronnie Scotts Club in London. Hendrix, aged 27, dies the following day from an alleged barbiturate overdose at his London hotel.
September 20 – Jim Morrison found guilty of “open profanity and indecent exposure” after allegedly exposing himself at a concert in Miami in 1969
September 25 – Ringo Starr releases his album “Beaucoups of Blues”
September 26 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).
September 28 – TV game show “Words & Music” debuts on NBC
September 29 – The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.

October 1 – 63 arrested in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milan, Italy
October 2 – The Wichita State University football team’s “Gold” plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
October 4 – National Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded by PBS.
October 4 – Janis Joplin dies in her Landmark Motor Hotel room in Hollywood at age 27 from a heroin overdose. Joplin died exactly 16 days after Jimi Hendrix, both at 27 years of age.
October 5 – The Public Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting.
October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 21 – A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including 2 generals, November 10.
October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
October 26 – Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
October 26 – Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1 000 km/h, stands for nearly thirteen years.
October 30 – Jim Morrison of The Doors, found guilty of indecent exposure and profanity because of his behavior during a March 1, 1969, concert, is sentenced to eight months of hard labor and a $500 fine – though remains free on a $50,000 bond pending appeal

November – The 1969–1970 recession ends.
November 3 – Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional mid-term elections; Ronald Reagan is re-elected as Governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected as Governor of Georgia.
November 4 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 4 – Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
November 9 – Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 9 – The blues rock studio double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the only album by Derek and the Dominos, is released, initially in the United States, the first presentation of the classic title track, “Layla”, by English guitarist Eric Clapton and American drummer Jim Gordon.
November 10 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
November 12 – After Yehudi Menuhin accepts honorary citizenship from Switzerland, he receives a letter from the United States State Department telling him that both he and his son will lose their US citizenship as a result.
November 14 – Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.
November 16 – Elton John records a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album
November 17 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
November 20 – The Kinks Ray Davies flies to a London studio for the second time in 1970 to re-record one word in a new Kinks single . This time, he has to change a line in “Apeman”- “The air pollution is a-foggin’ up my eyes” which sounds too much like “a-fuckin'”.
November 21 – Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 23 – George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord” single in the US
November 23 – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.
November 23 – The Electric Factory concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’ closes its doors.
November 27 – George Harrison releases his triple album set “All Things Must Pass”

December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 8 – John Lennon conducts a lengthy and intensely candid interview with Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine. He discusses his new solo album and the influence of primal therapy on its creation, as well as his personal traumas dating back to childhood. He also makes many revelations about his time in The Beatles, including his account of the group’s breakup.
December 12 – The Doors play their final concert with singer Jim Morrison at The Warehouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. After the concert The Doors decide that they will not play live anymore due to Morrisons unpredictable live persona.
the MOODY BLUES 12-12-1970 Fabulous Forum, Inglewood    00individual was there!
December 21 – Elvis Presley meets US President Richard Nixon in the White House – the image of this meeting is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives
December 23 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) into law.

And on the last day of 1970:
December 31 – Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve The Beatles and they officially split up after 10 years.

BILLBOARD TOP 70 ALBUMS OF 1970
1970 was one of the Big Three years of highly prolific musical creativity and album releases: 1969, 1970, 1971 – by the world’s best bands, singers, musicians, and producers – accounting for the highest amount of Classic Rock records released per year. The Cult of Album Listening was in its glory.
Many of these albums were popular carry-overs still on the charts from 1969.
Absorb the greatness of these monumental classics of ’70!
(Underlined are 00 reviews and experiences from those times of hearing these for the very first time!)

1 Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
2 Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
3 Abbey Road – The Beatles
4 Déjà Vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
5 Get Ready – Rare Earth
6 Easy Rider – Soundtrack
7 Joe Cocker! – Joe Cocker
8 Santana – Santana
9 Blood, Sweat & Tears – Blood, Sweat & Tears
10 Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
11 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida – Iron Butterfly
12 American Woman – The Guess Who
13 Grand Funk – Grand Funk Railroad
14 Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head – B.J. Thomas
15 Chicago Transit Authority – Chicago
16 Woodstock – Soundtrack
17 McCartney – Paul McCartney
18 Tom Jones Live In Las Vegas – Tom Jones
19 Engelbert Humperdinck – Engelbert Humperdinck
20 Green River – Creedence Clearwater Revival
21 Cosmo’s Factory – Creedence Clearwater Revival
22 Let It Be – The Beatles
23 It Ain’t Easy – Three Dog Night
24 Hot Buttered Soul – Isaac Hayes
25 To Our Children’s Children’s Children – The Moody Blues
26 The Band – The Band
27 I Want You Back – Jackson 5
28 Still Waters Run Deep – Four Tops
29 Live At Leeds – The Who
30 Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 – Blood, Sweat & Tears
31 Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
32 Suitable For Framing – Three Dog Night
33 Here Comes Bobby – Bobby Sherman
34 Let It Bleed – The Rolling Stones
35 Hey Jude – The Beatles
36 Psychedelic Shack – The Temptations
37 Closing The Gap – Michael Parks
38 ABC – Jackson 5
39 Hello, I’m Johnny Cash – Johnny Cash
40 Ladies Of The Canyon – Joni Mitchell
41 This Girl’s In Love With You – Aretha Franklin
42 Benefit – Jethro Tull
43 Paint Your Wagon – Soundtrack
44 Tommy – The Who
45 Candles In The Rain – Melanie
46 Monster – Steppenwolf
47 Johnny Cash At San Quentin – Johnny Cash
48 Self Portrait – Bob Dylan
49 Closer To Home – Grand Funk Railroad
50 Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard
51 On Time – Grand Funk Railroad
52 Cricklewood Green – Ten Years After
53 I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick
54 Midnight Cowboy – Soundtrack
55 Frijid Pink – Frijid Pink
56 Was Captured Live At The Forum – Three Dog Night
57 Magic Christian Music – Badfinger
58 Workingman’s Dead – The Grateful Dead
59 Alone Together – Dave Mason
60 A Question of Balance – The Moody Blues
61 Hawkwind – Hawkwind
62 Humble Pie – Humble Pie
63 Sunflower – The Beach Boys
64 Barrel – Lee Michaels
65 Band of Gypsys – Jimi Hendrix
66 The Man Who Sold The World – David Bowie
67 His Band and the Street Choir – Van Morrison
68 Changes – The Monkees
69 Abraxas – Santana
70 Leon Russell – Leon Russell

TOP 70 SINGLES OF 1970
Check out these etched-in-stone classics – all in one year!

1 “Bridge Over Troubled Water” Simon & Garfunkel
2 “(They Long to Be) Close to You” The Carpenters
3 “American Woman” The Guess Who
4 “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” B.J. Thomas
5 “War” Edwin Starr
6 “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” Diana Ross
7 “I’ll Be There” The Jackson 5
8 “Get Ready” Rare Earth
9 “Let It Be” The Beatles
10 “Band of Gold” Freda Payne
11 “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” Three Dog Night
12 “Everything Is Beautiful” Ray Stevens
13 “Make It with You” Bread
14 “Hitchin’ a Ride” Vanity Fare
15 “ABC” The Jackson 5
16 “The Love You Save” The Jackson 5
17 “Cracklin’ Rosie” Neil Diamond
18 “Candida” Dawn
19 “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” Sly & the Family Stone
20 “Spill the Wine” Eric Burdon & War
21 “O-o-h Child” Five Stairsteps
22 “Spirit in the Sky” Norman Greenbaum
23 “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)” Melanie
24 “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” The Temptations
25 “Love on a Two-Way Street” The Moments
26 “Which Way You Goin’ Billy?” The Poppy Family
27 “All Right Now” Free
28 “I Want You Back” The Jackson 5
29 “Julie, Do Ya Love Me” Bobby Sherman
30 “Green-Eyed Lady” Sugarloaf
31 “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” Stevie Wonder
32 “Ride Captain Ride” Blues Image
33 “Venus” Shocking Blue
34 “Instant Karma!” John Lennon
35 “Patches” Clarence Carter
36 “Lookin’ out My Back Door” Creedence Clearwater Revival
37 “Rainy Night in Georgia” Brook Benton
38 “Something’s Burning” Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
39 “Give Me Just a Little More Time” Chairmen of the Board
40 “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)” Edison Lighthouse
41 “The Long and Winding Road” The Beatles
42 “Snowbird” Anne Murray
43 “Reflections of My Life” Marmalade
44 “Hey There Lonely Girl” Eddie Holman
45 “The Rapper” The Jaggerz
46 “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” The Hollies
47 “Tighter, Tighter” Alive N Kickin’
48 “Come and Get It” Badfinger
49 “Cecilia” Simon & Garfunkel
50 “Love Land” Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
51 “Turn Back the Hands of Time” Tyrone Davis
52 “Lola” The Kinks
53 “In the Summertime” Mungo Jerry
54 “Indiana Wants Me” R. Dean Taylor
55 “(I Know) I’m Losing You” Rare Earth
56 “Easy Come, Easy Go” Bobby Sherman
57 “Express Yourself” Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
58 “Still Water (Love)” The Four Tops
59 “Make Me Smile” Chicago
60 “The House of the Rising Sun” Frijid Pink
61 “25 or 6 to 4” Chicago
62 “My Baby Loves Lovin'” White Plains
63 “Love or Let Me Be Lonely” The Friends of Distinction
64 “United We Stand” The Brotherhood of Man
65 “We’ve Only Just Begun” The Carpenters
66 “Arizona” Mark Lindsay
67 “Fire and Rain” James Taylor
68 “Groovy Situation” Gene Chandler
69 “Evil Ways” Santana
70 “No Time” The Guess Who

TOP 25 MOVIES OF 1970
These are some of the classics that started genres that are industry standards today.

1. M*A*S*H – R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
2. Patton – GP | 172 min | Biography, Drama, War
3. Woodstock – R | 184 min | Documentary, History, Music
4. Five Easy Pieces – R | 98 min | Drama
5. Little Big Man – PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
6. The Wild Child – G | 83 min | Drama
7. The Honeymoon Killers – R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
8. The Great White Hope – PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
9. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage – GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
10. Airport – G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
11. Brewster McCloud – R | 105 min | Comedy, Fantasy
12. This Man Must Die – GP | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
13. The Molly Maguires – M | 124 min | Drama, History
14. Two Mules for Sister Sara – GP | 116 min | Adventure, Romance, War
15. Colossus: The Forbin Project – M | 100 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
16. The Phantom Tollbooth – G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
17. The Ballad of Cable Hogue – R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
18. Catch-22 – R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
19. Tora! Tora! Tora! – G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
20. Beneath the Planet of the Apes – G | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
21. Where’s Poppa? – R | 82 min | Comedy
22. I Never Sang for My Father – GP | 92 min | Drama, Music
23. Love Story – PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
24. The Out of Towners – G | 101 min | Comedy
25. The Owl and the Pussycat – R | 95 min | Comedy

TOP 25 TV SHOWS OF 1970
1 Marcus Welby, M.D. ABC
2 The Flip Wilson Show NBC
3 Here’s Lucy CBS
4 Ironside NBC
5 Gunsmoke CBS
6 ABC Movie of the Week ABC
7 Hawaii Five-O CBS
8 Medical Center
9 Bonanza NBC
10 The F.B.I. ABC
11 The Mod Squad
12 Adam-12 NBC
13 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In
The Wonderful World of Disney
15 Mayberry R.F.D. CBS
16 Hee Haw
17 Mannix
18 The Men from Shiloh NBC
19 My Three Sons CBS
20 The Doris Day Show
21 The Smith Family ABC
22 The Mary Tyler Moore Show CBS
23 NBC Saturday Movie NBC
24 The Dean Martin Show
25 The Carol Burnett Show CBS
Tied – The Partridge Family ABC

Cost of Living 1970
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 5.84%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.9%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 838
Average Cost of new house $23,450.00
Average Income per year $9,400.00
Average Monthly Rent $140.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 36 cents
Shaefer Pen $9.95
United States postage Stamp 6 cents
Sports Illustrated 15 cents
Mans Westclox Watch $18.00
AMC Gremlin $1,879.00
1 Carat Diamond Ring $299.00
Chrysler Newport $3,861.00
Apples 4Lbs 59 Cents
Dog Food 12 Cans $1.00
Head and Shoulder Shampoo 79 Cents
Car 8 Track Stereo Tape Player $38.99
Chair La-z-Boy Rocker Recliner $188.00
Mens Leather Shoes $6.99
Striped Ladies Flare Pants and Tunic $10.00
Back To College Typewriter $28.88
Barbie Doll $4.77
25″ Cinema Screen Color TV $739.95

Lava Lamp $19.95
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2021

00individual’s first post of each month in 2021 will highlight each month of 1971,
celebrating yet another magickal 50th year anniversary.

And for those who want to experience the 50th anniversaries of the build up
to the truly cosmic events of 1971:

1967 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September
 . . . October . . . November
December

1968 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December

1969 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September
 . . . October . . . November
December

1970 Archives
January . . . February . . . March . . . April . . . May . . . June
July . . . August . . . September . . . October . . . November
December

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