1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . CARTOON TV SHOWS! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . plus Historic ’80’s Cartoon Licensed Toyline Uproar plus Ghostbusters 3 / Bill Murray Rant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HISTORIC ’80’S CARTOON LICENSED TOYLINE UPROAR 

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

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

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

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

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

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

And while on the subject:

GHOSTBUSTERS 3 / BILL MURRAY RANT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“THAT’S ALL FOLKS!”

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STEVE MILLER BAND – Anthology 1972 . . . . . . . . . STEVE MILLER BAND Top 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1970’s PCP Adventures and “The PCP Theme Song”

STEVE MILLER BAND – ANTHOLOGY
Capitol SVBB-71114

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

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

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

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

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

STEVE MILLER BAND Top 13

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

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1970’s PCP ADVENTURES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jackson/Kent Blues: “The PCP Theme Song”

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

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

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

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

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hollywood’s Saving Grace: Grab the Rights to these “Top 13 Rock Song Movie Potentials”

HEY, HOLLYWOOD!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

However, if none of the above inspire the Suits, then there is always
the Best Unproduced Property in Hollywood waiting for a greenlight: Click on above logo for a mind-bending experience.
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Celebrate the most historic year in modern American history with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring APRIL

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

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

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

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

APRIL 1968!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1960’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PEANUTS! -and- courtesy of Charles M. Schulz; “That Point When One Has Had Enough Of The Lies”

Experience a High-Point in ’60’s Culture

PEANUTS!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . The 00individual GIF(T) Collection: 2012 – 2018

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

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

So, here ’tis:

All gifs created and copyright 2012 – 2018 00individual  TLL

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

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

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

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Hippie Pentagon Levitation – October 21, 1967

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TOP 79 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970s ROCK ALBUMS

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BEACH PAD ON ACID

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VANILLA FUDGE – August 1967

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DAVID BOWIE – ALADDIN SANE – April 13, 1973 

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MOODY BLUES – DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED

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“69”

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RICHARD HARRIS – “MACARTHUR PARK”

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

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ARGENT – I AM THE DANCE OF AGES – 1972

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Top 13 HALLOWE’EN Album Track Gems

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TOP 79 HISTORIC & CLASSIC 1970s ROCK ALBUMS

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HENDRIX

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

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 TONIO K. – “THE FUNKY WESTERN CIVILIZATION”

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Top 13 Historic & Classic Psychedelic Albums 1967

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 RICHARD WRIGHT – “WAVES”

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

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“Happy Little Xenomorph On Jello” 

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

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

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

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

COSMIC

1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Record Store Culture and Divider Card Artifacts L – Z -and- 1970’s Top 23 Album Cover Art -and- Debt to Psychonauts

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

Experience 1970’s Record Store Culture

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

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

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

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

Debt to Psychonauts

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

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

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

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

1970’s Top 23 Album Cover Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DEEP PURPLE – MACHINE HEAD – March 1972

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

APHRODITE’S CHILD – 666 – June 1972

It gets one’s attention.

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

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

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

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

GOLDEN EARRING – MOONTAN – July 1973

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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