1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Morning Bowl Of Marijuana and Coffee Magick

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

The Morning Bowl Of Marijuana

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

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

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

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

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

Morning Bowl Coffee Magick

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

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

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

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

And a Morning Bowl.

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

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1960’s and 1970’s Culture Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . REPHR (Psychonaut Representatives for Responsible Heads Everywhere)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1970’s Historic & Classic Concert Photos . . . . . . PINK FLOYD April 23/25/26 1975 L.A. Sports Arena The Holy Trinity: 1) Front Row Center 2) Three Nights 3) Pink Floyd At The Band’s Peak!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Celebrate the most historic year in modern American history with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring MAY

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

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

MAY 1968!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“MacArthur Park” copyright 2014 00individual  TLL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Short instrumental interlude)

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

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

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

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

(Longer instrumental interlude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The Psychedelic Train Rip-Roarin’ ‘n’ Ready”. Copyright 2018 00individual TLL

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

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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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