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

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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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Celebrate the Height of Psychedelic Culture and U.S. History with the 50th Anniversary of 1968 – featuring MARCH!

“50th Anniverary Celebration of 1968” copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

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

MARCH 1968
1968 remains arguably the most historic year in modern American history, so far.

The first true “innocence killer” that required a new adjusted reality became the norm after the shocking President John F. Kennedy asassination in 1963. One must remember that for most Americans this was an unheard of and totally-disheartening event.  This was a wound that never healed, the fact that it could/would happen was enough, but the mounting general distrust of the Government’s lies and with the conspiracy theories of a lone gunman, and the shooter(s) on the grassy knoll only fueled the flame that the truth was being withheld from U.S. citizens who were the stewards of a Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.

March was the not-so-quiet before the storm – as stated in Happenings! below, protests against the War in Vietnam and social injustice were becoming a daily activity taking place world-wide, and some were violent as tensions mounted.

Happenings!
Mar 1 NBC’s unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return.
Mar 7 The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.
Mar 8 New York rock venue Fillmore East opens in Manhattan.
Mar 9 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper’s wins 4.
Mar 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding.
Mar 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam.
Mar 11 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for ” Dock of the Bay”.
Mar 13 The Beatles release “Lady Madonna” in the UK.
Mar 15 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix “most spectacular guitarist in the world”.
Mar 16 Senator Robert Kennedy, former Attorney General and brother of former president John F. Kennedy (1961-63) ends months of debate by announcing that he will enter the 1968 Presidential race.
Mar 16 Although it will not become public knowledge for more than a year, US ground troops from Charlie Company rampage through the hamlet of My Lai killing more than 500 Vietnamese civilians from infants to the elderly. The massacre continues for three hours until three American fliers intervened, positioning their helicopter between the troops and the fleeing vietnamese and eventually carrying a handful of wounded to safety.
Mar 19–March 23 – Afrocentrism, Black Power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum.
March 22 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit (“Danny the Red”) and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre, setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution in May.
Mar 25 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
Mar 26 – Joan Baez marries activist David Harris in New York.
Mar 28 Martin Luther King Jr. leads a march in Memphis which turns violent. After King himself had been led from the scene one 16 year old black boy is killed, 60 people are injured, and over 150 arrested.
Mar 29 Students seize building at Bowie State College.
Mar 31 President Lyndon Johnson delivers his Address to the Nation Announcing Steps To Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not To Seek Reelection. The speech announces the first in a series of limitations on US bombing, promising to halt these activities above the 20th parallel. HOWEVER – on Mar 31 US President Lyndon B. Johnson also authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549,500.
By the war’s end in 1975 over 58,000 U.S. soldiers (average age, 19) would die.

Let’s Rock:
Album releases:
Mar 3 Lauro Nyro – Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
Mar 4 The Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in It for the Money
Mar 6 The United States of America –  The United States of America
Mar 23 Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls Dionne Warwick
The Association – Birthday
The Incredible String Band – The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter
James Brown – I Can’t Stand Myself When You Touch Me
Electric Flag – A Long Time Comin’
The Move –  The Move
Miles Davis – Nefertiti
Ray Charles – A Portrait of Ray
The Supremes – Reflections
The International Submarine Band – Safe at Home
Scott Walker – Scott 2
Joni Mitchell – Song to a Seagull

US Top 40 Singles for the Week Ending March 16, 1968
1  (Sittin’ On) THE DOCK OF THE BAY – Otis Redding (Volt)
2  (Theme From) VALLEY OF THE DOLLS – Dionne Warwick (Scepter)
3  LOVE IS BLUE – Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra (Philips)
4  SIMON SAYS – 1910 Fruitgum Co. (Buddah)

5  JUST DROPPED IN (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) – The First Edition
A celebration or condemnation of LSD? Either way; classic trippy lyrics of the Psychedelic Era:
I woke up this morning with the sundown shining in, I found my mind in a brown paper bag within,
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high, I tore my mind on a jagged sky,
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawling out as I was a-crawling in
I got up so tight I couldn’t unwind, I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in
Someone painted April Fool in big black letters on a Dead End sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah

6  I WISH IT WOULD RAIN – The Temptations (Gordy)
7  LA-LA MEANS I LOVE YOU – The Delfonics (Philly Groove)
8  VALLERI – The Monkees (Colgems)
9  (Sweet Sweet Baby) SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE – Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)
10  I THANK YOU – Sam and Dave (Stax)
11  SPOOKY – The Classics IV (Imperial)
12  EVERYTHING THAT TOUCHES YOU – The Association (Warner Brothers)
13  BOTTLE OF WINE – The Fireballs (Atco)
14  WALK AWAY RENEE – The Four Tops (Motown)
15  THE END OF OUR ROAD – Gladys Knight and the Pips (Soul)
16  DANCE TO THE MUSIC – Sly and the Family Stone (Epic)
17  THE BALLAD OF BONNIE AND CLYDE – Georgie Fame (Epic)
18  WORDS – The Bee Gees (Atco)
19  TOO MUCH TALK – Paul Revere and the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay (Columbia)
20  I WONDER WHAT SHE’S DOING TONITE – Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart (A&M)

MARCH MOVIES
March 1 – Day of the Evil Gun
March 8 – Stay Away, Joe
March 13 – Counterpoint
March 18 – The Producers
March 20 – No Way to Treat a Lady
March 21 – The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
March 29 – Madigan

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An isolated gas station is cover for the underground Secret Garage and R & D Labs that further the Psychedelic Train’s cosmic overhauls.

“The Psychedelic Train Gets A Tune Up at the Secret Underground Garage”
Copyright 2018 00individual  TLL

OK, Cosmic Kids, after a much-needed tune-up
the Psychedelic Train will be back on the rails through Historic Psychedelic 1968!

Next stop, April!

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