In the tradition of hokum blues - sexually suggestive or dirty songs - "trucking" was simply rhyming slang for something you couldn't put on a record back then. Trucking can mean driving a truck, or it can mean dancing, or it can mean, particularly in far-out hippie slang, simply walking briskly - as it does in the Dead's 1968 song "Cosmic Charlie," in which the title character is "trucking in style along the avenue." The odd thing is that in the original text Crumb was quoting, Blind Boy Fuller's "Truckin' My Blues Away," it meant none of the above. It's true: Fats Waller, who died in 1943, popularized a song called "Truckin,'" about "a dance to do / Up here in Harlem." And long-haul truckers were being romanticized as modern-day cowboys, soon to be featured in films like White Line Fever and Convoy. And I knew the trucking industry would embrace the record. He said: The old people used to truck when they were dancing.
Kendricks never mentioned Crumb’s work when discussing the song, he merely said that he knew the song would be big because of the massive cross-country trucking industry. The song went to number one on the pop and R&B charts, making it the first (arguably) disco song to hit number one. The song was a lengthy groove that uses the famous slogan as its refrain. Out of all the songs that mention truckin, this seems to be the one that’s most tied into Crumb’s work, although the band has never said as much.Ī year later, former Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks released the song “Keep On Truckin’” on Tamla records. The Dead weren’t the only band that tied themselves into the power of “keep on truckin.” In 1972, Hot Tuna released the album Burgers which featured the song “Keep On Truckin,” a pseudo-cover of the traditional piano track “Ja-Da” by Bob Carleton. I was like, 'What? What is he saying? What?' They were completely non sequitur. These quotes didn't make any sense to me. I talked to a couple of people who were Deadheads and they said when you're at a performance and you're high, like on LSD, it seems like the band is playing just for you… Recently, I just looked through a book called The Wit & Wisdom of Jerry Garcia. He said: I've known lots of Deadheads, people who just follow the Grateful Dead and go to all their concerts, collect tapes and CDs of all their concerts, and trade with each other so they can listen to every concert, but I just don't get it. So what does Crumb think of the Dead? He doesn't get it. Natural is a bald man with a long beard who is known for saying "Just passin' thru'" and "Use the right tool for the job." Details, details. Natural, a Crumb creation, is not actually the character who said "Keep On Truckin'" in the cartoon. One of them was ‘Keep on Truckin’,’ which was the spirit of our song. Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir seemed to confirm that the title does come from Crumb's comic in a 2017 interview with the Wall Street Journal (summarized at ): Mr. A touring band, particularly one with as much equipment as the Dead were known to haul, literally does get from one show to another by truck, which is a pretty literal reason for the title of their song. Crumb, then you’ve definitely heard the Grateful Dead song “Truckin,” which is about life on the road and contains an anecdote about a drug bust at their hotel in New Orleans in 1970. If you haven’t heard of “keep on truckin” from R. He now sells his own official version of the poster at.
In 1977 the judge’s ruling was overturned and Crumb retained the copyright for the art. In 1973 Crumb sued to put a stop to the illegal use of his work, but Judge Albert Charles Wollenberg ruled that because Crumb didn’t place a copyright notice on the page that the work was public domain. It made its way to every piece of merchandise one can imagine t-shirts, posters, mudflaps, and more.
He tells them, 'How about I have this girl with her head cut off being stuffed into the trunk of the Toyota?' When they didn't go for that, he turned them down. He wanted to sell them a lot of other stuff.
#Keep on truckin license#
Zwigoff told Roger Ebert: He was offered, like, millions to license the 'Keep on Truckin' drawing for Toyota, but they only wanted that one drawing. According to director Terry Zwigoff ( Crumb, Ghost World), Crumb has been offered ludicrous amounts of money to license his truckin’ art, but that he’s not interested. He sued numerous times over the image being used without his permission.
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