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  • ‘One Toke Over the Line’ Singer and Writer Tom Shipley Dead at 84

    09/08/2025 8:57:24 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
    UltimateClassicRock ^ | September 6, 2025 | Matthew Wilkening
    Tom Shipley of Brewer & Shipley, the duo best known for the 1971 Top 10 hit "One Toke Over the Line," has died of unspecified causes at the age of 84. The New York Times confirmed the news with Shipley's son Marc, who said his father died on Aug. 24 at a hospital in Columbia, Missouri. Shipley's duo partner Mike Brewer died in 2024. The band's biggest hit, which humorously chronicles a real-life incident when Shipley indulged in a bit too much marijuana, wasn't initially intended for release. "'One Toke Over the Line' was a song we wrote to amuse...
  • Michael Brewer of Brewer and Shipley Dead at 80

    12/18/2024 12:58:27 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 38 replies
    Michael Brewer of Brewer & Shipley passed away on Tuesday at the age of 80. The news was confirmed in a press release, noting that Brewer had been battling multiple illnesses for the last three years. Brewer & Shipley were best known for their Top 10 hit, "One Toke Over the Line," released as their debut single in 1971. "Who would have guessed they [the duo's record label] would release it as a single, it would go shooting up the charts, and the Nixon administration would try to ban it?" Brewer said to UCR in 2016. "We made Nixon's 'hate...
  • Nextrush Unplugged Weekend: Virus Deaths Versus Vaxx Deaths, 50 Years Ago The Hits

    05/01/2021 8:18:21 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 9 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 5/1/2021 | Nextrush/Self
    Welcome to the Weekend. Your currently sober drunk host coming off 15 hours in bed sleeping but with a busy schedule ahead which will include posting when I can. I am not feeling well but I have worked myself in part to this exhausted state I find myself in. Vaxxers Or Anti-Vaxxers We Are All God's Children The media making much of Joe Rogan saying he is not an "anti-vaxxer" an indication that the Establishment's march in lockstep media wants to demonize and marginalize opponents of vaccination. This world filled with many accusations about people who don't support the Insider...