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Poppa Tom

Back When I Was A Cowboy and a Coupla Other Things

About Me

Did I ever tell you about the time I (was a): Paper boy, Lived and worked on a farm, plumber’s helper, carpenter, hospital worker, factory worker – storm windows/prototype design, worked in shipyards on famous ships: NS Savannah/Patrick Henry/etc, was the Assistant Health Physicist on World’s only nuclear powered merchant ship – NS Savannah, involved in the worlds first commercial nuclear accident at the Fermi Fast Breeder reactor in Monroe Michigan 1966, owned & rode horses (back when I was a cowboy), built hot rods and raced cars, a singer songwriter, folk singer, owned a record company and music publishing company,produced music, film & video projects, Supervised a satellite uplink truck doing major sporting events, recording engineer, built recording studios, worked all over the world in various recording studios, managed internationally recognized rock stars and cultural icons, Promoted concerts, Painter, Photographer, Videographer, Writer, Technical Writer, Website builder, Managed Van Conversion Factory, Managed a Grand Prix Race Team, Managed a Foreign Car Repair Facility, Teacher, Non-Destructive Test Engineer on Nuclear Powered Submarines, Radiographer, Radiation Protection Specialist, Wrote & produced Commercials, Designed Advertising for National Publication, Packaging design, Currently: Writing a children’s book a rock n roll fairy tale "In The Kingdom of the Wuffs", producing a documentary on Rockabilly Legend Johnny Powers, owning and operating the following websites: www.tclimports.com sells mport music on CD, LP & DVD, allimportmusic.com more import music, allsportsvideos.com produces highlight videos for athletes. Then in the 65th year he rested and thought about what he'd do next.... GOT ANY IDEAS?? Oh Yeah! How about a space for people in the second half of life: www.myboomerplace.com

My Interests

Mainly and first of all, PEOPLE! They're almost as much fun as Animals. Except people can talk. Photography. Producing videos & movies. Writing stories.

I'd like to meet:

YouYou can find me....
Just over the rainbow at....

Come on over and join the fun.

Music:

Some of my favorite artists are Bob Dylan, Hank Williams( all of them Sr. ,Jr, III), Delbert McClinton, Johnny Powers, John Hammond, Jim Kweskin Jug Band, Geoff Muldaur, Dave Van Ronk, Craig Fuller, Amazing Rythmn Aces, Billy Joe Shaver, Rolling Stones, Mitch Ryder, Bob Seeger, Emiem, Bonnie Rait, Waylon Jennings, Was Not Was, Little Feat, Subdudes, Tom Rush

Movies:

The Commitments, You & Me and Everyone else We Know, Pieces of April, Me & Mrs Jones, The Croupier

Television:

Most American Televison sucks. It's programmed by idiots for the sheep to watch while the government spies on them. Designed to sell you crap you don't need or even want. How come we have to pay for cable to watch commercials...Duuh.. It takes longer to flip through all the channels than it does to pay off your credit card. PBS is OK sometimes especially the BBC stuff they show. Although I have to say I LOVE South Park. The most intelligent show on TV. DVDs is where it's at...Now that's TV! Watch what you want when you want without the insidious messages from corporate America.

Books:

Bob Dylan-Chronicles 1, Eminem Biography

Heroes:

Matrin Luther King, Steve Jobs, Jesus Christ, Mortimer Snerd

My Blog

Rockabilly - The Johnny Powers Story (Trailer)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpfpLcZv1y0 Johnny Powers is a legend in the world of rockabilly music. The film follows Johnny along his carreer path form his roots in Detroit to Memphis and...
Posted by Poppa Tom on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:22:00 PST