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Tom Shipley

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About Me

shipleyt. Once a hippie musician, I turned television producer after the gold rush. As a musician and part of the musical group Brewer and Shipley we had a hit with the song "One Toke Over the Line." Michael and I still tour on occasion and I love seeing old fans, old friends, and old places. The last time I looked The Little Bear was still a mountain bar in Evergreen, CO. Amazing!As a television producer I have a production company, Tarkio Communications, which has done projects for industry, commercial television, and PBS. Currently I am also the videographer for Missouri University of Science and Technology. I have a few of my videos here on MySpace TV. Check out the video below "Once We Were Hippies," where my oldest son Marc comments on hippies, music festivals, and his brother Matt's drumming.

My Interests

Shooting video in extreme places. I shoot a lot on the road. Utah Canyon Lands, San Salvador, chasing solar cars across the country, Inca Katapuri in the Andes and Rurrenbaque in the Bolivian Amazon to shoot a piece for Engineers Without Boarders.

I'd like to meet:

Fidel

Music:

Anna Nalick, Marc Shipley, Sting, Nora Jones, Ravi Shankar, Goo Goo Dolls, Levon Helm, Rufus Wainright, Bob Marley, Pete Seeger, Hooters, Fred Niel, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Conner, Don Henley, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Osborn, Chieftens, Johnson Street, Caroline Lost, Phil Oachs .

Movies:

Eating Raoul, Dead Man, Man on Fire, The Cooler, The Virgin Spring, Motorcycle Diaries, The Seventh Seal.

Television:

Just about anything on Current VC2, World Music segments on Link TV, Most of my own stuff.Check out some of my uploaded videos here or more at video.google.com.

Books:

This Perfect Day, I Ching, On the Road, Das Kapital.

Heroes:

Che, Jack Keroak, Fats Domino, W.Eugene Smith, Carlos Santana, Cesar Chavez, Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie.