"One Toke Over the Line" - Mountain Dulcimer & Acoustic Bass

This song, by Michael Brewer & Tom Shipley was my favorite as a teenager in the '70s, even before I became a toker. Now an "activist" for re-legalization of marijuana, I hear an anthem for the silent majority who use Cannabis as a social repast, herbal medicine and spiritual lubricant.
The Master of Acoustic Bass is my friend Steve Wishnia, ex-editor at High Times magazine, now an independent journalist. He wrote a great book, "The Cannabis Companion", available at Amazon.com.
The people I have met in the "movement" are truely modern patriots - standing tall for freedoms that the Founding Fathers knew we would have to fight for. Seventy years of government propaganda cannot erase eons of human interaction with this remarkable gift from Mother Nature.
Visit my VLOG for more on these issues:
http://cannabistv.wordpress.com
"One Toke" is one of several great songs on the "Tarkio" album, available at:
http://brewerandshipley.com
Oh, and check out the Lawrence Welk version on Tom Shipley's You Tube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
And the version I filmed of the guys in DC, 1998:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQrNWZ4Y5tU

Category:

Music

Tags:

• acoustic
• duet
• folk
• ganja
• pot
• weed

[lhendri479]

Top 'O the Morning in Saluda huh? Just down the road from me. Gotta check that out.

What is your noter made of?

Thank You - Linda In NC

[mingovideo]

Howdy Neighbor! Yeah, great folks in Saluda. My noter for this dulcimer is a curved Mountain Laurel twig.

[lhendri479]

Thanks - Mountain Laurel is the same as Rhodoendren here I think, so I have to go get that. Nice wood.

thanks for the info and keep on play'n

[mingovideo]

Yeah, I get Mountain Laurel and Rhododendron confused. The one with the deep reddish-brown branches is what I use - sturdy but smooth.

[apassionateplayer]

Wow thats a tall dulcimer! must be 6 inchs tall!

[mingovideo]

Nope, 4 inches, I just checked - definitely the biggest dulcimer I've ever played. It's a fine instrument, made in South Carolina - I got it from "Top 'o the Morning" in Saluda, North Carolina.

[drharmonica]

If these guys got any more laid back they would be asleep..... or dead!!

[joshp3000]

i didn't know larry david played bass

[TheBrowndawg]

you goddamn potheads are the scum of the universe you should all rot in hell.

kidding.

ive never seen anyone start a fight or glass someone in a bar when they were stoned or belt the shit outta their wife when they got home. (maybe they just forget to ;-) )

[kayleeusa]

Wonderfully soothing. Thank you.

[janeLOMEIN]

Can't believe that's Steve Wishnia. Someone showed me their copy of "The Cannabis Companion" just the other day and I was blown away! Please send my thanks to him for making such a great book!

[jimmyshitbags]

i hate the government so much.

[Drunknwow]

fantastic, really love the bass fantastic tone, amazing resonance, and great job on ducilmer, such a mellow melody and tune.