![]() ![]() The next day, they turned the line into a song, which they wrote only to give themselves and their friends a laugh. “Jesus Michael, I’m one toke over the line,” Shipley said to Brewer.īrewer thought that was hysterical, and right on the spot started singing, “One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line” before they went on stage that evening. But Shipley decided to do three hits, and by the time he got to the stage, he was wasted. According to Shipley, before a gig in Kansas City, someone had given him a block of hashish and recommended he do two hits. “One Toke Over the Line” is a song about drugs. In Volume I of The Vinyl Dialogues, I had interviewed Michael Brewer and Tom Shipley about the making of their 1970 album “Tarkio.” The album would include what would become Brewer and Shipley’s biggest hit single, “One Toke Over the Line.” But to get there, I’ve got to first go through the rock-folk duo of Brewer and Shipley and the squeaky cleanness of the Lawrence Welk Show. This is a story about Cher almost being knocked on her keister in 1983. Cher nearly got knocked down by members of the Screen Actors Guild during a television broadcast in 1983.
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