TiT's Greatest Hits: A Musical Retrospective...

[delilahmused]

Back in the saddle again...

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:37 PM
Response to Reply #89
90. Back at'cha.
   I should have called you.

Geoff Muldaur just put on a jaw-dropping show at Schoenberg's for about 20 people.

I could have got y'all in.

Tom
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 musette_sf  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:39 PM
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92. was his oh-so-charming ex there?
   and yes, i would have enjoyed it. next time!
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 TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Apr-24-08 08:49 PM
Response to Reply #92
98. No Maria.
   Heck, even I am back in the studio.

Gotta bunch of new dreck.
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

This one has it all...brush with greatness (John Lennon), legal hassles, military service, being loaded, and the softer side of TiT...

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-08-06 11:34 PM
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John Lennon and me
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Every year about this time I am reminded of this...

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The time was in the early '70s and I was in Houston at the Federal Building on San Jacinto to appear in some sort of trial. I cannot remember the exact circumstance, but I am sure it was related to my service in the Military. I seemed to be, at the time, in a perpetual State of Trouble.

So I am sitting, wasted, in a chair in the hall outside of this courtroom waiting to go in and testify about whatever it was when this really familiar looking guy comes out of an adjoining courtroom. He sat down in the chair next to me and asked if I had a smoke, seems as if his wife had his in her purse. Told me he was attending a custody trial (Yoko and her ex were fighting about their daughter) and it was driving him crazy. And we shared some hazy conversation

That's when I realized that he was John Lennon.

So I gave him a Kool and we sat there smoking (one could do that back in those days) as the media horde came blitzing down the hallway.

The tv people came up, all kinds of light and confusion, shouting all manner of crap and Lennon said, "Can't you see I am having a conversation with my good friend Tom?", and he waved them off.

They all went away and we sat there and talked for quite some time.

I remember standing at the counter at Hank Wagner's hardware store in Houston many years later when the word came over the radio that Lennon had been killed.

I stood there with tears running down my face.

I was a hard guy in a soft place.

Tom

 
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Well, the timeline was right...the trial ended in 1971 but I thought TiT was still in country. Oh well.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-09-06 01:35 AM
Response to Reply #18
19. I was at my grandparents' house in Houstom
   When I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show.

Thank the hell heavens, because we did not have teevee at our house.

I saw those guys singing and all of that sceaming and decided that I would never again cut my hair.

And the rest is...
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Severe upbringing, fundy parents but they're going to let him grow his hair long...sure.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-09-06 11:08 PM
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28. Interesting link.. Harlan Crow...
   In the Summer of '03, I was at a party at Harlan's house in Turtle Creek (Dallas).

Harlan was drunk and bragging about buying that statue of Hussein that was toppled in that bs staged square deal.

Saying he was going to put it in his sculpture garden once Iraq "cooled down".

I told him Iraq was never going to cool down.
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Not just actors, talk show hosts and singers but also real estate magnets...he does get around.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

During this time when SO many are suffering...let me again remind everyone what an EXCLUSIVE area I live in...oh, and I'm suffering too.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri May-16-08 09:52 PM
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1. That's what it's down to, marmar.
   Even tho I live in one of the wealthiest ZIPs in the country (94920), I have recently begun enjoying the luxury of Public Transportation for a variety of reasons.

Things are really tough out there.

Folks dancing on the edge of the feather.
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

Tough guy Tom and the other special forces are ready to take on Blackwater...

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-27-07 07:05 PM
Response to Reply #3
7. Oh, we have.
   My community is loaded with ex-Special Forces personnel.

We have been talking about this quite a lot lately.

If they ever show up here, they will all die.

We are, at the least, as well armed and we know the hills.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-27-07 08:28 PM
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40. In this case, never is forever.
   It all started when a bunch of us were talking about all of our locals being worked up about earthquake preparedness.

Somebody said, "Hell, I'm more worried about Blackwater".

That's when we started planning.

You would not believe the lengths to which we have gone.

We are as serious as Death.
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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-28-07 01:32 AM
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47. What is "Jedi"?
   What the heck is "Jedi"?

I have been out of everything for a long, long time.

Jedi?
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Oh now, this is seriously funny...how can he possibly not know what a Jedi is? They've only been part of our culture for 30 years.

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Fri Sep-28-07 02:58 AM
Response to Reply #54
57. Oh, movies....
   Edited on Fri Sep-28-07 02:59 AM by TomInTib
The last movie I paid any attention to was "Minnie and Moskowitz" (or something to that effect).

Took my sons to see "Roger Rabbit", "Dick Tracy", something like that.

I don't know much about any movies.

Just what I see on the teevee.
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Wait...I thought he never watched tv?

Cindie

[Randy]

TiT, the Forrest Gump of DU.

[LC EFA]

Tom "remembers his vietnam days"

Swede  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Thu Nov-16-06 10:23 PM
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I remember the last time I almost went to Viet Nam,
   
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those were some good times. I also almost flew some jets.

Monkeyman  (1000+ posts) Journal  Thu Nov-16-06 10:28 PM
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3. I remember almost losing my leg in Vietnam
   
Edited on Thu Nov-16-06 10:29 PM by Monkeyman

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-16-06 10:38 PM
Response to Reply #3
5. In my case, it was my life.
   
And I don't appreciate any fuckin jokes about it.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Fri Nov-17-06 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #8
9. I remember 68 of my buddies....
   
Done.

Lost forever.
   
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Boat Driver / SEAL / Hater of B52's

Klukie  (984 posts) Journal Sun Mar-26-06 12:56 PM
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A question for those who served during Vietnam.
   
I am curious to know how other branches of the miltary were viewed by those who served in the army or navy? Also, how big of a role did other branches play in this conflict? Thanks for any insight.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:13 PM
Response to Reply #1
8. Yeah, no kidding. What used to really piss me off was B52s
   
I did river patrol up north on the Qua Viet with 2nd Marine.

Those planes would come over on bombing mission and give the (I don't believe I can use that term here) "bad guys" cover in the craters.

On long-range recon, we would follow a carpet-bombing run so closely that the craters would still be smoking. Those guys would be shooting at us from the craters.
Man, I hated that crap.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:31 PM
Response to Reply #11
17. You had to be there to even begin to grasp the power of those
   
bombs. I can just see you in a bunk skating across the floor. Funny how we can still laugh about that.

I remember the ground shaking so hard it felt like an earthquake. My first experience with that crap was absolutely terrifying. Because of the rolling thunder, I just knew they were hitting much closer than we thought and that we would surely die. I was such a NFG it is a wonder I ddn't start squealing like a girl. Within a few weeks, I could walk right up the tail while they were hitting out in front of us and not even think about the bombs.

God, I am glad I'm not doing that stuff anymore.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 02:06 PM
Response to Reply #25
26. Here's mine..
   
Even though I grew up on a ranch in Texas, I have always had a fear of scorpions. Well, you know how big they were over there..

I was a pilot on a PBR and my first day I was being "briefed" (I thought so, anyway. They were just jerking me around) by the guy I was replacing. We were standing on the bow of the boat and he was going on about shit that was just scaring the piss out of me. But I was earnest and he could tell, so he finally got down to telling me the real stuff.
He was in the middle of how important it was to remain part of the situation, not worry about myself too much, but to think of the team in the present environment, and - most of all - to keep my shit together and never overreact.
That was when a scorpion about 10 inches long ran across my left foot.
I actually screamed right out loud and jumped over the side into the river.
Hit my head on the camel (bumper between boat and dock) and knocked my stupid ass out cold.

Talk about a great first impression.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:08 PM
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4. I was USN attached to the 2nd Marine
   
River patrol, long-range recon and target extrication in Vietnam and Laos.

To this day, I never let anyone get away with talking s**t about Marines.

The Navy's role was (except for guys like myself) largely limited to offshore ops (gun line) and, of course, the oft-times heroic work of SEABEES on construction/repair projects.

Most of my exposure to Army personnel consisted of bar fights.

As far as Air Force, I only saw them flying over my head and on R&R and in airports.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Mar-26-06 01:21 PM
Response to Reply #9
13. I volunteered for USN for the reason you stated and spent..
   
27 months in combat a couple clicks south of the line.

As they say about best-laid plans...

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Tom the "torturer"

MassDemm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Journal  Wed Dec-12-07 08:14 PM
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Water torture being used by USA personell in the Vietnam war.

I just never saw this picture.


TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-12-07 08:21 PM
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1. And then there was our favorite...
   
Picture some poor bastard with his pants around his ankles.

And a team of crazy Americans with a field mouse, a length of aluminum conduit and a Zippo.

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Wed Dec-12-07 08:55 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. True story
   
When you hear crap such as, "Our government does not torture", remember what you read in my reply.

I had nightmares about that shit for years.
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Tom in the brig

TomInTib  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Jun-17-06 10:26 PM
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Vietnam era DUers - Remember 'Tiger Cages' and the outrage?
   
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Edited on Sat Jun-17-06 10:47 PM by TomInTib
Remember how the NVA was portrayed as inhuman savages because of the cages?

Special Operations interrogators gave some detainees only bread or crackers and water if they did not cooperate, according to the investigation, by Brig. Gen. Richard P. Formica of the Army. One prisoner was fed only bread and water for 17 days. Other detainees were locked for as many as seven days in cells so small that they could neither stand nor lie down, while interrogators played loud music that disrupted their sleep.

< aside: I spent a month on bread and water, 3 days on and 3 days off, in a Marine Brig. That regimen will absolutely mess with your mind. >

General Formica found that in the third case at a Special Operations outpost, near Tikrit, in April and May 2004, three detainees were held in cells 4 feet high, 4 feet long and 20 inches wide, except to use the bathroom, to be washed or to be interrogated. He concluded that two days in such confinement "would be reasonable; five to seven days would not." Two of the detainees were held for seven days; one for two days, General Formica concluded.

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[delilahmused]

Now he evidently knows the Eagles and lived by Don Henley...wow.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Nov-25-07 08:56 PM
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5. I knew them when they were still Linda Rondstadt's band.
   And opening act, as well.

I also lived right around the corner from Don Henley in Dallas (Bluffview).
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Cindie

[delilahmused]

Oh good Christ...rock stars, spies, corporate boardrooms...even Heidi Fleiss didn't get atround this much.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-17-06 04:32 AM
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3. Bullshit, georgie... You know and I know that was the plan all along...
   Purvin&Gertz, Houston.

I saw those maps in Blake Eskew's conference room.

As did J A Baker.

As did Harmid Karzai.

As did that asshole Hadley.

Just google 'blake eskew', 'purvin','gertz'

Play around, see what happens.

I am tired of this and I am about to go absolutely Public.

They have planned this all along.
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Does anyone know if TiT went "absolutely public" with this? BTW, wouldn't posting on a public message board kind of do the trick?

Cindie

[delilahmused]

You'd think if he was gonna name-drop about the maker of the damn guitar he'd at least know how to spell the man's name. Oh, and surprise, surprise...another brush with greatness.

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-04-06 03:59 PM
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1. I have seen him play that guitar.
   And I have had one quite like it. Mine was built by Paul Reid Smith.

It is what we call a "soft" guitar. Basically a 2/3 scale and perfect for fast, choppy and nasty slide work. And next to impossible to keep tuned.

Ry was playing in open D and doing a great job with that fat glass slide. Playing those little guitars is either second nature or you're just not playing. All guitar logic flies right out the window when you are really cruising on a soft guitar.
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Just so you don't embarass yourself again, TiT...it's ReEd not ReId. How pathetic...can't even do a 30 second google to get the man's name right.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

Oh goody, another song!

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TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-21-07 01:42 AM
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1. For Josh...(dead at 14)
   You know they come from the water
To run through the trees
They say that all Men are Brothers
But as different as the Seasons

And you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

Some let the sand slip thru their fingers
Some throw it to the wind
Some let the Mystery linger
And some bring it to an end

And you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

I'll understand if you can't see me
I'll understand if you can't stay
But if somehow, I could catch your eye
Babe, please don't turn away


'cause you can pin wings to my shoulders
And pretend that I could fly
But if your wings are strong enough for enough for two....
I'll think I'll walk with you awhile

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Cindie

[Toastedturningtidelegs]

< aside: I spent a month on bread and water, 3 days on and 3 days off, in a Marine Brig

Just a question for all the military guys here. How would one end up in a Marine brig if one was {supposedly} in the Navy?

[JakeStyle]

< aside: I spent a month on bread and water, 3 days on and 3 days off, in a Marine Brig

Just a question for all the military guys here. How would one end up in a Marine brig if one was {supposedly} in the Navy?

The Navy still runs the brig at MCAS Miramar and I know that they incarcerate Marines there, I imagine the opposite would be true on bases where the Marines run the brig like MCB Camp Pendleton.

[ChuckJ]

< aside: I spent a month on bread and water, 3 days on and 3 days off, in a Marine Brig

Just a question for all the military guys here. How would one end up in a Marine brig if one was {supposedly} in the Navy?

JakeStyle's answer sounds entirely reasonable; however, since it is TiT that we're talking about the correct answer is probably: when you're fabricating a story you can put yourself into any brig you desire.

Hell, TiT's probably even done some time in a Klingon brig.

[Rebel]

How many SEALs go to the brig? They're the creme of the crop. Now, if he did it before he became a SEAL I call bullshit as well. Doubt they'd take anyone into a selective service like the SEALs who had been to the damn brig. 

[BamaMoose]

If TiT could post the declassified version of his time in a Marine brig it would read something like this:

TomInTib  (1000+ posts)        Sun Oct-21-07 01:42 AM
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1. So (yes, I said so)

I’m threatening John Warner with a shotgun.  The Shore Patrol think that disarming me is a good idea.  After I take about 4 dozen of them out, they call for re-enforcements.  A battalion out of the 9th MEB responds and eventually subdues me.  They wouldn’t have taken me if not for the fact that I was tired from being awake for 4014 hours straight doing extractions in North Vietnam, Laos and the Soviet Union around the Arctic Circle.

They transport me to a Marine brig while they contemplate what to do with me.  After a brisk nap I decide that I want out, so I disable everyone in the place.  Unfortunately, they kept their back-up battalion in-place so they take me down again.  They wouldn’t have taken me if not for the fact that the sun was in my eyes.

They call for a helo squadron to support transporting me and take me to a docked SSN.  After shackling me with anchor chain they load me into a torpedo tube and head out to sea.  I spent about a month locked in that torpedo tube, but that was ok because I had smuggled about a kilo of Thai sticks and a kilo of heroin in with me.  During my time in the tube I got hungry and had to eat three of my toes.  All of a sudden I feel them pressurize and the next thing I know I’m being fired out of the tube.  I was shot onto a deserted island out in the middle of WestPac.

Once ashore, I quickly fabricated a crude sundial and, using my SEAL celestial navigation training, established my latitude and longitude within about 5 feet.  I determined I was on a deserted island in French Polynesia.  After spending a handful of days writing songs which would eventually bring Bonny Raitt fame and fortune I decided I needed a drink (and I hadn't had real food or fresh water for about 6 weeks).  I was only about 2000 miles from Hawaii so I dove in the ocean and started swimming.  Three days later I was drunk in Maui.  I liked Hawaii so much I bought Molokai Island but I had to give it to my girlfriend when she kicked me out of my house.  On the plus side my toes grew back.
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