Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Fred's kind of a private guy as well, so I'm not going to go into much detail ... but I used to make trips to his country to hang out with him and talk biz. We drank. A lot.

Anyway, we made it into the most popular club in town by arguing with the bouncers until they gave up. They felt we were too intoxicated but we were getting exceedingly good at handling that scenario. God only knows what either of us said. I vaguely remember him trying to get me to speak Russian and threaten them - I may have been making fake phone calls in Russian while pointing at him menacingly but I can't remember much as so many of those nights kind of run together in my memories. Anyway , the bar was on the second floor and we made our way up the stairs somehow and there was a couch at the top - where I just fell into and couldn't get up.

We're laying on this couch not sure how we are going to make it to the beer or how to get the beer to come to us. A dude walks up and says in perfect English "you doing alright friend" I said something and he said something and left. I look at my buddy and said "ok, fuck it,... I'm done drinking - now I'm hallucinating and it's not even a great hallucination"... He asks what I was talking about and I replied "I just imagined that Tom Jones walked up to me and asked me if I was doing ok and seemed kinda concerned"... He responds "oh, shit. Tom Jone! I was trying to remember his name".. I remember a moment of being puzzled and likely said something as I puzzled through how he was seeing my hallucination and then it occurred to me... I crawled up to my feet and wandered into the bar and walked up to him. I don't remember exactly what was said but he greeted me and asked if I was doing ok and I said something kinda shitty (which always plays out as being funny as hell in my mind first) like "I just needed to come in here and make sure that was real. Mostly because I'd like to think bat if I was hallucinating, that I could do better" he laughed, was cool and I stumbled away.