Tom Schimmel - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Thanks for stopping by and having a listen! Tom Schimmel moved to Georgia in 2006 and started to teach himself how to sing and play guitar. During nine months of life in Athens, Georgia; Tom received a lot of useful advice, eclectic music, and tasty memories. Now he listens to a lot of country music and baseball games when he is not writing blogs, books, or songs. He has played a few open-mic shows and has posted over twenty home recordings on MySpace. Slowly, he is finding styles of guitar (acoustic) and voice (soul & country) which suit his vocal range. Words are never in shortage, and as he practices more on the guitar and the voice, his poems are finding life in song. Look soon for new music and thanks for visiting his page!P.S. Tom doesn't have any new videos of himself, so he ressurected an old movie for your viewing pleasure. The story takes place many moons ago in 1994. It's about staying true to your self in spite of the world.ALWAYS and FOREVER

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/16/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/tomschimmel
Band Members: Tom Schimmel - words, guitar, vocals

Influences: Marc Broussard, Dave Matthews, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Train, U2, Nickleback, Johnny Cash, Michael McDonald, Bo Diddley, Johnny Lang, Steppenwolf, Jimmy Barnes, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, James Reyne, Bodeans, Montgomery Gentry, Sam Bush, Warren Haynes.

Sounds Like:

I sound like myself learning to sing and play guitar into a USB compatible microphone which connects to a computer which records the sound and then utilizes higher forms of math to somehow turn it into zeroes and ones. The resulting zeroes and ones are sent through copper wires and then bounced coherently off satellites in orbit. A uniform resource code: http://www.myspace.com/tomschimmel directs potential listeners like yourself to my little corner of cyberspace. At my site, a jukebox application makes it available for you - the visitor - to have the song downloaded into your own computer where it is sent through your speakers and reaches your ears. It is both pointless and obligatory to say I sound better in person.My songs have been to space and back. They would only sound worse if I were podcasting in a space shuttle during a solar storm. Thank you for your tolerance of my home-studio recordings.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

So Many Things to Consider

The experience of being an American voter in 2008 is quite intense. Many of us are being roused from a long hibernation by an unprecedented streak of unfavorable circumstances. Having thou...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:24:00 PST

Check out this video: ALWAYS and FOREVER

Description: In 1994, a group of friends at the University of Denver made themselves a little no-budget movie to help our friend Dave with his senior film project. I did the writing and acted the lea...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:59:00 PST

Politcal Platform verses Oil Platform: you make the call

Democratic Political Platform · Military: Bring home our soldiers: save families and five trillion dollars · &n...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:01:00 PST

An Incredible Time

Picture yourself at the age of eight or ten. It doesn't matter how old you are now, just imagine yourself now, walking up to your younger self and telling about what life in America would ...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:02:00 PST

Route map for "1500 Miles On A Scooter" by Tom Schimmel

In May, 2007 I rode my 150cc automatic scooter through the southeast United States. Over seven days, I Below is a link to a route map I created. Thanks for visitng. I hope you ...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:38:00 PST

Why Carbon Dioxide Is Not The Enemy

Friends, News coming out of the United Nations today indicates that a review lesson of junior high school chemisty would be appropriate for the leaders of the organization. In cani...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:37:00 PST

To my friends

This blog is just about saying thank you to all of my friends around the world, including especially, the people who created MySpace. Every positive message from one to another is a light i...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST

What I Learned At Smiths Olde Bar

Tuesday night, I entered the singer/songwriter contest at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta. My girlfriend and I got stuck in t...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:39:00 PST

Writing Samples

The link below will take you to some articles I wrote covering the visual arts scene in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a few years old, and I still think they are good exampl...
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:42:00 PST

Online again!

It's been awhile since I've been around to the MySpace. Proof that survival without the internet is possible! Now read and I will publish again soon! - Tom
Posted by Tom Schimmel on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:12:00 PST