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Tom Shad

Hometown boy makes good

About Me

Tom Shad sings,composes,improvises, plays bass, fretless piccolo bass and guitar. He has appeared on many cd's including the Brilliant Coroners' Brilliant Corners,Dumptruck's For The Country and Otis Ball and the Chains I'm Gonna Love You 'till I Don't. Currently, Tom plays Chapman Stick in the show "Rewired" by Blue Man Group in New York City,fretless guitar in Mercurial Trio and Crisis ,and is a member of The Sperm Whale. Tomalso freelances and teaches. The tunes included here represent a cross-section of Tom's recent output; from improv duo with Daniel Carter to twelve tone Ornette-style jazz to solo piccolo bass improvisations to his new pop punk songs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/6/2005
Influences: Ornette Coleman,Beatles,My Bloody Valentine ,Parliament,Ligeti,Michael Manring,John Cage,Thelonious Monk
Sounds Like: Ornette Coleman,Teenage Fan Club, Punk,Jazz,improv
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Return of The Mercurial Trio !

Tom Shad - Fretless Guitar Tom Zlabinger - 5 string electric bassBilly Ficca -DrumsMercurial Trio has a once a month residency at Ottos Shrunken Head the first Saturday of each month 730 to 830 pm s...
Posted by Tom Shad on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:56:00 PST

Two new bands debut at Ottos Shrunken Head

I have the pleasure of debuting two groups on monday night . The first group will be playing my tunes primarily. The latter group, Crisis, is groove improvisation based, although a tune or two will ap...
Posted by Tom Shad on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:08:00 PST

Andrew D’Angelo Benefit

Dear FriendsI have organized a benefit to cover the medical expenses for Andrew D’Angelo the great alto sax player who has recently been diagnosed with brain cancer and has no medical insurance....
Posted by Tom Shad on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 08:24:00 PST

Piccolo Fretless Bass and Fretless Guitar

Played my first session today on fretless guitar. What a hoot that was. This by the way is with the new unnamed as of yet Tri with Tom Zlabinger and Billy Ficca.The question is do i have to choose to ...
Posted by Tom Shad on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:38:00 PST

Teaching at BBC again

I am honored to be an instructor at Gerald Veasley's Bass Bootcamp again this year March 16 to 18 in Wyomissing , Pa. I will be teaching a practical course on ear training. It is a great pleasure to ...
Posted by Tom Shad on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:09:00 PST

Composer Available

You need music for your film, podcast, choreography. I have lots of expoerience and work pretty quickly. Reasonable rates or barter
Posted by Tom Shad on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:41:00 PST