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THE STU THOMAS PARADOX

About Me


Solo Music Maestro -- Bass Player To The Stars --
Aural & Visual Creator -- Stage Animale --
Baritone Guitar Supremo !!!


NEW CD/VINYL RE-RELEASE BY BANG! RECORDS, SPAIN.


THE STORY SO FAR..... I saw the light at 13, an easy way to make a million : write a Number One hit. Then, lay back for a long cruise....
The story wrote itself a different life. A slow walk to and from dark corners and bright spotlights....
The money and the hit didn't come. So far, they are elusive like butterflies. But my net's always had a big beautiful hole in it.
Nah, I didn't take the trail of the shooting star. I'm more like an asteroid, slowly truckin' thru the musical Milky Way, havin' a good look around. There's a lot to see...
What dollars? I've got a million gigs in the bank....a million more to go...
So, I started a few bands, joined a few, saw the world. Put out a few records, played on a few. It's what I do.
Stu performs solo and with his band as
Stu also plays baritone guitar and bass with
Dave Graney & Clare Moore featuring The Lurid Yellow Mist .
And, Kim Salmon & The Surrealists.
And, SALMON
Past times saw Stu playin' bass for Kim Salmon , The Scientists , Billy Miller , Luxedo, Kim Salmon & The Business, Barb Waters , Mike Noga 's The Soldiers, Spencer P Jones , Red Lantern , Broken Arrows....
He founded & fronted The Brass Bed , Stu & The Celestials, Crumpet and Organism.
STU THOMAS "Road To Hell" live 2007
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/01/2007
Band Website: geocities.com/thebrassbed
Band Members:

STU THOMAS can be seen singing/yelping, with Burns Marquee Club Series electric guitar, or Burns Barracuda baritone guitar, or clapped out nylon string, but always with close friend Reverb by his side.

When with band, he prefers the accompaniment of these fine players:

PHIL COLLINGS - advanced drumset & cymbals

The MILLERS :
BILLY - war-torn Fender Stratocaster, tonsils
&
ED - Fender Precision Bass guitar, vocal chords

The Paradox : Solo or band? Acoustic or electric? Bass or baritone guitar? Space-cowboy or voodoo-surf fiend? What's with all the questions?

Influences:

WHEN ONLY THE BEST WILL DO.....
the love of a good woman, Lee Hazlewood, thoughts, sounds, Raymond Chandler, Dali, red wine, Miles Davis, Bunuel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, seafood, Nancy Sinatra, gladstone bags, Warhol, Bowie, yum-cha, cats and dogs, Man-Or Astroman?, magpie song, Peggy Lee, my old Chrysler, Iggy, grilled abalone mushrooms, Serge Gainsbourg, a clear view of the stars, Link Wray, Tenessee Williams, Nico, dappled light thru' windows, the Nouvelle Vague, Tom Waits, winklepickers, Lee Marvin, reverberation, Picasso, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, cravattes, the Beats, fejoias, Ray Davies, Roland S Howard, green Chartreuse, 60's garage Psychedelia, rain on a windscreen, Lou Reed, Super 8 film, John Lee Hooker, Peter Cook, Joan Miro, film noir, James Brown, Bacharach, Syd Barrett, oysters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Max Ernst, Rodriguez, Edweard Muybridge, manzinilla & anchovie-stuffed olives on a sunny day, John Kricfalusi, Roxy Music, post-punk (Birthday Party, PIL, The Fall, Scientists..), comments from complete strangers, cashew nuts, Ken Nordine, Christo, Funkadelic, Joe Meek, Exquisite Corpse, everyone I've played with...and other tasteful folly

Sounds Like:

Flying thru an underground tunnel, getting messages from space, hallucinating an alien probing

Record Label: Bang!, audrey, Bar Hum Bug

My Blog

NSW TOUR

I am back in my house in Melbourne. The wind is gale-force at the windows. The dog's head's down on the couch. The cat's on the bed, also in slumber. With a light head from flu's tail-end, I float acr...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:46:00 GMT

SPLASH!

SPLASH!After a long gestation the new Stu Thomas Paradox album is now mastered.SPLASH!Packaging is being worked on as you sleep,SPLASH!Wot's "splash"?If you've heard "Constipation Blues" by Screamin' ...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:14:00 GMT

NEW album- hear ye! hear ye!

That's right, the new album for THE STU THOMAS PARADOX is complete. The title is "ESCAPE FROM ALGEBRA".It is made of songs, one after another.The mixing was done by The Mixer. Produced by The Producer...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

DAVE GRANEY's new LP a ball-tearer!!! (That's a good thing..)

Knock Yourself Out is the title of Dave Graney's new twisted-R&B album, to be released late MAY 09.Dave played most of the instruments, Prince-stylee, with the notable exceptions being Clare Moore on ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 17:57:00 GMT

The Discography of Stu

The following are some of the releases on which STU THOMAS has appeared. It's a pretty complete list in rough chronological order (oldest to newest), and will be updated from time to time with all t...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:13:00 GMT

Do you want to see my etchings?

  If you care to delve further into the paradox that is S.T., feast on some recent and not-so-recent drawings at Stu's flickr site.... Click this.
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:09:00 GMT

Rules for Performers to live by

RULES FOR PERFORMERS TO LIVE BY.Some essential do's and dont's designed to help those who aspire to the music stage...PART A: 1. Never tune with a capo on. 2. Children despise harmony. 3. An unsure wo...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:17:00 GMT

What happened first.

My music playing life began in school: all the kids in Western Australia were forced to learn the recorder, a plastic bone-coloured whistle with holes. After school, in streets all over Australia in t...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:48:00 GMT

My latest video..for Dave Graney

A couple of months back (September 2007, to be exact) I was in Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an atoll (horseshoe of islands) situated smack in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It's 10 metres above sea-level...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:28:00 GMT

1970 : great year for albums

It recently came to my attention, as it does from time to time, that a whole lot of music in my record collection came from the year 1970. It seems to have been a magical year for music. Some of my fa...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:20:00 GMT