About Me
 I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 Some stuff about my solo CD:
"Awesome! …Seriously--glittery guitars accompanied by all of the 1969-era Rolling Stones-informed flamboyance you could ask for…results in nothing other than raunchy good times" - ALBUQUERQUE ALIBI MAGAZINE****************************"

Of everyone who sends CDs to my mailbox, Santa Fe’s Billy Miles Brooke has a clue to what I like best: rock and roll, baby, with no metal, no bad boy stance and no useless riffing. This is a good disc of rock & roll/ heart & soul with country honk and a taste of glam acknowledging Marriott, Parsons (both Gram and Gene) and Jagger-Richards without mindless imitation. 

The Stones influence is apparent right out of the gate. No, not their coke-sniffin’ cockhound persona but what they would’ve played for themselves in the wee hours, trying to even out the highs and lows of powders, whiskey & pills while recording in self-imposed “exile†in Villefranche-sur Mer, 1971. Toss in Nikki Sudden and Jeff Dahl with smoother vocals and you have the full picture. This isn’t balls-out rock (which is overrated anyway) but more like keep it in your pants and let’s see what you really have to offer. Brooke offers alot, with welcome subtlety. 

The slide guitars are lovely and --yes!--finally a rock and roll record that features piano in the vein of the great Nicky Hopkins. Wait, did I say subtle? Closing track Tearin’ Up the Town wakes you out of the disc’s country reverie with a barn-burning twist-party complete with honkin’ sax, the other rock and roll instrument unjustly forgotten. 
All Dressed Up… isn’t ground-breaking but reliable, no bullshit and comfortable. Not easy to do, it works for either Saturday night or Sunday morning." - WIG WAM BAM MAGAZINE********************I can almost smell the lines of blow on the bare breasts of backstage groupies. (Note to younger readers, if there are any: This is bad and sends the wrong message to the youth. Please disregard.) This album is unabashedly '70s boogie with Chuck Berry/Keith Richards-style guitar and rollicking Nicky Hopkins-style keyboards. I hear the Faces, Mott the Hoople; maybe a little New York Dolls. There are some wonderful slow ballads here — "The Raging Light of Dawn" and "Midnight Rain" for instance, but my favorites are the rippers like "Moonlight Boogie" and "Tearin' Up the Town." - Steve Terrell, Pasa Tiempo Magazine (Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper)
****************Brooke doesn’t just create an homage to the genre he loves so much …(he) brings glam back to life… and, indeed, it does sparkle. As the album goes on, the songs change up from dancey rock songs to country-infused ballads and back again - every one a solid track. - SANTA FE REPORTER****************************"...a cool mixture of Rolling Stones rock and roll meets Glam and with a little bit of country tinge thrown in (used the way the Stones did)...with outstanding songs like Queen of the Stardust Ball, Tearin’ up the Town and Sloe Gin. Rock and Roll!" - LOWCUT MAGAZINE*******************************"Damn straight! We're talking the down and dirty period of 'Sticky Fingers' with a greasy helping of early skinny and cool haired Rod Stewart and a smattering of the glitter rock ala David Bowie and Mott The Hoople." - GLORY DAZE*********************************A little background: After growing up in Albuquerque, N.M. and spending a couple of years playing every bar, club, and gymnasium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I realized that my dreams could not be realized in the podunk town ‘Burque was (musically) in 1985, and moved on out to L.A. to be a rock star! It took 8 years of hand to mouth living and much sacrifice and hard work, but finally my band, Tragic Romance, was offered a record deal with Century Media Records. We had been one of the big bands in L.A. for years, playing all of the world famous clubs such as The Whisky A Go Go, Troubadour, Roxy, etc. etc. hundreds of times, and even the cool underground clubs with the likes of Jane’s Addiction, L.A. Guns, and many more that later went on to become pretty big, as we were a bit of a dark and gothy- yet rockin’- hybrid, much like The Cult. We did our CD, and went on tour, but after all those years, I actually had pretty much grown out of that heavy stuff, and found myself mesmerized by the country and Americana sounds of Gram Parsons, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, etc. etc. and of course my faves The Stones.After leaving the band, I then followed my Stonesey-Americana heart for years after that, playing solo here and there, and recording a couple of demos, but eventually my day job in aerospace took me to Europe, where I lived for many years- working 9-5, then playing the pubs at night- all your typical fare of Dylan, Stones, Willie Nelson, CSN&Y, etc. etc. (I still go back for a couple weeks just about every year and do a little pub tour in Germany and France, to a couple of cities where I have a little bit of a following.) But now, as you can hear, I've definitely gone back to my raunchy early 70's Stones roots and snake-skin boots.After 9/11 I moved back to New Mexico, to be near my family, and get back into music. I ended up in Santa Fe, where I play the clubs here, and sometimes back in Albuquerque, either solo, or with my various bands.The tunes you are hearing here at MySpace were recorded in the winter of '07 and the spring of '08 at The Switchyard Studio in Nashville, with some awesome Nashville players, and recorded by Michael St. Leon, who rocks beyond belief. (He also played some of the leads and killer Keef-type parts) The full blown CD, "All Dressed Up ... and Nowhere to Go" is now available at my music page, www.myspace.com/tragicromancerocks- either via SnoCap (download) or a hard copy via CD Baby. AND NOW also available on I-Tunes, Rhapsody, and many other download sites. (Just Google "Billy Miles Brooke").Also composer of musical THE BRASS RING, so if you're looking for that, you've come to the right place. Please message me for any questions regarding it.
