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Tommy Cole

I Play Blues ! Jazz ! Rock ! Funk ! Latin !

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Saw Elvis on Ed Sullivan show and wanted to play the guitar at six. Started trying to playing guitar in 1965 at 13 with a play along to The Ventures record ,lost the record but am still trying to play it anyway. I told my grandma that when I grow up I want to be a musician! She said you cant do both! I hate it when old people are right! I've played harmonica since 1969 My fav websites are Myspace,Reverbnation,,Youtube ,Jamacast ,the Texas lottery site to check my non-winning numbers. I am trying to learn flash to do animation and movie fx for youtube ,but still a neophyte. I love music ,food ,fun and more music! I hope to make money someday,because I've always been a musician. I lived in a commune in New Mexico ,begged for change in Toronto,naked at a rainbow gathering in Texas,arrested in Denver for attempting to climb a tree,ate turnips right out of the ground in Mississippi,worked at a motorcycle shop in Dallas,drove motorcycle naked at lake Travis near Austin. Played for a George McGovern benefit in Austin (Jerry Jeff waker was there!)Played at the first white blues club on 6th street in Austin (the lamplight inn) with Uncle John Turner and the Texas Sheiks, Uncle John(John and Tommy were Johnny Winters First Band ,John passes away recently ), lil Bruce (Vocals),Tommy Shannon ,Jack Morgan [the best live guitarist I ever played with ,I heard he died(insert sad face)] and some time Keith Ferguson ( The most fun bass guitarist I ever met,he died too!)it wasn't my band but in Austin back then everybody jammed with everybody else.Played every sat night for 2 years at the One Night club (it was a block away from the police station and the wildest club in Austin) in a band called the Sugarland Blues Band (if you know where Stuart Palmer )is email me, [Storm]Jimmy Vaughn played there every Monday night with Doyle Bramhall Sr (great vocals)and a great harp player Lewis,jammed with them a couple times! Jammed with Stevie Ray at the Rome Inn ,Played with George Underwood and the Dukes ,Holy Katz(know where Pasha is?),The Last Gash Wine Circus,Toad,Roy Coyote,Clarence Clemons at the Armadillo World H.Q. with Steam Heat ,jammed with the old members of Point Blank ( insert sad story of record label ripoff),Jim Dandy,Rocky Athas,opened for Georgia Satalites,John Mayall ,Jeff Healey,jammed with at Freddie King at Mother Blues in Dallas. Played in Johnny Taylor's band,jammed with Bugs Henderson, the Stratoblasters,Hash Brown[in Dallas],I have lived under a staircase,and in a goat shed,slept in lots of goodwill boxes,but their hard to find now. I love to play the blues and trying to play jazz,hope to learn more. Have played rock ,country ,reggae ,and funk in bands. I live in the country 50 miles outside of Dallas , Texas.Peace Out! Tommy Cole {old stage name Tom Terrific Tongue Man Hot Licks and Live Snake Show with a Mexican Sideman [Phillip Fajardo who played drums for Jimmy Buffet named me that as a joke and no one ever stopped calling anything else!]}The Jay Pea Strut (Funky Groove with me on Harmonica) Night Sweats ( Loud Rock with me on Guitar) Expecting Her ( Smooth Jazz with me on Guitar) Hot Peppers (Blues with a funky Nawlens beat with me on Harmonica) Memories (Smooth Rock with me on Guitar) Nawlens Bound (Blues with me on Harmonica) Funkasaurus II (Smooth Funk-Jazz with me on Guitar) Psycho Blues (Blues with me on Harmonica) Myth or Logical (Smooth Rock with me on Guitar) One Too Many (Smooth Funk-Jazz with me on Guitar) It's Unfair ( Smooth Jazz with me on Guitar) Mas Ora ( Smooth Latin Jazz with me on Guitar) Way Too Shy (Funk-Jazz with me on Harmonica and on Guitar) Octopus (Funky Nawlens beat with me on Guitar) Rhythmicality ( Smooth Jazz with me on Harmonica and on Guitar) Splicing the Thaumata (Blues with me on Guitar) Por Nada ( Smooth Latin Jazz with me on Harmonica) My Bad ? (Blues with me on Guitar) When You Legalize It (Comedy Rap with Me on vocals)Mas Ora

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Member Since: 5/15/2007
Band Website: reverbnation.com/tommycole
Band Members: Tommy Cole stage name(Tom Terrific Tongue Man Hot Licks and Live Snake Show) on Harmonica and Lead Guitar! Everything else is just my computer, sorry no band
Influences: Clapton ,Beck ,Guy ,Muddy ,Robert Johnson ,Charlie Christian ,Little Walter ,Toots George Benson ,George Duke ,Bootsy ,Rick James ,James Brown ,Ray Charles ,Tom Scott , Funkadelics ,Prince ,Dwayne Allman ,T Van Zandt ,Albert Collins ,Lighting Hopskins are some of the musicians I stole licks from!
Sounds Like: Smooth Jazz mixed with Funk,Blues, Latin and Rock! Check it out!
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

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Dont know where to start,first twofs! [typing with one finger stinks!], so now I'm up to two! Started trying to playing guitar in 1965 at 13 with a play along to  The Ventures record ,lost the re...
Posted by Tommy Cole on Sat, 19 May 2007 05:17:00 PST