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Tom Hespe

About Me

Tom Hespe has been playing saxophone, guitar, bass, shitty drums, occasaional banjo, one fisted keyboards and singing for many years with many Sydney musos....lately, in between playing with the Paper Scissors, the Slowdowns, Rob Mc Crone, Faster Mummy Harder, the Kenny G Spot, the Remains and testing analog effects with Lastgasp Art Laboratories http://lalweb.com/effects.html he has managed (with the help of some special guests) to demo some new songs, .....checkitout.... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/09/2007
Band Members: TOM HESPE: vox, guitars, bass, drums & percussion, saxophones. Plus special guests including: MICHAEL WARD: Drumkit, LOUIS TILLET:Piano, DOUG HAZEL: baritone sax, banjo & vox, DYLAN HARTASS: guitar & bass, DAVID "HARRY" HARRINGTON: vox, CRAIG CALHOUN: bass, PHIL DOWNING: Philophone, BE WARD: Percussion, GRANT GERATHY: drumkit.
Influences: DUKE ELLINGTON, TOM WAITS, RY COODER, TV ON THE RADIO, THE POLICE, PRINCE, TIM BUCKLEY, AC/DC, BRIAN ENO, BOB DYLAN, OLD DIRTY BASTARD, THIN LIZZY, NEIL YOUNG, DOLLY PARTON, KIM SALMON, OUTKAST, MIDNIGHT OIL, THE REMAINS, NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN, SLAYER, LEE HAZELWOOD, FAT FREDDY'S DROP, IOTA, KRAFTWERK, PJ HARVEY, NINA SIMONE, BJORK, JIMMY LITTLE, JOHNNY CASH, THE KING, ERIC DOLPHY, CHRIS WHITLEY, SOLOMON BURKE, COLTRANE, AL GREEN, GILLIAN WELCH, CAMARON DE LA ISLA, PACO DE LUCIA, VAN MORRISON, BAD BRAINS, ROBERT FRIPP, JOHN MARTYN, PUBLIC ENEMY, THEATRE OF DISCO, FIEST, THE METERS, KEITH JARRET, APHEX TWIN, IAN DURY, BURT BACHARACH, PHARAOH SAUNDERS.....but especially the people i've played with and been inspired by: be, phil, ward, matt, dylan, jai, bryce, xave, louis tillet, doug and haz, john maddox, trevor brown, grant, barney, johhny g, phil p, caitlin yeo, tom zugami, steph, pauly b, pete b, james b, peta morris, marty hailey,c.w. stoneking, gersh, mick daley, the re-mains, paddy, dave oddie, wire mc, stingray, ken gormley, david jones, vince, helen, dave bass, jerry, cryin skies, eugene, pat, rob, kaija, vesma, will, ivan, nigel and the rest of ya.....you know who you are!
Sounds Like: ....THE NOISE IN MY HEAD....
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

five years gone

well well well.... i'll keep this short n sweet.my news is that Xavier, Ivan and Jai kicked me out of the band ive been part of for the last five years.different reasons were given, lack of committmen...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:09:00 GMT

mooosic

this year is shaping up to be the busiest for a long time in terms of music for me, i thougt id take a bit of time to jot some of it down, as much for my own benefit as any on else's.....some of you h...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 03:50:00 GMT

tour/gigs/recordings/RAGE

some news: along with writing and recording my own songs i somehow seem to find the time to play with four bands this week! The Paper Scissors jam on Thursday, Cryin Skies @ the Landsdowne on Saturday...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:29:00 GMT

recording

i've scored some free studio time at the film and tv school this thurs and fri.....so armed with some guitars, a saxophone, louis tillet and his paino, michael ward and his drums we're gonna thrash so...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:04:00 GMT

jb blues

jb blues: this song means a lot to me. It was written for and about a good friend of mine who was murdered close to two years ago: Jade Brennan, Stingray: father, brother, son, lover, fighte...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:00:00 GMT

.....ent cent...

......long story but i got some free tix and backstage passes to steely dan concert tonight.....gots to schmooooze....aint been in that big barn since metallica in 1992
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:55:00 GMT

im outta here

im goin on a road trip and gittin the fuck outta sydney for two weeks! yeah.......seee youse at the sando on sunday 30th cos louis's back!
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:34:00 GMT

slowdowns

The slowdowns (minus haz) went (downstairs) into the studio armed with a case 'o coops, one killer hangover and 5 songs, one an hour.....and it dont sound half bad at all! Some of our classic cheesy d...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:58:00 GMT