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TommyWhy

Bassassin.

About Me

If you need a bassist for live or studio work, or are intersted in my production for your project, hit me up.


A partial list of artists/events I have worked with on stage or in the studio:


* Donnie
* Sonia Sanchez
* William Bell
* Candi Staton
* Ede Wright Group
* Ten Story Relapse
* Indigo Sunset
* Francine Reed
* Jullie Dexter
* Amel Larrieux
* India.Arie
* Deke Spears
* Jahi Kearse
* Joi
* Phillipia
* Laurnea
* Taprena
* Bobby Yang and his Unrivalled Players
* Days Ahead
* Soul Sista's Juke Joint
* Midnight Ritual
* Kemba
* Kevin Bryant
* Brandy Irvon
* Algebra
* Indigo Sunset/Beal Street
* Passion and Poetry
* BH
* K. Queens
* Andrew Black & The Believers
* Funkman's Brother
* Theresa Hightower
* Mark Cook
* Shauna Marie
* Jeff Floyd
* Lola Gulley
* Mizmorim
* St. Paul AME Church
* Francisco Vidal
* Nic Cowan
* Amy Gerhardt
* Tyler Reeve
* Hu
* Tony Towerz
* Lion's Share Ent
* SPark
* Kyle Williams
* Madam CJ
* Three5Human
* Christine Horn
* Heston
lots more to come in '08!

I am currently hard at work in the studio and on stages in and around Atlanta... look for lots of new material coming over the next year.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/24/2004
Influences: life's experiences, and the greats of jazz, blues, funk, soul, rock n roll, R&B, reggae, salsa, samba, afro beat, highlife, country, gospel, you name it.

Jaco, James Jamerson, Chuck Rainey, Duck Dunn, Robbie Shakespeare, Aston Barrett, Charles Mingus, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Bootsy, Larry Graham, Verdine White, Stevie Wonder, Paul Jackson, Meshell Ndegeocello... many more.
Sounds Like: magnetic wave disruptions caused by vibrating strings stretched across hardwoods
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Mentirosa" is Song Of The Day on Garageband.com!!!

Ten Story Relapse's song "Mentirosa" will be the Song of the Day at Garageband.com on Feb. 28th!Apparently it will be featured on the front page of their site on that day... look out for it!www.myspac...
Posted by TommyWhy on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:34:00 PST

Oh and check the new Ten Story Relapse album...

it's called Antidisestablishmentarianism. I play bass for these guys, and this is their coolest project yet... produced by Geoff Melkonian, mixed by Paul Mahern. It's a poppish, punkish, somewhat alte...
Posted by TommyWhy on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:13:00 PST

new TommyWhy music on another profile!

Check out the tune "Don't Wake Me" at Shauna Marie/NouSoul records (my 2nd friend below)... it is the first song from a forthcoming project she and I are working on. The overall project will be an ecl...
Posted by TommyWhy on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:12:00 PST

This Girl feat. Rasa Don

This track is courtesy of MoKat productions and Rasa Don of Arrested Development. Tell me how it makes you feel...
Posted by TommyWhy on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:42:00 PST

River People

This one was a lot of fun. For a change I decided to sequence almost everything... I started with the bassline, I have a transcription of it from the New Real Book. Then I did the drums, and then the ...
Posted by TommyWhy on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:45:00 PST