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ThomasKugler

About Me

Thomas Kugler is a musician/composer/producer with a classical music background and years of experience in rock/pop/alternative music. He has performed and recorded in a number of LA-area combos, including most recently Fang Of Love, for which he writes, sings, and plays guitar; he also does solo acoustic sets in the unplugged format.In 2000, he released EVENSONG - A Vampire Rock Opera, a 27-song double-CD set which tells a story entirely in song with different singers for different characters in the story. In 2001, he directed and co-produced an abridged version of EVENSONG for the stage in Hollywood's Jewel Box Theatre Center.Fall of 2005 saw the release of his second rock opera, LILITH - The Rock Opera, a 24-song double-CD set featuring thirty singers and musicians, including members of Fang Of Love, W.A.C.O., Listing Ship, Soho Vamp, and Pigmy Love Circus.LILITH is the Creation story retold with the addition of Lilith, the first woman created to be Adam's wife. Coming to life as a spellbinding seductress, God condemns Lilith instead to Hell to join Satan as his bride, then creates Eve from Adam's rib. As Lilith was intended to be Adam's lover and to bear his children, she vows her revenge; she and Satan then conspire to bring about Adam and Eve's fall from grace and bring sin into the world when they are no longer under God's protection in Eden.LILITH is also intended for the stage, and is currently in development.

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Member Since: 05/09/2005
Band Website: www.vampirerockopera.com
Band Members: Thomas Kugler - Guitar, Voice; John Collinson - Drums; Pablo Garcia - Bass; Anatole Brown - Guitar; Rich Jones - Guitar; Steve Gregoropoulos - Keyboards; Many guest singers and players
Influences: bowie, iggy, lou, elton, beatles, stones, zeppelin, sabbath, queen, alice, tommy, j. c. superstar, dark shadows, italian horror soundtracks, etc.
Sounds Like: the legendary lost period of electrique baroque roque musique, known to musicologists as "rock opera"
Record Label: True Classical CD's
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

LILITH Available

LILITH is now available locally at several area stores - Sea Level Records in Echo Park (1716 W. Sunset Blvd.), Don's Music Store in Eagle Rock (4873 Eagle Rock Blvd.) and Dark Delicacies in Burbank (...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:51:00 GMT

LILITH Release Party Event

LILITH was released locally on November 20, 2005 with a party/event at the Write Act Repertory Company in Hollywood. The CD was played through, followed by a live set of highlights. The band was Tho...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:40:00 GMT

New MySpace Page

Hello To All, I'm just getting started with my new page here, getting set to release LILITH soon and reaching out to spread the word. The release date is not yet set as there have been delays, but...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:24:00 GMT