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Tom Feast

About Me


Welcome to my myspace page.
Here you can listen to some of my solo music that I have written using various musical instruments. Some pieces feature me performing several parts on different instruments that were recorded using multitrack recording, and some are purely solo pieces featuring just one instrument.
Short Bio:
I was born on the 19th of July 1984 in Oxford UK, and spent my childhood growing up in the South of England. I started learning Drum Kit and Percussion at the age of 12, Bass Guitar at the age of 13, Guitar at the age of 16, and Chapman Stick at the age of 21. Although I haven't yet had any formal vocal training, I enjoy exploring different vocal ranges and timbres.
To date I have played various musical instruments in many bands and groups, covering a wide range of genres including Pop, Blues, Jazz, Funk, Fusion, Rock and Metal. To see a list of groups that I have been in, Click Here
A few thoughts...
I have always strived to write, record and perform a wide variety of music with many other musicians, and will continue to do so. However, I have always felt that I am a solo artist at heart.
Music has the ability to communicate and convey many different things to many different people, on many different levels. When an individual can compose music, and express themselves with many different instruments, the resulting music has a certain clarity, and a trueness to the very soul of the individual that cannot be found when writing and performing with other musicians.
Thank you for checking out my page, I hope that you enjoy my music!
Tom Feast
Current music projects that I'm involved in:
Jazz duet I play Bass Guitar in:
www.myspace.com/thefeastbrothers
Fusion Rock band I play Bass Guitar in:
www.myspace.com/bluejunkband

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/12/2005
Band Website: www.youtube.com/tomfeast
Band Members: Just me, I currently play the following Musical Instruments:
10 string Chapman Stick (DMR tuning) / 6 & 7 string Electric Guitars (Standard tuning on 6, Low B tuning on 7) / Electric Archtop Guitar (Standard tuning) / Acoustic Guitar (Standard tuning) / Classical Guitar (Standard tuning) / 5 string Electric Bass Guitar (Low B tuning) / 5 string Electro Acoustic Bass Guitar (High C Tenor tuning) / Acoustic Drum Kit

Tom Feast - Another Place, Another Time (1st solo gig 1of 2)
Tom Feast - Hope (1st solo gig 2of 2)
Influences: This list is always growing as I am always listening to music that I haven't heard before with an open mind:
Acoustic:
Pierre Bensusan/Trace Bundy/Peppino Dagostino/Michael Hedges/Andreas Kapsalis/Erik Mongrain
Classical:
Claude Debussy/Ludovico Einaudi/Philip Glass/Vanessa-Mae/Niccolo Paganini/Sergei Rachmaninoff
Experimental & other:
Analog Missionary/Blue Man Group/Buckethead/Jenny Case/Les Claypool/Bob Culbertson/Greg Howard/King Crimson/Planet X/Primus/Run At The Dog/Anoushka Shankar/Ravi Shankar/Frank Zappa
Fusion:
Robben Ford/Allan Holdsworth/Shawn Lane/Level 42/Jaco Pastorius/Weather Report
Jazz:
Dave Brubeck/Geoff Eales/Jools Holland/Wynton Marsalis
Metal:
All Shall Perish/All That Remains/American Head Charge/Arch Enemy/Atreyu/Avenged Sevenfold/Byzantine/Children Of Bodom/Coal Chamber/Deadlock/Dethklok/DragonForce/Fear Factory/In Flames/Iron Maiden/Katatonia/Killswitch Engage/KoRn/Lacuna Coil/Limp Bizkit/Lost Prophets/Machine Head/Meshuggah/Mudvayne/Opeth/Pantera/Sepultura/Scar Symmetry/Sevendust/Shadows Fall/SikTh/Slipknot/SOiL/Soilwork/Soulfly/Spineshank/Taproot /Type O Negative/Yngwie Malmsteen
Popular:
Michelle Branch/Groove Lily/Michael Jackson/Elton John/Madness/Lucie Silvas/Skin/Sugababes/The Beatles/The Cardigans/The Shadows
Rock:
Aerosmith/Alexisonfire/Alice In Chains/Alien Ant Farm/Audioslave/Jeff Beck/Nuno Bettencourt/Black Light Burns/Bon Jovi/David Bowie/Boy Hits Car/Marcel Coenen/Dark New Day/Deftones/Disturbed/Dream Theater/Escape The Fate/Evanescence/Extreme/Fightstar/Garbage/David Gilmour/Guano Apes/Guns N'Roses/Jimi Hendrix/Incubus/Eric Johnson/Linkin Park/Liquid Tension Experiment/Manic Street Preachers/Marilyn Manson/Meat Loaf/Muse/My Vitriol/Papa Roach/Pink Floyd/Placebo/Queen/QueenAdreena/Queens Of The Stone Age/Rage Against The Machine/Red Hot Chili Peppers/David Lee Roth/Rush/Saliva/Blues Saraceno/Joe Satriani/Billy Sheehan/Silverstein/Skunk Anansie/Steve Vai/The Victory/Tool/Van Halen/Whitesnake
Trip-hop:
Blue Foundation/Hooverphonic/Moloko/Morcheeba/Pawn/Portishead/The Unknownn
Sounds Like: Myself. I do not try to imitate any other artists, or fit neatly into any particular genre. When I write solo music, it comes from within the very depths of my soul and being
All of the music that I write as a solo artist is a result of personal experiences, emotions, visions, states of mind/being
In the music I create you will find truth and humility
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Videos uploaded from Tom Feasts first solo gig!

I have uploaded videos of the two tracks that I played at my recent first ever solo gig, go and check them out:www.youtube.com/tomfeastPlease leave comments and rate my videos.I hope that you enjoy th...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:27:00 GMT

The Acoustic Ballroom - Tom Feasts First Solo Gig!

After 10 years of playing a wide range of musical styles with many groups, I have never performed any of my solo music before. I've decided that now is the right time to start performing my solo mu...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Current and previous groups that I have been in...

Some parts of this list are incomplete, and will be updated when possible   1997-1999 Glenn Clarke Percussion Ensemble Military/Marching/Orchestral/Latin & World Percussion Original mater...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 12:26:00 GMT

Beautiful Rain, my first composition on Chapman Stick...

This is the first time that I have combined creative writing with a piece of music. You could call it text to music. I like to think of it as a mind painting with music. The text and the music ar...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:30:00 GMT

New music on the way...

I am currently working on some new material, which I hope to have finished and recorded very soon. Various recent events have freshly inspired me, and the creativity is flowing again. I am going ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:03:00 GMT

About my music...

All of my solo work is based on personal experiences, emotions, visions, states of mind/being. If you would like to know a bit more about each of the songs currently on my music pr...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:58:00 GMT