Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: tomclarkandthehighactionboys.com
Band Members: Tom Clark
Philip Cohen
Craig Chesler
Glenn Healy
Influences: "Seems to be my luck, every girl I pick up
Is the one everybody puts down"- Johnny Paycheck.I don’t know. I hate writing this crap. Hmmmm. Hank Sr., The Band, The Dictators, The New York Dolls, The Louvin Brothers, The Lovin Spoonful, Buddy Holly, Elvis P., Lefty Frizzell, Nick Lowe, Rockpile, Those Beatle guys, Loretta Lynn, Monkees, Chuck Berry!!!!!, Eddie Cochran, Kinks, Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, Waylon, Beach Boys, Wynn Stewart, Mills Brothers, Lenny Kaye, Kevn Kinney, Flamin’ Groovies, Terry Reid,Marshall Crenshaw, Raspberries, Zombies, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Hank Garland, Nada Surf, Hotel Lights, all things Sun Records, Charlie Rich, Nolan Strong and the Diablos, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Ramones, Ramones, Ramones, Big Star, Budweiser, old guitars....Gretsch, Gibson, Fender, Zim Gar, Vox, National, etc.!!! Crappy old tube amps, harmony singing, bad harmony singing, good Doo Wop, James Burton, The Burritos, Patsy, Bill Kirchen, NRBQ, Fountains of Wayne, Johnny Thunders, The Everly Bros., Nuggets!, The Sparkletones, Wanda Jackson, the Beach Boys, Harry Nilsson, John Prine, Dion and the Belmonts, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Sr., The Left Banke, Zal Yanovsky, just about anybody dead, and some that should be, on and on and on...it’ll all change tomorrow. Phil loves Grandaddy and Rick Danko, and Craig loves anything that has a lot of hard chords to play. We also dig our Pals ....Hank Wedel and Open Kitchen, The Dark Horses, Whit Smith,Tom Shaner, Sean Lee and the Breaks, George Gilmore and the Giblets, etc. etc. !!!! Runaway Shuffle/Tom solo
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Sounds Like: Candy hitting the bottom of the bag on a brisk Halloween Night.
Record Label: Blacksmith Records NYC
Type of Label: Indie