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Tommy Hawkins

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About Me

i'm obsessed with tone. I think Stevie Ray Vaughn could take Jimi Hendrix... but i don't think SRV would have been SRV if it wasn't for Hendrix. i like lyrics more than guitar lines and often find myself more fascinated with good drumming than i am with good guitar work.

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Music:

Member Since: 4/24/2006
Band Website: factandfictionmusic.com
Band Members: I am Tommy Hawkins - guitars, vox and the occasional drum pattern.I play for the band Fact and Fiction as the permanent gig. but these are the people i play w/ frequently - although, not frequently enough. ///// Brendan Giusti - Guitar/Bass (N/A All-stars, Greater than three) ///// Brad Farrow - Drums (Greater than three, Daniel Ryan, and all other emeregency drumming needs) ///// Kalu James Vox (Greater than three)Neil Dreger - Bass (Tommy Hawkins, and perhaps a few more) ///// Joel (Junk) Dawson - Bass, when he's not in canada. or i'm not in the US. ///// Nate Cronk - Vox/Guitar when he's available ///// Dan Ryan - Vox/Guitar/Piano (Daniel Ryan, Tommy Hawkins, Random Jams)
Influences: Well the black crowes... the beatles... the zepplin... petra... U2... jeff beck... slash... vic wooton... pino paladino... and of course SRVbut this is really what it is all about
Record Label: mom's records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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sorry i haven't written anything in awhile. it's been a crazy time for me. i'm on the road with fact & fiction right now and life is very good and very fun.  Its a little hard to know where y...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:12:00 PST

New Music... ish

i've been working a lot on the fact & fiction music lately, not really putting too much effort into my own writing. However, I wrote this tune a few months ago and it was supposed to be a part of thi...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:04:00 PST

Every Good Song Ends

So a few months back when i was still living in the Roch my friend Nick Gavaris and I collaborated on a song that his sister, Sophia Gavaris (Sophia online), wrote for herself to sing.  Basi...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:44:00 PST

Lions

I haven't written in awhile.  It's been a wild few weeks.  Anyways, I've got some studio work lined up and a few small gigs coming in august and we (Fact & Fiction) are kicking off ...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:06:00 PST

Fact & Fiction... oh and a bit more on easy tiger

I joined a band down here in Nashville called Fact & Fiction. the website is as follows www.factandfictionmusic.com www.myspace.com/factandfictionmusic this is a really dynamite project with a lot...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:48:00 PST

Easy Tiger

As my birthday passed there was a very small amount of money left for a little something for Thomas, so I went out and bought the long awaited Easy Tiger record by Ryan Adams. I am a pretty big fan of...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:11:00 PST

EXTRA EXTRA Baptist Film Ideals Trumped By Brilliance

Some of you are aware that when I left Rochester I left all of my dvds - except, of course, the research videos (SRV and the Black Crowes Concerts). I had this grand idea of no longer watching films b...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:48:00 PST

pride before protocol

Probably the most fun i've had in years has been in these last few weeks. We've been pounding on doors, handing out records and trying to talk to managers, booking agents and record companies. It's en...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:45:00 PST

The adventures of shameless self-promotion

Phase one of this shameless self-promotion will again be to request each of your presence to meet at my main page to check out the tunes and leave some comments... but phase two will be far more inter...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:12:00 PST

New Songs, New Friends and the Nashvillian perspective vol. 3

So Saturday we stumbled across these really great lofts down on Edgehill and Villa (a block from music row). While looking inside the windows and getting some literature on the properties this woman n...
Posted by Tommy Hawkins on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:11:00 PST