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Tuomas

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About Me


Hello everyone!
I'm Tuomas and here's some info about me. If you have something in mind, drop me a line!
December 2007 I graduated from Pirkanmaa University of Applied Sciences (Degree Programme in Business Administration, Marketing and International Business). Now I will do a lot of work as Sales specialist in GNT Finland and as many gigs and songs as I can. I will never stop rockin' even though I have a "real job".
I have played drums and percussions about 15 years. By the years I have played about 600 gigs which I have organized something like 400 by myself. I also do some singing, composing and lyrics. Here's some info and banners about my three bands. Check them out by clicking the banners and please add them to your friends:
Heartbreakers plays mainly cover songs (party/classic rock, evergreens etc.) in company parties, weddings, festivals, bars, restaurants etc. Here's a video sample for you:
Heartbreakers - Unchain My Heart
live at Pitkä-Jussi, Kurikka, Finland (5.12.2007):
Some of you might also know me from the grunge/alt.rock band Bullet Ride:
I have played drums also in Lovex, Essentia and Sarastus to mention a few of my old bands. Now we have a new project called Stairs with Angie from Bullet Ride, Tarko and Mikko Herkin. We have done some pretty great songs together! More about Stairs in here:
So, I organize a lot of shows and events and also play some session gigs with other groups. Here are some bands my firm TR Music collaborates:
Heartbreakers
Crazy World of Mika Järvinen
Reginan Vangit
I have also sold gigs for example to White Flame and Essentia.
Write me anything you want in here or you can also e-mail me: [email protected] (also for filtering me in your friend list). I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
If you ever come to Tampere you can try to contact me and we might have a glass or two together. But if you're going to San Fransisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ;)
Keep on rocking in the free world and take care of nature and one another!
Peace, love, respect and all the best!
-Tuomas Rajamäki, 2008
"Kun haluat jotain, koko maailmankaikkeus auttaa sinua saavuttamaan sen."
(Paulo Coelho, Alkemisti - O Alquimista)

My Interests


Liisa
Music
My bands
Friends
Movies
Books
Sauna
Drums
Snowboarding, tennis, badminton, squash
icehockey, jogging and ping pong.

I'd like to meet:

Lucinda Williams
Ryan Adams
Al Gore
Enya
As much interesting people as I can
Josh Homme in the desert with some mescalin
The remaining Led Zeppelin
Clint Eastwood
Alter Bridge guys
Scott Stapp
Rocco Sifredi
Al Pacino
Neil W Young
Hank Williams III
Juha Itkonen
Jyrki Katainen

Music:

There are no categorie I don't like at all - only good and bad songs. Rock, pop, alt. country, grunge, metal, stoner, classic, surf/twang, blues, hits - all suites fine if it sounds good to me!

Here's my musical listening and influence list in alphabetical order and some comments I wanted to share with you:

AC/DC
Agents
Air
Akon
Alice Cooper
Alice In Chains
Alter Bridge
Ankla
Antony and the Johnsons
A Perfect Circle

Bad Company
Black Label Society
Black Sabbath
Breaking Benjamin
Bryan Adams
Bryn Jones
Buddha Bar compilations
Bullet Ride

Caliban
Callisto
Camouflage
Charlie Feathers
Charon
Chingon
Chris Cornell
Chris Isaak
Children Of Bodom
CMX
Coldplay
Cousin Bill
Crazy World
Creed
Crumbland

Dave Matthews Band
Deathstars
Deep Purple
Depeche Mode
Devendra Banhart
Diana Krall
Dick Dale And His Del-Tones
Dimmu Borgir
Dire Straits

Elvis Presley (The King!)
Ennio Morricone
Enya
Evil Kangaroo
Faith No More
Goldfrapp
Goo Goo Dolls
Gnarls Barkley
Guns N Roses

Hank Williams Jr, Sr. and III
Heartbreakers
Helmut Lotti
Hinder
Hyacinth House

J. Karjalainen / Lännen Jukka
Janis Joplin
Jeff Buckley
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
Joan Baez
John Frusciante
John Lennon
Johnny Cash
Jukka Poika
Jussi Syren

Kent
Kerkko Koskinen
Killswitch Engage
King Diamond
Kingston Wall

Laika & The Cosmonauts
Lamb Of God
Last Calls
Led Zeppelin
Lemonator
London Mc ;)
Leonard Coehen
Los Bastardos Finlandeses
Los Straitjackets
Lou Reed
Lucinda Williams
Ludwig Van Beethoven

Mad Season
Magnus Carlsson
Manic Street Preachers
Mark Knopfler
Mark Lanegan
Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
Mastodon
Melody Club
Mew
Moby
Mokoma
Morrissey
Muse
My Vitriol

Neil Young
Neljä Ruusua
New Order
Nickelback
Nicole
Nightwish
Nirvana
Norah Jones
Norther

Opeth
Pantera
Paradise Lost
Pearl Jam
Popa Chubby
Porcupine Tree
Portishead
Pink Floyd
Pride & Glory

Queen
Queens of The Stone Age

Raappana
Radiohead
Rammstein
Ram-Zet
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Redman
Richard Ashcroft
Richard Cheese
Ricky Nelson ("Lonesome Town" - one of the best songs ever)
Risto Nyman (My old band mate)
Robbie Williams
Robert Plant
Rollovers
Roy Orbison
Rufus Wainwright
Ryan Adams (All his records are impressive, one of my favourite artists!)

Sarah Brightman
Sarastus (r.i.p.-one of my old bands, check out the link to download the songs for free!)
Saybia (Five star pop music!)
Seether
Sentenced
Sigur Rós
Silverchair
Smashing Pumpkins
Soundgarden
Soundtracks (Ennio Morricone's, Tarantino movies, Forrest Gump, Brokeback Mountain, Oh Brother,Where Art Thou? etc.)
Spin Doctors
Staind
Stairs
Sunrise Avenue
Swallow The Sun

Tapio Rautavaara
Tehosekoitin
The Ark
The Beatles
The Beautiful South
The Bravery
The Cardigans
The Doors
The Flaming Sideburns
The Giant Leap
The Hellacopters
The Motorhomes
The Nebulas
The Rapiers
The Searchers
The Shadows
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
The Swains
The Quiets
Thom Yorke
Tom Jones
Toto
Travis

Ultra Bra
U2

Verenpisara
Vetiver
Ville Leinonen
Von Hertzen Brothers

Weeping Willows ("Endless Night" is the best album ever made!)
When The Empire Falls
Willie Nelson
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3 Doors Down

Movies:

Lord Of The Rings trilogy
The Godfather Trilogy
Pulp Fiction
Forrest Gump
Sergio Leones westerns with Ennio Morricone's score
and Clint Eastwood, "The Dollar Trilogy":
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
also other Eastwood films, especially Dirty Harrys
and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Huuliharppukostaja (Once Upon a Time in the West/
C'era una volta il West, 1968)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Letters from Iwo Jima
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill I & II
An Inconvenient Truth
Talk to Her - Hable con ella (2002)
Into The Wild (2008)
Brokeback Mountain
The Village
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Catch Me If You Can
Miehen työ
Mulholland Drive
Matrix 1
300
8mm
Scarface
Carlito's Way
Goodfellas
Casino
Kuningas ja lintu
Traffic
The Island
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
La fille sur le pont (=Tyttö sillalla, thanks Cel! ;)
The Ninth Gate
The Scent Of A Woman
Perfume
Simone
Babel
Yhden tähden hotelli
Anna-Liisa (Minna Canth)
He-man (with Dolph Lundgren on it!;) The Incredibles, Madagascar, Ice Ages, Shreks
and some other animated cartoons

Television:

24
The Sopranos
The Simpsons
Studio Julmahuvi
Southpark
Nature documents
Some sport
News
Late Nigh with Conan O'Brien
Prison Break
Oz

Books:

Juha Itkonen
Ian McEwan
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dan Brown
Paulo Coelho - Alkemisti (O Alquimist)
Hammer Of The Gods - The Led Zeppelin Saga
Raymond Khoury - The Last Templar
Arturo Pérez-Reverte - The Club Dumas (The Ninth Gate as a movie)
Juha Pihkala ja Esko Valtaoja - Nurkkaan ajettu Jumala? - Keskustelukirjeitä uskosta ja tiedosta
Harry Potters
Alivaltiosihteeri books etc.

Heroes:

Liisa
Borderhill Famiglia
Michael Corleone
Clint Eastwood
J.R.R. Tolkien

"Cherry Lane" by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals on 7/21/06 in Baltimore

The Rapiers - The Savage

Los Straitjackets:

Refused - New Noise

Rolf Pilve - Blast beats and asymmetric subdivisions

My Blog

New photos from our trip to Puerto de Mogan (Jan 2008)

I must tell you that it was pretty darn relaxing! ;)Cheers!-T
Posted by Tuomas on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:34:00 PST

New Heartbreakers updates in myspace.com/hbband! Debut album to be released soon!

Aloha and happy new year to everyone!Check out new Hb updates in myspace.com/hbband! More information about the debut album etc. coming later so stay tuned honeys!All the best!-Tuomas & Hb Crew 2008...
Posted by Tuomas on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:40:00 PST

Lots of new photos etc!

Hola!Lots of new photos added in "my photos" album!!Check them out - they are mostly about:Stairsand"Bullet Flame And The White Rides" ;)Feel free to comment them.I'm going to perform my 55-page-long...
Posted by Tuomas on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:21:00 PST

Yo:n kinkerit / vote for Neil W Young!

Aloha / Tervehdys!!Have a listen to the Honor Award winning song from The Great American Song Contest, "HELLO, I'M JOHNNY CASH" by Neil w Young & The Legendary Bear Creek Band at www.myspace.com/there...
Posted by Tuomas on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:15:00 PST

Bullet Ride photos from Tammerfest 2007

Bullet Ride @ Tammerfest 2007 Check out this cool slideshow made by the girls from Finnbands.com
Posted by Tuomas on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

New Heartbreakers tracks & photos in www.myspace.com/hbband!

Check 'em out!Heartbreakers
Posted by Tuomas on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:42:00 PST

All the links concerning my bands Bullet Ride and Heartbreakers!!

Euroband's new Bullet Ride site!bulletrideband.netBullet Ride FranceOfficial Bullet Ride ForumMikseriIRCOfficial Bullet Ride Trig PageBullet Ride on Virb.comMySpace:official Bullet Ride myspaceAngie @...
Posted by Tuomas on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:44:00 PST

List of my old bands + my forthcoming website!!

Now my only bands are Bullet Ride and Heartbreakers but there have been pretty many groups earlier: 01. Lovex02. Essentia03. Sarastus04. Beauty05. She06. TNT07. Sir Goatskin08. Maximus (there were onl...
Posted by Tuomas on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:33:00 PST

New photos, albums and graphics added!!

New photos, albums and graphics are added!!Hello to everyone and thank you for all your kind comments!! Please leave me comments in the future also - they are always wellcomed!How are you people doing...
Posted by Tuomas on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:04:00 PST

Two new great YouTube drum videos added to "heroes" section + my hate list!

"Death Metal Office Drumming" is pretty funny and Rolf Pilve is a sensation + a great fella! Check out also my other YouTube videos from my heroes section.Things that I hate at the moment:-Global warm...
Posted by Tuomas on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:37:00 PST