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Your friend Tom's Interests
General
Music (esp live), family and friends, watching and following sports (baseball, basketball, football...Cal Bears, Giants, Warriors, Raiders), activism
Music
Somehow all of this got deleted! I will add more later. The Band, Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Townes Van Zandt, The Meters, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons (The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, etc), Zappa!, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago!, The Kinks, CSN, CSNY but esp Neil Young!, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Tom Russell, Patty Griffin, Eliza Gilkyson, Audrey Auld Mezera, Adam Theis and the whole Jazz Mafia gang, Vinyl, Noe Venable, JB and all that he grooved with...Maceo! Mr Fred Wesley! The good ole Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, early Steve Miller, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Wilco,Derek Trucks and his band, his wife Susan Tedeschi (kicks ass!), Refugee Allstars of Sierra Leone, Fela Kuti!!!, Tinariwen, Amadou & Miriam, New Monsoon, Hot Buttered Rum, ALO and Tea Leaf Green, Mushroom! and Pat Thomas, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Sara Lee Guthrie and Jimmy Irion, The Jayhawks, Whiskeytown, Old 97s, Ryan Adams, Herbie Hancock, Stefon Harris, Patricia Barber, Josh Redman, Dave Ellis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Brubeck ...The Mail is Here ..
I have promoted shows and booked artists in the Bay Area (East Bay, SF, some North Bay and Santa Cruz). Some Bay Area based artists that I have been affiliated with in the past are: New Monsoon, Tea Leaf Green, Hot Buttered Rum and OM Trio.
I go to a lot of live music of a wide variety of types. I am always interested in going to shows with others and meeting others interested in live music performance
Your friend Tom's Companies
Western Artists Representation and Promotion Berkeley, CA US Principal Booking and promotion
About me: just a guy that likes folx and good times, some good music and some good food. friends. my fam. keeping it real. love & happiness (al green), i live in berkeley ca and work in san francisco for a gr8 org, the trust for public land. i'm married (3rd times the charm) to a wonderful woman (see top friends) linda and have 3 gr8 kids, 2 in hawai'i (claire 18 and martine 17) and one in chico ca (austin, 26). i like good movies, i like good food. i love gr8 beer (belgians and CA ipas!), i love my pets (an almost 2 yr old timneh african grey parrot and a crazy adopted feral cat, hobbes. let's see now: i love art...miro, kandinsky, picasso, diebenkorn, rauschenberg, calder, jasper johns, yves tangey, murikami, haring, dondi, basquiat, on and on. i love the woods and the beach and the city too. mostly i'm just looking for new experiences and to keep what i got...each day i awake is a miracle and a blessing. i'm not religious but if i was i'd be a buddhist. okay enough about me what is up w/ you?
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Who I'd like to meet: you! ppl that want to go out to live music, ppl that are cool and might have something new and different to tell me about. bands and artists (songwriters) that want to play in the bay area that i maybe can help. stevie wonder. sonny rollins. ani difranco. patty smith. dolly parton. the dalai lama. pretty much anyone if they are not f**kwads that are full of themselves (come on you've met some of them)
Just Announced! this is a very special Jerry Garcia tribute show (the anniversary of Jerry’s death) W/The American Economy, Seconds On End + Sleepy Alligators. The AE hits the stage @ 9:30PM, Seconds On End to follow at 10:25PM and Sleepy Alligators rock out from 11:45PM - 1AM! You will hear all your favorite standard American Economy originals you’ve come to know and love and of course a few tips of the hat to Jerry (with some special surprise on-stage collaborations between bands) this should be a great Saturday night out in Berkeley, dont miss it!
Hi Tom. HEAD LIKE A KITE is on tour and returns to San Francisco to play the Rickshaw Stop on Sat, Aug 30 with Scissors for Lefty. I hope you can make it!! It'll be a full-on party. We're celebrating the new album There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere (Mush Records) and will be busting out the confetti. I added some of the new songs to our page for your entertainment.
HEAD LIKE A KITE Sat, Aug 30 @ Rickshaw Stop w/ Scissors for Lefty San Francisco
