Tommy Keene

Hailing from Bethesda, Maryland, Tommy Keene is really a guitarist and singer/songwriter who all plays and creates melodic guitar-based pop/rock and roll. As a kid, Keene played traditional piano before picking right up electric guitar and drums. He spent his teenage years drumming within a rock and roll trio known as Blue Metal, whose original guitarist, Mike Lofgren, was younger sibling of Nils Lofgren. As a result, Keene’s first significant gig was when Blue Metal opened up for Lofgren’s music group Grin. In 1977, while going to the University or college of Maryland, Keene turned to acoustic guitar and created the short-lived music group the Trend with songwriter Richard X. Heyman. During this time period, Keene remaining the Rage to become listed on a favorite Washington, D.C. rock-band known as the Razz, who opened up for such significant acts because the Ramones, Devo, and Patti Smith. It had been within the Razz that Keene fulfilled bass participant Ted Nicely, who use him through the entire ’80s. Following the Razz, Keene embarked on a Western tour like a sideman for fresh wave vocalist Suzanne Fellini before co-founding a music group called Items in NY. Unhappy using the music, Keene made a decision to type his personal group with Properly and drummer Doug Tull (also from your Razz), and also a guitar player called Michael Colburn, who was simply soon changed by Billy Connelly. Using Keene’s name, they released Unusual Alliance independently Avenue label in 1982, before becoming picked up from the Dolphin label from NEW YORK. Keene documented two EPs there before becoming authorized to Geffen, which released two complete albums, Songs from your Film and Predicated on Happy Instances, in addition to Run Right now, a six-song EP of previously documented material, before shedding Keene from its roster. With a fresh backup music group that included bassist/vocalist Brad Quinn and drummer John Richardson, Keene inked a cope with Matador in the first ’90s, documenting the EP Sleeping on the Roller Coaster along with a full-length recording entitled A DECADE After in 1996. In 1993, Alias released THE TRUE Underground, a retrospective of Keene’s profession that included an abundance of unreleased songs and from print material in the ’80s. Furthermore to documenting and touring behind his information, Keene spent a number of the ’90s being a guitarist for hire, on the highway with both Velvet Crush and Paul Westerberg. In 1998, he released a fresh studio room record, Isolation Party. Four years afterwards, he installed along with his longtime tempo portion of John Richardson and Brad Quinn, Wilco’s Jay Bennett, vocalist/songwriter Adam Schmitt, and ex-Gin Blossoms frontman Robin Wilson to concern The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down in June. In 2004, he turned lineups and released Drowning, and 2 yrs later on, his tenth single record, Crashing the Ether, arrived on Eleven Thirty Information. In the Past due Bright adopted in ’09 2009 on Second Movement. The following yr saw the discharge from the double-disc career-spanning compilation Tommy Keene You Listen to Me: A Retrospective 1983-2009. In 2011, Keene came back with the studio room recording Behind the Parade. 2 yrs later on, he released a assortment of addresses called Exhilaration at THE FEET, which then adopted in 2015 using the all-original Chuckle at night.