Tommy Whyle
Is He On Drugs? the best of tommyrock
© 2006 tommyrock productions (837101229715)
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tommyROCK is a fusion of modern rock, pop, rap & hip-hop, emo, and acoustic driven by colorful & witty lyrics frequently found offensive by conservatives and rednecks.
tracks
- 1 Smoking Weed
- 2 Never Understand
- 3 Sup Wit Dat
- 4 Smoking Crack in the Cadillac
- 5 R.U.Still Breathing?
- 6 A Party With Tons of Drugs
- 7 The Story of My Life
- 8 Moral of the Story
- 9 Another Bag o' Shrooms
- 10 Impossible
- 11 Shame Game
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Self-produced.....sole -writer, instrumentalist, & vocalist....one-man show......that's my deal & I shall rock you.
I've always had the rockstar dream, since as long as I can remember. I started taking piano lessons very young and switched to guitar at age 9. About 5 years later I was writing my own songs and frequently collaborating with rappers in the Pittsburgh area. The support I received from my peers for sloppy recordings made in my bedroom at my parents' house and lame performances at high school dances gave me a lot of hope and influenced me to focus on really getting good.
Through my college years, I got comfortable playing guitar and singing in front of crowds, which is when my music career really began to blossom (as in awesome). I did alot of self-produced recording and was in several bands, the most memorable being The Stank and Tripitaka. I continued doing solo work on the side and getting good at producing my own stuff....Sure enough, some big-un's emerged (such as "Smoking Crack in the Cadillac" & "R.U. Still Breathing?"), but I have no impressive stats or quotes from magazines to WOW you with. Sorry. You can check the songs out and decide if you like 'em or not, 'cause that's what really matters.
Graduating from college and coming back to Pittsburgh kind of made it impossible for me to stay with Tripitaka, so I decided to focus on building a good studio and just doing my own thing. So here I am today, still in Pittsburgh and still doin' it. Of the demo portion of my career, I have under my belt 3 LPs + 1 with Tripitaka, 2 EPs, & 3 compilations under my production......all made with ridiculous recording methods and printed and manufactured on a computer. But I've moved on from that, and there is minimal stock available for any of that material. So the history does not disappear, I compiled and remastered the absolute best of it and gave it a professional release. That CD is "Is He On Drugs? the best of tommyROCK 1999-2004."
The diversity in styles I cover is my greatest strength and what is noted most frequently about my shtuff. Everybody wants a label to slap on me from the get-go, so I'd have to say it's kind of a fusion of alterna-rock, pop, and hip-hop...I take on each of them separately, I fuse them together in as many ways possible, and I frequently borrow from other stuff such as jazz, blues, psychedelic, and opera (kidding). I like to think my personality and style ties it all together somehow. Lyrically it's mostly just stories of my life, with an occasional political rant. Sometimes I'm serious and sometimes I just wanna make you laugh.....and if that prevents you from taking me seriously as an artist, you have a stick up your ass and do not belong in my audience. My only objective is to make music that entertains and shows character....and offends uptight, right-wing douche-bags. Beyotch.