| Enrico,
Great to hear from you.
I actually met Tom when he was playing trumpet with Boz Scaggs back in the mid 70's. After hanging out for a while, I finally talked him into giving me lessons for a while before he left on another tour. Back then, he was living in San Mateo, Ca. and I grew up in San Francisco
Tom is a excellent player and alway ready to help another player. You can really use the mentor when speaking of Tom.
The SF bay area had alot of fine trumpet players filling the horn sections of the 70's/ 80's pop bands. I think Tower of Power really gave the Bay Area a mystique about that 70's horn section sound that alot of other acts wanted to emulate.
Other SF bay area " Rock " ( for lack of a better term ) trumpet players;
Mic Giillete
Greg Adams
Bill Atwood
Peter Welker
Larry Jonutz
Dave Padron
Ken Balzel
The SF bay area had so many famous bands that called it home in that era that you could literally go to Studio One Rentals down on Folsom St. and have Tower of Power in one room, Journey , in a another, Boz Scaggs down the hall and the Tubes across from them with Huey Lewis walking in the front door.
Larry |