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What’s your opinion of the very controversial Rolling Stone cover? Rolling Stone? I think I read one once.
What do you think the audience takes out of your show? Probably the same thing I expect to experience myself, which is a feeling of taking part in something special and unique. This looks to me like a strangely complementary group of players, and I don’t think anyone can predict what each of our respective songs will come out sounding like with the added influence of each voice and each instrument. The spontaneity therein is going to catalyze some palpable electricity at the Tupelo come august. I hope I survive.
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This one is a tricky one, Captain Crunch or Fruity Pebbles? The goooooood Cap’n, of course! They used to hide the cereal in the attic of the dining room at Camp Sangamon (Pittsford, VT) where I went every summer growing up. My mom never let us have sugar cereal, so when my friend Jesse tipped me off about the cereal stash, I’d sneak up there at least once a day for a little snack. Captain Crunch was the go to. Where can we catch the Tony Lee Thomas Band now that we know all about you? Any shows coming up within reach?
What show of your own stands out as your favorite of all time? Toss up. Either Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody’s hometown of Okemah, OK (summer 2008ish?); or the Rock and Roll Resort we just did this past spring in the Hudson Valley, NY.
If you could share the stage with any artist, alive or dead.. Who and why? Bruce Hornsby. I’ve been listening to his music all my life. Imagine a 12 year old bi-racial kid growing up in a predominately Italian neighborhood in the eighties. I had just been kicked out of the Catholic church my family went to because I had to defend myself every Sunday after catechism, and was labeled a “trouble-maker.” Just when I was totally bewildered by how that could even make sense, I was handed a cassette copy of “The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Not only was it then a comforting voice in a din of nonsensical noise, but over the years he has never stopped writing; and to this day, I’ve grown to really appreciate the way he constructs melody, lyric, and piano improv (of which I am insanely jealous, by the way! I could never really wrap my brain around piano, but love the sound of it.) It would be a dream to share the stage with him just once.
VT summer shows….
Aug 1 Aug 9 Aug 30
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check out Tony at www.tonyleethomas.com
Ramunto’s (1st time!) Okemo Summer Concert Series Tupelo Music Hall!!!
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