Tommy Guerrero

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Thomas "Tommy" Marc Guerrero (* 9. September 1966 in San Francisco , California ) is an American songwriter , guitarist and former member of the Bones Brigade , a known skaters group of the 1980s, which included Tony Hawk and Steve Caballero belonged .

Life

Early years

Born on September 9, 1966, the son of a secretary for the United States Department of Health in San Francisco , Guerrero quickly discovered his interest in skateboarding through his brother Tony. Guerrero won his first skate competition back in 1983. Then he joined the following year in the famous Bones Brigade of Powell Peralta one. Guerrero became known in this mainly through light-footed skating in his hometown. This was also evident in the films made by the Bones Brigade, such as Future Primitive or The Search for Animal Chin .

Life as a musician

After his active time as a skater, he founded the skateboard company " REAL Skateboards " in 1995 and finally got into the music business. He became the bassist for the bands Free Beer and Jet Black Crayon , but is much more successful as a solo artist. In 1997, Guerrero, who plays Latin House , Downtempo , Art Rock and Alternative Hip-Hop , released his first album "Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues" on the indie label "Galaxia" and started a number of successful albums. In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine selected his third studio album, Soul Food Taqueria , as the second best album of 2003. The album Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues reached number 36 on Spex's 1998 annual list.

Until 2004 he published his works with Mo 'Wax , but after its dissolution he returned to “Galaxia”. Many unreleased songs can be heard alongside his releases in the video game Skate .

Private

Tommy Guerrero is married to Melissa Guerrero.

Discography

Albums

  • 1997: Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues
  • 2000: A Little Bit Of Somethin '
  • 2000: Hoy Yen Ass'n (with Jet Black Crayon member Gadget)
  • 2003: Soul Food Taqueria
  • 2003: Solo Performance Recorded Live In Paris
  • 2006: From The Soil To The Soul
  • 2008: Return of the Bastard
  • 2010: Living Dirt
  • 2011: Lifeboats And Follies
  • 2012: The Composer Series
  • 2014: No Man's Land
  • 2014: Perpetuum
  • 2015: Perpetual
  • 2016: The Endless Road
  • 2018: Road to Knowhere
  • 2019: Dub Session
  • 2019: Dub Tunes (with Trevor Jackson)

Singles

  • 1995: Backintheday
  • 2001: Junk Collector
  • 2001: Rusty Gears Lonely Years / Organism
  • 2004: Gettin 'It Together

EPs

  • 2005: Year of the Monkey

DJ mix albums

  • 2000: Another Late Night: Tommy Guerrero (# 6 in the Another Late Night / Late Night Tales series)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rolling Stone: German Edition - Popular Music Best-Of-Lists.Retrieved September 29, 2010
  2. ^ Spex - Popular Music Best-Of-Lists
  3. ↑ Marrow Magazine ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / marrowmag.com

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personal data
SURNAME Guerrero, Tommy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guerrero, Thomas Marc (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter, guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California