TOMMY SAID STOP
11
songs
273
plays
Tired Tired
Maybe Maybe
Crying Home Crying Home
Disappear Disappear
Hey George Hey George
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Tommy Said Stop had a very auspicious beginning. Somewhere along the road to almost certain megstardom, however, something happened.
Whether it was the abduction of bass player Lee Rankleford by angry Shiite soccer moms (and the subsequent tour cancellation in Libya) - or the almost-complete destruction of their expansive fan base by lead singer Wiggles McLeod's attempt to mind-control everyone in the audience in Schenectady, NY into thinking they were acolytes of a separatist militia headed by Richard Simmons...
This question will be something perhaps music historians, and perhaps people who are bored at 3 AM in the Greyhound Bus station in downtown Chicago, will have to figure out.
Either way, the party's over, and this collection of songs is all that is left of what could have been, and what was, and what will never be.
And who am I? I'm glad you asked; almost no one ever did when I was the road manager of Tommy Said Stop during their Akron, OH tour. In fact, now that enough time has gone by, I feel that I need to get this off my chest: Drummer Flip Tickleshitz actually asked me on one occasion why I kept following them around!!! Um, no reason, Flip, just makin' you bunch of low-lifes into rock stars, ya freakin' freak!!!
Anyway, I'm over all that, and I'm ready to show the world what most of them missed out on (except for Schenectady, Libya, and absolutely most of the citizenry of Akron, OH) - namely, one of the finest rock bands in the history of bands named Tommy Said Stop. And since I own the masters, after having traded them for a 12-pack of Black Label during a particularly vitriolic band fight, I can do what I damn well please with this music. It's all mine now.Band/artist history
SEE BAND INTRODUCTION FOR ALL THE GUT-WRENCHING DETAILS.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yeah, they played live. A lot. Thanks to me. Did they like it? You'd have to ask their keepers at the funny farm if they've had any lucid moments between stalemate checkers games by the big window, about what it was like to be almost on the way to being kind of famous in a way...But chances are, you probably will not reach any of them. You remember that warning at Dead shows about not eating the brown acid? Let me tell you, it's true...And it's not pretty. Or maybe it was the Scotchgard.
Anything else?
Vinnie actually called me the other day, and he asked about the master reel, the contents of which I have presented here. I told him I gave one copy to the Smithsonian, and one copy to Rolling Stone. That seemed to make him happy. Poor kid. That electroshock therapy is no joke.Contact
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