Tom Perri
Singer/Songwriter- Tom Perri
Sing To The Night Sky, & Angels Will Dance To Your Music
Scream at the night sky, and... who knows till you try?
Music makes you remember...Music can help you forget.
And most of the time, you never know which one you're going to get.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Not right now. I'm recording my Second Album
Special moment live?...
Playing 11AM to 6PM out in the Hamptons. The Blazing Sun...Watching people get thrown over the railings into the sand by security. A 15 foot flight to a head plant, WHILE drunk. Musta' been a rush!! Jah mahn!, great funnin'!!
Your musical influences
It's been said that my music is "Eclectic Moody Pop... with orchestral underpinnings". They had to make up that pigeonhole special for me...
It's really just Tom Perri music. Some of my stuff's pretty insane, though. A New York radio announcer once asked me if I chewed Live Ammo for breakfast!
Every song paints a picture, tells a story. Everything I do is visual
A 4 minute movie in song.
What equipment do you use?
Keyboards mostly, My Voice, also a bunch of synths, real & sequenced percussion, a few guitars, & whatever else I can get my hands on. With a decent budget, ALL my percussion would be real. I started in rock as a drummer.
Anything else?
Music is something you should feel. It should reach inside you & touch something deep in there. If it doesn't move you in some way... make you think about someone or something from way back, or make you dream about tomorrow's possibilities...
Even rage against today... Then it missed the mark.
Have a laugh, have cry. Have a scream.
Have a screaming-raging-laughing-cry...
If music doesn't do that, there's no point in making it.
