Tom has been the bass player in a number of local bands over the last 15+ years, including "Surrender Dorthy" and "Odd Man Out". He has played in Albany Civic Theater's productions of "Jesus Christ Superstar" (also at McMinnville's Playhouse Theater), "Pumpboys and Dinettes", "Little Shop of Horrors", the Marx Brother's musical "Cocoanuts", "Grease", and "Return to The Forbidden Planet". He plays a black Ibanez SoundGear 6-string bass with a flame paint job through either a Trace-Elliot BLX-80 "cube" or a vintage Acoustic 360 stack. Tom is also used to making no money playing music (or "paying to play"), which is why he's a Manufacturing Development Engineer for Hewlett-Packard - to support his "habit" of playing music.

      Tom has been living in Corvallis since the mid-70's (PHP, or the "Pre Hewlett-Packard" era), and enjoys Albany Community Theater, motorcycle touring, reading sci-fi, ancient Egypt, "The New Red Green Show", and classic cars (he owns the band's 1968 Cadillac hearse). He lives in his grandparent's 1913 home he's restoring with his wife, Joy.

      Tom's early influence was John Paul Jones of Led Zepplin. Other influences include; Mars Cowling (Pat Traver's Band), Leon Wilkeson (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big), and Stuart Hamm (Allan Holdsworth & solo material).