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Tuesday
20:53
02.05.2006 |
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ZEKE |
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Tom
Congrats on a triumph of a show. Great performances, killer crowd, and appropriate choice of songs.
Did anyone get a set list? There were a lot of songs that I didn't know real well (which was cool) starting with the first one.
I liked the smoke machine - even if it was a little distracting to you. I think a laser show next would be great.
It's been fun watching your career. I should say it IS fun. Keep riding the wave.
Oh and thanks for the "shout out" That kind of stuff means a lot to me.
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Monday
16:43
01.05.2006 |
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Dave |
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Tom,
Great night of music at Cefalos!
Thanks for introducing the band & signing the poster. The new CD is great. Listened to it all the way home.
The packaging is also great, from the CD that looks like a vinyl album, to the pops & cracks of vinyl at the beginning of Daddy's Old Black Hearse.
Nice Touch! My Martha is a great song.
Sorry Bill Toms, but this is my new favorite album. Till next time.....
Keep Rockin'
Dave & Jean
Peru, IN
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48 |
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Monday
11:57
01.05.2006 |
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Dave Alianiello |
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Tom,
Your and Bill's music ringing in my head made that drive down I-71 to Columbus Friday night/Saturday morning a piece of cake. Thanks for putting on a great show for a small, but enthus- iastic and very grateful group in Cleveland. Hope to hear you guys again soon.
Best wishes,
Dave Alianiello
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47 |
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Sunday
18:47
30.04.2006 |
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Miss M. |
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Tom,
Congratulations on your successful Album Release Show last night at Cefalo's. You and the band sounded great. As I predicted, the night went too fast for me. So what if I didn't get home until 3:00 am, time still flew by!  I can't think of a more talented and genuinely nice group of guys, you're the best! Thanks for letting me be a part of it all. Promise me that you will never give up on your dreams, I believe that "someday" is right around the corner!
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Thursday
10:12
27.04.2006 |
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ZEKE |
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WOO HOO
in the PG nice write up.
I always compare you to Jackson Brown not Bruce - do I have to stop that?
The new CD is a great. I really enjoyed getting the background on 2 of the songs.
Thank your producer - the sound is cool as hell.
See you this weekend.
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45 |
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Thursday
09:40
27.04.2006 |
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Maria Maria |
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What a great article in the Tribune-Review today! Right on Rege!
Tom's songs are now part of my music life and he's such a nice guy. I look forward to all his live performances. He's solo acoustic at Rock Bottom in the Waterfront tonight at 9PM - check him out...
Maria Maria
Here is the article:
Guitarist Breiding to unveil 'Time to Roll'
What: CD release party
Featuring: American Son, Bill Toms and Hard Rain
When: 8:30 p.m. Saturday
Admission: $10
Where: Cefalo's, 428 Washington Ave., Carnegie
Details: 412-276-6600
By Regis Behe
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, April 27, 2006
It's not unusual for Tom Breiding to come home from a gig and head directly to his home studio, staying up until dawn. Nor is it odd for him to sequester himself in the studio for hours at a time on weekends, or during the week when he comes home from work.
Breiding is so consumed by music that some cultural references elude him.
"What's '24'?" he responds, before remembering it's the television show starring Kiefer Sutherland.
Chances are "24" might not be to Breiding's liking anyway. The thought of a 24-hour day is too limiting for a guy who says, "There's a definite sense of urgency for me with my music."
The fire that fuels Breiding's desire to write, to record and to perform is evident on his new CD, "Time to Roll," which will be unveiled Saturday at Cefalo's in Carnegie. Recorded with guitarist Jeff Stevens, bassist Mike "Pit" Mozena and Chris Moore on drums, the album is a departure from his past releases.
"I've known these guys almost all my life," says Breiding, 42, who grew up in Wheeling, W.Va., and played with the trio in the mid-1980s. "And this is the first band record I've ever made. ... All the other records I've made I've approached song by song, sometimes maybe lumping three songs together and using the same rhythm section, but always finishing it with different musicians."
For most of his life -- at least since he was 15 and playing guitar with a bar band that had steady weekend gigs at a 24-hour establishment in McMechen, W.Va., -- Breiding has been a musician. His songwriting skills first began to emerge in the late '90s with the releases "Guitar and Pen" and "Happy Hour at the Round Hotel."
With "Time to Roll" it's apparent that he's ratcheted up this aspect of his music. Songs such as "Lest This Soul Shall Go Astray," and "Daddy's Old Black Hearse" have a simple, direct and poignant lyricism that eludes many songwriters.
"Ain't No Quittin' Side of Me," on the other hand, starts out with the lines "In a field in Pennsylvania I looked out on the rise/I saw the mighty serpent, the devil in his eyes." Immediately a listener conjures up images of the Flight 93 tragedy of Sept. 11, but the song then takes a different tack; it's actually about another seminal event in American history, the Battle of Gettysburg.
"I went to Gettysburg two years ago, and I've never been so moved," Breiding says.
Perhaps the best and most telling song on the album, however, is "My Martha," a driving rocker that, superficially, seems like a love song. But Breiding has long admitted he's unable to write relationship songs, and this tune is no exception.
"I started to think about the name Martha, and then Duane Allman's song 'Little Martha,'" he says. "Instead of a relationship song about a woman, I thought Martha is my music, and my relationship with music all these years. And then the music came really fast.
"It's the whole idea of growing up and how music is all you want to do. Everybody tells you that you can't do it for a living that you have to find something else ... But here I am, 42 years old, and it hasn't gone away. I've drifted away from it at times, but not really. It's just like somebody you don't see every day, but you still think about them."
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Saturday
19:41
22.04.2006 |
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Jamie Stahl Bowsher |
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Tom,
How nice to see someone from "the valley" doing well! Keep on rockin! 
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Thursday
14:36
06.04.2006 |
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lauren |
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hey Tom 
how are you doing? I can't wait for you and my dad(aka bill toms) to play at the Leaf and Bean. I am so excited to see you play again. congratulations on your new record.
love lauren toms
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42 |
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Monday
21:22
03.04.2006 |
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Dave Alianiello |
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Tom-First of all, it was great listening to you and Bill in Cleveland on Fri (3/31) @ the Barking Spider Tavern (very cool place), and sharing a couple of beers and some conversation with you guys. (Al's Fast Freight was a pleasant surprise). Secondly, "time to roll" blew me away-Very powerful stuff! The first four songs are like a mini "Desperado" and would do the Eagles proud. Dark, gritty and haunting, yet very polished-great sound.This is the kind of music that should be played on radio today. People need to hear this. Congratulations on a stong set of songs; you and your band should be very proud. All the best. Looking forward to hearing these songs live! Favorite track-hard to pick just one, but right now "What I Wouldn't Do" keeps haunting me.
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Friday
08:47
31.03.2006 |
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Jimmy Kent |
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A quick note to tell you the new CD is top shelf. I'd drive 500 miles for 10 minutes of that music. As an aspiring, unpublished creative writer and pseudo-lyricist, I know enough to recognize you have "the gift" that can't be taught. Great riffs in "California" and "Martha" would make Skynyrd envious and "Manifold" reeks of instant classic. I sense frustration in some of the lyrics regarding potential commercial success, but your day shall arrive. And if not, think of the great legacy you're building for your family,friends, and fans. A poet we both admire once said,"there's gonna be a twister to blow, everything down, that ain't got the faith, to stand its ground." Thanks for sharing your art and let the music play on. Time to roll........... Jimmy Kent (Leaf and Beaner)
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