tom fowler

     from: grahamco
anyone know why tom fowler left the 74 tour before it ended?

     from: biffyshrew (biffyshrew@aol.com)
he injured his hand playing football (leading to a new fz tour rule: no sports for the musicians).  he didn't leave the tour, as he had to prompt his underrehearsed replacement from the wings with a pointer and a chart of notes...

tom has a solo release 'heartscapes' which sounds a bit like level 42. 

tom also played on steve hackett's 1978 release "please don't touch". also on the album was chester thompson, phil ehart, richie havens, steve walsh, john hackett, randy crawford and several others.

also, see the "fowler brothers".

     from: gfellman@du.edu (greg fellman) - date: 9 sep 1997 05:06:33 gmt
last night i went to see ray charles play with the colorado symphony orchestra at fiddler's green here in denver.  at the beginning of the show they were introducing a couple additions to the orchestra and one of them was tom fowler on bass guitar!  i was shocked!  i'm not sure if he's regularly playing with ray or not.  nonetheless it was quite an amazing show.  no fowler solo though!

     from: patrick neve (splat@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
last i saw of tom fowler was him playing magnificently with the band from utopia in december of 98.  

     from: "georges m. bouhey" (georges@pond.net)
i played in a band called "ocean of air" w/tom and bruce in early seventies, in salt lake city.  we had a fusion band with tom and bruce (drums, bass, guitar, trombone) and we also had "club" band that played park city most of the winter.

     from: thomas teresi (thomteresi@earthlink.net)
tom fowler played in my group affirmation in the 80s, we did two albums affirmation,  "lost angeles" (not lost angels), and affirmation "identity crisis", both due to be reissued on cd in feb. 2001, on rhombus records, frankly yours, thomas teresi

 


discography:

(all credits are for bass unless otherwise specified)

 

1971 it's a beautiful day- choice quality stuff/anytime 

1972 it's a beautiful day- live at carnegie hall 

the mothers: over-nite sensation (17)
   (1973, lp, usa, discreet)

1973 various artists- all singing - all talking - all rocking

frank zappa: apostrophe (') (18)
   (1974, lp, usa, discreet)

1974 various artists- hard goods

zappa / mothers: roxy & elsewhere (19)
   (1974, 2lp, usa, discreet)

frank zappa and the mothers of invention: one size fits all (20)
   (1975, lp, usa, discreet)

zappa / beefheart / mothers: bongo fury (21)
   (1975, lp, usa, discreet)

1975 various artists- the works

1975 ponty, jean-luc- aurora

1975 ponty, jean-luc- voyage: the jean-luc ponty antholog 

1975 duke, george- i love the blues, she heard my cry  

1976 ponty, jean-luc- imaginary voyage 

1978 hackett, steve- please don't touch! 

frank zappa: studio tan (24)
   (1978, lp, usa, discreet)

198? affirmation- affirmation

1980 affirmation- lost angeles

the grandmothers: lookin' up granny's dress (2)
    (1982, lp, us, rhino records  rnlp 804) - feat. various ex-moi; incl.zappa compositions

1984 that's the way i feel now: tribute 

1985 tribute to kurt weill: lost in the 

fowler brothers airpocket: hunter (1)
    (1985, lp, usa, fossil records fbr 001) - feat.albert wing, chester thompson

1986 frank zappa- apostrophe/over-nite sensation

1987 frank zappa- the guitar world according to frank zappa

1988 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore (sampler) 

1988 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore, vol. 1

1988 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore, vol. 2

fowler brothers: breakfast for dinosaurs (2)
   
(1988, cd, usa, fossil fbr 1002) - feat.albert wing, chester thompson, vinnie colaiuta, ike willis 

1989 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore, vol. 3

bruce fowler: ants can count (2)
    (1990, cd, us, terra nova tnd-9002) - inside cover art by don van vliet  /  feat.
various zappa alumni

1991 frank zappa- piquantique 

1991 frank zappa- unmitigated audacity 

1991 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore, vol. 4

1991 arthur barrow- music for listening

1992 angelis, kim- violin voyager 

tom fowler: heartscapes
    (1992, cd, usa, fossil records) - feat. lots of zappa alumni

1992 frank zappa- you can't do that on stage anymore, vol. 6

steve fowler: the last blue sky  (2)
    (1992, cd, usa, fossil records) - feat.walt, bruce and tom fowler, albert wing, chester thompson and ed mann

bruce fowler: entropy (3)
   (1993, cd, us, fossil records fbr 1005) - feat.steve, tom & walt fowler, a.wing, ch.thompson, k.mcgettrick

1993 duke, george- three originals 

1994 preston, don- vile foamy ectoplasm 

1995 band from utopia- music of frank zappa (bass, violin, vocals) 

1996 frank zappa- the lost episodes 

1996 frank zappa- läther

1996 supernatural fairy tales: the progr 

1996 arthur barrow- eyebrow razor (bass, violin)

1996 frank zappa- frank zappa plays the music if frank zappa

1997 frank zappa- have i offended someone? 

1998 frank zappa- cheap thrills

1998 various artists- rykodisc 15th anniversary sampler

1999 frank zappa- son of cheep thrills

1999 captain beefheart- the dust blows forward

george duke: i love the blues, she heard my cry (7)
    (1976, lp, usa, mps) - feat.bruce fowler, johnny "guitar" watson, ruth underwood

     fowler, bruce- ants can count 

   


 

videography:

 

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