Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Tom Staley Sighting

On occasion I chat via e-mail with drummer Tom Staley in Florida. Tom, aka "The Time Bomb", was the original drummer for NRBQ, and we both share a love of the late great jazz fusion band Weather Report, which is how we started talking. Tommy actually played with WR's gifted bassist Jaco Pastorious.

Tom left the Q to raise a family in the early 1970s, but has gotten back into the music scene in Florida with his own band, called "Sackowoe" . Here they are at a recent gig in Clearwater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDx0atJous0