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| "Mean" Gene Young
- Drums
“Mean” Gene Young has a reputation in these parts…he’s
known by
his peers as the “Shuffle King”. If you’re lookin’
for a “good time beat”, or a “pound of fat back drums“,
then he’s your man. “Mean” Gene. When you mean business…it’s
“Mean” Gene. Has Mean Gene ever hurt anybody? Hell No!…
but plenty of folks have gone home crippled after a night of dancin’
to the hardest, meanest shuffles in the west. Gene hails from Lubbock
Texas. He has performed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border,
from the East coast to the West coast he has performed with the likes
of Chuck Berry, John Denver, Tommy Castro, Roy Head, Chris LeDoux, William
Clarke, Charlie Musslewhite, and many more. Gene has meant business for
local acts “Armed and Dangerous”, “Wally Cleaver and the
Beavers”, and most recently “The Tempo Timers” and “Bluesaphonics”.
“Mean” Gene brings those cripplin’ shuffles and that big
time beat to Ides of Soul.
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"Woody" Thomsen
-Electric, Acoustic Bass/Vocals
Woody Thomsen is originally from Los Angeles CA, recently
spent a year performing and living in Austin Texas, he now returns
as an icon in the Utah music scene, having played bass for 30
plus years he has performed with the like of Little Dion, Nick
Gravenites (of Electric Flag), Bobby Day, and Kaz Kasanoff.
Woody has graced stages, big and small, from Arizona to Delaware,
having appeared twice at the Snowbird Jazz and Blues Festival,
and the Huge Cajun Festival in Austin. Woody has been a member
of the Tempo Timers for the last several years, and now brings
to The Ides Of Soul his tasteful and driving bass, and his unique
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Greg Daniels - Guitar
Greg started playing guitar @ 10 years old. His first
professional gig was at the ripe age of 12 when his band "Zhem
& the Rest" opened for "Sam the Sham & the
Pharaoh's". Throughout Jr. High & High School, Greg
played in a number of successful bands in Central California.
One of the highlights was as the opening act for the Gallywogs,
who later changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.
After high school, Greg toured the West Coast and ended up in
Portland, Oregon, where he played for years in "Ground
Zero" a favorite local rock band, and jammed with many
blues musicians including Robert Cray, and Paul Delay.
Greg semi retired to raise a family during the late 70's
& 80's. In the early 90's Greg started playing again,
and surfaced in the Salt Lake City blues scene. Playing with
local bands, including Snake & the Fatman, Tempo Timers,
Harry Lee and the Back Alley Blues Band, and jamming with
national blues acts like WC Clark, Buddy Miles, Sleepy LaBeef,
and Kenny Neal.
At 49 years old, Greg still plays the Blues like it should
be.
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Dan Walker - Sax/Vocals
Dan has seen the Eagle Fly on Friday for the last 20 years.
His Blistering Sax Attack has been heard on National TV &
Radio, opened for BB King
at the Los Angeles Blues festival, and has also been featured
at the prestigious Queen Mary Jazz Festival, and the Snowbird
Jazz and Blues Festival. While living in Utah, Dan found a home
for his brand of Tenor playin' with the Tempo Timers. The Tempo
Timers backed up dozens of National Blues Acts for Live Radio
Broadcasts from the Dead Goat Saloon in SLC, UT. He has recorded
for Movie Soundtracks, National and local Jingles and Sony Playstation
games. You can hear him featured on The "KRCL live at the
Dead Goat CD" with several National Blues acts, the Tempo
Timers' "Makin' It, Blues on First "Live at the Dead
Goat", and the Swingorillas, "Dick Suave". |
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Steve Camp - Keyboards, Vocals
Some people peak early and then spend the rest of their lives
trying to reclaim former glory. Such is Steve Camp. He performed a piano
solo for the Utah State Real Estate convention ay Salt Lake's Hotel Newhouse
when he was five years old. Ever since it's been "biker bars, nursing
homes, trailer park block parties and funerals," relates Camp, now
pushing fifty.
His spiraling career has not been without some memories, however. A few
years ago, Camp was doing a Nursing home gig with Sax great Boots Randolph.
During the performance, a patient approached Randolph asking to play with
the band. Pointing at Camp, Boots said to the patient, "Why don't
you sit in for that guy, he's not doin' much."
The graying keyboardist cites his influences as Chet Gregory, Nicky Hopkins,
Ramsey Lewis, Gregg Rolie, Tom Waits and Frederic Chopin. "Chopin
had it all together...He dodged the draft so he could write tunes, chase
women and hang out with Franz Liszt at all night parties."
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