Tinfoil Returns to Toledo, armed with a new CD and Righteous Babe Recording Artist, Hamell On Trial!

Written by Dave Harms of Tinfoil







Put together a civil engineer, a social studies teacher, a welder/fabricator, and a full time student; add a drum kit and a few guitars, and what do you get? Some of the most energetic and original music we've heard lately!
They’ve been described as the band with a conscience, writing songs about life in Northwest Ohio, warts and all. Styles vary - some blues, some punk, a few ballads, some heavy, some light, some artsy poetry rock, and some classic rock - and yet all with a distinctive sound that unifies their work. Each song is a glimpse into a life, a situation, and they present some unusual vignettes. When have you heard an album with songs that tackle issues such as anorexia, prescription drugs for the elderly, a promising young fashion design student who ends up a hairdresser and wonders what happened to her dreams, an unrequited high school crush?
Tinfoil has been performing regionally in support of Waylon Crase, Help Wanted and A Murder Of Crows but on May 6, Tinfoil will be performing with Righteous Babe Recording Artist, Hamell On Trial. The event will be held May 6 at Mickey Finns, 602 Lagrange at Huron, Toledo, OH. 43604. Hamell On Trial is on tour supporting his latest CD, Songs for Parents who Enjoy Drugs. More information on Hamell On Trial can be found on his website: http://www.hamellontrial.com.
Tinfoil members hale from the Tiffin, Green Springs, and Walbridge areas. Dave Harms (rural Walbridge), singer/songwriter/guitarist, is a teacher at Penta Career Center. Rich Patterson (rural Green Springs), drummer, is a welder/fabricator employed at C. S. Bell Co. in Tiffin. Rod Gillespie (Tiffin), guitarist/ songwriter/singer, is a civil engineer with Makeever & Associates in Bucyrus; and Joe Lewis (Walbridge), songwriter/bassist, is a full time student.
Not your usual local band. But then they never have been. This is their 10th release. Tinfoil has been bouncing from Columbus to Detroit, Cleveland to BG for years now, and the creative flow (should we call it a creative tidal wave?) has yet to slow. They've built their own studio and formed their own label to record and distribute this prolific output. The 14 songs on their new release "Dead Language" take you on a wild ride that twists and turns with their many different styles and personalities. What Tinfoil does is gives deadly characterizations, moments frozen in time with each song going wherever the song demands. They have the usual love-gone-wrong songs, but then they have some quite unusual situations.
To check them out, you can go to their website www.tinfoilmusic.com, and you'll find, among other things, free downloads of singles and unreleased or alternate versions. You can find Dead Language on amazon.com, as well as cdbaby.com. They're included on the Oasis Record Company Radio Sampler, and played on XM satellite radio by dj Billy Zero and on WBGU 88.1 in Bowling Green by DJ Dom, who features the band during his radio show on Friday nights from 8 – midnight.
Interesting story about Rod and the tablecloth: Way back in the 50's Rod's mom was a waitress in a restaurant in Kenton, and Elvis Presley and his band were on tour when they stopped in to eat there. Elvis wasn't a big famous legend at that time. They signed the tablecloth and she kept it. When he was younger he thought it was a pretty lame souvenir, but now he wonders....did some of it rub off? Is this how the music thing started????
Interesting story about Lora: Lora was a student of Dave's his first year of teaching, bright and full of promise, but midway through the year, the victim of a tragic traffic accident. The song Lora was written in her memory, from the viewpoint of the boyfriend she left behind. He sent a copy to her family, and they were so touched, they came in and thanked him, and the song was sealed in a time capsule at her gravesite.

Interesting story about You Have All the Answers: This song was written a long time ago by Dave about a rotten teacher in his past. So who's the teacher, now, Dave? Huh??
Interesting story about Rich and the broken bass drum head: oh wait, that story isn't interesting.....





More information about Tinfoil can be had at www.tinfoilmusic.com, or by contacting Dave Harms at 410-346-8679






Deb's Top 5 Songs Of The Day:


Train, Drops Of Jupiter
The Beach Boys, Good Vibrations
Fall Out Boy, Sugar We're Goin' Down
Eagles, Take It To The Limit
Gordon Lightfoot, Time In A Bottle



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Tinfoil