Tom Lum Forest: Music

Music

My musical interests date to sixth grade, when I started learning to play the trombone. When I got to college I switched to guitar: it was more popular, it didn't hurt my lips (I was wearing braces), and I could sing along (it doesn't sound too good singing while playing the trombone). In college, I would spend many an evening singing and playing, mixed with drinking, smoking, and shooting the breeze. In 1993 I took seven months of singing lessons from Jeannie Deva, a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, who helped start their vocal department and whose best-known pupils were Aimiee Mann (then of 'Til Tuesday) and Dar Williams. Now I can at least sing the note I intend! I still enjoy playing & singing with friends, and even play out for an occasional wedding, funeral, benefit, or reunion.

Rickenbacker 370/12 12-string electric bought on my 50th birthday (2008).
Martin JC16RE jumbo electric acoustic bought 2007.
Fender Stratocaster (40th anniversary reissue of the 1954 model) bought 1998.
Fender Twin Reverb amplifier (1965 reissue, complete with vacuum tubes) bought 1998
Ovation 12 string electric acoustic guitar (Glen Campbell model) bought 1986
Pan H490 acoustic six string guitar bought 1977
King 3B Tenor Trombone with F attachment SN 476405 bought 1973

Set List: July 2006, my 30th High School Reunion	Favorite Artists	Favorite Concerts
ACOUSTIC For What It's Worth -- Buffalo Springfield (Stephen Stills: 1967) Black Water -- Doobie Brothers (Patrick Simmons: 1974) Turn My Life Down -- Jefferson Airplane (Jorma Kaukonen: 1969) On Broadway -- The Drifters (Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill/Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller: 1963) The Story in Your Eyes -- Moody Blues (Justin Hayward: 1971) Althea/Sympathy for the Devil -- Grateful Dead/Rolling Stones (Garcia & Hunter: 1979; Jagger/Richards: 1968) Tangled Up in Blue -- Bob Dylan (1975) Melissa -- Allman Bros. (Gregg Allman: 1967) My Girl -- The Miracles (Smokey Robinson/Ronald White: 1965) Virginia -- Marshall Tucker Band (Toy Caldwell: 1975) Helplessly Hoping/Knockin' on Heaven's Door/Helpless -- CSN (David Crosby/Stephen Stills: 1968)/Bob Dylan/Neil Young (1973; 1970) There's a Place in the World for a Gambler -- Dan Fogelberg (1974) Get Together -- Youngbloods (Dino Valenti: 1965) Ripple -- Grateful Dead (Garcia/Hunter: 1970) ELECTRIC Jack Straw – Grateful Dead La Bamba/Good Lovin' -- Richie Valens/Young Rascals (traditional [1959]; Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick: 1965) Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting -- Elton John (w/Bernie Taupin: 1973) Gimmie Shelter/All Along the Watchtower – Rolling Stones (Jagger/Richard 1969) /Bob Dylan (1967) Crimson & Clover/Baba O'Reilly/Sweet Jane -- Tommy James & the Shondells (Tommy James/Peter Lucia: 1968) The Who (Pete Townshend: 1971) /The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed: 1971) Join Together/I Know You Rider – The Who (Pete Townshend 1971)/Grateful Dead (traditional [1969]) Midnight Rider/After Midnight -- Allman Bros. (Gregg Allman and Kim Payne: 1970)/JJ Cale (1966) Not Fade Away – Buddy Holly (w/ Norman Petty; 1957)
Santana Grateful Dead Allman Brothers Neil Young Eric Clapton Crosby/Stills/Nash
(all at Great Woods, Mansfield, MA except as noted) Jeff Beck/Santana, 1995: Beck kicks @#$ and takes names. Carlos' tribute to Jerry Garcia (who died three days earlier) was underlined by elegance, passion, and whisper-to-a-scream dynamics. CSN, 1996: Mr. Crosby using that new kidney & carrying the boys on his back (rather than Mr. Nash's), and sounding like 25 years had been rolled back k.d. lang, (at Harborlights, Boston, 1996) Unsurpassed voice, peerless stagecraft, and rockin' fun James Taylor, 1996: Great voice, great songs, and made a 18,000 seat venue feel as cozy as a 50 person coffee house Classical Indian Music concert at a friend's Hindu wedding, Trivandrum, Kerala, 1997. Intense virtuosity and unexpected fire in a deliciously exotic genre and venue Egyptian Symphony (dress rehearsal), Cairo, 1997. A beautiful ear-opening blend of Western classical and Egyptian traditions. Hapa, 1999 (Corvallis, OR) My favorite Hawai'ian music, complete with chanting and hula CSNY, 2000 (Rose Garden, Portland OR) Neil gives the boys a jump-start, and they give him a beautiful setting with all the old faves. He & Steven had wonderful guitar duels, and Neil brough out the hollow-bodied guitar on "For What It's Worth"