Artist description Party rock band of the Logan Utah underground in the late 1980's

Artist History At a dinner party in Cache Valley Utah, Tim Diggles met TommyThunder. The topic of conversation soon turned to music. Tim, raised in Detroit, mentioned his influence of the great R&B and rock bands of the area. TommyThunder, raised outside of Chicago, mentioned his influence of the great jazz and blues artists of that area. He also mentioned the fact of being a member of the Flock's Tom Webb band. They decided to form a band. After several weeks of jamming with local musicians in walked Pat Newby. From the Seattle area, this power house guitarist screamed over the Diggles' R&B chord patterns. The band was now complete. With the quick wit of Diggles's lyrics, song writing, and driving drum beats, Thunder's rhythmic bass lines and song arranging, and Newby's guitar in total overdrive, the band had a new original sound. Soon the band took aim at the cult driven society of Northern Utah. Getting most of their song ideas from the local paper the band became a local favorite of the Logan underground. Rehearsing in a small area behind a furnace in a basement, of an old house on Center Street in Logan, the band decided to record their songs on a 4-track cassette machine. They added the keyboard of Tom Bunn, to fatten the sound. The cassette album "No Pets, No Smoking, No Drinking" was released in 1989 but was only distributed at live shows. The copy process was slow and soon abandoned. Newby had to leave the band in 1990 because of job relocation. Frank Fencil replaced Newby to complete songs already written by Diggles. In the year 2000 TommyThunder loaded the original 4-track tapes into his digital recording computer. By removing the pops and hiss of the cassette tapes, adding effects, and adding parts to unfinished songs the new album "Cache Classic Collection" was born. This Digital Automatic Music CD is now available over the world wide web and local stores. So now everyone can return to the day of Double Barbeques, Double Ringers, and Double Fun of Logan's underground of the late 1980's.

Group Members Tim Diggles, TommyThunder, Pat Newby, Tom Bunn, Frank Fencil

Instruments Guitars, Fender Bass, Drums, Keyboards, Sampler, Drum Machine, Theremin, Garbage Harp

Albums No Pets, No Smoking, No Drinking; Cache Classic Collection

Location Logan, Ut. - USA

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