TOM GILLAM: Music/Video

 
THE MAKING OF TOM GILLAM'S   "DALLAS"  REQUIRED A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT.  THIS PAGE   WILL SHED SOME LIGHT ON THE WHO, WHAT AND THE WHERE.....
BASIC TRACKING FOR "DALLAS"   STARTED SHORTLY AFTER THE RELEASE OF TOM'S DEBUT,"FIRST OF ALL".   ONCE AGAIN TOM TEAMED WITH PRODUCER/ENGINEER JOE CARROLL.
UNLIKE THE LAST EFFORT WHICH UTILIZED A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MUSICIANS ON EACH TRACK, MOST OF "DALLAS"  WAS RECORDED WITH THE HELP OF TOM'S LIVE BAND, "TRACTOR PULL". THIS GIVES "DALLAS"  A MORE COHESIVE SOUND THAN IT'S PREDECESSOR. (CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON TRACTOR PULL) 
AUGMENTING THE CORE BAND ON PIANO   (AND DOING  THE STRING ARRANGEMENT ON "FADE AWAY") IS JAZZ PIANIST   AND LONGTIME FRIEND,  DAVE FALCIANI. HIS WORK CAN BE HEARD ON ALBUMS BY   ED HAMILTON, TONY WILLIAMS, TONY JONES, MAYNARD FERGUSON AND  HIS OWN "JAZZ,WORLD,TRANCE" PROJECT, OKO JUMU.
SINGER-SONGWRITER CRAIG SIMON, WHO CO-WROTE "EVERY MORNING, EVERY NIGHT, EVERY DAY" PLAYED BANJO, MANDOLIN AND SANG   BACKING VOCALS ON "A PLACE CALLED WHEN".
E-DAN SHOWELL PLAYED  DRUMS ON "DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH", "A PLACE CALLED WHEN", AND "BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE". "E" NOW PLAYS GUITAR IN  PHILLY BASED BAND ORANGE.
KARL FIGUEROA WHO PLAYED BASS ON A NUMBER OF TRACKS ON TOM'S DEBUT,  "FIRST OF ALL" IS BACK  PLAYING UPRIGHT BASS ON  "A PLACE CALLED WHEN".
ROUNDING OUT THE MUSICAL LINE-UP IS JIM CHEADLE, PLAYING PIANO ON "BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE".
TOM AND JOE CARROLL THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO INVITE AS MANY OF THIER FRIENDS TO HELP WITH THE BACKING VOCALS. THUS, THE "TREEHOUSE CHOIR" WAS BORN. (TREEHOUSE STUDIO IS WHERE "DALLAS" WAS RECORDED) THE CHOIR  CONSISTS OF  KAROLYN JORDAN, ED RILEY, CRAIG SIMON, AND MEMBERS OF TRACTOR PULL. THE TREEHOUSE CHOIR MADE  THE  BACKING VOCAL SESSIONS MORE FUN THAN WORK.  HIGHLIGHT OF THESE SESSIONS CAN BE HEARD ON "DALLAS" AND "A LITTLE TOO STRANGE".
MIXING THE CD PROVED TO BE JUST AS MUCH OF A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.  8 OF THE 12 TRACKS ( 3,5,6,7,9,10,11,12) WERE MIXED   "INHOUSE" BY JOE CARROLL.
TRACKS (1,4,8) WERE MIXED BY JOE MATTIS AND TOM VOLCIPELLI, WITH TOM AND JOE CARROLL AT PUMPTOWN STUDIOS.
THE TITLE TRACK "DALLAS" WAS MIXED BY VETERAN ENGINEER  SHELLY YAKUS. SHELLY'S LIST OF CREDITS INCLUDE TOM PETTY, JOHN LENNON, DON HENLEY, STEVIE NICKS, THE BAND AND MANY MORE. FOR MORE INFO. ON SHELLY GO TO ALLMUSIC.COM AND TYPE SHELLY YAKUS.
MASTERING FOR THE CD WAS DONE BY   ELECTRA RECORDING ARTIST "SPIDER" RON ENTWISTLE. RON'S INPUT ON BOTH OF TOM'S RELEASES HAS BEEN INVALUABLE. FOR MORE INFO. ON  SPIDER, CHECK OUT HIS BAND "MANNEQUIN" (FORMERLY 1PLUS 1)
SINCE THIS IS  AN EXTENDED   EDITION OF THE CD CREDITS, MANY THANKS MUST GO OUT TO ALL WHO HELPED MAKE THIS CD POSSIBLE:
 
DAVE RATH @ BRICKHOUSE MANAGEMENT
John Cross
 
THANKS TO THE FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO  MADE A DIFFERENCE.....
CAROLINE BREEDLOVE GILHAM, TYLER A. GILHAM AND FAMILY, KELLIE AND KYLIE KAY,  RON ENTWISTLE, GEORGE THOMPSON, FRANK SILVA, MUSIC MUSEUM. THE CARROLL FAMILY, THE GILHAM FAMILY, STEVE AND LUCY RUSSO AND  EVERYONE AND RUSSO MUSIC CENTER, ROB DIMPTER , TIFFANY SUITERS, DON SYRACUSE JR.,  K-FLOOR,  MIKE NEWMAN AND ALL AT TONGUE AND GROOVE,  OLIVIER ROURE  AND JASON SEXTON  AT OZONE STUDIO PHILLY( BON JOUR), FREDDY BAKER AND APOLLO ARTIST ATTRACTIONS,  DEBBI RATH , PAUL CONROY, TERRY TOMPKINS, BOB AND KAROLYN JORDAN(PANG),WILL HODGSON,OUR FRIENDS AT BUBBA MAC SHACK, Kenny Gorka and Paul Colby (The Bitter End)  JOHN HAMTON (TROCADERO), BRETT KORNHAUSER (RIP), LESLIE ROUFFE, SHAWN COKLEY, JEFF RANDLE ,KINKOS.....