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Adam's band - profiles of Tommy, Lisa, Longineu & Monte

Friday, November 27, 2009 - 03:39
littleblackdress: Adam's band - profiles of Tommy, Lisa, Longineu & Monte
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I put this together thru Web research since no one seems to have written an article yet! Let me know if you know or find anything else!

Photo of the whole band: http://twitpic.com/pukkb
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Tommy Joe Ratliff (bass guitar)

According to his MySpace page, Tommy, the second-best part of the Kiss Heard Round the World, is 28 years old, straight, single, a nonsmoker, an atheist, and a Libra who wants to have children "some day." He is a graduate of Burbank High School, class of 2000. His fave music includes Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, the Cure, and many more; fave films include Velvet Goldmine, Tombstone, and Fight Club. Heroes include John Wayne, Jimi Hendrix, and Hank Williams. His previous bands (metal) include Mouthlike, Turn of the Screw, and Eat the Crow (see videos below). In a video on Turn of the Screw (w/earlier hairstyle), he claims to be earning $ as a Culligan Man and a dolphin trainer (?!). According to their tweets (which may just be playing with our heads), Adam's nickname for him is glitterbaby and his for Adam is babyboy.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/TommyJoeRatliff
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/TommyJoe18
Fanvid for The Kiss (Adam talking about Tommy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnN-EqL5lSg
Tommy performing! w/band Turn of the Screw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQpeHrQ4uc
Turn of the Screw documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9CYDirBsw (Tommy speaks at 1:38)
Earlier-Tommy pics on MySpace: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... cture&fr...
Eat the Crow doc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKHQLNCz50 (Tommy doesn't speak but can be seen at 2:05, 3:51, 5:00, 6:16)

MySpace pages for Tommy's former bands:
Turn of the Screw: http://www.myspace.com/turnofthescrew (there's a poster for a May 10 show in 2008, but the account is inactive now)
Eat the Crow: http://www.myspace.com/eatthecrow
Mouthlike: http://www.myspace.com/mouthlike
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Lisa Harriton (keyboards, vocals)

Born 17 November 1980, Lisa is a singer/songwriter who grew up in Van Nuys, California. She started piano lessons at age 5, completed classical piano studies at the Royal Schools of Music, attended Cal State Northridge, and earned a degree in jazz piano studies from the University of Southern California. She formerly played with jazz ensembles and most recently with the Smashing Pumpkins. She has also composed and performed her own music and taught music workshops in Southern California. Her dad is a TV/film composer, her mom is a studio singer and songwriter, and her brother plays jazz. Her influences include jazz composer/conductor Maria Schneider. Also, although Lisa seems to have gone blonde for Adam, she is a redhead in most of her past photos.
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No Twitter yet, but Tommy says she'll be getting it
Nice article about her: http://www.keyboardmag.com/article/lisa ... r-08/34497
Lots of videos of Lisa on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... a+harriton
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/lisaharriton
Photos: http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.c ... bums&fri...
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Harriton ____________________________________________________________

Longineu Parsons (drums)

Born February 16, 1980, in Paris, Longineu learned to play the drums from his dad at the age of 2. He played with his dad in the Longineu Parsons Ensemble, and his “big break” was with Max Roach. He helped Ben Harper form the band Yellowcard and played drums with them. His musical influences include Anthrax, Slayer, Green Day, Nirvana, Megadeth, and many more. He likes riding Harleys, is tattooed on his arms and legs, and has a lovely sweetie: http://twitpic.com/qypmm.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/Longineu
Vid of Longineu playing a drum solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspsjdiOVO8
Giving a lesson on drum technique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rq-0eFNxII
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/pizzle420 - but it's private so not much info - more informative is this page:
http://wiki.yellowcardrock.com/page/Lon ... arsons+III
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Monte Pittman (guitar, vocals)

As many of us know, Monte and Adam were in the band Citizen Vein together before Idol. Monte moved to LA from Texas in 1999. He started out giving guitar lessons, and Guy Ritchie (who was then dating Madonna) became one of his students. Monte taught Guy how to play some of Madonna's new songs, to impress her. Madonna then asked him to give her guitar lessons, and then invited him to tour with her. He also played with a heavy metal band called Prong. He lists an eclectic set of musical influences on his MySpace page, everything from Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, and The Doors to Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, John Denver(?!), and Bob Dylan – sounds like he shares Adam’s awareness and respect for 1960s and ‘70s-era musicians. One of his nicknames is Montster.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/Monterrific
Monte's CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/montepittman
MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/montsterpittman
Nice article: http://www.bossus.com/boss_users_group/ ... icleId=825
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A few videos of the band playing together with Adam:
FYE music video - http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... d=237542...
11/22: FYE on the AMAs - http://video.yahoo.com/watch/6472997
11/25: Early Show - WYWFM - http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5772614n&tag=ap
11/25: Early Show - Music Again - http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5772878n&tag=api
11/25: Letterman - WYWFM - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X7I2iSGEPo

Well if body language tells you anything look at Tommy leaning into Adam... hmmm.

Thanks for all the band info LizMarie.

LizMarie thank you SO much for the Music Again Vid. I missed it! This must the next single release, which is OK with me, I love it!

Seems like the guys are having a great time together. Here they are at the Metallica concert:

http://twitpic.com/t1a2w


Longineu: Hey to you all!!!! the show was amazing Metallica played an amazing set and the fans were great, they used lots of pyro. (Note : Looks like Adam might have a co conspirator for flames coming out of his head).

TommyJoeRatliff: Drivin back with @monterrific @longineu and joan.. The metallica show was incredible!!!

Longineu: Pyro!!!! http://twitpic.com/t1b0j (See what I mean?)

Longineu: About to hit up Metallica with Tommy Monte and me lady!!!! FuCK ya I hope they play ONE!

TommyJoeRafliff: On our way to see Metallica with @monterrific, @longineu and his lady. ;-p sooo stoked!!!

Do you think the fascination with fire comes from being an Aquarius? I hope they don't blow up the place on tour. Too funny!

This pic of the guys is awesome. And Hello Tooommmy!

Longineu has been tweeting away today. He needed fans to request light sticks from a supplier. The Adam fans sent their requests and now Longineu is getting his light sticks. The power of Adam. Anyway, Longineu is excited to be getting his super cool drum sticks.

Longineu: i want to say thank you to all IT WORKED!!!!! now we have light sticks!!!!!! yay!!!! you will see them on tv i get them on monday!!!!!!!!
24 minutes ago from web

Longineu you are all the best fans in the world!!!!!!!
21 minutes ago from web

Longineu please come if you all can!!!! i will be there for three days and so will the rest of the band
20 minutes ago from web

Longineu even if we have to meet you outside we will!!! we love our fans!!!
6 minutes ago from web

Longineu and the other members of the band will be at the NAMM Show, January 14th - 17th. He wants all the fans to come out. The NAMM Show is located in Anaheim, CA.

http://www.namm.org/thenammshow/2010

Longineu is so in love with his new drum kit -- the Dark Knight and the light sticks (which apparently Adam wanted him to have because they look so cool.) :D

http://twitpic.com/taquu

http://twitpic.com/taokz

HaHa Liz, maybe that's Adam in the Reindeer suit!

I know that Adam likes to play dress up but I didn't figure that Scooby Doo was in his repetoire!

Awww. Nice news from Longineu:

I just asked my girlfriend to marry me and she said yes! We are now engaged!!!!!!! Yay she is going to be my wife!!!!!

Maybe Adam will sing at the wedding!!

A Christmas engagement - awwwwww... nice.



The only way you'd know for sure is to check for A.D.A.M. (oops... this isn't the basement)

~ And Liz: Thank you for posting all that bio on the band members. I just found it - very informative and interesting!

Longineu Parsons's paying with Max Roach is very impressive. I've heard Max many times live-phenomanal peformances, but Longineu was not with him. Longineu must have played with him fairly recently as Max Roach died in 2007 at the age of 83.

Thanks for all the info.

Shaunna

Monte just retweeted this information about Tommy. More than a pretty face...

- Prong - One of Tommy's other bands in recent years is Ministry. They were just nominated for their 6th Grammy for the song "Senor Peligro". Tommy co-wrote this song with Al Jourgensen. Ministry has a documentry coming out this summer title FIX. Check out their Facebook!
FIX - THE MINISTRY MOVIE
FIX: The Ministry Movie shoves your ass way, way backstage with the scariest band EVER. “F..K THE MAINSTREAM” – might as well have been written by Al Jourgenson, founder of MINISTRY. Love him or hate him, Al and how he makes music changed all the rules. Al and all the... guys he played with, paid the price and took no prisoners along the way, but they MATTERED. No Ministry= No NIN, or Korn, or Jane’s Addiction… if you don’t believe it? Hear it directly from Trent Reznor, Jonathan Davis, Dave Navarro and many more. go to fixtheministrymovie.com to see a trailer now.
Film:420 fans
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I posted this in the shelter thread, but there seems to be ongoing confusion between Monte's close friends Tommy Victor (of Prong) and cute little TommyJoe.

It was Tommy Victor who grabbed the Grammy nom for writing a song for Ministry. Tommy Victor is the frontman for Prong and a legend in his own right.

RT @GlamUlli congrats to Tommy Victor on your Grammy nomination for the song Senor Peligro you wrote for Ministry. #metal about 10 hours ago from web ...

The guys have been at NAMM for two days and Tommy tweeted these Youtubes of them playing some of Monte's songs (accoustic):

Monte introducing Tommy and Longineu, Colours Wash Away



Rain is Falling



Out of the Black

From the AO Site:

I don't know how long Zack (@justcallmehorse) is going to be keyboarding for Adam, but he looks set to play at the Kradison concert on 2/12. I find it so funny that he always seems to tweeta photo his keyboard set up before a gig. What I would really like to do is magnify the sheets of paper to see what music Adam's going to play....

The guys jamming after their Rock My Town rehearsal

LM. that was freakin awesome!! Loved the close ups while the guys were playing. Very cool.

That was AWESOME!! Thank you!