Thomas Tomsen
Sunflickers


Tracks:

1. Godfather's Walk
2. Sunflickers
3. Swedish Toccata
4. Up And Up
5. Fishing Birds
6. Crazy Crocodile
7. Shadow Play
8. The Dead Of Night
9. Godfather's Walk II
10. Child Of Shadow Play

Line up:

Thomas Tomsen - guitars
Doug Pinnick - bass on 1,9
Bob Daisley - bass on 2
Tony Franklin - bass on 4
Big Fat Bernd Galetzka - bass on 5,8
Stuart Hamm - bass on 6
Melanie Bormann - drums on 1-9
Derek Sherinian - keyboards on 1,9
Michael Troy - keyboards on 3
DJ Burned - keyboards on 5,6,7; remix on 10

Record Label / Year of Release:

Rock Werk Records 2010

Notes:

Thomas Tomsen is born in Peine near Hannover in Germany. He started out by trying many different instruments such as Piano, Keyboard, Drums, Harp and s.o. At the age of 13 he bought a KISS record and at 15 he started learning guitar. Throughout the years he was influenced by Van Halen, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, King’s X, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, ZZ Top, Kiss, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple and much more.

He was influenced of many great Guitarplayer like Vinnie Vincent, Gary Moore, Eddie Van Halen, Vinnie Moore, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Schenker, Steve Vai, Uli Jon Roth, Brad Gillis, Albert Lee, Ty Tabor, Tony Iommi, George Lynch, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine, Richie Blackmore, The Kulick Brothers Bruce and Bob, Ace Frehley, and many more.

In the 90s, Thomas formed his 1st band called “ACARI”, followed by the funproject “Thomas Tomsen -Band” and “Böser Tomsen”, presently named “FRANKENFISH”. He also play with "Galetzka Tomsen" and " GBT". Thomas works as a guitar teacher and session player for different projects, bands and artists.

The new album " Sunflickers " is out now! He has some great guest-player on it, like Bob Daisley, Dug Pinnick, Derek Sherinian, Tony Franklin, Stuart Hamm, Michael Troy, Bernd " Big Fat " Galetzka & Melanie Bormann.