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Tommy's first group "The Sand" was started with his brother Nick at a very early age of fifteen and eleven respectively playing dances, parties, backyards and anywhere anyone would listen. The next group was "Warlord". With neighborhood pal Steve Szustak taking on the six string duties Tom switched to bass. "I was very proud of that group. We could have really been something had we stuck together. With Fritz Ulinski and Dave Wnuk, we had a band that was equally talented four parts"! Tom's next group "Cotton Mather" played the bars and had talent enough to get out and play but lacked direction. That direction came in the next band "ASG". " I was lucky to be a part of that group, though a small part I was. I learned what the studio and what playing away from home was like and I developed to be a pretty good bass player. It was the late 70 's and I was the youngster in the group. We had radio airplay at the same time I was studying acting. It wasn't too long after that I began working on television doing commercials". It was 1984 and time for Tom to leave his hometown Buffalo, NY and head to Hollywood. I was told "Hollywood will chew you up and spit you out." I found out that to be very true. I studied for two years with the famed Broadway star Fredrick Colmbs at the Zephyr Theatre before I even went out on one audition. I wanted to be sure I was ready ! Roles on General Hospital, Knots Landing, Designing Women as well as several nighttime television shows, commercials and plays kept Tom working through the 90's. "I really developed as an actor when I auditioned and was accepted into the theatre group The Actors Company in Burbank. Tom originated the role of Ed Carter in the world premier "The Second Hand Kid". "I also self produced shows when the theatre had dark nights. Sometimes they would be plays and sometimes I would play my guitar and sing to backing tapes I had made in my home studio. I soon worked with Peter Faulk on Columbo and Rick Springfield on his show High Tide. I was lucky. I also studied with famed Hollywood acting coach John Kirby. Some of today’s stars were classmates of mine. I did everything from Mamet to Shakespeare. Still it was the building of my home studio that kept me moving forward". Other roles in the late 90's had Tom in reenactment television shows, but he did know one important thing. "My home studio is where my heart beats! I am very lucky to have a beautiful wife and my own studio to create in ". Tom has over forty songs recorded where he gets a chance to play and sing everything at his own pace. He has been playing all over Los Angeles in his own band "Tom Marvich and The Found Sound". From the famed 14 Below in Santa Monica to The Universal Bar and Grill to Club Good Hurt and Halenbacks. Tom gets his music out there and gets a very positive response. "We always get asked back to the point where we are regulars in some of these places". My CD "Where Are You Going With This" released in the summer of 2007 was more of a "band" feel to it. My recordings, up until now, have me doing everything from the writing, to the playing, singing, engineering and producing. I was very lucky to have a very talented six band to help out with the goal of putting our sound down onto a CD. Tom finished recording his third CD titled “Looking Forward Through The
Past” in the summer of 2009 and found so much joy working with someone
that challenged him yet also trusted him. The new music has more of a down
home feel to them. “Even though I live in the big city of Los Angeles, I
will always be a small town boy”.
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