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Tim Gorman's Celtic Loop is the refreshingly rhythmic Celtic strut
of the legendary session keyboardist, whose credits range from Duane
Eddy to the Who and from the Celtic fiddler Alasdair Fraser to
latter-day versions of those Jefferson bands, the Airplane and the
Starship. Tim Gorman is a San Francisco Bay area native along with
the members of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Journey, and many
other well known rock bands. Today, Tim Gorman works in the East Bay
just outside San Francisco. He recently joined the Taymusic.net
label, founded by fellow friend, Kirk Casey. Tim Gorman states “One
of the best things about being with TayMusic.net, is that I’m so
closely involved with the label, day-to-day. Kirk picks my brains
about different situations I’ve encountered, and about promotion,
about marketing.” Tim Gorman's musical preferences are primarily
British rock artists such as Cream, Traffic, and Emerson Lake &
Palmer.
Celtic Loop has contains some of Tim Gorman’s best work
to date. There are Irish reels as well as symphonic underscore. The
Irish music is very authentic and very Celtic in nature. Irish music
as well as Celtic music from Scotland has always been some of Tim
Gorman’s favorites. Tim has been very influenced by Irish and Scottish
music. Tim has spent time in Ireland as well as Scotland. Tim loves
those Irish reels and the musicians on this CD are the real deal.
Irish music will always be close to his heart.
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It’s fitting that Tim Gorman’s first release on TayMusic.net is Celtic Loop. Gorman’s entire life, it seems, has been an endless circle of eclectic music, ranging from classical to rock and beyond – as in, say, Celtic music that incorporates hip-hop beats.
For those who know him and his music, that’s typical of Gorman, who was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He got a head start on music. At age four, he began studying classical piano under European conductor John Heirsioux. Gorman went on to study orchestration and jazz piano, and, at the University of Portland, he received his bachelor's degree in Music Composition and Theory.
Although he’d grown up in the Bay Area, home to the San Francisco rock scene and such major musical forces as Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, Gorman found himself drawn to British rock. His favorites included Cream, Traffic, and Emerson Lake & Palmer. It was serendipity, then, that while working as a composer and studio musician in the Pacific Northwest, Gorman's sound caught the ear of record producer Glyn Johns, whose credits include the Rolling Stones.
Johns’ production company hired Gorman for session work with such artists as the Stones, Elton John, Dusty Springfield, and The Who, with whom he toured.
In the mid-1980s, Gorman was invited by Paul Kantner, co-founder of the Jefferson Airplane and Starship, to join his KBC Band, playing alongside Kantner and co-pilots Jack Casady and Marty Balin, and performing in various of Kantner’s Airplane and Starship reunion tours.
Gorman then swung back to classical music with the 1995 release, Classical Daydreams, which, he proudly notes, earned international raves and a five-star review from a major online retailer.
Now, he’s happily aligned with a slightly smaller music enterprise. Having also composed and played music for animated and television programs, including a digitized revival of the Popeye cartoon series, Gorman found easy accord with TayMusic.net founder Kirk Casey, composer of music for the Sim City series of computer games. Casey heard Celtic Loop, which Gorman made with the Celtic bagpiper, whistler and flutist Eric Rigler after Classical Daydreams. The album, Gorman notes, mixes Irish melodies with hip-hop beats. “We took it out of the druid kind of thing and onto the pavement,” he says. Casey soon invited Gorman to join his new label.
Gorman now works near Casey in a studio in the East Bay, just across a bridge from San Francisco. “One of the best things about being with TayMusic.net,” Gorman says, “is that I’m so closely involved with the label, day-to-day. Kirk picks my brains about different situations I’ve encountered, and about promotion, about marketing.”
And, of course, about music. “We’ve been able to push the musical envelope together,” he says.
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John Entwistle
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KBC Keasar Stadium
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Tom Coster Band - Old Waldorf
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Big Ed Moore
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