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"Hey, Old Guy" is finished and ready to listen to!
Click on the song title to download the MP3 file, or click on the yellow oval to play it. If you have trouble playing the songs, try HELP. If you're ready to buy it, go to "WeaselStuff."
All the songs are original "Thom Tunes" and feature him playing the Adamas and doing vocals. Each song consists of one guitar track and one vocal track with the exception of "Piece of the Pie" and "Snowfall" which have two guitar tracks. There are also two "bonus tracks" featuring an impromptu jam with Thom and Willy. The sidebar has those two songs. All-in-all, over 60 minutes of music! What a deal!
Hey, Old Guy: The Little Man Saga
One day Willy suddenly realized that more water had flowed under the bridge than was yet to come. This was accompanied by a nagging sense of some long forgotten part of his life resurfacing, which started him thinking: if he was ever going to do what he had always wanted to do, he'd better get to it. This is his story, a story he always wanted to tell but somehow, in the course of life, forgot. But remembering has its price.
Here resides the music publishing arm of WeaselWorks. At present we represent one artist, our very own Thom Barrie, so I'll let him do the talking. Willy
Weasel Tunes
So, just who is this Thom Barrie character? Well, I take up temporal residence somewhere between 40 and 50, spend most of my daylight hours in a basement, dividing my time betweeen graphic design and guitar, whichever is paying at the time, and like to watch X-Files (Yeah, Reyes & Dauget!) and The Lone Gunmen (which is being or has been cancelled.
I started playing guitar in 1972 after joining the U.S. Army. (I joined rather than get drafted since my lottery number was either 45 or 90 and Vietnam was still chewing up the good guys. There was an urban legend at the time that all the draftees were lined up at the induction center and a Marine "recruiter" would come through "recruiting" whichever good men caught his fancy - this used to be called "impressing" in the good ole days. This was a fear to be reckoned with as well as the war itself. So, rather than chance a two-year draft term, I settled for a three-year sure thing. Now, the only hazzard at the induction center would be the bending over for the "specialist's" probing. When I got there, an extremely interesting event took place: the draftees were lined up and a Marine came in and took about ten of them! I kid you not.)
After serving my time, the Army unloaded me in Key West, Florida. This was my final duty station and I just stayed. By now I had decided that rock and roll was my destiny. I sort of lost the fervency about a year or so later and returned to California. That was in 1977. From then until 1998 music took a back seat: I sold my Strat (see the story in the sidebar), the 12-string sat in its case, the Giannini 6-string was sold and only the Dorado nylon string was played, if at all. All-in-all, pretty sad.
 The Interview |
Enter Little Man and "Hey, Old Guy." (See the interview for an indepth look at Little Man.) These songs all work around the idea of recapturing the passion and dreams of our youth, before the obligations and responsibilities of life took over. As I mentioned earlier, in the mid-70s rock and roll was my destiny. I just forgot it for about 25 years! I guess that makes me a full-fledged weasel in good standing.
