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For more than 20 years, Tom and Doug have navigated the universe in their own spaceship of musical calamity.
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Early History
They met when Doug was recruited to sing backup vocals for Tom on Popeye the Sailor
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In 1986 they helped to form a band, Norm and the Standard Deviates, and toured Western New York from their house to Eric's mom's house.
After Eric’s mom threw them out they migrated to New Jersey, where they became a regular feature at the Good Time Charley's Open Stage. They performed with several talented players there, and soon learned to envy people with talent.
Doug continued his nomadic ways, moving to Champaign, IL, Minneapolis, MN, and Ames, IA. Tom began to host Cafe Improv, a monthly stage and cable television show for a wide range of artists. Despite living 1000 miles apart, they pioneered ways to record and perform together, including the legally dubious “Live via satellite” performances.
Between 1988 and 2001, Tom & Doug released a series of 4 albums together, all of which are currently out of print. However, to celebrate their 19th anniversary of writing, performing, and recording music together, they released the CD Tom & Doug: Volume 1 -
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From 1999 until 2003, their version of the Twisted Sister hit We’re Not Gonna Take it, was used on Dee Snider’s radio show on WMRQ. Tom and Doug appeared live on the show in December, 1999.
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Tom and Doug’s music video These Guys Know What Love is played before the Aspen Shortsfest premiere of Wallace and Gromit’s A Matter of Loaf and Death, making them the only known band to open for Wallace and Gromit.
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The music video for Gangsta Knitter was featured in Vogue Knitting’s Knit.1 magazine, setting the trend for knitters worldwide.
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