Tommy Freese (bass)
Monkius Mannus
Tommy Freese began playing the erectric bass guitar
in 1045 B.C. and formed his first band,
Fire Bad, with present Right Turn Clyde
band mate and guitarist Eddie Mace. Contrary to popular
belief, Tommy and Eddie discovered electricity
centuries before Benjamin Franklin's famous kite excursion,
thus giving them an advantage over all the other
stone age bands at the time, who were forced to beat
hollow logs and break pieces of slate over their
heads. In 1040 B.C., Tommy coined the phrase
"rock music" and Fire Bad cut their first disk,
which was titled "I'm a Monkey Man!" It went on to receive two
granite albums for selling 100 copies in their
Indonesian village of Jakarta. Coincidentally, the Rolling Stones
stole
the song's basic structure and chords in the
1970's (A.D.), and Freese never received credit for writing the song.
Fire Bad eventually trailed off into obscurity,
until interest in the group stirred up in the late 1980's. Three
of
the original members reunited for a brief, albeit
successful tour of Uganda and their native Indonesia with the B-52's.
They released their highly anticipated sophomore
record, titled "Back to the Stone Age" some three thousand years later.
Unfortunately, it failed to chart on Billboard's
Hot 100, and Tom and Ed sank into a deep depression, going on hiatus for
some ten years. Now, the duo has relocated to Berks County, Pennsylvania
to form Right Turn Clyde. Still frustrated about the Rolling
Stones fiasco, they decided to perform classic cover songs from the past
50 years. Sightings have been
confirmed in Leesport, Pennsylvania.