Tommy Guerero

Road to Knowhere

released January 15, 2021

“As a teenage member of Powell Peralta’s legendary Bones Brigade, San Francisco’s Tommy Guerrero had a massive part in defining street skating as we know it… pioneer[ing] fast, smooth stylish skateboarding… While all this was happening, Tommy was playing guitar in Bay Area punk band Free Beer, playing with his brother and some of his heroes while featuring on countless Thrasher Skate Rock cassette compilations… Nowadays [TG] spends a lot more time on his music, usually latin-soul-jazz-folk-funk-rock instrumentalism, but occasionally- as in 2000’s ‘Hoy Yen Ass’n’ collaboration with Gadget- wandering towards downbeat hip-hop.” -Bite My Wire

TG continues to expand his horizons while upholding his Bay Area heritage. From Bones Brigade skate team in the 80’s, he has gone on to make movie appearances, design for Levi’s in Japan, Vans shoes worldwide, Sutro eyewear (among others), sign a skateboard contract with Converse, co-found Real Skateboards and 40’s Clothing and become art director for Krooked Skateboarding, along with maintaining a prolific recording and release schedule on his label Too Good, a collaboration with A Train’s Al Evers. Tommy’s concerts have packed houses across the country from the legendary Café Du Nord in SF to The Knitting Factory in N.Y.C. and continue across… more

TG // GUITAR // BASS // KEYS // DRUMS // PERCUSSION
MATT RODRIGUEZ // CONGAS // BONGOS
CHUCK TREECE // DRUMS ON “RISE OF THE EARTH PEOPLE”
RECORDED AT HOME 2019/2020
MIXED BY MONTE VALLIER
MASTERED BY MIKE WELLS
ART BY BRIAN BARNECLO
LEGAL BY AL EVERS / LABEL: TOO GOOD / DISTRO BY A TRAIN ENTERTAINMENT

FO TRAQUES ANA MUNKEY MUSIC (BMI)