Tommy Guerrero

Tommy Guerrero
Guerrero playing guitar on July 5, 2009.
Background information
Born	September 9, 1966(1966-09-09) San Francisco, California, USA
Genres	Latin House, Downtempo, Art rock, Alternative hip hop
Occupations	Composer, guitarist, skateboarder
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1986–present
Associated acts	Free Beer, Jet Black Crayon, Quannum Projects
Website	www.tommyguerrero.com

Tommy Guerrero (born September 9, 1966 in San Francisco) is an American skateboarder and musician. As a teen, he was one of the prominent members of the Bones Brigade, Powell Peralta's professional skateboarding team that was successful during the 1980s. He was well known for his relaxed style of street skating in his hometown of San Francisco, which was depicted in most of the Brigade's videos (Future Primitive, The Search for Animal Chin, Public Domain, and Ban This). After riding for Powell Peralta, Guerrero and Jim Thiebaud (a hometown friend and PP teammate) started the skateboarding company "Real".

After his success in the world of skateboarding, he decided to pursue his musical interests. Guerrero was a member of the skate rock band Free Beer and the experimental group Jet Black Crayon, but has had more success as a solo artist. His critically acclaimed albums, EPs, and singles combine various types of music from rock, rap, funk, soul, and jazz. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine named Guerrero's third studio album, Soul Food Taqueria (2003), #2 on its 2003 "best of list".

Guerrero also had numerous unreleased songs appear on the video game skate. by EA.

Discography

Albums

• Loose Grooves & Bastard Blues (1998)
• A Little Bit Of Somethin' (2000)
• Hoy Yen Ass'n (collaboration with former Jet Black Crayon member Gadget) (2000)
• Soul Food Taqueria (2003)
• Year of the Monkey - EP (2005)
• From The Soil To The Soul (2006)
• BLKTOP PROJECT (collaboration with Ray Barbee, Matt Rodriguez, Doug Scharin and Chuck Treece) (2007)
• Return of the Bastard (2008)
• Guerrero also compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Azuli Records' Late Night Tales / Another Late Night series in 2002, Another Late Night: Tommy Guerrero.
• Lord Newborn and The Magic Skulls (collaboration with Money Mark and Shawn Lee)(2009).
• Lifeboats & Follies (2011)

Singles

• Backintheday (1995)
• Junk Collector (2001)
• Rusty Gears Lonely Years / Organism (2001)
• Gettin' It Together (2004)

External links

• Trivial Biographical Facts
• Web Page on Beggars Group
• My Space page
• Tommy Guerrero discography at Discogs
• official Free Beer band website