23 East Show & New CD from David Uosikkinen's In The Pocket

David Uosikkinen's In The Pocket will rock the the 23 East on Friday, May 31st to celebrate the release of their new Live CD. 

From In the Pocket:

The show promises to be a rockin', non-stop celebration of Philly's finest musical moments, featuring a revolving cast of Philadelphia's most celebrated musicians.

In The Pocket at the 23 East features...

David Uosikkinen - The Hooters
Graham Alexander - Singer-songwriter / lead role in Broadway production of Rain
Richard Bush - The A's / The Peace Creeps
Steve Butler - Smash Palace
Tommy Conwell - Tommy Conwell and The Young Rumblers
Jay Davidson - Steve Winwood / Funk Brothers
Greg Davis - Beru Revue
Cliff Hillis - Singer-songwriter / Ike
John Lilley - The Hooters
Fran Smith, Jr - The Hooters
Wally Smith - Smash Palace
TJ Tindall - Bonnie Raitt / Robert Palmer / Gamble and Huff
Tommy Williams - The Hooters

Tommy Conwell Rockumentary | Links, Special Thanks

Thanks to everyone who shared images, videos, audio, stories and overall kind words and encouragement for the master's thesis capstone project, "Tommy Conwell: A Rockumentary."

DJ Caterina received an A+ from her professor, a Philly local media press mention, and walked the University of Texas-Dallas stage with a master's degree in Emerging Media and Communications on May 19, 2012.

= Thesis Capstone Videos =

May 1 – Introduction

May 2 – Beginnings

May 7 – Signing Tommy’s Guitar

June 15 – Performance, Part I

June 20 – Performance, Part II

| DJ CATERINA WOULD LIKE TO THANK | 

• My friends and family (and boyfriend!) for their patience; listening to countless hours of Tommy Conwell’s music in my home and in my car and hearing me talk about the project for over a year. 
• Nora Kelly (Executive Editor, The Review, University of Delaware, Class of 2012) for a copy of the Young Rumblers' first concert review from the 1984 school newspaper.
• University of Delaware's college radio station 91.3 FM WVUD for donating  tracks from their audio archives.
• Dallyn Pavey with In the Pocket.
• Dan Kropp, for his major assistance in my research — he knows what he did!
• Joe Reynolds and Chris Tamase for their encouragement, enthusiasm — and tapes!
• Marc Pelletier for his encouragement and creating the original and now-defunct (but still the best!) Tommy Conwell tribute web page.
• Mike Vanduser for The Zippers archival images and music video, "Evolution." (And Timothy Gager for more cool Zippers' images.)
• John Hennessy for his permission to use one of his classic early 1990s-era Tommy Conwell videos from Walsh's - some of my favorite videos ever.
• The YouTube community.
• Johnny Z for his assistance at the New Hope In the Pocket gig.
• Creative professional Carol Welker for the Audio Rumble logo.
• The music scene in the 1980s, Wilmington, Delaware on Facebook for posting the vintage Rockett 88 video.

This rockumentary is dedicated to the late Sandy Kinden and anyone who ever traveled to see their favorite Philadelphia-Delaware-New Jersey bands up and down the east coast in the 80s and 90s.  

Thank you, Tommy!

tommyconwellstore.com

Local TV Promotion - 1987 Spectrum

Promotional video of Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers aired before concert featured on local Philadelphia TV in 1987 at the Spectrum. Interviews with local Philly DJ Joe Bonadonna and Tommy Conwell. And there's even footage of The Hooters singing Day by Day!