* EVEN MORE SITE UPDATES:-)

Several old pages have been deleted or modified and several new ones have been added.
The old guestbook stopped working for some strange reason but a new and better one has been added today so please feel free to give us your feedback again.

The links page has been removed completely because we feel that people "Google" their way to any page they're looking for and it takes too much time to try and keep links updated.

Solo and band albums has been changed to albums & projects so we can include many more of the various projects where Tommy is more involved than his regular session work, it makes it easier for us to do bigger profiles on certain cool albums and projects.

Media is now audio & media where we will soon put up a huge mp3 section with samples and full songs from all of the most important albums Tommy has been involved in.
A huge update of reviews and interviews will be added to it as well.

A cool new page is songwriting where you get information on all songs Tommy has written for albums, singles, movies, jingles, CD-rom's etc, this page will for obvious reasons be updated quite often since Tommy is one of the most hired song writers in the world these days!.

* MORE SITE UPDATES

The site is going through lots of interesting changes right now.
The front has been changed with a new logo and cool picture from Tommy's recent photo session with Michael Johansson.
A new feature is added under pictures, if you click on promotion you can find all the latest promotion pictures of Tommy.
This page is mainly for all types of media work where journalists can download pictures.

Also under pictures you can find a big update on the "scrapbook" of stars with Tommy.

* JILL JOHNSON STILL CLIMBING



Jill's single "Baby You're Mine" climbed 1 step to number 4 in it's second week on Svensktoppen and the song is the most played on Swedish radio at the moment.

* SITE UPDATE

Welcome to a new and fresh look!!!
We've started to make some major updates on cool pages here on the site including the frontpage.
First up is a big update on Tommy's discography with lots of new albums, singles, videos and DVD's and second is something many have emailed about, a full information page about all 3 Radioactive albums with (for the first time) info about who performed on each song etc so check it out.

Many other pages will be updated in the coming weeks so stay tuned.

* UPDATE

Things are really going well for Tommy's 2 hits in Sweden right now.
He is also busy finishing production and mixing on the new AOR album as well as the great Frederiksen - Denander album for Frontiers.
We will have mp3 samples of the new Radioactive album very soon also as well as new promo pictures taken by Michael Johansson.
There's a lot of session work coming but mostly this fall will be spent writing in Sweden and USA.


* JILL JOHNSON



Jill's song was the only newcomer on "Svensktoppen" last sunday beating out several of the biggest artists in Sweden.

1 Du är min man - Benny Anderssons Ork. med Helen Sjöholm
2 Gabriellas sång - Helen Sjöholm & Stefan Nilsson
3 Alldeles lagom - Peps Blodsband
4 Håll om mig - Nanne Grönvall
5 Baby you re mine - Jill Johnson
6 Open door - Bodies Without Organs
7 Håll mitt hjärta - Björn Skifs
8 Satellites - September
9 De vackraste orden - Cajsa Stina Åkerström
10 När jag längtar - Eva Dahlgren

The song is still on A rotation on all radio stations in Sweden and she's performing it often on the big TV shows.

* FRONDA Featuring STEPHEN SIMMONDS



Fronda featuring Stephen Simmonds video is being shown atleast 10 times a week on ZTV and will soon start airing on MTV.
It's also doing really good on the radio and the charts.

* LOCOMOTIVE BREATH - NEW CD



Tommy is doing a guest solo for the 3rd time on his buddy Janne Stark's band Locomotive Breath new album.
Their album is called Change Of Track and features other guests like Hank Shermann (FORCE OF EVIL, MERCYFUL FATE, FATE etc), Mattias Ia Eklundh (FREAK KITCHEN), Lars Eric Mattsson (MATTSSON), Per Karlsson (UNCHAINED), David Blomé (UNCHAINED) and Boner (THE BONES).
It's the bands first release on Lion Music and it will be released on October 21th.

* SEPTEMBER UPDATE

Another month and of course time for an update....filled with cool news we can promise!!!

RADIOACTIVE - Taken + DVD



The time has finally come to reveal all the information about Tommy's new Radioactive masterpiece called "Taken".
It won't disappoint any fan of high quality melodic rock and as before it features some big name guests alongside Tommy -

Jeff Porcaro (Toto), Steve Porcaro (Toto), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Fergie Frederiksen (Toto), Steve Lukather (Toto), Neal Schon (Journey), Vinnie Colaiuta (Sting), John "jr" Robinson (Quincy Jones), Andreas Carlsson (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard), Greg Phillinganes (Eric Clapton, Toto), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Yngwie J Malmsteen, Steve George (Mr Mister), Gary Barden (MSG), Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger), Jim Peterik (Survivor), Philip Bardowell (Unruly Child), Robin Beck, James Christian (House Of Lords), Michael Landau (Richard Marx, Chicago), Dean Parks (James Bond theme, David Foster), Michael Thompson (Shania Twain, Faith Hill), Bruce Gaitsch (Madonna, Peter Cetera), Abe Laboriel (Pages, Michael Jackson), Tom Keane (Chicago), Tom Saviano (Peter Criss, Earth Wind & Fire, Ray Charles), David Diggs (The Brother Johnson), Vinny Heter (Fergie Frederiksen), Hussain Jiffry (Michael Bolton), Michael Voss (Silver), Thomas Vikström (Talk Of The Town), Johan Fahlberg (Jaded Heart), Mikael Erlandsson (Last Autumn's Dream), Chris Catena, Peter Friestadt (LA Project) and Frederic Slama (AOR)

"Tommy has this to say about the album:...This album has been a pure labor of love for me and it took a long time to make...i know that words will never be enough for me to thank all the wonderful people involved...the fantastic singers and musicians plus the brilliant Andre Beckston who has created a stunning piece of artwork for the whole album!.
In 1991 i recorded 10 songs with Toto and on the last day with Jeff and Mike Porcaro i had 4 hours left, Jeff asked me what i wanted to do and we ended up doing some percussion on 4-5 songs but even after that we had time left so i asked Jeff if we could give a song idea i had a try and he agreed.
We spent about an hour on it but it didn't feel totally right so we only recorded a quick version with guitar and drums...it wasn't even a complete version of the song.
Years later i transered the analog tapes to Pro Tools including this little idea that has remained unused so far but while working on this album i got the idea to mix his drums and then cut them in Pro Tools into a complete song and then write a new song to the drums....the song became one of the best i've written - Stronger Than Yesterday:
I had a lot of unused samples from Greg Phillinganes and Dean Parks from the first Radioactive album that i managed to fit into the song as well and then i started working my old friend Andreas Carlsson again this year....Andreas is well known for his huge hits with Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Celine Dion, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard etc and in february i did guitars for Paul Stanley's new solo album that Andreas is writing and producing.
Andreas is a huge Toto fan but i was really happy when he agreed to sing this song for me...and what a great voice he's got.
I then sent an e mail to Steve Porcaro asking if he would play a quick little thing on the track since it's Jeff playing and he ended up blowing my mind totally by doing a complete old school Toto arrangement with 7 different keyboard parts including horns, strings, Hammonds etc.....and this is just the magic of ONE song from this album.....each song has it's own cool story."

The album will be released in a regular version, but also as a strictly limited edition featuring a 12 minute bonus preview DVD with interviews and studio recordings plus cool private films of the musicians from the forthcoming documentary DVD "The making of Radioactive".

This DVD is an 2 hour documentary about how Tommy recorded his now classic first Radioactive album "Ceremony Of Innocence" and it features interviews, in studio and private film clips with Jeff Porcaro, Mike Porcaro, Steve Porcaro, David Paich, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Fergie Frederiksen, Fee Waybill, Michael Thompson, Dean Parks, Bruce Gaitsch, Abe Laboriel, Neil Stubenhaus, Vince DiCola, Greg Phillinganes, Randy Goodrum, Dave Boruff and many more.

AMBITION


JON SMITH & THOM GRIFFIN

The studio project featuring the return of the long lost former Trillion vocalist Thom Griffin has been finally completed!
The final tracklisting for the Ambition album shall include the following songs:
Hold On (also included on the forthcoming sampler CD Rock The Bones Vol. III), Hypocrites; Alone I Cry; Shaping Fate And Destiny; All I Need; Make It Alright; No Wasted Moments; Together; Too Much; Hunger; The Promise; Waiting In My Dreams (bonus track Europe).
Tommy Denander was added at the last minute to the recording and offered his unmistakable guitar skills to this great recording, which is set to please all the fans of Toto, Mr. Mister and Mecca.
Release is scheduled for January 2006.

STAN BUSH

Stan Bush has started working on the follow-up album to the successful Shine, released on Frontiers in June 2004. According to Stan the new stuff is killer and he is very excited to start up again the work under the direction of producer Tommy Denander . The recording is set to take place during the fall 05 for a release tentatively scheduled for summer 2006.

ROCK YOUR BONES - Volume 3




Frontiers Records will release their new mid-price compilation album Rock The Bones Volume 3 on October 10 and Tommy is involved in 2songs on it.

The confirmed tracklisting is as follows:
CD1: Styx I Am The Walrus; Soul Sirkus New Position; Wetton / Downes Paradow / Let Me Go; Harem Scarem Afterglow; Royal Hunt Paper Blood; Brazen Abbot My Resurrection; Circus Maximus Alive; Starbreaker Lies; Hartmann Out In The Cold; Lana Lane Someone To Believe; Robin Beck Do You Miss Me; Glenn Hughes Soul Mover; Joe Lynn Turner Power Of Love; Enuff Z Nuff Gorgeous; Final Frontier High Tension Wire.

CD2: Journey The Place In Your Heart; Sruvivor Fire Makes Steel; The Mob One Track Mind; Allen / Lande Another Battle (Edit); Steve Walsh Shadowman; Blanc Faces Edge Of The World; Forty Deuce Complicated; Terra Nova Rock Bottom; Xcarnation Everlasting; Place Vendome Cross The Line; Jaded Heart Tomorrow Comes; Alien Oh Sarah; Bruce Turgon Any Other Time; Philip Bardowell It's A Long Road; Frederiksen / Denander Written In Stone; Khymera Alone.

CD2 - Track 15 - Frederiksen / Denander - Written In Stone (demo) (Tommy Denander, Fergie Frederiksen, Ricky Phillips) - Taken from the forthcoming album “TBA”
Fergie Frederiksen is one of the most accomplished vocal talents in melodic rock. His recordings with Trillion, Leroux, Toto and more recently Mecca have left an indelible mark in melodic rock! Teaming up with Swedish producer and guitarist Tommy Denander , and “with a little help from his friends” Ricky Phillips (Styx) and Jim Peterik (Pride Of Lions, Survivor), Fergie offers another brilliant chapter of his long career.

JILL JOHNSON



Jill's new single "Baby You're Mine", written by Tommy is already a big hit in Sweden with massive airplay and we will put up an MP3 sample of it soon.

FRONDA featuring STEPHEN SIMMONDS

The same is happening for Fronda's new single "Du Betyder Ingenting" that's also written by Tommy, It's a huge hit on radio on since last money it's on powerplay rotation on ZTV and will soon start showing on MTV.



Go HERE to see the video!!!

* UPDATE

Another small update but hang in there cause in a couple of weeks you will get a major update with everything cool that's been going on this summer including the full scoop on the new Radioactive album, various session work and some very interesting song writing!!!
A couple of really cool things are happening right now though that we're eager to tell you about.


JILL JOHNSON



Next week major Swedish artist Jill Johnson is releasing Tommy's song "Baby Be Mine" as her next single, the song is already becoming a hit on radio and is expected to be a huge hit for her this fall.
It's on A rotation on most radio stations in Sweden and she will perform it on various TV shows.

FRONDA featuring STEPHEN SIMMONDS

Fronda is one of the biggest and most talented rappers in Sweden, Tommy, Fronda and swedish R&B star Stephen Simmonds has written the song "Du Betyder Ingenting" that last week was released as Fronda's new single.
It's already added on Cityradion's Powerplay list meaning that it's being played once every hour for a week and after that it will be added on A rotation on all other radio stations in Sweden where it will remain for atleast 5 weeks so this looks like it will be Tommy's second hit at the moment in Sweden!.



A really good video has been shot as well by the amazing Baranga Film team (The Rasmus), the video was filmed by Erik Maddison who among many other things did the swedish movie "Rånarna".
Go to HERE to see the video!!!
Fronda is also releasing a special DVD singel of the song.


RADIOACTIVE "Taken" COVER

Here's a first taste of the new Radioactive album for ya!!!.....the cover for "Taken" done by the amazing Andre Beckston (TNT).


MTM ROCK BALLADS VOL 6

MTM has just released information about their next Rock Ballads compilation and this will be the first taste of the new Radioactive album with the great ballad "This I Promise You", sung by Mikael Erlandsson.
The compilation is released on October 17th

Here is the tracklist:
01. TNT - What A Wonderful World (forthcoming album "All The Way From The Sun");
02. Radioactive - This I Promise You (Forthcoming Album "Taken");
03. Jay Miles - Grandpa's Chair (Recent Album "9 Hours");
04. Chris Antblad - I'll Find My Way (Previously Unreleased);
05. Shy - I'll Be Home Tonight (Recent Album "Sunset And Vine");
06. Silver - Wouldn't You Agree (Recent Album "Gold");
07. Dare - Storm Wind (Recent Album "Beneath The Shining Water");
08. Stryper - Wait For You (Recent Album "Reborn");
09. Martie Peters Group - Takes Some Time (Recent Album "Martie Peters Group");
10. Heartplay - Bridges Burning (Recent Album "Where The Deadends Meet");
11. Return - Holy Water (Recent Album "Return");
12. Northern Light - Wherever You Go (Recent Album "Northern Light");
13. Edge Of Forever - A Deep Emotion (Recent Album "Let The Demon Rock 'N' Roll");
14. Novak - Carry On (Recent Album "Forever Endeavour");
15. Broken Blue - This Time (Recent Album "The Waiting");
16. Peo - Can't Bring Me Down (Recent Album "Look What I've Started").

PHILIP BARDOWELL MP3 SAMPLES

Philip's album that Tommy produced is getting amazing reviews and if you're interested in hearing what it sounds like just click HERE

Next week Tommy and Cecilia will be on a well deserved vacation in Spain together with Tommy's long time friend Sayit and his girlfriend, but stay tuned for a major update soon.

* SMALL UPDATE

Summer time and updates are far between....but soon things will go back to frequent news so hang in there!.
Tommy's been working most of the summer (what else:-) finishing several projects as well as writing and playing on lot's of albums.
A few cool one's are soon being released including -

SILVER - Gold (September 26)
"From MTM"
For fans of the European style of classic melodic hard rock, this album has a lot to offer: a strong feel for melodies combined with perfect musicality of top-notch artists. Outstanding songs to be mentioned are the rockin' song Creep, All That I Wanted as well as the David Bowie cover China Girl. On board again is guitar-wiz Tommy Denander of Radioactive.
Line-Up: Gary Barden - lead vocals (ex-MSG, Statetrooper, Praying Mantis); Michael Voss - guitars, bass, backing vocals (Demon Drive, Casanova, Mad Max, Ex-Bonfire); Andi Broon - additional keys; Tommy Denander - lead guitars on 'All That I Wanted', 'Joshua', 'Daydream Believers' (Radioactive); Mike Bar - sequencing, programming, spezial fx & power editing (ex-Sisters Of Mercy); Michaela Schober - backing vocals.

BALANCE II (August 15)
The CD features guitarist/keyboardist Brian Moritz, drummer Rod Morgenstein, bassist Dave LaRue, backing vocals by Thom Griffin, newest members Vince Claps on lead vocals, and Joel Kaplan on keyboards. Tommy appears on a cameo where he and Brian swap solos on a prog-rock cut The Way We Do.
The guys mix their own unique style with parts of Mecca, Toto, Chicago, Yes, Queen and The Eagles!



JADED HEART - Helluva Time (October 10)
The album has been completed under the assistance of co-producer Chris Lausmann (ex-BONFIRE) and is the first one featuring the splendid new singer Johan Fahlberg (ex-SCUDIERO) on the mike.
Tommy is playing guitars on 1 song on this great release.


RADIOACTIVE - Taken (Late October)
The album will be completed in the next 2 weeks and the line up is one of the most impressive people have seen in a long time!!!
A full update on the album will be presented here shortly with artwork, guests etc....including the long awaited news on the Radioactive DVD!!!.


SPEEDY GONZALES - Electric Stalker (October-November)
This incredible melodic metal album is completed and will be out late this year.
Imagine a mix of Judas Priest, Accept and Kiss!.
The band is Thomas Vikström (vocals), Tommy (guitars & keyboards), Marcel Jacob (bass) and Daniel Flores (drums).

* JUNE UPDATE

Finally an update!!! huh:-)...we'd like to give a special thanks to all you fans for mailing us requesting updates on Tommy's work, we will try to please you with more frequent updates but it's summer and we might be outside eating ice cream for a change:-).

* ALBUM UPDATE
Tommy's been very busy with album work in the last couple of months and several albums are done and ready for release, here's some of the bigger one's coming soon.

PHILIP BARDOWELL - In The Cut



If you're a fan of classic AOR like Journey, Survivor, Foreigner and Toto this is the album to get NOW!!!:
Tommy produced this fantastic singer's new solo album and played guitars and keyboards together with Daniel Flores (Mind's Eye, Xsavior) on drums and Al V Dohn on bass.
Tommy also co wrote the title track with Philip.
Philip is best known for his role as lead vocalist in Unruly Child, he was also part of the band Magdalen together with former House of Lords members Chuck Wright, Lanny Cordola and Ken Mary. His voice has often been compared to such masters as Lou Gramm (Foreigner) and Mark Free.
The worldwide release is scheduled for September 19 on Frontiers Records with Japanese release including a bonus track on King Records.

SILVER - Gold

Tommy recently recorded a guest solo for his 3rd Silver album following the albums Intruder (2003) and Addictions (2004).
The band is fronted by Gary Barden (ex MSG) and Michael Voss (Demon Drive, Bonfire) and the album will be released by MTM after the summer.

LIBERTY & JUSTICE - Soundtrack of a soul



Tommy is featured on 2 songs on this all star album, "King's of Hollywood" and "Killer Grin".
Killer Grin features Stephen Pearcy on lead vocals, Pearcy was the voice behind the multi-platinum selling rock group Ratt.
The album also feature Tim Gaines (Stryper), Jack Frost (Seven Witches/Savatage). Oni Logan (Lynch Mob), Ted Poley (Danger Danger), Phil Naro (Talas), Jamie Rowe (Guardian/Adriangale), Dale Thompson (Bride), Scott Wenzel (White Cross), Leif Garrett (70's Teen Idol), Josh Kramer (Saint), Ez Gomer (Jet Circus) and Russell Arcara (Surgin/Prophet/Arcara).
Go to: www.libertynjustice.net for more details.

SPEEDY GONZLAES - s/t


THOMAS AND TOMMY WITH SPEEDY IN 1990

Finally the long awaited album from Tommy's old band Speedy Gonzales is ready!!!
This will rock like few albums you've heard lately, it's heavy metal with strong melodies performed by some of the best guys you'll find in the biz, Marcel Jacob (Yngwie, Talisman) on bass, Thomas Vikström (Talk Of The Town, Candlemass) on vocals, Daniel Flores (Mind's Eye, Xsavior) on drums and of course Tommy himself on guitars and keyboards.
The album will be out this fall through AOR Heaven and the band is already planning to record a follow up.

* RADIOACTIVE - Taken

The album will be finished early July for a September release through MTM, it will also be out with a bonus track in Japan.
A full update on songs and the amazing list of guest stars will be up here shortly.

* RADIOACTIVE - making of Radioactive DVD

The DVD is also in the final stages and will be finished during August for a fall release....it will be worth the long wait!!!


* JADED HEART


JADED HEART AND TOMMY IN SWEDEN

Tommy did a cool guest solo on the soon to be released new album by great German hard rock band Jaded Heart.

* BALANCE II

This project from Brian Moritz features some very cool players like Dave LaRue and Rod Morgenstein from The Dregs, Tommy did some wacky solos on the song "The way we do".
Featured players are Brian Moritz, Vince Claps, Dave LaRue, Rod Morgenstein, Joel Kaplan, Thom Griffin and Stan Cotey.
www.balanceweb.com



* SCHYTTS - En dag en natt med dig



This is one of the most famous mature dance bands in Sweden and the second single in a row to feature Tommy on guitars.
The song is number one on most dance band charts and the band has performed it play back with Tommy's guitars on TV.

POPPÄRLOR - 05

Jill Johnson performed Tommy's song "Baby, you're mine" on the program "Sommarkrysset" on national TV in Sweden last friday together with a 20 piece band and it sounded great.
The song is scheduled as her next single after the summer and show great potential to become a big hit here.

* ESP LIVE


TOMMY AND ERIC SINGER LIVE IN STOCKHOLM

Here's another cool picture of Tommy playing with ESP (Eric Singer Project) live in Stockholm.
Thanks to Thompe Tillberg for the picture.

* UPDATE

Hello and welcome to an update, Tommy has been busy as always but this time with more than music.
A month ago he and his girlfriend Cecilia and her 2 wonderful kids Olivia and William moved back to Stockholm from Västerås where they've live for the last 18 months.
Tommy is building a new studio in the heart of Stockholm, see studio for a list of the great gear.
He's of course been busy with lots of music as well, both live and in the studios and last week he recived a new gold record so enjoy the update.

* PLAYING LIVE WITH ERIC SINGER PROJECT



On April 27th Tommy guested live with his buddy Bruce Kulick and the Eric Singer Project (ESP) also featuring John Corabi from Mötley Crue.
It's no secret that Tommy's been a huge KISS fan all of his life so the recent period with playing on Paul Stanley's new album in Los Angeles and now playing live with Bruce and Eric has been incredible for him.
The band sounded great and Tommy guested on the old Deep Purple classic "Smoke On The Water"


Tommy and Bruce Kulick live
(© fans of the Kiss army Sweden forum)

* RIVERA ENDORSEMENT AND CLINIC

Tommy has been a close friend with guitar amp legend Paul Rivera for 20 years now, he endorsed their amps for years.
Paul visited Sweden last monday and the 2 hooked up for a clinic at Estrad music store in Stockholm to promote the new line of absolutely amazing Rivera amps (www.rivera.com).
Tommy says that the new Knucklehead top is the best amp he's heard in his whole life, from the sparkling clean (Channel 1) to the vintage class (channel 2) and to the rawest punch of the modern bands (channel 3) this amp has it all.


Paul Rivera and Tommy at Estrad

* YAMAHA AND RIVERA ENDORSMENTS


Tommy with his Rivera Knucklehead and Yamaha

"It feels like a match made in heaven" Tommy says.
He is now playing Yamaha guitars and Rivera amps, the plan is to go on a clinic tour around the big music stores in Sweden soon to do clinics for the 2 great companies so stay tuned for more details soon.

Special thanks to Thomas at Standard Audio and Thomas at Yamaha Scandinavia.

* ANOTHER GOLD RECORD FOR TOMMY



Tommy recived a new gold record last week, this time for the new Jill Johnson album "Being who you are" where he wrote the song "Baby, you're mine".
Jill is one of the biggest and most popular artists in Sweden and she will soon start a tour through the country.

* NEW ALBUMS + SESSIONS FEATURING TOMMY

There's a lot of new albums and session work featuring Tommy and we will give you a full update soon including Westlife, Jet Circus, Soundtrack Of Soul, Jaded Heart, Balance II etc....

* HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMMY!!!



Tommy celebrated his 37th birthday on March 10th!!!!

* EUROVISION CONTEST IN NORWAY

Jorun Erdal performing "I am rock 'n roll"

For the 4th time in 3 years Tommy competed in the Eurovision contest!.
This time in Norway with the song "I am rock 'n roll" that he wrote with Claes Andreasson and Torbjörn Wassenius.
They came in 2nd place and were really close to winning the whole thing!!!.


Tommy with winners Wig Wam, Jahn Teigen and Bobbysocks.


* NEW ALBUM RELEASES

There's several new album releases featuring Tommy out now or will be coming in a few days....



Melodi Grand Prix 2005 Norway
A compilation CD+DVD with all 8 finalists will be released on March 16th.




Jill Johnson "Being Who You Are"
This fantastic Swedish singer has recorded Tommy's song "Baby, be mine" and the album will be released on March 23rd.



Christina Lindberg "Tills Vägen Tar Slut"
Tommy plays guitars on the song "If You", the album is out now and climbing the charts in Sweden.



Sha-Boom "The Race Is On"
This really good album will be out on March 16th.
Tommy produced it, wrote 10 songs and plays guitars plus keyboards.
The first single, co-written by Tommy is called "My Home Town" and is doing great on radio right now.



Novak"Forever Endeavour"
Tommy plays guitar on several tracks on this great AOR album, it will be released tomorrow March 14th.



Heartbreak Radio "s/t"
Tommy plays guitar on several tracks here as well and it will also be released tomorrow March 14th.

* FEBRUARY UPDATE

BACK FROM LOS ANGELES!

Here the full update from Tommy himself...

Tommy with Hollywood sign behind him

What an incredible trip this has been, me and Cecilia got back late last night after 3 wonderful weeks in LA.
I used to live in LA but i haven't been there for 13 years!...i was very ill for 10 years and honestly never thought that i would get the chance to see it again.
When i went there in 1991 to record my Radioactive album with the Toto guys i thought nothing could ever top this in my life...but i was wrong!.


Fergie and Tommy on Ventura pier + Fergie and Cecilia in Malibu

The main reason for the trip was of course to produce the vocals with Fergie Frederiksen (Toto) for our new Frederiksen-Denander album and that went great.


Ventura

We did the first days of recording out in Ventura, about an hours drive from LA at David Coyle's place (thanks again mate).
David is the guitarist for World Classic Rockers that Fergie sings with together with members of The Eagles, Journey, Steppenwolf and Lynyrd Skynyrd among others.
Out there we also met briefly with Nick St.Nicholas from Steppenwolf, remember the song "Born To Be Wild"?.


Fergie working in Ventura

Fergie did a great job singing and we got 6 songs done in a few short days.

We did 3 more songs at Ricky Phillips (Bad English, Page/Coverdale, Styx) place and that was a blast as well.
Ricky is such a nice guy and he helped co-produce Fergie's vocals on those tracks, he also did a great job helping us with melodies and lyrics.

Tommy - Ricky Phillips - Fergie

This album is gonna be a killer i can promise you, it also features Ron Wikso (Foreigner) and Kelly Keagy (Night Ranger) on drums, Michael Thompson, Bruce Gaitsch and Bruce Kulick on guitars plus a few other cool guests.

One of the funniest nights i had was meeting up with my good friend Bobby Kimball (Toto) and the incredible Greg Phillinganes (Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton) to play bowling!!!.
Greg's sister was holding a benefit bowling tournament to raise money for Lupus at the Corbin Bowling alley in Tarzana.
I knew little about the event on the way there and all of a sudden found myself being picked with Bobby and Greg to play in their team!!!.


Greg Phillinganes - Tommy - Bobby Kimball

The whole event was covered by a couple of TV stations and David Paich (Toto) showed up to give support, he looked great and it was fun seeing him for the first time in 13 years for me.


Cecilia - Bobby - Greg's sister - Jasmine

We played against a guy from the LA Lakers and his nice girlfriend plus Bobby's wonderful girlfriend Jasmine.....we totally smoked them in 2 rounds though HAHA.

I even got a nice prize for it!!! .

I've known the very talented Andreas Carlsson (Britney Spears, Bacstreet Boys, NSync, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard) for many years and he is living in LA now so we decided to get together and do some work and boy did this turn out to be the greatest stuff in my life!!!.


Tommy - Andreas Carlsson - Harry

Andreas and the legendary Desmond Child who among other things co-wrote classic songs like "I was made for loving you", "Heaven's on fire", "Living on a prayer", "How can we be lovers", Dude looks like a lady" to name a few have their office and temporary studio in a penthouse on Sunset blvd.


Tommy - Desmond Child

The first thing i played on was for a new cool band called The Click but then i got to do the best session of my life....for Paul Stanley's (KISS) new solo album!!!.
Having been the biggest Kiss fan you can be for all my life this was unreal, i started to play because i saw a Kiss poster in 1975!.
I got to play on 2 songs and they both sounded really good so this will no doubt be a fantastic album.


Paul Stanley

I also did a few other songs for Andreas and Desmond for various artists they're working with and it's been the coolest time ever working with them.

Also their engineer and often co-producer Jules plus the talented Swede Harry who also produces and writes for them was involved and we had some fun days.

I also hooked Andreas up with my old buddy Steve Lukather from Toto and the 3 of us wrote a really cool song together.
Luke played piano, Andreas played acoustic guitar and i played electric guitar, they're both such great singers and it was a pure treat hearing them harmonize their ideas.


Andreas, Luke & Tommy

Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys stopped by to say hello while we worked and i've been promised to play on their new album as well which would be a lot of fun of course...and on my way out on Sunset i bumped into none other than David Coverdale (Whitesnake) so it was a pretty cool day!:-)


Dave Weiderman, a blonde:-) & Tommy + the amazing Les Paul

Another dear friend from the past is Dave Weiderman who is head of artists relations at Guitar Center in Hollywood.
I've known him for 18 years now and he's the guy in charge of the famous Rockwalk handprints outside their store.
I needed a really good guitar for some of the sessions and he kindly lent me this incredible 10 000 dollar+ Gibson Les Paul from his private collection, it's a custom shop signed by mr Les Paul himself...Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) and a few others have used it as well on albums and it sounded like a million bucks!!!.
Dave also let me play the Fender Strat he'd just been given by Jeff Beck, the actual one from the cover of Jeff's album Guitar Shop!!!.

Cecilia & Tommy on Rodeo Drive

Me and Cecilia took every free day we could find to being tourists and big time shoppers!.
We walked around Hollywood, Sunset, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and other places for hours and had such a fun time, she asked me before we left if you really see any stars in LA....well here's a list of some we saw -
Julia Roberts, Sharon Osbourne, Donald Sutherland, Neal Schon, Kelsay Grammer, Jack Wagner, Billy Joel, Selma Blair, Nils Lofgren, Jamie Lynn (The Sopranos), Howard Stern, Billy Gibbons and Samuel L Jackson!!!

Tommy & Jamie Lynn

One of my favorites was meeting Jamie Lynn from my favorite TV show the Sopranos at The Beverly Center, she was so nice and really liked the fact that she had fans in Sweden:-).

One night i wanted Cecilia to see something funny and typical amercian so i took her to The Improv, a famous stand up comedy club where lots of legends like Jim Carrey, Jeey Seinfeld, Billy Crystal and Jay Leno have performed.


Jim Gaffigan at The Improv and on Late Nite with David Letterman

We saw one of my favorites Jim Gaffigan who's known from Sex and the city plus he is often seen on David Letterman and Jay Leno.


Over the years since i was last in LA i've made quite a few new friends who live there but that i've never met so getting the chance to finally meet one of my favorite persons and guitarists Michael Thompson was a lot of fun.


Tommy & Michael Thompson

We spent some quality time at his home jamming in his studio and also filming a little interview for my Radioactive DVD.
Michael is one of the nicest guys i know and when i needed to borrow a few guitars for the sessions that came up he pretty much let me have anything i needed from his private equipment!!!.
I ended up using a couple of his electric guitars first and a few days later borrowed his great Barritone that he's used on quite a few hit records.

I also met my best friend Karl Meyer from when i lived in LA (1987-90), back then he was just another rock star wannabe guitarist with little money and big dreams HAHA.
Last time i saw him was in 1992 and since then he's become a real big shot s in the Hollywood movie industry!!.
He started his own company called Gentle Giant Studios and he's worked with people like George Lucas, Steve Spielberg, Tom Hank, Jim Carrey...and so on!!!!!
He's worked on movies like all 3 Lord of the rings, Spiderman, Matrix, Star Wars etc and it was so nice to finally hook up again.
It felt just like old times except we're older and in a better spot in life.

LA is such a cool city cause there's something big going on everywhere all the time.
We went back to Sweden on the 26th, the day before the Oscars so unfortunately we missed the chance of "stalking" the stars on the red carpet but we did get to walk on it at least the day before the big show:-).



One day i was out walking in Hollywood with Cecilia and we just happend to walk by S.I.R, a famous place to rent music equipment and rehearshal space.
I just wanted to stick my head in for 5 seconds to see what the place was like so Cecilia waited for me on the street.
The first guy i ran into was Bruce Kulick (KISS) who i've done a few albums with so we started talking and he tells me that the place is filled with fun stuff right now cause they have this 5 day Rock 'n roll fantasy camp going on.
We go out and get Cecilia and he brings us into the show room where an all star team of Nils Lofgren (Bruce Springsteen), Kelly Keagy and Jack Blades (Night Ranger), Roger Daltery (The Who), Elliot Easton (The Cars) and a few others are about to start playing!!!.
Dicky Betts (The Allman Brothers) and Jim Keltner (drum legend) and other big names had been there as well.
I've been working with Kelly Keagy on his album for a while but we've never met so that was a nice surprise for both of us.
I wanted a picture of me and Bruce so i asked a guy who came walking if he would help us out and Bruce said, "you actually want him to be in the picture i think cause this is Simon Kirke, drummer for legendary rock band Bad Company!....so of course he is in the picture:-).


Simon Kirke, Bruce Kulic and Tommy at S.I.R

Bruce and i got a long really well and decided to get together a few days later to write and that turned out really good so we're gonna keep writing and working together on more stuff which i really look forward to.
I'll be seeing him and Eric Singer in Sweden in the end of April when they play in Stockholm with ESP..don't miss it.
We've had the time of our lifes on this trip and due to many interesting offers i will be going back to LA quite a bit from now on to write, produce and do sessions.

Tommy

* UPDATES

UPCOMING ALBUMS

There's several albums featuring Tommy to be released soon -



SHA-BOOM - The Race Is On
The new Sha-Boom album "The Race Is On" is ready for release on the 9th of March.
The album is produced by Tommy and singer Dag Finn and they also wrote 9 songs together with Peo Thyren (Noice, Easy Action).
The first single is "My home town" and it's already a hit on Swedish radio getting B-rotation on most stations.
The TV ads will start running on March 7th.
The album features cool guests like Kee Marcello (Europe/K2), Marcel Jacobs (Talisman), John Leven (Europe), Ian Haugland (Europe), Steinar Hagen (Return), Sayit, Thomas Vikström (Talk Of The Town/Candelmass) and many more...
You can prewiew tracks at - www.sha-boom.nu, www.aormusic.com - rockofnorway.no

NOVAK & HEARTBREAK RADIO



NOVAK "Forever Endeavour" and HEARTBREAK RADIO "st" are 2 cool AOR albums with Tommy on guitars and they will both be released on March 14th.


* TOMMY COMPETES IN EUROVISION ON SATURDAY



Don't miss Tommy on TV in Norway on Saturday when Jorun Erdal competes with the song "I am rock 'n roll" that Tommy wrote with Claes Andreasson and Torbjörn Wassenius.
One of the biggest news papers in Norway "VG" gave the song 5 out of 5 today!.


* UNITED DVD UPDATE



It's ready and the release date is now set for 18th of March.
We're sorry for the delay but feel very happy about the product and think everybody will be pleased.

* DVD UPDATE

Tommy has been extremely busy in the last month, mostly with the making of the UNITED DVD.
Here's a picture of the beautiful cover made by Gerhard Malmberg (Malmberg Media) who's also the man who put the whole DVD together.

The DVD is basically finished, just a few last details are being done in the coming days and it will go to print in the end of the week.
It's pre ordered in more than 10 000 copies in Sweden alone which means it will be rewarded with a Gold DVD, hopefully it will pass the 20 000 mark and get platinum cause the amount of money raised will be amazing.
A full update on all the new names involved plus release date etc will come this week.

* TOMMY COMPETES IN THE EUROVISION CONTEST AGAIN!

For the 3rd year in a row Tommy will compete with one of his songs in the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2003 he placed a song in Sweden, 2004 in Finland plus he played on the song that came second in Norway and this year the song "I am rock n roll" that he co wrote with Claes Andreasson and Torbjörn Wassenius from Sunday Music was picked in Norway...that makes 3 years in a row in 3 different countries!!!.
On March 5th you can watch Tommy on TV in Norway.

* YAMAHA SIGNS TOMMY

Tommy has signed a new and very promising endorsment deal with Yamaha for guitars, amps and effects.
More about this plsu pictures soon.

* LOS ANGELES

In a week Tommy will leave for Los Angeles where he'll be working with several of the Toto guys on various projects during 3 weeks.
This will be an incredible trip so stay tuned for the full update with pictures and all in a month.

* SWEDISH HARDROCK AID DVD

A few years ago Tommy and Björne Lindbom (Prisoner) wrote and recorded a song for the 9/11 attacks.
The song featured more than 150 of the biggest names in Swedish hardrock including Europe, Yngwie Malmsteen, Mikkey Dee, Hammerfall, Pain and Candlemass.
That project was very poorly handled by the people in charge so the song was pulled and kept to be used if some other tragic incident would happen....well, it doesn't get much worse than the sad situation in Asia right now.
With 150.000 dead so far and more than 3500 Swede's missing this is a disaster of a size we can't understand and the need for money is in the billions!!!.
Tommy and Björne is right now putting together a very special DVD that will feature a documentary of how the song was recorded with new interviews with several big names, a music video of the song "Where Is The Fire" plus some 10-15 never before seen and very rare video clips by many of the biggest hardrock bands in Sweden.
It will be sold in Sweden for 100 kr and for about 20 dollars in the rest of the world, ALL profits will go directly to the Red Cross.

We really hope that people understand the need to help and this is a great way cause you'll get a lot for little money spent.

We're adding a few cool names to the song in the next couple of days but here's the list of people involved so far...

"Where Is The Fire"
Tommy Denander - Björn Lindbom- Bernt Ek
(N.E.W Music/EMI Publ)

Musicians - Tommy Denander - Rhythm guitars, keyboards Mikkey Dee (Motörhead) - Drums, John Leven (Europe) - Bass

Guitar solos - (in order of appearance) Mattias "IA" Eklundh (Freak Kitchen) Pontus Norgren (Humanimal) Sayit (solo, Jim jidhed), Kee Marcello (Europe), Yngwie Malmsteen, Tommy Denander

Lead vocals - (in order of appearance) Pierre Wensberg (Prisoner, Sayit) Göran Edman (Madison, Glory, Yngwie) Messiah Marcolin (Candlemass) Jan Johansen (solo, Ignition) Mats Leven (Treat, Dogface) Tommy Nilsson (Easy Action, solo) Stefan Andersson (Solo) Matti Alfonzetti (Skintrade, Talisman, Jagged Edge) Thomas Vikström (Talk Of The Town, Candlemass) Björn Lodin (Baltimoore) Jim Jidhed (Alien, solo) Geir Rönning (Prisoner, Toto, solo) Pain (Hypocrisy, solo) Dag Finn (Sha-Boom, solo) Leif Sundin (Great King Rat, Michael Schenker, John Norum) Jocke Berg (Hardcore Superstar) Anders Möller (Black Ingvars)

Backing vocals - (Bridge 1, middle section & acappella) Bernt Ek (Bedlam), Mikael Eriksson (Zifa), Björne Lindbom (Chorus 1) Jan Johansen, Kristoffer Lagerström (Spin Gallery, Cinema), Tommy Nilsson (Chorus 2) Thomas Vikström, Stefan Andersson, Björne Lindbom, Göran Edman, Matti Alfonzetti, Mats Leven

All star choir featuring members of - (in alphabetical order) 220 V, Ace's High, A.C.T, Alien, Amaze Me, Bad Habit, Baltimoore, Bedlam, Black Ingvars, Brazen Abbot, Cinema, Clockwise, Damned Nation, Debase, Dogface, Easy Action, Eclipse, Evan, Evergrey, Europe, The Forsaken, Fortune, Gaeleri, Glory, Great King Rat, Hammerfall, Hardcore Superstar, House Of Shakira, Humanimal, Inhale, Insania, Jet Circus, Johansson Brothers, Last Tribe, Lions Share, Lizzy Borden, Locomotive Breath, Madison, Yngwie Malmsteen, Million, Mister Kite, Narnia, John Norum, Nostradameus, Pain, Pathos, Prisoner, Radioactive, Rainmaker, Pete Sanberg, Sayit, Seven Wishes, Sha-boom, Shotgun Messiah, Skintrade, Spin Gallery, Street Talk, Talisman, Talk Of The Town, Tiamat, Treat, Wisdom Call, Zinny Zan....

* MAJOR UPDATE FINALLY!!!!

I guess it's fair to say that Tommy has been a VERY busy guy in the last 5 months!.
Normally we update this site on a weekly basis but the workload and other personal reasons for all involved delayed it far too long.....but finally here it is.

Tommy has had an amazing year, most of you that he was very ill for 10 long years that among other things prevented him from playing live.
Thanks to his lovely girlfriend Cecilia who's very much the reason he's back on his feet 100% Tommy is now touring, doing sessions and travel all over the world again.
It''s hard (if not impossible) to list all the work he's done in the last 5 months as he is one of the most busy guys in the biz but here are the most important stuff.

* THE LIVE SHOWS


Tommy, Sayit, Mikkey Dee at Cronan- Swedish popstars Alcazar - Tommy at Cronan

Tommy has done quite a few live shows this summer and fall, mostly a special guest with other artists and serious plans are in the making for 2005 to bring out Radioactive live together with a real all star band.
Some of the artists and musicians Tommy has performed with lately include Alcazar, Jamie Meyer, Sha-Boom, Carola Süzch (Fame Factory), Chris Catena, Mikkey Dee, Mikael Erlandsson, Mistheria, Sayit, Joel Starander, The Crashband and Can Do to name a few..

One of the coolest shows was in Rome with Italian rocker Chris Catena and his band.


Tommy & Chris Catena + band live in Rome

The show was held at the Totem Village Club at the border of Rome for their Rockfest festival as headliner on October 30th.
Tommy was joined from Sweden by drummer Daniel Flores and the show also featured special guest Mistheria on keyboards.
It was one of the best trips Tommy's ever had he says and the whole band (Marko Pavic, Leonardo Porcheddu, Jimmy Bax, Giancarlo Pieragostini, Aleks Ferrara plus ValeG and Daniela) plus Chris himself were incredibly nice and talented people.
Tommy was interviewd by Italian TV and a few magazines plus met a lot of his nice Italian fans.

Tommy's dear friend Sayit has been in charge of some very cool jam nights each tuesday at a club in Gothenburg called Cronan.


Tommy, Sayit & Can Do

Tommy has guested twice and both times have been very cool, the first show he played with his friends from Can Do and the audience was treated to really cool versions of various Toto and Steely Dan covers.
The night ended with Mikkey Dee (Motörhead) and Sayit coming up for some kick ass jamming.


Tommy, Per, Patrik (Dogface) & Joel

The second time he played with Sayit and Joel Starander among others and this time it was a pure hard rock night with songs from Van halen, kiss, Whitesnake, Deep Purple and such....lot's of fun!!!.

*LOTS OF NEW ALBUMS
Tommy has recorded, performed, produced or written songs for a lot of albums this year as always, a little less than the usual 70-80 he's done per year in the last couple of years but still more than 60 albums, 15 singles, several DVD's and various other work.
Traveling and live shows has taken away from the time he normally spends doing recordings.
Here's a list of various work in the last 5-6 months -

RADIOACTIVE



The new Radioactive album is almost finished and features a fantastic line up as always including Neal Schon, Yngwie Malmsteen, Bobby Kimball, Tommy Funderburk, Reb Beach, Michael Thompson, Jim Jidhed, Fergie Frederiksen, Mikael Erlandsson, Gary Barden, Dean Parks, Greg Phillianganes, Tony Franklin, Bruce Gaitsch, Michael Landau, John Keane, Mikkey Dee, Kelly Keagy and more!!!
The title and artwork will be presented soon.
The DVD is also almost done and feature new interviews with Steve Lukather, Mike Porcaro, Bobby Kimball, Randy Goodrum and Greg Phillinganes plus lot's of rare stuff from the recordings with Toto in LA 1991 and 2000, Vince DiCola, Dean Parks, Dave Boruff, Greg Phillinganes, Fee Waybill, Bruce Gaitsch, Fergie Frederiksen and much more.
With the plans of taking Radioactive on the road 2005 will be a great year for this project.

FREDERIKSEN - DENANDER

We've mentioned here before that tommy is involved in a very special project.....so how about this!!!!
Tommy and his good friend Fergie Frederiksen (Toto) have joined forces and are recording an album together.
You can expect a very good album with top class production and great guests, it will be released in the spring of 2005.
We await the full press release from the label very soon so stay tuned for more about this future classic album!.

SPEEDY GONZALES



The album is almost done, just some last vocals by Thomas Vikström remains.
The musicians on the album are Tommy, Thomas Vikström, Marcel Jacob and Daniel Flores.
You can expect a serious kick ass album and it will be out early 2005 through Aor Heaven.

SHA-BOOM - Big Bang


Dag Finn & Tommy in Soundtrade Studios

The album is being mixed right now by the great Bo Reimer (Backstreet Boys, The Darkness etc) and it's a total killer album featuring guests like Europe members Ian Haugland, John Leven, Mic Michaeli and Kee Marcello among others.
The first single will be out around christmas and the album will follow in the end of january.

JILL JOHNSSON



Tommy has written one song for the very talented Swedish pop/country star Jill Johnsson's new album.
The album will be released in March 2005.

FRONDA - STEPHEN SIMMONDS
Tommy has co written and is producing a cool rock/rap song for the most up and coming rapper in Sweden called Fronda.
The song will also feature one of greatest soul singers in the country Stephen Simmonds.
This will also be the first single from Fronda's new album together with a video by Baranga Film (The Rasmus, Primal Fear).

EUROVISION FOR THE 3RD TIME!!!
For the 3rd time in 3 years Tommy has placed one of his songs in the Eurovision contest!.
We can't tell you which country it is as it's not official yet so you have to wait untill january.

CHRIS CATENA - 3 albums!
Tommy is involved in 3 new albums from Italian rocker Chris Catena!.
One is his new original album, one is a covers album and one is a live album and they feature a amazing list of cool guests like Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake), Bruce Kulick (Kiss), Steve Salas (Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart), Pat Travers, Carmine Appice (Ozzy, Vanilla Fudge), Tony Franklin (Blue Murder), Kee Marcello (Europe), Marco Mendoza (Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy), Blues Saraceno (Poison), Dick Wagner (Lou Reed, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Peter Gabriel), Jimmy Crespo (Aerosmith, Rod Stewart), Doug Bossi (David Coverdale), James Christian (House of Lords) and more....
Check his website for release dates etc www.chriscatena.com

SILVER - Addiction



Tommy guests on the title track.
This is the second album he has played on with this cool band featuring Gary Barden (MSG), Don Airey (Deep Purple, Ozzy, Gary Moore) and Michael Voss among others.
The album is out now through MTM.

MISTHERIA - Messenger Of The Gods

Mistheria is an Italian keyboard wizzard and Tommy guests on one song.
Others on the album include Alex Masi, Anders Johansson, Barry Sparks, Hubi Meisel, Jeff Kollman, Matt Bissonette, Michael Von Knorring, Neil Zaza, Rob Rock and Ron Thal.
The album is released now through Lion Music.

LAST AUTUMN'S DREAM - II

On their first album Tommy played some guitars and the new one he co-wrote the song "Over And Out".
The first album featured Europe members Ian haugland, John Leven and Mic Michaeli but due to the reformation of Europe they had no chance of being part of this album.
But luckily enough there were more than competent alternatives available. This time, founding members, singer Mikael Erlandsson and guitarist Andy Malecek (ex-Fair Warning) are joined by Marcel Jacob (Talisman) on bass, Jamie Borger (Talisman) on drums and Thomas Lassar (Crystal Blue) on keyboards.
The album is released in Japan and will be out in Europe on January 24th through Frontiers.

EZ GOMER - Look At Death Now

Tommy plays guitars and keyboards on several songs and has also mixed it together with Ez.
It features Stefan Elmgren (Hammerfall) Sayit, Terry Haw (Jet Circus), Kee Marcello (Europe), Michael Ulvsgaard (Jet Circus) Mikkey Dee (Motörhead).

ALL STAR ALBUM FOR USA
Tommy also helped Ez play guitars and mix the song Kings Of Hollywood for an american all star album featuring Lou Gramm (Foreigner), Fergie Frederiksen (Toto), Michael Sweet (Stryper) and many others.
The song also features Sayit on guitars and Mikkey Dee on drums.

HEARTBREAK RADIO

Heartbreak Radio is a very cool Swedish AOR project that features Tommy playing guitars on 6 songs and as co-writer on the songs "Hard Rock City" and "Rocking The Night".
It's built around the singers Pierre Wensberg (Prisoner) and Mikael Erlandsson (Last Autumn's Dream, Radioactive) and features a lot of great players like Mikkey Dee (Motörhead), Magnus Rosen (Hammerfall), T'Bell, Sayit, Max Abbey (Ultravox, Paul Young) and Joel Starander (Geisha).
The yet untitled release was produced by Torbjörn Wassenius and Claes Andreasson (Last Autumn's Dream) at Sunday Music Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mikkey Dee's drums were recorded by Tommy at Hypersonic Studios.

NOVAK - Forever Endeavour


Tommy in the studio recording Novak's new album

Andreas Novak of Mind's Eye and Fame Factory has recorded his first solo album.
Tommy plays on a few tracks and had a blast cause this is a very good album with high quality AOR that will impress fans a lot.
It was produced by Daniel Flores and features guests like Johnny Öhlin (Nation, Doinysus), Kristin Niemann (Therion), Benny Jansson (Tears of Anger) on guitars and of course Daniel himself on drums.
It will be released in Japan by Avalon/Marquee in February and by MTM in March across Europe.
Novak's website

LEC ZORN - It Began In The Underground
Tommy played guitars and keyboards plus mixed 1 song called "Second Chance" for this album, the song is also picked to be first single early 2005.
Performing in the album are among others Lec Zorn, Eli Hludzik (Dakota), Mike Walsh (Departure), Tracy White (Intruder, Shotgun Symphony), Phil Vincent, Lars Säfsund, Pierre Wensberg (Prisoner) and Chris Demming.

JIMI HENDRIX - The Spirit Lives On II



Tommy recorded a cool instrumental cover of the song "Them Changes" for this tribute album to the legendary Jimi Hendrix.
It's released by Lion Music.

MUNICH'S HARDEST HITS - Vol 6



One song called "Waiting For You" from the album Frozen Rain with Tommy on guitars appears on the latest compilation CD from German rock radio station Munich's Hardest Hits.

PHILIP BARDOWELL
Tommy is working with Unruly Child singer Philip Bardowell on an album at the moment with fantastic songs by Mark Spiro, Stan Bush, Jim Peterik as well as great tune by Tommy and Philip.
More soon from the label.

HERO IN ACTION

Tommy recorded and co produced 6 songs for this rock band from Gothenburg including their first single called "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon".

MELODICROCK.COM - Vol 2 The Beast Inside



Tommy did a special song together with Johan Sahlen called "Into Trouble" for the second compilation from the biggest AOR site in the world Melodicrock.com.

NEW DVD'S

THE RASMUS - Live Letters



Tommy is credited for doing the sound mastering on the new great DVD from The Rasmus but it's actually a missprint.
The producers had Tommy in mind to do the job but realized right before the end that he probably couldn't master in 5:1 surround but forgot to change the name....but thanks anyway guys:-).

PÅ SCEN LIVE 1 - Schytts



The song "Härlig Kärlek" by Schytts with Tommy on guitars is featured in this new road movie.
Tommy played last week on the bands next single as well.


Last sunday Schytts appeared playback on Bingolotto which is one of the biggest TV shows in Sweden, they performed both songs with Tommy's guitars.

There's a few other new DVD's out that we will come back to soon with artwork and info.

TOMMY ON SWEDISH TV TONIGHT!



Tonight you could hear Tommy play on Swedish TV, pop and TV star "Robinsson" Emma Andersson has her own TV show called Dolce Vita on Kanal 5 and tonight she interviewed pop star Ronan Keating and played him her single "I Believe" that Tommy played the guitars on.

SPIN GALLERY AWARDS



The fantastic Spin Gallery album is getting it's fair share of "awards" in the polls for 2004 and here's a few noteworthy -

* Jörgen Holmstedt & SWEDEN ROCK MAGAZINE - Spin Gallery is the best Swedish album of the year.

* AOR Music.nu
1. Spin Gallery - Standing Tall (Atenzia) 29%
2. Shadowman - Land Of The Living (Escape) 17%
3. AdrianGale - Crunch (Kievel) 16%
3. Over The Edge - s/t (Frontiers) 16
4. Deacon Street Project - s/t (AORHeaven) 13%
5. Hugo - Fire In The Night (Self) 5%

*Legendary UK journalist Dave Reynolds (Kerrang, Classic Rock) Top 20 list - 3 'Standing Tall' - Spin Gallery

*JÖRG “DJ BONNE” BONZSKOWSKI - (Melodic Journey) Top 5 list - 5 SPIN GALLERY - “Standing Tall”

*Music By Mail's visitors poll - best release in 2004:
In our weekly newsletter we asked our customers and visitors about the best albums this year. Thanks a lot for your mails and so far here is the first result:
1. Dare “Beneath The Shining Water” 20%
2. Pride Of Lions „Destiny Stone“ 15%
3. TNT “My Religion” 15%
4. Jeff Scott Soto “Lost In Translation” 15%
5. Spin Gallery “Standing Tall” 10%

YEAR IN REVIEW
It's become a tradition for Tommy to write his "year in review" and as this has been one of the most exciting for him in a long time you can expect a great one right after christmas.

We'll end this large update with a couple of pictures by Tommy from his and Cecilia's wonderful vacation in Skiathos Greece.
Come back soon for more.