Blackwolf (Bobby Tamburrino)
Atlanta tracker and pit percussionist, member of epinicion (earlier Defiance and UNiON), interviewed twice by traxweekly — in #6 and, as "the last TW interview for 1995", by psibelius in #40 — and later the author of the satirical "Tracking as an Olympic Sport" (#65–#66, July–August 1996, signed Mystique). The sources for this page are the #40 interview and that article (sources: s-tw040-interview-blackwolf, s-tw065-tracking-as-an-olympic-sport).
Facts#
- 18 in December 1995, first-year student at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he played pit percussion (timpani, and four MalletKATs for the Peach Bowl show — "the only one who knows enuff MIDI").
- Songs: "Goodbye to a Good Thing" (May 1995 — his "15 minutes of fame"), a track on Epinicion's "Timeline" musicdisk (March 1995), and "Last of the Omnipotent", whose drum-corps ending is the UGA band's Spanish-show finale "cut in half and changed keys"; five songs written in autumn 1995, four of them for a planned solo musicdisk "9x10" (January 1996).
- Views at the end of 1995: the scene is bigger and more demanding ("Something I write now might rock the scene a year ago, but only be mediocre now"); heading "towards commercialism" — Straylight "beating Origin over the head with their music" (see commercial-tracking); Imphobia #11's US-bashing half right; North America "the last underground music scene where you can get things free".
- Website
http://www.dave-world.net/~bwolf. - Interrupted lord-pegasus's interview (#18, July 1995) with private messages that Psibelius printed — "Georgia? Oh you must live with blackwolf" (source: s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus).
- "Goodbye To A Good Thing" (released through Defiance, per Liam) was the song that "really started me off on the piano stuff" for liam-the-lemming (source: s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming).
- Mystique, the group he signed with in 1996, is described by its member vegas in #62: founded at the new year of 1996, a musicdisk a month, leader Ragnarok, about 14 musicians (source: s-tw062-interview-vegas).
- In 1996 he mapped the scene's national "teams" (USA, Finland, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Greece, Australia, the Netherlands) in the Olympic parody, which also spells out the generic compo procedure (source: s-tw065-tracking-as-an-olympic-sport; see compos, tracker-scene-history).
Related#
epinicion · psibelius · traxweekly · commercial-tracking · compos · arrangement · lord-pegasus · liam-the-lemming · vegas · defiance
Sources#
s-tw040-interview-blackwolf · s-tw065-tracking-as-an-olympic-sport · s-tw018-interview-lord-pegasus · s-tw062-interview-vegas · s-tw066-interview-liam-the-lemming