Tony Reid, singer songwriter from the Liverpool area in the UK, unique voice with very original songs. Tony Reid starting playing guitar at the age of 16 and started writing songs almost immediately. Living in a small seaside town on the Wirral, he d [+]Tony Reid, singer songwriter from the Liverpool area in the UK, unique voice with very original songs. Tony Reid starting playing guitar at the age of 16 and started writing songs almost immediately. Living in a small seaside town on the Wirral, he drew inspiration from watching old people drool and pass wind, and working behind the various bars strewn about the town. It was a time of discovery for Tony Reid, as he experienced the pleasure and pain of love through the turnover of new waitresses in the bars. Well, the beer cellars to be more accurate. And the waitresses weren't ALWAYS turned over, depending on how ugly they were. Tony Reid started working with Atomic Kitten's writing and production team after mistakenly auditioning for the famous girl-band itself after a heavy night of drinking. The Atomic Kitten team (ex OMD members Andy McCluskey and Stu Kershaw) took pity on the shambolic individual that stood before them and took him under their wing for two years. During this time, the would-be kitten learnt how to program, produce, perform and talk shite like everyone else in the music business. The recordings Tony would make at the Pink Museum led to interest from a management company based in Toronto, who organised a recording session in Nashville, Tennesse. This turned out to be a bag of underpants due not to the inexperience of the engineer, but probably his sheer lunacy clearly indicated by his worrying obsession with firearms. The lack of focus in the recordings could also be attributed to the programmer, who insisted on talking constantly about his numerous visitations by angels while stroking his very "christian rock" goatee. The whole affair was most upsetting for Tony as Bob Babbitt was playing bass on the demo. As some of you will know, Babbitt was second only to James Jamerson as house bassist at Motown, providing basslines for tracks such as Edwin Starr's "War" and The Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" and Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown". Apart from being a tremendous musician (as one would expect), he was a great guy and became the only person Tony could go for a beer with after recording in the studio/asylum. Anyway, despite the crapness of the demo, it caught the attention of Jeff Wayne (of War of the Worlds fame) and he insisted on o
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