Tom Larson has toured all across the United States as well as Brazil, as a sound engineer and tour manager. He's publicly amplified music by the late Michael Hedges and his bass phenom cohort Michael Manring, the Cape Cod singer-songwriter Patty Larkin, and local greats Tina and the B-sides. As a roadie for Total Music Systems he's hob-knobbed with the likes of David Bowie, Van Morrison, Shirley MacClaine, and Kidd Rock. For Tom, however, the pinnacle of name-dropping is the fact that he is a close personal friend of David J. Russ.

Tom gigged as a bassist for two years with Auto Body Experience trumpeter Tom Twiss during college in a very large cover band doing mostly 19th Century tunes by the likes of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky. He then chose to express his vocal vibrato, or rather bravado, as Guegiellmo in Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutti. In Bar Harbor Maine he flexed his thespian muscles mixing Oklahoma with the seafood scampi.

Since inspiring the "Tom Is Late", Tom has worked hard to disprove allegations made in the song. In response to the line: "He's single, he's unemployed, he's fine!" Tom married and got a job. But he's still tardy. Tom, his wife Mary, their daughter Siri, and two gigantic Akitas live in an unassuming home in an otherwise quiet, secluded neighborhood, not unlike members of the witness relocation program.

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