Rock N Roll Christmas - Norm Nardini & Bill Toms
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Rock N Roll Christmas with Norm Nardini & Bill Toms and Hard Rain
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Pittsburgh Rock Legend Norman Nardini has been performing virtually every week since 1965, not only rocks on, but continues, in his words, “in search of the highest level of music.”
Bon Jovi said that, even with all of his (Bon's Jovi's) success, he could have been happy being Norm Nardini. “The motivating factor when you're a kid is not to sell 100 million records, but just to learn how to write songs and perform them,” Bon Jovi said. “I wouldn't have known what success of this extent was. I could have been very content to be Norman, play music at his level and Southside Johnny's level. That's all we knew existed. I didn't want to be Zeppelin.”
Bon Jovi refers to his friend as “the epitome of rock 'n' roll.”
“Norman lives it and breathes it. The greatest compliment anybody can pay a player is that he lives it. God bless him for it,” he said.
“Bill Toms is a poet, a soul-shouter and guitar slinger with one foot in the gutter and an eye on the heavens above. And man, does he front a great rock n' soul band!” - Will Kimbrough/
While it’s hard to put a finger on any one sound that defines “American music,” the compositions of Bill Toms are as close a template as any. The Pittsburgh native, along with his band Hard Rain, delivers a sound that takes the greatest of America’s most beloved genres and melds them into a poetic representation of the best the country has to offer.
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