Tommy Vickery

Tommy started playing bass at age 13 after hearing the Beatles. High school band, Perpetual Motion, opened for Percy Sledge, Chuck Jackson, and Wilson Pickett at the Atlanta Auditorium.

In Atlanta and Macon, backed up Gregg Allman, Ted Nugent, Arthur Conally and the Drifters in the 70's. Recorded with Bobby Whitlock of Derrick and the Dominoes, and members of the Atlanta Rhythm Section in Doraville, Ga. Brendon O'Brien was the Engineer there.

Around 1980, toured the East Coast with a jazzrock band called Tall Dogs. They were the band from which Paul McCartney drafted drummer Joe English. Also, Tall Dogs featured drummer Jaimoe from the Allman Bros. band. Traveled as far as Saudi Arabia and Alaska with the Cody Marshall Band in the early 80's. Then played with Bertie Higgins who had the hit song "Key Largo". Bertie had a couple of other songs that went to #1 in Japan. The Japan tour was a lot of fun.

Formed Terry Lee and the G.T.'s with some friends in Atlanta in 1985 and have been playing arond the southeast with the same 5 guys ever since. The G.T.'s have backed up The Platters, Archie Bell, and Little Anthony, and have done every kind of gig imaginable, like opening for Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Shirelles, Dion and the Belmonts, Davey Jones, Clarence Carter, The Impressions, The Swingin' Medallions, and more.

Meanwhile, recorded an album with Randall Bramlett for Capricorn. While playing live with Randall, had the pleasure of working with Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for the Rolling Stones.Randall and Chuck were both members of Sea Level in the 70's.

Recently have been doing recording with Francine Reed, the country group Atlanta, who topped the charts in the 80's, The Ga. Blues Dogs, on Leviathon Records and currently making a record with Macon Ga. blues legend Johnny Jenkins.