Tommy Frenzy, was born to a show business family. His Dad sang with such great crooners as Vaughan Monroe, Perry Como and Pat Boone. He was also a choir director with Tom's Mom playing the church organ.

His Dad bought him his first acoustic guitar at age 9. His earliest band was "The Outcasts," who played their first live gig for a party of classmates at age 13. This was 1969. The band also included blues guitar legend Sean Benjamin and Andy Poling on drums. Tommy quickly followed this band with his high school band Forth and Back, which soon evolved into the band Frenzy.

While at a shortlived college stint, Tommy was introduced to the New York City scene that was emerging at the legendary CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. Ironically ...the first show Tommy ever saw at Max's was The New York Dolls with a cool little warm up act...Tuff Darts! As if he were meant to be a part of this "new wave scene" Tommy rented a limousine for his 21st birthday and headed to NYC and straight to Max's. That night he was introduced to Peter Crowley, who, on the word of Michael Sticca agreed to book Tommy and Frenzy at Max's, only weeks later. Capitalizing on this easy booking, Tommy pointed the limo towards CBGB's and was introduced to Hilly Krystal who also booked the unknown band. When the fog had cleared the next morning...Tommy realized that Frenzy was a cover band doing Deep Purple and Mott The Hoople songs and he had to write 12 original songs and teach them to the band in a matter of weeks.

Frenzy floundered for a while until Tommy was approached by John Morelli, drummer for Tuff Darts and asked if he would audition as lead singer. Tommy jumped at the opportunity and wowed the band members with "on the money" vocals and stage presence. An audition was set up within weeks and Michael Rosenblatt of Sire Records signed Tuff Darts to their first record deal. Tuff Darts became the first band to ever do basic tracks at the now defunct "Power Station" recording studios, with Tony Bongiovi and Bob Clearmountain sharing production credits. The album included guest performances by such greats as Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople), Eric Weissburg (Dueling Banjos/Deliverance), Ralph Shuckett (Todd Rundgren's Utopia), and Lew Delgatto (Saturday Night Live Band).

After selling out the first pressing of the album and touring the US, Tommy decided that he was going to leave Tuff Darts, and formed his own band, Big Spender with John Morelli on drums and Emmy Award winning keyboard player, Steve Sasloe. The band played the New York/Connecticut scene and are credited with two songs in the Columbia Pictures film, Spring Break.

After the dissolution of Big Spender, Tommy formed the band King Casual, which included original Dictators drummer, Stu King. From here he went to the "local heroes" band Monks of Sex and became happy playing the local saloons.

In the mid 90's, Tommy discovered digital recording techniques and released two self produced CD's, where he played all of the instruments and wrote all of the material. He enjoyed a bit of a career revival with these two works, Businessman and Tommy Frenzy's Hard Drive.

In 2002, the Tuff Darts self titled album was reissued on CD for the first time. Tommy contacted the original members of the band and almost all agreed to put the band back together to promote this new release. Tuff Darts is now made up of Tommy Frenzy on guitar and vocals, the legendary Jeff Salen on lead guitar, John DeSalvo playing the "wall of bass" and the mighty Jim Morrison destroying the drums.

So...as you can see Tommy has been, and plans to be, very busy in the future. Tuff Darts is hard at work on a new CD featuring all new tunes and will be playing in your area soon.