Toby Gray - Highway
Buddha
Toby Gray - Highway
Buddha Vocalist, Multi-instrumentalist, Recording and Sound
Engineer, a life time musicologist intrigued by everything involved with sound
and music.
Was fortunate to work with nationally known musicians such as jazz guitar
legend Howard
Roberts, Jamaica's
Larry McDonald (Taj Mahal, Gil Scott-Heron, Skatalites), Bill Barnwell and the International Jazz Society,
pianist Victor Borge, and a special although short lived original material
project called Gandharvas.
Toured with the Dick Clark organization, getting to work with producer Larry Klein (Johnny
Carson & Joni Mitchell) before accepting the bassist position with
David LaFlamme former member of the Summer of Love psychedelic folk-rock band It's a Beautiful Day, performing with
them since 1980 to the present, co writing the instrumental Santa Cruz
with David Laflamme as well as producing "Live In
Seattle" and co-producing "Beyond Dreams" and "Misery Loves
Company"
He has composed a wide variety of songs and recorded several CDs including American Dreamer, Sitting In Paradise, Memory Calling and Ascension using traditional and Eastern instruments for a beautiful blend of meditation music and Pacific Waves a piano and environmental set of music, see these at HighwayBuddha.com. Other notables performed with are: Lee Oscar, Barry "Fish" Melton, and Jerry Miller. See CD listing below.
Fan's Comments:
Toby & Val...at times unheralded as a tandem but...it doesn't get better
than these two..... - Don Aters - Woodstock nation rock photographer
<snip> For
me, the highlight of the concert was a performance of Bombay Calling in which
Toby Gray and David Laflamme had very memorable solos. My second favorite piece
was their performance of Santa Cruz (composed by David and Toby). Again, very nice instrumental work.
<snip>
Bennett Scharf
Be sure
and tell Toby to keep up the good work... he
is too much, I had almost forgotten what a real rock bass player should look and
sound like, now that really took me
back, thanks Toby!
Jeff, Denver
I just dropped a letter to D and L (Laflamme) thanking them for coming
to Fur Peace and I want to thank you as well. You are a phenomenal bass player
and you play with some phenomenal musicians. I really enjoyed seeing how well
you worked with Val.......boy, he is golden.....and I know a bass player such as
yourself must be thrilled to have him along for the ride. We have a great vibe
here at Fur Peace and on days like the one when you were here, the
combination of spirit really sends me into the heavens. You all were a joy to
work with and as I told D and L.....it was like meeting old friends for the
first time. The show was total excitement for me ....... I really got off! By
the time you guys did Time is...... I thought the roof was just going to fly off
of the Fur Peace Station. Big Thanks Toby........let's do it again! Blessings
and Respect
John Hurlbut - Fur Peace Ranch Manager
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Discography
Toby Gray - Pacific Waves (1988)
Road Hogs - Take You There (2000)
It's A Beautiful Day- Working the Goldmine (2001)
Road Hogs - Live at Moes (2002)
David Laflamme Performing the Music of It's A Beautiful Day - Beyond Dreams (2003)
David Laflamme Performing the Music of
It's A Beautiful Day - Live in Seattle (2003)
David Laflamme Performing the Music of
It's A Beautiful Day - Misery Loves Company (2005)
Highway Buddha & Trans Love Airways - Ascension (2010)
Highway Buddha - Memory Calling (2011)
Road Hogs - LIVE (2013)
David Laflamme Performing the Music of
It's A Beautiful Day - Outside the Golden Cage DVD with live footage from the
Mystic Theatre (2013)
Chet Helms 2005 Tribal Stomp
DVD Documentary
CHET HELMS REMEMBERED - PEACE & LOVE STILL IN STYLE The Chet Helms Tribal Stomp, sponsored by the Family Dog, was a beautiful event in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Dan & the Hot Licks, The Charlatans, and dozens of other noted musicians from the 60s right on up to today entertained a diverse crowd under sunny skies
Box Set Highlights: 4 DVD’s and 2 CD’s covering 29 bands, 50 interviews (including people who worked at the family dog), Poster & Photo Gallery (the family dog), history & liner notes, HD 5 camera video, digitally mastered video and audio, outtakes and much more!
This DVD/CD set features such bands as The Jefferson Starship, It's A
Beautiful Day, Blue Cheer, Country Joe McDonald & Friends, Barry “the Fish”
Milton, James Gurley, and a cast of others too numerous to include on one
page!
Bass Pics link
Golden Gate Park West Fest 2009
Avalon Ballroom San Francisco 2002 (?)
Russian River 2010
Sausalito Art & Wine with David Laflamme
Triple Door Seattle with David Laflamme
Rockin' San Francisco Summer of Love 35 with Val Fuentes on Drums
2012 Concert & Filming at Mystic Theatre with David Laflamme Performing the
Music of It's A Beautiful Day
Playing the Upright :-)
1983
Gandharvas - Indianapolis 1973 (?)
The Bottom Line Bass Group Online group of Bassist for the discussion of Bass and related subjects