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b'Thomas Price was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. By the tender age of 16, he had already hit the road playing drums in rock bands ... and he hasn\'t stopped since. Schooled on "early blue-eyed soul" like\\xa0The Dave Clarke 5\\xa0and\\xa0The Young Rascals, he found his chops playing along with his older brother\'s 45\'s of drum heavy songs like "Bits and Pieces" and "Glad All Over".\\xa0He has spent his life on the road and in the studio, and along the way has become one of the most well-known and highly sought-after skin bashers in the business. His style is unique in that he has a sound completely his own, and his talent is impossible to overlook, but he stays solid and in the pocket without the flash and distractions of most well-known drummers. He can provide the fireworks without losing his place as the most rock-solid backbone around.For more than 30 years now, Thommy Price has been a\\xa0Blackheart. "In the beginning I was just playing on Joan\'s records, but I wasn\'t really in the band. Kenny Laguna would call me all the time and\\xa0ask\\xa0\'Are you ready yet?\' At the time I was in\\xa0Mink Deville\\xa0and touring all over Europe for months at a time. What really sold me on being a Blackheart was a show I saw them do at Radio City one year. It was unbelievable. I watched the whole show from the sound desk, so I was able to see the whole stage. It reminded me of seeing\\xa0The Who. It didn\'t just sound great, it was like seeing a great play or choreographed dance. Whether or not they planned it, the band \\xa0Iwas beautiful to watch. I left Radio City that night saying THAT\'S the band I need to be in. It was a gang\\xa0a perfect rock and roll gang.Besides being a Blackheart, Thommy continues to write and produce with others. In his latest side project "Downtown Phantom" Thommy has reunited with old friend and bandmate Johnny Rao and Joey\\xa0Vasta.'