Tom Heuer Tom Heuer (songwriter and lead guitarist)

I started playing guitar when I was 15 years old. I bought a Bullet Series Fender Stratocaster. I started to learn chords and the notes on the fretboard. Every once in a while, I would go play with some of my friends. We would play songs from Bush, Nirvana, and other bands. After a while , I got my friend Shawn involved. One day when he came over, I mentioned that he should learn to play the guitar. So, I taught him how to play a Violent Femmes song. After that he became very interested in playing the guitar. He went and bought a Fender Strat and we played together. After a while, He went out and bought a Fender Bass. We became bored with playing other bands songs, and decided we would make our own songs. So I tried writing some simple songs and we played the songs. He wrote the bass lines and I played lead guitar. This is how Booya was born. Ever since, we have been writing songs. Just recently, I have been writing solos. I write the lryics too. So far only one of our songs have lryics but I have written quite alot of lryics. Booya has never played live execpt of the time we played for some seventh graders in Shawn's Garage. Someday, We hope to play live at a "Battle of the Bands." But until this happens, we will keep writing songs.

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