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TIMMY
(AKA: Tim Whitler, Timothy, Token
Gringo)
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Who's This Tim Whitler Dude Musically, and Why? |
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Tim spent his formative years in the Washington
D.C. metro area, where he was involved in many aspects of performance art
including performing Shakespeare at the Folger Shakespeare Library Theater.
He spent a few years attending the Fillmore Arts Center, where in his first
attempt at musical performance, he realized that he didn’t like playing the
flute. This would scar him for at least a decade, and he didn’t even
consider playing music until he was in college. It was during these college years in the early 90s that Tim decided to pick up his house mate’s oft ignored thrift store Hondo bass. Playing bass without an amplifier was rather difficult, so he invested in a simple bass amp. Realizing that a bass and an amp won’t work well unless there was a cord connected between the two, he decided to buy one of those as well. He had a lot to learn, and decided to spend most of his free time practicing, after studying of course. He still, to this day, has cassette recordings of a lot of his practice sessions, which now would be worth less than the price he paid for the blank cassettes. Soon, all of this practice would pay off when a group of his friends were looking for a bass player. The group Wake (Wah-kay) was formed. Daniel Sagrario- lead singer and guitarist, Juan Cercos- lead guitar, Rudy Matos on the drums, and Tim on bass, played various venues in the D.C. area. From college bars including Terrapin Station in College Park, to funkier stages like Phantasmagoria, this Latin Rock band even went to a rewards ceremony in Miami, playing “live” in front of the likes of Menudo. |
Laying down a demo tape (yes, still in the cassette era)
Wake recorded the songs “Mi Politico Mayor”, “No Tengo Ganas”, “Feliz Años”,
and “Relative Politics”. Although copies of the demo still exist today,
cassette players are a rare find, so playing said demos are difficult. The
members of Wake went their own ways soon before the apocalyptic threat of
Y2K. Following the entire destruction of the fledgling internet and society
collapsing…oh wait that didn’t happen. Moving on… At the turn of the 21st century, Tim made his way to Colorado and settled in Boulder. He started playing guitar and practicing his vocal chops. During this time, Tim met JC, although they didn’t play music together for many years to come. There was an era of procreating (with our wives) and raising little offspring. During this time, Tim honed his vocal skills mostly in the shower and from singing children’s lullabies. There may have been times Tim’s children were subjected to car drive renditions of Rage Against the Machine, NIN, and various other less lullaby-like music while helplessly strapped in their car seats. In 2011 Tim, JC, and Dave got together one night to just hang out and jam. These were the first of the many continuous jam sessions that would lead to the creation of Sentient Cement. The rest may not be history, as they might say, but rather is explained elsewhere on our website. |
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