Tornado Rider

Rank #3 Oakland, CA Rock

About

Members: Rushad Eggleston, Graham Terry, Scott Manke

Sounds Like: Gogol Bordello, The Toy Dolls - Official, Oingo Boingo

Label: Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club

Manager: tornadoriderband@gmail.com

Bio: “Tornado Rider is a powerful bird band of swirling goat god victory, that lurks in the spooky forest regions and yells out over the mountains, glicking the gunt of Nairobi into the fortress of Norwegian butt-death, and taking the slippers and the coffee and the potato farm earnestness into the NO... See Full Bio

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Tornado Rider this Friday (11/23) at the Golden State Theatre, Monterey http://rvrb.fm/TegEJ7

Press

“...Eggleston does things with a cello that one could argue were never intended by man or nature, displaying a decidedly rock sensibility onstage.”

— Strings Magazine

“His cello is so vivid, whether swaggering merrily, like a drunken bear, or pumping dark, threatening drones...The importance of what Eggleston is doing can hardly be overstated. He is inventing a new way of hearing and playing cello.”

— The Boston Globe

“of all the bands I’ve tried to write about, this is the band that truly has to be seen to be believed. Rushad is a performer like no other, and his band is a blast to watch. Give Tornado Rider 45 minutes, and they will rock your face off and eat it. It’s a lot more fun than it sounds.”

— Kirk Hamilton, Kirk Hamilton

“Like much of the band's set last night, it combined a feat of virtuosity with a child's sense of fantasy -- and it seemed like something that just could not happen in the real world. Which is exactly how the performance of a band called Tornado Rider should seem.”

— Ian S. Port, SF Weekly

“Two words sum up Eggleston’s persona succinctly: delightfully implausible... ”

— Meredith Yayanos, Coilhouse Blog

“ Rushad Eggleston and Tornado Rider's eccentric rumpus raised the dead first thing Saturday. This outer-rim trio ignited the audience (and scared off most of the wildlife) with their frenetic punk project, featuring the virtuosic Eggleston redefining the cello with his tongue. In between ferocious riffs and periods of gibberish, he rocked the crowd with his bizarro anthems "I'm a Falcon" and the "Golden Apple Dance."”

— Nick Atlas, Jambase

“More a cartoon character than a person, lead singer/cello shreddist Rushad Eggleston came onstage as if he had just won some sort of world championship, bouncing from stage left to stage right in striped pink and black spandex, no shirt and a locks of hair hidden underneath an elf hat. Eggleston subjugated a rapt and rapturous pit of an audience with a sound at turns proggy, new-grass, surf-rock, avant-polka, cello-metal, and much more.”

— Chris Trenchard, Sf Weekly

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The Goat God

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I'm a Falcon

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Tornado Rider - Golden Apple Dance (music video)

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Thu
May 23

Great American Music Ha…
Navojoa, MX | 8:00pm
Great American Music Hall
Navojoa, MX
Thu May 23 8:00pm
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w/ Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, Water Tower, and Mystic Knights of the Cobra
Thu
May 30

Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US | 12:00pm
Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US
Thu May 30 12:00pm
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Fri
May 31

Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US | 12:00pm
Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US
Fri May 31 12:00pm
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Jun 1

Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US | 12:00pm
Wakarusa Festival
Ozark, AR, US
Sat Jun 01 12:00pm
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Mike Glendinning
Fun stuff
PROMIZE®
Awesome!
Evelyn Steel
Keeping it going and REAL. Just looking for a chance to be heard myself. Please have a listen. All the best. Loveya Eve
Dee801
Come back to Salt Lake and Bunny Hutch with the Mormons again, Please! I watched in awe and Did the Bunny Hutch down the isles of Raunch Records. Hopefully we can do th...
LUCIEN
What a great band for sure.Inspiring is more like it!
Pace Ride
Killer tunes!!!Keep it up!!