Ketchfish

Tom ''Ketchfish'' Inglis

Songwriter/Musician

Began his performance career in 1974, begging spare change off tourists playing his Sears Dreadnaught sized acoustic and singing John Sebastion songs. He also began writing songs at this time.? Over the years, he was a sideman for hire and featured player in many bands, encompassing a wide variety of genre, predominantly in Southern New England. (A partial band list follows) He's also developed and played many shows, on both a volunteer and paid basis for elderly programs, mental health treatment venues, veterans' groups and various charities.

He currently plays acoustic slide guitar, lap steel, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric bass and performs lead vocals with The Ketchfish Brothers on the Southern Maine Seacoast.

Partial band list:

Mid 1980's - Central Missouri

The Fozmonots - hard rock

Late 1980's through early 2000's - Southern New England

The Silver Wings Band - country/rockabilly/gb
Ridgewood - gb
The Alternative - rock/gb
The Roger Randall Band - country
Degage - gb duo
Vested Interest - blues
The 58 House band - blues/jazz - hosted a blues/jazz jam
The Blue Numbers - blues - hosted a blues jam
Bill's Fast Shoes - Blues/Classic Rhythm & Blues with horn section
The Tom Inglis Show, sometimes a duo featuring Lynn Walsh - Singalong and Karaoke show for Elder Programs and Special Needs Groups
and many more as a sideman for hire
Semi-retired from music in 2002 to pursue songwriting and concentrate on a day job to put food on the table for his six kids.

2006 update! Southern Maine -

Out of semi-retirement and currently fronting the Blues Act - The Ketchfish Brothers. Coming to a small venue near you if you live on the Southern Maine Seacoast. Visit out website at the address listed as my home page here and visit The Ketchfish Brothers here at music.download.com

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"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably an aardvark in a very clever disguise"

"If you throw enough mud against a wall, some of it's gotta stick"

"Fishing and music, music and fishing, fishing and music, music and fishing, ahhh, life is good!"

"If you ain't Eric Clapton, you'd best leave my Strat alone"

"Why man, he doth bestride the world like a behomoth...."

"When they started putting Coricidin in a plastic bottle, the end of Western Civilization began" (it's a slide player thing)

"you better believe I just do what I want and I ain't hurtin' nobody or nothin'...."

"it's when you show up, not what you bring"

"I wanna be unique, like all my friends"

"Quack, quack, why it's Wobbles the Goose"

"Antelope Freeway, 2 miles"

"The sun's not going down, the horizon is moving up"

"as I lay, the grass turned to sand, and the river turned to the sea, and the sea, burst into flames and the sand was burning"

"I watched with glee while your kings and queens, from a tender age, ordered God save me..."

"I've got the fever, yeah yeah, you've got the cure..."

"ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

"be careful with that axe Eugene"

"or, a baby's arm holding an apple"

"you can see happiness, standing, on a dumb street, footprints all dressed in red..."

"when you change with every new day, we're all going to miss you"

"In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings, sometimes all of our thought are misgiven"

"you and I, like dusk to dawn, isn't that the way, everybodys got their dues in life to pay"

"don't you remember I told you, I'm a soldier, in the war on poverty"

"I stepped up to my rival, my dagger in my hand, I seized him by the collar, and boldly bade him stand, driven by desperation, I pierced him through the chest..."

"Go, and beat your crazy head against the sky"

"We got men with insight, men in granite, knights in armor bent on chivalry"

"find a girl, settle down, if you want, you can marry, look at me, I am old but I'm happy"

"fine fine, fine fine acetadine"

"You know what makes me sick?? Cat juggling."

"I just spent four hours burying the cat"

"Every car we've got on the lot is eleven dollars down, that's eleven dollars down. If you haven't got the eleven dollars, we'll loan you the eleven dollars"

"but when the band plays, Hail to the Chief, they point the cannon right at you.."

"a message from the Department of Redundancy Department"

"and now a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister..."

"Six of one, half dozen of the other"

"If the mountains, fell in the sea, let it be, it ain't me..."

"rooooooll another one, just like the other one"

"On his white horse Mescalito he comes breezin' through town, nobody feels like working Panama Red is back in town"

"I've seen a lot of people walking 'round with tombstones in their eyes"

"I've got everything a man could want, I've got more, than I could ask for..."

"Nature abhors a vacuum"

Come back again soon, maybe I'll feel like putting new random stuff here. Be happy. Be cool. Stay in school. Don't drool. Swim the pool. Tickle a fool. Ride a mule. Thread's on a spool. Scary ghoul. Pasta Fazoule.

tomketchfish