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Gerard McMahon (aka Gerard McMann and G Tom Mac) (born Gerard Thomas MacMahon, of Irish/English parentage, in Birmingham, England) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer who specialises in creating music for films and TV. McMahon is also the founder member of the band G TOM MAC. Whilst McMahon has undertaken many different musical projects throughout his career, he is probably still best known by many for the gothic rock anthem "Cry Little Sister", a song which he recorded in 1987 for the soundtrack album of the cult horror film ''The Lost Boys''. ==The early years== Gerard McMahon, who lists amongst his musical influences Liam Mullen, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder and Stravinsky, emigrated with his family from England to America when he was 11 years of age. Initially moving to New York City, a few years later the MacMahons moved again, eventually settling in Wichita, Kansas. McMahon was only 16 years of age at the time. Despite his young age, McMahon, together with his band, The Strangers, recorded one single before disbanding. After The Strangers disbanded, McMahon moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job arranging classes at the University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="''Is That You?''" song-writer )〕 In 1971 however, McMahon moved to New York to pursue a performing career. His first gigs were playing bass and guitar in R&B bands in Harlem.〔 However, being a versatile multi-instrumentalist, McMahon was soon receiving additional offers of work as a session musician. It was in this capacity that he provided backing vocals at Electric Lady Studios in New York, on the last Zephyr album to feature wunderkind guitarist Tommy Bolin – ''Going Back to Colorado''.〔(''Going Back to Colorado'' album credits ). www.allmusic.com. Retrieved on 25 March 2008〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Going Back to Colorado'' album review )〕 In addition to gigging and studio session work, McMahon also became involved around this time in creating music for TV commercials. He also created a number of scores for Public Broadcasting Service projects. McMahon spent 1972 living in Los Angeles, where his experience of studio and production work quickly established him a well-respected member of the city's music scene. Soon he was to be found playing bass with Jackson Browne's touring band. It wasn't too long however before McMahon concluded that it would be more rewarding to promote his own solo career and headed back to Colorado. After returning to Boulder, McMahon got together with a group of ten studio musicians and fronted what was to become one of the most popular rock bands in Colorado at the time – Gerard.〔 Having much admiration for McMahon and his band, Guercio offered the band a deal to record an album at his newly built Caribou Ranch, a popular recording studio subsequently favoured by many prominent artists. The resultant album, produced by Guercio himself, was the appropriately titled ''Gerard''.〔(''Gerard'' album ). www.allmusic.com. Retrieved on 25 March 2008〕 It was released in 1976 on Guercio's Caribou Records label. There did, however, seem to be one downside to this union, seemingly echoed in McMahon's frustration with the music press at that time, in so far as every review of Gerard's album, an album for which he had written twelve original songs, compared his music to that of Chicago's.〔 Although the album did well, it never broke nationally.〔 The lead-off single, "Hello Operator" (b/w "Who's Your Daddy-O?"), failed to hit Billboard's Hot 100 chart, getting as high as No. 109 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart.〔()〕 The second single, "Good Yankee Boy", was released as a promo-only single, and garnered only moderate radio airplay in 1976.〔()〕 A second Gerard album was to follow (?), ''Row'', before the group disbanded.〔(Gerard McMahon credits ). www.allmusic.com. Retrieved on 29 March 2008〕〔(''Row'' album credits ). www.artistdirect.com. Retrieved on 29 March 2008〕 After which McMahon decided to return to Los Angeles. The next three years saw McMahon again partaking in a number of different musical projects and continuing to lend his services as a session musician. One of the projects he undertook at that time was to play keyboards on ex-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Jimmy Ibbotson 1977 ''Nitty Gritty Ibbotson'' album.〔(''Nitty Gritty Ibbotson'' album credits ). www.allmusic.com. Retrieved on 25 March 2008〕 He is also listed amongst the credits for Max Gronenthal's 1979 album ''Whistling in the Dark''.〔(''Whistling in the Dark'' album credits ). www.allmusic.com. Retrieved on 25 March 2008〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard McMahon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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