{"id":9158,"date":"2017-06-19T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:38:54","slug":"altwire-feature-road-alt-rock-film-scoring-tommy-walters-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/altwire-feature-road-alt-rock-film-scoring-tommy-walters-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Du rock alternatif \u00e0 la musique de film : l'histoire de Tommy Walter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tommy Walter<\/strong> has been active in the alternative rock scene since the mid-1990s. In the early 2000s, you could rarely turn on MTV without seeing one of his videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, Tommy Walter has released albums with several different acts and left the touring life behind for a docile, low-profile career creating scores for TV commercials and movie trailers, as well as doing orchestral work. His scoring has been featured on ad campaigns for Target, Subaru, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the late 1990s, Tommy Walter was one of the founding members of a band called The Eels. After working with them for a while, he left the band and formed a new group called Metromax. Shortly after its inception, Metromax became Tely and released an album over the internet. The band didn’t gain much success, and it soon evolved into Walter’s solo act: Abandoned Pools. <\/span><\/p>\n

Humaniste<\/b><\/h3>\n

Rewind to 2001. Tommy Walter had just released his breakout single \u201cThe Remedy\u201d under the moniker Abandoned Pools.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was both grateful for and somewhat wounded from the experience I had in my previous band, Eels, a situation in which I had been marginalized,” Tommy Walter said in an email. “Now here I was on tour, fronting my own band, and every hotel room I checked into I could turn on MTV and see the video for “The Remedy.” The risk I took had been rewarded so that was very satisfying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Bien que <\/span>Humaniste <\/span><\/i>was a solo project, Walter recruited a touring band that included Leah Randi (bass) and Bryan Head (drums). Together, they saw several successful tours with acts such as Garbage, Un cercle parfait<\/a>, and Lenny Kravitz, and appearances on <\/span>The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

After the release of <\/span>Humanistic, <\/span><\/i>Walter was approached by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the duo behind films such as Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, <\/em><\/span>21 and 22 Jump Street, T<\/span><\/i>he Last Man on<\/span><\/i> Earth, and a handful of episodes of How I Met Your Mother<\/em><\/span>. <\/span><\/i>Lord and Miller had the idea for an animated TV show called <\/span>Clone High, <\/span><\/i>and they wanted Walter to write the intro song.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI demoed (the song) in the back of the touring bus and most of that recording was used in the final version,\u201d said Walter. \u201cThat was a special show and I wish it had gone on for several seasons but it didn\u2019t work out that way, unfortunately.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The show originally aired on the Canadian network Teletoon between 2002 and 2003. It later debuted on MTV but was pulled from the network after low ratings and over the controversy caused by depicting Gandhi as a crazy party animal. Since the show\u2019s cancellation, it has received critical acclaim and a cult following. Abandoned Pools had several other songs on the soundtrack, as well as bands such as Tableau de bord Confessionnal<\/a> and other (at the time) underground bands and musicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the cancellation of <\/span>Clone High, <\/span><\/i>Abandoned Pools stopped touring. This was due in part to the dissolution of their label, Extasy Records.<\/span><\/p>\n