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Vocals and Guitar
Percussion
Bass
"Eruption" from Van Halen. I fiddled around and learned on
my own until my freshman year of high school when I
decided to join the Mandeville High jazz band. Not only did
I learn a lot of scales and chords but I met a lot of
musicians, including percussionist Ben Adams. In no time, we
decided to start our first real rock band called
"The Drones" , we had two shows including the first
Bogafalia fest that has sense become the biggest festival in
Covington, La.. I left The Drones shortly after and started
the alternative Grunge band "Vertigo" in 1994 with life long
friend and bass player Jensen Penny. Vertigo played
shows all over including the 1995 Floodfest show in
Slidell. Songs such as "On Your Own" and "Fences", which
appear on "The Lost Highway", came from this time.
After two years of alternating members due to band
members going off to college, I decided to disband Vertigo
and start over. Then there's "Longplay", a story all it's
own. Me and former "Zauf Dingbats" singer Chris Benning
started this band in 1998 but didn't get the first line up
together until summer of 1999 with bassist Kenny Philips
and former "The Drones" and "Last piece of Earth" drummer
Ben Adams. This line up stayed together for about a
year playing such shows as the grand opening of the
Mandeville Trail Head in 2000 and Headlining a concert at
Audubon Zoo. After the departure of Chris and Kenny,
I was once again singing lead and decided, along with
Ben, to keep the band going and record Longplay's first
album "Wyoming" with former "Ugly Kid Joe" guitarist
turned engineer Dave Fortman. But first, we needed a
bass player. After alternating members, we finally decided
to record as a three piece with former "Gemini Project"
bassist David Landry. The album was recorded in 2001 but
never released. Shortly after, David left and the band
alternated bass players for the rest of it's time. But ,
Longplay became a name that was recognized for great
original music, and still is. After a while, I decided to start
over again. With Ben and David back in the picture. We
decided to start another band in 2002. For two years
the name of the band alternated either because we
didn't like it or someone else had it. Names include " No
Imagination, Fiver, and For Karma". At the end of
2004, I got tired of dealing with all the major label
dealings and decided to start my own label Wishpool
records and release the "Wyoming" album. The name was
changed to "The Lost Highway" for obvious reasons and
the name of the band was changed to Todd Lemoine for
other reasons. Me, David, and Ben are getting ready
to go out on tour this summer under the name "For Karma".
The second album is already written and do out this fall. As
for the rest, we will just have to wait and see
what happens.
-Todd Lemoine
whatsmynameagain@toddlemoine.com
