Music

Joe Cummings plays lead guitar for Thailand-based The Tonic Rays, who have performed in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pai, Pattaya and Ko Phi Phi and are currently working on their debut CD. The Tonic Rays formed in Pai in 2005, and are co-led by Marie Dance, a gifted singer/songwriter/rrrrocker and Joe's main musical collaborator & inspiration. Joe regularly plays acoustic gigs with Marie as well.

The Tonic Rays have a full-length CD featuring 10 original songs packaged in a seriously attractive six-panel digipak, and you can buy one right here for US$13 plus $2 shipping and handling worldwide, using PayPal:

The CD is also available for purchase at amazon.com and cdbaby.com/tonicrays and can be downloaded (full album or individual tracks) at snocap.com.

Joe occasionally backs up such visiting artists as Mason Ruffner and Mitch Woods. In 2005 Joe recorded lead guitar tracks for Home, a CD/DVD produced by Kai Wingenfelder of Fury in the Slaughterhouse, 'Germany's Rolling Stones'. Recording took place at a studio specially built for the project outside Chiang Mai, and proceeds for all sales go the the School for Life.