Tommy Lionheart

Thomas Evan Lionheart (born December 7, 1979) is a American musician known for being the rhythm guitarist of Screaming Yellow Players.

Life and career
Tommy was born at McKeesport Hospital in, the son of KQV-TV anchor Joel Lionheart.

After touring in using the downtime from a  study abroad program, the Screaming Yellow Players went on to achieve critical and commercial success throughout the 2000s.

In 2001, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that Lionheart, early in his high school years, had been a member of a band named Destroy Wall Street, which sang far-left songs with anti-capitalist lyrics. Lionheart reported the claims as true, saying that he regrets this part of his life as being when he was "hijacked by politics." Destroy Wall Street was an anarcho-punk group and culture jamming collective active in from 1994 to 1997, when Tommy was between the ages of 14 and 17. Other media outlets reported that Tommy had been a member of the and had served time in juvenile hall when he was 16 for attempted arson of a meat packing plant. In the documentary 1, 2, 3, Bore, Tommy stated "I wish I didn't get brainwashed by the political ideologies these guys wanted me to follow."

Equipment
Tommy uses Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, Orange amplifiers, and Nady wireless guitar equipment.