Tommy Harrison

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Tommy Harrison is the Associate Professor of Music Business at Jacksonville University, and a versatile musician. Dr. Harrison holds credits as a producer, engineer and/or session guitarist for recording artists. His research interests focus on hard rock and heavy metal of the 1980s, and the role of recording producers in the making of specific albums. He has delivered academic papers internationally, and is the author of Van Halen: The Music and the fans, 1978-1986. He was the bassist for Reindeer Recording Artists Jynx, and gained an endorsement with Fender Guitars as a result of his successful Denver based group Dogs of Pleasure. He has worked with noted multi-platinum producers, including Geoff Workman, Michael Wagener, Ric Browde and Greg D'Angelo, as an artist, engineer and/or second engineer. He also contributed backing vocals on the Ringo Starr album Vertical Man. Prior arriving at JU, he was on the faculty at the University of Central Florida and Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, and has taught at the elementary, middle and high school levels.