Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton

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Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton (born John Timothy Burton) is a saxophonist for the band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Burton grew up on Martha's Vineyard with two brothers, Steve and Sledge. His father was a minister and his mother was an art teacher. Tim attended Martha's Vineyard Regional High School. After graduating from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, he and some friends formed a band that eventually became the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

At some point he was tagged with the nickname Johnny Vegas. "When we started we were really young, but I was a few years older than some of the guys in the band," said Burton. "I used to go to the horsetrack, and I drove an Oldsmobile, played golf. And they thought those kinds of activities were pretty funny. It was pretty un-punk. So they just tagged me with Johnny Vegas."

Burton married his wife, Kristie, in Las Vegas in 2002 and they moved to Hollywood, California. They now live in Jacksonville, FL with their boyishly handsome son, Noah. Tim continues to work on films, the latest being "The Year of Getting to Know Us" and HBO's "Recount."

Tim produced and performed on Victims of Circumstances 2007 debut Album "Do It Yourself" available on Financial Records.

Tim Burton co-founded Financial Records, an indie record label based in Clearwater FL

v • d • e The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Dicky Barrett · Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton · Ben Carr · Joe Gittleman "the Bass Fiddleman" · Lawrence Katz · Joe Sirois · Chris Rhodes · Kevin Lenear Nate Albert · Dennis Brockenborough · Josh Dalsimer · Roman Fleysher · Tim Bridewell Discography Studio albums Devil's Night Out (1989) · More Noise and Other Disturbances (1992) · Don't Know How to Party (1993) · Question the Answers (1994) · Let's Face It (1997) · Pay Attention (2000) · A Jackknife to a Swan (2002) EPs and other releases Where'd You Go? (1991) · Ska-Core, the Devil, and More (1993) · Live from the Middle East (1998) · Medium Rare (2007) Singles "Where'd You Go?" · "Someday I Suppose" · "Don't Know How to Party" · "A Man Without" · "Almost Anything Goes"  · "Last Dead Mouse" · "Detroit Rock City" · "Kinder Words" · "Pictures to Prove It" · "Hell of a Hat" · "The Impression That I Get"  · "The Rascal King" · "Royal Oil" · "Wrong Thing Right Then" · "Every Trick in the Book" · "So Sad to Say" · "She Just Happened" · "Fabled Barney and the Population" · "You Gotta Go!"