About Deeko

Dawlton Tomkins was always in the music scene, even when he was young. He first started to play Piano and Keyboards at the age of 10 and had been Taking keyboard lessons. His first keyboard performance was at the Acadamy's Keyboard Show, he played "Silent Night" and "Ode to joy" by Beethoven. Later on his performances gave him 3rd place in a compitition a year later. But his lessons soon ended right there. The sudden halt of keyboard lessons never brought him down, he soon performing keyboard at his elementary school, he played an outstanding part of that school.

      Keyboards was never the only thing that Deeko would play, during his lessons he soon started to focus on a variety of musical instruments. Bass guitar caught his eye, his older brother was playing many bass riffs mainly from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Metallica. Deeko soon picked up the bass and became part of a school band and heavy metal bands. The bass talents brought him from grade 6 band to honor band made from a orchestra conductor of The Univiversity in grade 8. Soon But during that time, lead guitar soon became a part of him.

       At the age of 16, he played in school bands and had played countless of metal bands: 50 anger, Allience of Distortion, Overdriven, Rebelyctica, also his recent band Studs Lonigan that would never be broken in his heart.

      Today, Dawlton is recording songs solo using today's computer technology. He is digging up his past and reviving songs that were made before.

Age: 17

Profession: Art, Songwriting and Lead guitar

Hometown: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Resides: Regina, Saskatchewan

Instruments and Equipment:

-Washburn WV16 G12 Limited Edition "Solar Skull"  

-Peavey Fury Bass Guitar

-Squier Fender Strat Guitar

-Simon Guitar

-Panasonic Keyboard

-Casio Keyboard

-Hand made Classical Guitar

-Fender 25B Frontman Bass Amp

-Dunlop steel and 2mm guitar picks

-Dunlop nylon grip guitar picks

-Ernie Ball Power Slinkys guitar strings

-Peavey Elements Nickle Guitar Strings

-10 foot Peavey guitar cords