Multi-instrumentalist Endre T. Tarczy (aka E.T., E. Tibor Tarczy, E.) is primarily known as a bassist and stunt-vocalist. He was born in San Mateo, California January 8, 1966 to Hungarian parents, who had emigrated from Hungary to escape the 1956 revolution. Growing up with a mother who, along with homemaking, sang on her own weekly Magyar/gypsy-folk music radio program, he remembers her rehearsing at home in preparation for concerts, radio shows, or family parties, which were lively events that would have everyone singing not only Hungarian tunes, but Romanian, Yugoslavian and current American pop songs. An older brother and sister introduced Endre to rock music like the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Doors at this very early age of six. (His favorite Stones' song was “Paint it Black”.)

         Endre soon began piano lessons, studying classical and boogie-woogie. At the same time he taught himself to play guitar by playing along with records, songbooks, and watching the Monkees and the Banana Splits on TV.

         At 14 his life changed when he discovered and met San Francisco 60’s guitar great John Cippollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service). He had been to a couple of concerts, but can vividly remember the moment he became hooked on becoming a professional musician- seeing the Cippollina/Gravenites Blues Band open for Roy Buchanan at the Stone in San Francisco, a legendary club. He went to every gig he could to see John play, sometimes listening from outside the club (being under age).

         Endre started meeting other fellow musicians, jamming and playing in little bands with friends from school like talented Kevin Gilbert (Toy Matinee, Sheryl Crow). After high school he continued on at the College of San Mateo, taking all the music theory/ jazz improvisation classes he could. He focused on playing piano in the day while playing guitar at night. On weekends he played some of his originals in his first professional band The Gaslighters. (Drummer Martyn Jones would go on to play in the surf-psych trio The Mermen.)

         At this time, finished with school and working odd jobs here and there, he began playing bass in the local blues scene. He met and played with a whole new school of musicians, starting with organist Deacon Jones (Freddie King, John Lee Hooker), and then harmonica whiz kid Little John Chrisley in a band called The Howling Iguanas. Also in the Iguanas was the amazing Randy Hayes, who was the most exciting drummer Endre had met or played with, and local guitar hero John Wedemeyer, who was unlike any guitarist he had heard. They started playing together, and soon “we all felt a definite chemistry”, says Endre. “It was so exciting and fresh. We could play for hours, and had a lot of fun together”. Little John’s father was booking and managing the band, and it felt like they were about to embark on to greater things and set sail. It was not in the cards, however, and Chrisley soon left to tour with Tim Cary.

         At this point the remaining three members decided to soldier on, with Endre contributing originals, and they all started playing stuff they loved, like the Yard Birds, Cream, the Beatles, and Nick Gravenites. Over the next seven years they would go on to play as much as possible. They entered and won San Jose’s KOME radio station’s battle of the bands contest, and recorded a 7-song album, eponymously entitled W.H.A.T (Wedemeyer, Hayes & Tarczy, with Lyle Workman wearing the producer’s hat). They were briefly managed by Count Five (the song “Psychotic Reaction”) member Kenn Ellner. W.H.A.T. still plays on and off and is currently working on another album when tour/work schedules for the three busy sidemen allow.

         Around this same period of time, Endre released a solo album written, played, produced, and funded on his own. The resulting bedroom masterpiece entitled OURANG-OUTANG was released in the cassette format to resounding indifference and obscurity.

         Also around this period Endre saw a life-changing live show, NRBQ. (“If I could sell T-shirts for them on tour and learn how they do what they do by watching them, that would be ok with me”, he says.) Endre reconnected with his piano roots and began woodshedding several hours a day for about 9 months. He ended up taking an offer to tour the states with WC Handy award-winning San Jose-based blues-savant Chris Cain. He went from playing in his bedroom to traveling across America, with a couple of shows in Germany. He learned a lot and refined his keyboard technique considerably, playing and traveling in a van for weeks at a time.

         Currently living in Campbell, California, he supports his wife Amy and daughter Ella solely from performing and recording session income. He is currently writing his next album (saying that if he had the money, he would release it on vinyl and make it a double album), working as a freelance musician playing in an endless circle of talented and un-talented bands, working on studio album projects, and teaching music.

         His influences are: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, The Beatles, NRBQ, blues & jazz, almost anything 1960’s, psychedelia, freakbeat, british invasion, pop, TV themes, country & western, J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Bernard Herrmann, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Jason Falkner.

         Endre has encountered/played with: Gregg Allman, John Lee Hooker, Robben Ford, Buckethead, Lyle Workman, Napoleon Murphy Brock (Zappa), Chris Cain, Coco Montoya, Mick Fleetwood, Frankie Lee, Larry “Arkansas” Davis (Texas Flood, The Sky Is Cryin’), Zigaboo Modeleste (The Meters), Tommy Castro, Dave Meneketti (Y&T).