I talked to Tommy Tuberville about his brother’s wild music video

Charles ‘Chas T’ Tuberville III, aka Tuberwilly, aka Cincinnati head coach Tommy Tuberville’s brother, released a music video unto the world this week. Well, coach helped:

This is the kind of story that demands further investigation, so I talked to Coach Tuberville on the phone about his brother’s musical history, his own dreams of musical stardom and honky tonks.

Coach, what genre is this?

It’s kind of hip-hop. I don’t know enough about music to talk to about it. I just kind of like the beat. That’s what everybody’s into nowadays.

He’s written all kinds of songs, from pop to hip-hop, jazz. For years he wouldn’t have anything to do with country-western; now he writes country-western songs. That’s just the way music goes. He’s put himself around people in the music business all of his life, and I’ve put myself around athletic people all my life. It’s kind of a different thing of two brothers who grew up pretty close and went two different directions and are doing their own thing.

Have you considered having him help out with some Bearcats pump-up music?

We might add this to it a little bit. He’s never done anything like this, mostly different types of songs, never hip-hop like this. If you’re doing something for a stadium, you’ve got to be more in the groove, I guess, and this is more of a song that you play when you’re warming up and you’re getting ready to play and all those things.

I’d never really thought about it. I heard this song and thought, ‘You know, this might sound pretty good at Nippert Stadium coming up.’

How long has your brother been in music?

He’s been doing this since he was 10. He played in the honky tonks in the South, kind of worked his way around. He just loves music, loves to write music, sing. Now he’s into the video part. You saw a bit of the video -- I guess it’s kind of like being a DJ, you mix your own music -- I guess he’s into that a bit, but I thought it was neat. He sent me that and I said, ‘Hey, I’ll send that out, get you a bit of publicity.’

Do you play music too?

You know, I’ve still got my snare drum. I got into drums, and when all that music stuff with The Beatles came out, he was playing guitar. And I was in the band a little bit when I was in junior high, played the drums, but found out pretty quick that you can’t do it all.

I still carry that every time I make a move. In this business, change happens, but I’ve got my snare drum sitting around the house, and I wonder, what if. I could have been with Don Henley, playing drums for The Eagles or something.

What would you say are your brother’s musical influences?

He grew up a huge Beatles fans, he grew up when the Beatles came out. Everything in his style of music for years and years, like I said, is from rock, and he liked all kinds of music, other than country-western. But over the years, last 10-15 years, he’s gotten into a little bit of country-western and played that.

Musicians are musicians. They like anything. He’s very talented. He can play any kind of instrument, and he’s got a small recording studio in his house that he and his buddies sit down and write and play and sing.

That’s what he does for fun. I go and play golf, and he writes music.

What do you listen to when you’re not listening to your brother?

I’m a traditional country-western guy. I like all music, but when I’m working out or jogging or whatever, I listen to old Merle Haggard, George Jones, George Strait. I like the newer stuff, but it’s hard to beat Johnny Cash and the guys that got country music going.