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Tommy Shannon's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds
The Success Communicator
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Tommy Shannon (born Thomas Lafitte Smedley; April 18, 1946) is an American bass guitarist, who is best known as a member of Double Trouble, a blues rock band led by Stevie Ray Vaughan. The birth-card coordinate for April 18 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Performers with Stevie Ray Vaughan induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2015 Performers — inducted member of Stevie Ray Vaughan
The 3 of Diamonds coordinate
Tommy Shannon's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Tommy Shannon. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.
Tommy Shannon in the public record
Born in Tucson, Arizona, Shannon moved to Dumas, Texas when he was nine, where he originally started as a guitarist, though he started playing bass at the age of 21. He appeared with Johnny Winter at Woodstock in 1969. He later joined Double Trouble in 1981 and became a permanent member of Double Trouble until Vaughan's death in 1990. Shannon and bandmate Chris Layton later formed supergroups such as the Arc Angels. Shannon was born in Tucson, Arizona, and moved to the Texas Panhandle when he was nine. He grew up mainly in Dumas, Texas, north of Amarillo on Highway 287. Shannon joined his first band, The Avengers, around age 13. The band members were Shannon (guitar), Tim Easley (vocals), Jim Love (guitar) and David Davis (drums).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tommy Shannon (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Tommy Shannon, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Tommy Shannon's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♦ — Birth Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.
He moved to Houston to play with Hill and Uncle John, and in the late 1970s went on to play with Alan Haynes in the "Texas Boogie Band" (Shannon later played on Haynes' well received 1994 release, "Wishing Well").
Paired on shared wording: moved, release.
Also on the record
- In high school, Shannon was in the band Ekos.
- Soon after high school, he moved to Dallas and joined a soul cover band in 1966.
- The cover band was initially called The New Breed, and later changed its name to The Young Lads.
- Shannon recorded two 45s with this band, which featured Tim Easly on vocals and Uncle John Turner on drums.
Other inductees with this card
- Alan White — 2017 Performers with Yes
- Bobby Hatfield — 2003 Performers with The Righteous Brothers
- Boyd Tinsley — 2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band
- Christine McVie — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- James Honeyman-Scott — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Janet Jackson — 2019 Performers
- Krist Novoselic — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Nate Mendel — 2021 Performers with Foo Fighters
- Neil Diamond — 2011 Performers
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson — 1990 Performers with The Four Tops
- Rick Savage — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- Rod Argent — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Tommy Shannon's birth card?
- The 3 of Diamonds. April 18 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Tommy Shannon's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-04-18 is the day-precision date on Tommy Shannon's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Tommy Shannon) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2279443). Birth date 1946-04-18 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).