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Thomas Lopez
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Thomas Lopez

American inventor, designer, record executive, and author

Thomas Lopez (born Thomas Victor Lopez; 1969) is an American inventor, designer, record executive, and author based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is the founder of punk imprint Slope Records and the design studio HOOTLUM. The label reissued early Arizona punk recordings and released new material by bands including the Exterminators, the Feederz and U.S. Bombs.2

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Born Jun 12, 1969.1

About

Lopez is the named inventor on several U.S. patents for swimming pool equipment and wrote the children's book Rusty the Ringtail (2026).

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Early life and education

Lopez grew up in west Phoenix. In 1979 his parents bought a house in downtown Tempe. He became interested in punk rock through local skateboarders and through cassettes of the Clash's Combat Rock and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, and in the early 1980s he attended shows at Mad Gardens, a Phoenix venue. By the mid-1980s he associated with Arizona punk bands including Insurrection, Hellfire and Bootbeast Carnival, and traded cassette recordings with other fans.

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Career

Occupation: toy designer, inventor, writer, entrepreneur.7 8

  • Date not recordedFounded Aquavida Pools3
  • Date not recordedFounded Pool Patch4
  • Date not recordedFounded HOOTLUM5
  • Date not recordedFounded Slope Records6

Known for: Rusty the Ringtail, HOOTLUM.9 10

Personal life

  • BornJun 12, 1969, Phoenix11 12
  • CitizenshipUnited States13
  • ResidenceSunnyslope, Jerome14 15

Lopez and Phillips settled in Sunnyslope in 2008. They divide their time between Phoenix and Jerome.

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