assuredlonewolf
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The grooves Thomas plays, are they all odd meter?
Not all of them, surely?
Most of the time when I listen to him, I can't tell what he's doing time-wise.
Wow, I've never seem that clip before! What a monster!It's kind of odd when he plays a standard beat. Below is a video of him at church when he was 16 with a very different style of playing; it's chopalicious.
http://youtu.be/3G3v83zDNjk
I hope he manages to find another vehicle for his playing that will be as good a fit as TMV was. It's crazy how good he is.
Me too! Take a track like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfX6ze7dtBU ... there's some odd time stuff going on there at times but a lot of it is in 6/8, often obscured by all his crazy accents. He's flipping the beat every which way.
If he's being paid by the note he probably lives in a mansion with a gold-plated swimming pool
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to give them another try. I heard them a while back and wasn't blown away by them, but since you give them the tentative 1 and 3/4 thumbs up, I'll give them another listen (it was a very careful listen on first pass anyway).after tmv he formed his own band "the memorials". they're pretty incredible in their own way.
http://www.thememorialsmusic.com/
I've never understood the fuss about this guy or TMV. Just not my thing, I guess. Maybe I'll change my mind down the road somewhere.