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Groove Sunday

This video is crazy. Awesome stuff… Nikki Glaspie once taught me a trick where you can play double bass patterns between your right hand and right foot by hitting the bass drum with the stick in your hand while playing your bass drum pattern! She is an amazing musician who now plays with Beyonce. Enjoy some of her more experimental grooves here…..

Groove Sunday

One of my favorite musical sayings is “if you say it, you can play it”. Here is a prime example of this idea…

Groove Sunday

Well what can I say about this video? 

1. This song is badass. It’s got one guitar riff that is awesomely out of tune and it repeats for 3 minutes. 

2. The bass plays one note and the Iggy shouts insults at the crowd like ” look at those chunky frat boys in their shorts” “your in the jungle” as he throws broccoli at someone. 

3. He has the sickest tan line ever.

4. Iggy pop is awesome.

COMBINED Groove Sunday…

Okay, so I got really sick and slacked on the groove sunday ritual…BUT!!! Fret not; here is the greatest of all groove sunday clips…

This guy is a Syrian Rap Star who if you notice as my friend Bill put it, has a “pimp knock”. Check out how this fool gets his girl to come to the door…one knock!

Pimp.

Woo Hoo! its a party!

Groove Sunday

My friend Justin is in town and I told him about my groove sunday project and responsibility to all of the kind people out there. 

Justin is an accomplished bass player friend of mine who is an authority on all groove music. This one is courtesy of Justin via Jacksonknife.

If you like this video then check out Justin’s muxtape at lowquality.net 

Groove Sunday

#??? I can’t believe I’ve actually kept up with this almost every sunday for the past couple of months! I hope some people are enjoying the insanity of these crazy videos I post each week.

This week is Hiromi. She is now a world famous piano player with Tony Grey on bass and Martin Valahora on Drums. I went to school with these kids and would pay 1 US Dollar to see them play.

Last week my girlfriend and I went to the Blue Note to see them play and it cost well let’s say a lot more; and for what? To watch them play wank jazz/math metal…..I loved every second of it…..

Enjoy.

- Tom

Tom’s Thought Process.

I haven’t been able to sleep since I quit my job and I spend all night researching music and reading, I mean partying super hard and drinking all night on the LES and Williamsburg. 

Here’s a little look into what goes through my mind on a daily basis.

Groove Sunday

The drummer in Santana’s Band was only 19 years old when he played Woodstock. This video footage is also super classic!