Thomas Lang

And, and I love when that happens, you know.

Like, oh, uh, well, a classic example of that is a student came to me with, uh, uh, Thomas Lang's first video.

And I'd, I'd never heard of him.

I didn't know anything about it, you know? And sure enough, I went and got the video.

And, and, you know, okay.

And then you ...

If they don't, if they're not organized like a Thomas Lang, if it's just, like, a new thing, then I'll, maybe I'll transcribe it.

Maybe I'll work on it.

So he went in.

You know what amazed me? It's Thomas Lang, that you were...

Thomas

Lang.

So I was on an e-kit for a little bit.

But when I moved, I mean, I went back home to L.A. And I started taking lessons with Thomas Lang.

Oh, wow.

Which is pretty crazy.

I just kind of tucked them in the back of my brain for like, either someone to jam with in the future.

Cause he was like, he was playing with all these other drummer guys, you know, he's kind of doing a solo thing and he, you know, was playing with Benny Greb and just some real Thomas Lang, like some real amazing players, you know, out of my league for sure.

As the years went by, it was sort of just kept in touch and had always reached out to him and be like, yeah, if we ever get an opportunity, we should jam together at some point.

When Brett was out of the band, you know, we obviously needed another guitar player so he's the first

And that's how it was.

But it was getting to the point where it was – um, like initially it wasn't happening every song, but it was getting to the point where it was happening all the time and, and just, you know, and I'd read Thomas Lang had had it and had had the operation and had come good, you know, um, So anyway, in the end, I just sort of looked into it, bit the bullet, because I don't like the idea of, you know, cutting myself open.

Cutting the end,

hurry up.

Dude, it was exceptional and it was unique and it was, you know, it was the perfect timing and there was no, you know, you you came along at an interesting time in my life because i was having some interesting issues with my neck you know i've got like some issues with my lower every drummer's got something going on with their lower back right and so um you know you became really a really powerful resource drummechanics.com really really awesome thing we'll talk about how that came about and if people are just listening to this they don't know what you look like you're a very well proportioned height weight proportionate guy very fit guy and i love that logo stratum i gotta get a strata shirt man that's a cool i'll send you one i just took

one to thomas lang i'll send you one

no a lot of logos suck and and a lot of like corporate t-shirts are just like oh that's sad i would never ever wear that i don't care if it's free you know it's like the crew guys on a rock tour it's like their entire wardrobe is free black and white t-shirts it's hilarious but Hilarious.

But no, and it was probably the only presentation in the history of the Progressive Arts Society where there was a skeleton on stage.

Like I grew up in a small town home landing north of Toronto.

I really wanted to be a pro drummer.

I loved watching, you know, like I loved all the crazy guys, like the Virgil Donati, Thomas Langs, the physicality, because I am an athlete myself.

But then like watching Dennis Chambers and all these guys with the fat back groove and all those ghost notes, just like all of it got me fired up.

Right after that, Aaron Jones goes, and Jackson Dart goes, and Billy's on the clock.

I'm on the clock, and I would love to have Mr. Thomas Lang help me with this.

So right around in the ninth round is when I've been taking my Trevor Lawrence pick here, and I don't think he's going to.

Now, if I was in a normal league and it wasn't Sleeper, I would not be grabbing Lawrence here because the other teams all have quarterbacks.