NAMM 2015 - Thomas Pridgen | John Popper | Ben Weinman | Pete Griffin | Alexander Potts - GoPro 

yup yup and yup. I don't think there is a greatest of all time, just preference for sure. "organized chaos" is the perfect thing to say about his style. somebody once listened to Mars Volta and said he "couldn't find the beat'..ha..he was too straight laced for this sound. long beats. ridiculous. benny greb so different from this, but just as awesome, so yea..preference

I actually think Thomas's playing is akin to buddy, he's often spoken highly of him and to hear him talk, to me it sounds like Thomas is buddy's #1 student/fan. If you watch his stick handling and the brashness of every note, it's like buddy rich reincarnate. The only difference is the years of gospel and jazz influence Thomas has, and that makes it a playing style of his own. I think people like buddy and thomas can sit down and make anyone's song sound better but they're both so naaasty, they need to have their own band that follows them to really maximize their vision. Buddy did, but I don't think thomas even wants to. He just wants to keep learning and improving off of other people's compositions. Sorry, Thomas has been my hero ever since I was cutting my teeth on the kit 15 years ago, when I was only in 8th grade.

But yeah, I agree. There's no "the best"

Picasso is a pice of shit. He is a Michelangelo of drums.

Thanks man... so do we \m/

this dude would kill at church....lol

John Mehew We try man, thank you..

billy rymer is no fucking slouch, man. dillinger is incredible as is...not that pridgen isn't a legend too.

Billy Rymer is incredible. Dillinger are amazing as they are. If Thomas was the drummer for Dillinger that would be unbelievable. I'm not taking away from the current members at all.

Samuel Keeler that’s funny cause billy said a big influence in his sound was pridgen’s style of drumming in the Mars Volta and you can clearly see and hear the similarities in their playing.

Whilst this would've been cool, Thomas doesn't have the double bass ability to play the back catalogue so he'd either need to sharpen that up or they would've had to write all new material without any double kick.

Billy ryhmer will eat thomas up.

+Bodi Stern Bumped with the thump from the bass drum!

And you didn’t in this video.

or at least see ben

+SammyHDR Mendoza literally the highest level of paradiddle-diddle XD

+SammyHDR Mendoza That's what I call time travel.

Thats just really fast blushda's i think

@@painlessly_bc sorry to dissapoint you, but it's not a paradidlediddle... it's actually made of single notes, accented on each bassdrum he plays. the thing is that it's so fast it looks like something else, but its not.

@@bad_keyzi Bingo! I literally played it today and was like, "DAMN! That was easy!" But oh it looks nice!

no creo que haya cambiado de marca , en zildjian tiene sus platillos preferidos

Nah, this was just a booth kit at namm, not his gear.

+Ben ! All sabian. it'a an HHX Legacy Heavy Ride, Vault Artisan hats and crashes, and a 12" HHX splash

He is . He was just playing what they had

***** tony rosyter, eric moore

Ronald Bruner, nick smith, John Blackwell

Eric Moore is good but not on same league. For tony , it's a tie

Eric is just as good as any of these guys.

Javier Mejia bruner's just a wanker dude, don't count him

Found out? They would say it is Salsa, but because it is fast, I'd consider it to be called Fusion Songo. Look -Songo/songo drumming- up.

Splash: sabian hhx Ride: Sabian Legacy Hihat: Sabian Legacy HHX Crash: Sabian Artisian (ambos) De nada :)

Graias bro!