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Thomas Armon Pridgen (born November 23 1983 in Alameda County, California) is the current drummer for The Mars Volta.
gen won the Guitar Center Drum-Off at age 9 and at age 10 was the youngest recipient for a Zildjian endorsement in the nearly 400 year history of the company. Thomas has studied with David Garibaldi, Walfredo Reyes Jr, Troy Luketta, and Curtis Nutall. He is endorsed by DW Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, Vater Drumsticks.
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Thomas Armon Pridgen (born November 23 1983 in Alameda County, California) is the current drummer for The Mars Volta.
Biography
Pridgen won the Guitar Center Drum-Off at age 9 and at age 10 was the youngest recipient for a Zildjian endorsement in the nearly 400 year history of the company. Thomas has studied with David Garibaldi, Walfredo Reyes Jr, Troy Luketta, and Curtis Nutall. He is endorsed by DW Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Evans Drumheads, Vater Drumsticks. Thomas was also the recipient of a 4 year scholarship to Berklee College of Music in 1999 at the age of 15; he was youngest musician to ever receive this scholarship. He has played in clinics with Walfredo Reyes, Jr. and Dennis Chambers. By his teenage years he had already done studio sessions with many Bay Area Gospel artists.
In 2007, Pridgen received a call from Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta:
Pridgen's style on Bedlam in Goliath used "blistering 32nd-note full-set combinations, stunning single-stroke rolls, and blazing single bass drum patterns" along with creative and precise paradiddle technique.
Thomas Pridgen has been voted as Best Up and Coming Drummer by Modern Drummer magazine beating Benny Greb.
Besides his work with The Mars Volta, he has also been involved with Christian Scott and Wicked Wisdom. Thomas for some time, was working with singer Keyshia Cole as her live and session drummer and being her music director. He also was featured along side with Tony Royster Jr., Eric Moore and others in drumming dvd entitled "Shed Sessions", a Gospel Chops DVD.
Thomas will also be featured on the Modern Drummer 2008 DVD.
Discography
Equipment
- Drums - Clear Acrylic DW Drums
- A. 14x6.5 copper snare
- B. 12x8 tom
- C. 13x9 tom
- D. 15x13 floor tom
- E. 16x14 floor tom
- F. 18x16 floor tom
- G. 24x20 bass drum
- Cymbals - Zildjian
- 1. 2x18” A Custom crashes (used as HiHats)
- 2. 20” A Armand ride
- 3. 24” A medium ride
- 4. 18" A Custom crash, 8" Oriental splash, 16" oriental china x2 (four cymbals stacked)
- 5. 20” A Custom crash
- 6. 19” K Custom Hybrid China
- 7. 20” Oriental Crash Of Doom
- Drum Sticks - various Vater models (BA for non-rock gigs)
- Drum Heads - Evans G2 snare batter with Hazy 300 snare side, clear G2s on tops of toms (or EC2 clear) with Resonant clears underneath, clear EQ3 on bass drum batter with EQ3 on front (with small hole)
- Hardware - DW 9000 Series hardware and pedals
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