 DAVE
THOMAS
Drums
Dave began studying drums and percussion as a
lad of 9 years. As a youth he studied with local player Tom Hagstrom,
Robert Adney (Minnesota Orchestra) and attended master classes
with Gordy Knutsen (Steve Miller Band) and Marv Dahlgren (Minnesota
Orchestra). At St. Olaf College Dave studied theory/composition
with Paul Hindemith student Arthur Campbell. He has been playing
original rock, jazz, orchestral music and the occasional wedding
polka in the Twin Cities scene since graduating from St. Olaf
in 1992. Those he has played with include Brother Son Sister Moon
co-founder Barb Cohen and Little Lizard, jazz pianist Don Stille,
Christian folk composer John Micheal Talbot, and a long list of
local acts, including his current band, Terramara, with fellow
Steely Banned mate Karl Koopmann. Dave is an active teacher and
studio rat (mostly at Bloomington, MN, recording studio Soliton,
co-owned by his brother Andrew Thomas and Greazy Meal alum Jeremy
Ylvisaker). He dreams not of joining the human race, but having
a recording studio in the country, up on the hill where people
never stare, drinking Scotch whiskey all night long, and reducing
his chiropractic bills by hiring a roadie.
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