***With Golden
Golden
Super Golden Original Movement
Golden Summer
Apollo Stars
***With HiM
New Features
Five & Six In Dub
Our Point Of Departure
***With Royal Trux
3-Song EP (1998)
Veterans of Disorder (1999)
***With Will Oldham
Ease Down the Road
***With Trans Am
Illegal Ass EP
The Red Line LP (2000)
***With Utada
Exodus
***With The Fucking Am
Gold (2004)
***With The Mars Volta
Tremulant EP (2002)
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
Live EP (2003)
Frances the Mute (2005)
Scabdates (2005)
Amputechture (2006)
***With SaberTooth Tiger
Death Valley b/w Love Money (GSL 12th Anniversary Single)
Extinction Is Inevitable LP (2006)
***With Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo (2007)
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ONE DAY AS A LION
One Day As a Lion is a band consisting of Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha and former The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore[1]. So far their genre is unknown being as they have just been signed with Anti-Records July 1st 2008.
One Day as a Lion's first, self-titled EP is due out July 22nd.
The confirmed titles for the EP are as follows:
1. Wild International
2. Ocean View
3. Last Letter
4. If You Fear Dying
5. One Day As A Lion
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“A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore from Los Angeles, California.”
“The name taken from the infamous 1970 black and white, captured by legendary Chicano photographer George Rodriguez featuring a center framed tag on a white wall in an unspecified section of Boyle Heights. It reads: ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand years as a lamb.’ This record is a stripped down attempt to realize this sentiment in sound.”
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JON PHILLIP THEODORE
Theodore first started playing drums at the age of 15. He was soon involved with his high school concert band at Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland, and took lessons on a full kit shortly after. It was at this point that he studied percussion and learned how to map arrangements; dedicated practice had already become a daily habit. He also listened to a great variety of music, growing to love the likes of Billy Cobham, Elvin Jones and John Bonham. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.
Around the end of his time in high school, he joined the band Golden and recorded and toured with them for ten years. He also played with Royal Trux for a year-and-a-half. It was during this time that he met Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, who were performing their first gig with their experimental dub band DeFacto in El Paso, TX. They became friends and the former At the Drive-In duo would later invite Theodore to join their Latin-tinged prog-rock band, The Mars Volta. Theodore was The Mars Volta's drummer from 2001 to 2006. On July 30, 2006, it was announced that Jon Theodore would be permanently replaced. He was quoted in Modern Drummer: "It was long overdue and unquestionably the best thing for everyone involved. We had a great run of things, made some decent records, blew it up for a minute, and had some really great times. But the life ran out of it. I’m currently working on some pretty sweet tunes for a new project. The details will follow once it takes shape."
Theodore has also completed working with Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine for his forthcoming solo album.[1]
In addition he is now a member of the band Holloys.[2]
Theodore is also an avid surfer.
[edit] Influences
Theodore draws inspiration from many different forms of music but those most prevalent in his playing are jazz, fusion, and rock. He has also touched upon another factor which adds to his individual style - "Then there's a whole bunch of stuff from Haïti because my dad's Haïtian. My favorite Haïtian drummer is this guy called Azor... ...The Haïtian music that moves me has the drumming from the voodoo rituals. It moves me because the patterns are connected to different spirits; it's a spiritual thing that is interconnected with dancing, sacrifice and devotion. It's fully passionate. There is nothing contrived about it."
In interviews he regularly cites Billy Cobham of The Mahavishnu Orchestra as his main drumming influence: "My all-time favorite drummer is Billy Cobham. I love the way he plays... ...[his] playing is so natural, powerful and dynamic at the same time. I pattern a lot of stuff after him.". He has also been heavily inspired by John Bonham of Led Zeppelin: "He had one of the best feels in the history of rock... ...because [of him] I try and play with as much bombast as I possibly can."
I just got my first piece of my stainless kit I'm trying to piece together,the 14x10 tom.It only has 6 lugs on top and bottom.Does yours have 6 or 8? The reason Im asking 14x10 toms usually have 8 lugs, dont they?
