Intervista a Thomas:
So you're not in The Mars Volta anymore, what the fuck happened with all that?
I'll say, I'm a friendly person. I just wanted to have a family vibe around me, and everyone in the Volta is still family to me. For me, it's just like, I'm 25, I won a Grammy, fuckin' shit is weird....I wanna do multiple things, and I don't wanna get burnt out on one thing, plus, I'm younger than everybody, so I take a different approach to life than them....I love everybody in the band, and it's just like, everybody has growing pains and shit.
It definitely seemed as though your presence gave the band new life on some level....
I'm like their little brother! I'm like their little fucked-up crazy brother who smokes weed and does whatever the fuck he wants.....Sometimes it's hard for them to watch me be crazy.....For me, I go out, and I fuckin' go as hard as possible, cuz it's the shit that I have to do. And everybody's not always ready for it, and everybody's not always down to have their little brother around fuckin' with shit and being crazy. And I ask 'em, what were you doin' when you were 25? And they're like, oh alright, they remember....Ya know, you have growing pains dude, and me and Omar talked not even two hours ago, and it's always family between me and him, and everybody in the band, it's just weird times.....
Your first album with The Mars Volta was "The Bedlam In Goliath," your drumming on that album was an absolute assault. How was it to play those songs live?
It was the shit to play live, when I recorded it I was going through it, cuz at that point I figured out what band I was in. Ya know, I learned all the songs so fast, and everything was going so fast, and I didn't have the time to really gather myself, and it was just hella pressure. And Omar would fuck with me, he'd be like, play that shit over and over again, and I'd play some shit that I thought was the tape 15 times to the point where I was angry at him. He knows how to poke at people to a point where they play whatever the fuck he wants them to play.....he made me play the shit out of the drums, I will say....(Laughs)
On a more serious note, bongs or blunts. I had to ask.
Actually I've been smokin' a lot of papers, I dunno man, I'm at a crossroads (Laughs)....cuz people say it takes a lot of life of you, so I've been smokin' zig zags lately, but most people probably wouldn't believe that shit. But that's only been going on for two weeks though....I gotta take blunts man, cuz I'm 'bout to go home tomorrow and I will tell you that I'ma smoke a blunt when I get home (Laughs).
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