Thomas Erak - What Sound Does a Mastodon Make? (Live on the Quaranstream)

Where to catch future streams: / tomserak
Donate to fund future musical endeavors: www.paypal.me/tomserak
Twitter: / thomas_of_troy
Instagram: / tommy_dip
Editor: Dominic Robles
Producer: Mike | [e-mail]
Song Written and Performed by: Thomas Erak

[@HHFan420]

Unreal, Thomas Erak quietly became one of the best guitarists of our generation. Can't imagine how many of us he has influenced.

[@TheFBK69]

Thoman Erak and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez completely changed my perception of what someone can do with a guitar.

[@gognoggler7326]

Quietly, though?

[@jondoe1916]

I agree but I wouldn’t say quietly. TFOT is one of the best and most popular bands in the genre and Thomas is the front man.

[@schizophreniagaming4058]

@@jondoe1916yeah. Wouldn’t be surprised if he influenced a lot of Mathcore as a whole.

[@thejrfanclub628]

how does a 17 yr old write these riffs. still blows my mind to this day... Thomas truly is a genius.

[@tomace194]

This is the closest to a hendrix of our time as far as creativeness and raw thrash prog madness

[@zackarywhitfield8832]

So tell me, where'd you get those pretty little eyes? These!? Yeah! These!?

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

So tell me, where’d you get those pretty lol thighs?! YEAHHHHH

[@nolanbell7685]

Most hype part of the song for me

[@eshrug]

damn i remember seeing this live in san antonio in like 2007 and it changed my life. hope all is well man!

[@kukindal]

This is my all time favorite TFOT song and it's not close. I've been a die hard listener since like 2004 and still to this day my favorite band. I grew up and live close to Mukilteo which is another reason why I think I supported you guys so hard. I've been to countless shows at El Corazon - One of my favorite memories was when you brought someone's sister (I think?) on to the stage to sing "where'd you get those pretty little eyes, 'THESE?'". It was awesome. Spotify told me I was in the top 0.05% of listeners last year, my wife gave me so much shit for that. Keep making music, I'll be listening.

[@DopeboySpoon]

We may have crossed paths more than a few times, I swear I was at El Corazon once a month for a year and a half just to see The Fall of Troy. My absolute favorite show was when they headlined with Fear Before the March of Flames and HORSE the band. I was 17 years old with my best friends, crowd-surfing for the first time. Amazing times.

[@sizasman]

Man, how the hell does one come up with this stuff? What a legend.

[@thejrfanclub628]

he done a lot of drugs that boy has

[@snougy8489]

@@thejrfanclub628 yes, yes he has

[@skylmt69]

not to mention when this song came out (self title album) the group were all still in high school!!

[@SikeiOK]

so is this his oficial channel now?

[@tomserak]

yes :)

[@yijieneng648]

Now I know what sound Mastodon makes. Thank you

[@i.m.22]

Really one of the most creative guitar Players of the Last 20 years! Keep it up Thomas, love your Music!

[@yfukitol]

One of the favorites track with distorted guitars. Pure genius!

[@normanaguilar9183]

Such a sick song

[@phant0mdummy]

Me, struggling to play Wonderwall.

[@IAmTheOnlyMrDaryl]

I never get tired of hearing you play. Fucking legend!

[@eb6107]

Having a blast watching all of these videos little by little to stretch it out as much as possible. Saw y’all in December in LA, didn’t think I’d ever see you guys live again before I found out about the show. Thanks for posting, be well man.

[@oscarmorales1621]

Im from Puerto Rico! Fall of Troy was really popular in the music scene! But not a lot of people could figure out their music. I tried get some of the tunes by ear and what I found in tabs. And every time I play one of FOT riff people thought I was the greatest guitarists of the world hahah imagine if would had this channel by then 🤣🤣 i sub hands down your my high school idol!

[@ramonmorales6831]

This is amazing thank you so much for showcasing this simply beautiful pure talent im really glad this exists

[@RAMENn00dleb0y]

Getting to see this live is still one of my best memories ever. That fucking Chicago show in 2014 man, god damn you had that place rocking. Love seeing you active. The new project was sick too

[@thomasdonaldson3523]

That's my boy! I see him at the ottobar on occasion 😎

[@demuv9864]

Have you guys considered remastering this song? Dammn is one of my favorites!

[@matyashlavacek]

That would actually be amazing

[@jacobeagy7526]

Insanely good. Representing my state of WA

[@huntermauk9601]

Was Orchid/Blood Brothers an influence on this song? The vocals at 6:00 are so intense it has always reminded me of parts from Chaos is Me or Burn Piano Island.

[@RyanJones0]

vaguely remembering some type of connection with mark from the blood brothers

[@Malaisemads]

In his stream yesterday talking about influences he mentioned Blood Brothers/Burn Piano Island so that's very possible

[@xFuzzyxPicklesx]

reminds me of hot cross/ saetia

[@michellebussey7219]

I’d listen to this on the trolley in my iPod 😊

[@michellebussey7219]

Hands put me to this 😢

[@alexanderhetlinger3294]

This was very helpful for me learning this song. When you coming back to Albuquerque? My band can open for you. 😁

[@bryansantana4597]

Super awesome man !! How did you learn this ??

[@RecoveringMusicAddict]

Damn bruh

[@michellebussey7219]

I know those

[@alexmychajlowskij2692]

Can someone please explain the part at 2:38 the tab ive seen is not what he is doing.

[@jonmakack1905]

Disturbing levels of creativity..

[@ViltrumiteIsRite99]

TFOT and Dance Gavin Dance will always be my favorite bands when it comes to this.

[@joebuczkowski8605]

Talk your way out of this. Where's your vocal chords? I'd love to beat drum heads to this shit. You should have sang along.😺😹I cried like a cat I'm losing all hope. Thanks for making these quarantine tubes?

[@imendes88]

are u human? :D