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Ross Thomas
Instrument: Drums, Vocals, Percussion, acoustic guitar
Other instruments: Microphone, Slinky, bodily noises, Creative Percussion
Age: 18
Birthday: October, 7 1982
School: homeschool
Hobbies/Other Interests: martial arts, listening to awesome music, praise and worship
Most uplifting moment w/ Grand Café: riding in the car singing praise songs at the top of our
lungs
Favorite Grand Café songs: Make Me Drunk, Light Your Fire In Me Again, I Go Insane
Favorite songs by other bands: Lost the Plot (Newsboys), Perseverance of the Saints
(Supertones), Locked in a Cage (Skillet), Love Song (Third Day)
Favorite praise songs: Jesus Draw Me Close, More Faithful (Skillet), Mercy is Falling
Favorite bands: Supertones, Bush, Blink 182, Everclear, Michael Jackson, Switchfoot, Creed, Our Lady Peace
Biggest musical influences: Travis Barker, Ben Gilles, Robin Goodrich, Tre Cool, Buddy Rich, Gene
Kruper
Equipment: Gibraltar hardware, Zildjian cymbals, Remo heads, Crap drums, Zildjian sticks
(2B, 5B, 5A, 7A,), Pro Mark Hot Rods, Taylor acoustic guitar, Fender Acoustisonics amp
Equipment would like to have: Ayotte drums, Zildjian WhiteGold cymbals, Gibraltar rack
system
Favorite Movie: Braveheart
Marital Status: girls are all psycho. Anyone who begs to differ please e-mail me at grandcafe39@hotmail.com
Favorite color skittle: Green, like the smurfs (adjust your TV!)
Children: . . . and then the producer walked back into the room and Morrison said "Look man, we just played the Sullivan Show."
Favorite article of clothing: my corduroy jacket
Favorite player in the 1973 World Series: Chipper Jones and the guy they named the candy bar after
Favorite Ernest movie: Ernest Goes to Jail
Favorite book: Rogue Warrior-The autobiography of Richard Marcinko, 101 Ways to Wrestle an Alligator
Testimony:
I went from robbing and shooting people to ministering and trying to make a positive difference in people’s lives. I had a girlfriend for a year and a half and she went to the same church as me. My feelings for her completely blinded me from the entire reason that God had brought me to Riverside UMC. Immediately after breaking up with her God began to do incredible things in my life. He started with me getting arrested. That pretty much showed me that I was walking the wrong path. After being grabbed by the collar and having the truth slapped in my face (which is literally what it took), I finally began to see what it was all about. This came after being with Grand Café for almost an entire year. Needless to say our ministry was almost nonexistent. God has blessed this band in so many ways that there’s not enough room to tell them all. Now that he is the only thing in our collective spotlight, and we have fully dedicated ourselves to bringing people to Him, the blessings are uncountable, almost inconceivable. I love Him more than anything in my life and owe Him everything I am.
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