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Chris Tomson

@therealCT1

Dams of the West/Vampire Weekend/American by birth, Mid-Atlantic by the Grace of God

damsofthewest.comJoined May 2013

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I’m currently fully embracing the two great loves of my 16 year old self: jambands and Nets basketball. Here I am being the Ben Simmons (highly skilled w unique versatility) of podcast guests w

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New episode of @BKGlueGuys Most exciting Brooklyn Nets things with @therealCT1 from Vampire Weekend. Kyrie ‘Chip on the Shoulder’ Season! Ben Simmons with Shooters! IGOR!!!!!!!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mos

youtube.com/watch?v=vc9vLq

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Halfway to the GLOW (Grammy/Latin Grammy/Oscar/Wookie) !!!!

wook+ and Taper's Choice

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Honestly the biggest honor Anyone’s ever bestowed on us for music. … and I’m not sure how many @RecordingAcad Grammys @therealCT1 has. twitter.com/wookplus/statu…

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Me traveling to

summer tour today

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Very Spooky Rebecca Zimmerman MSW

Dude in a banana costume on 5am flight from Denver to St. Louis.

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Taper’s Halloween run 👻😇🙏

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Join us for THE TAPER’S BALL!

4 rare and important sets of music over 2 nights on the weekend before Halloween. Only @golddiggers_la - tickets on sale NOW: dice.fm/bundles/tapers

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Great minds !!

@pocarisweat_jp

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@uzumaki25952842

VampireWeekendとFoalsのドラマーが着てるポカリのTシャツ欲しくなってきた

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Tix 👇 etix.com/ticket/p/23293

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The Choice debut in mountain time. The journey to Red Rocks starts

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… I’m already working the back channels for a Jokić sit in

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Who’s coming ?

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The Nets I know and love? We’re back babyyyyyy!!!

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If I’m being honest I prob like the toad design more…but it would an abhorrent dereliction of duty as a NJ-native to not be smashing the rt button here

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Help me decide what @taperschoice shirt I should make next. Like for Lick the Toad and Retweet for Garden State Taper’s

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The web’s first and only source for Taper’s Choice merch. Taperschoicegoods.com

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Vampire Weekend was filming a concert for MTV (in 3D!) in Turin and we happened to be in the only 5 block radius in Italy without live tv. I was frantically refreshing my blackberry (lol) until “USA 0” changed to “USA 1”

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12th anniversary of Landon Donovan speeding in like a YT-1300 Corellian Light Freighter to score, inspire Ian Darke to Poet Laureate-levels "You could not write a script like this!" & act as a turning point for the Men's game here. Where did you watch & what do you remember?

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“We’re a jamband, by the way. Thank you!” -

, at the very end of

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6’10’22 just dropped and it is pure

archive.org/details/tc2022

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UPDATE: Conditions on site are clean running smoothly. Thanks to the local grounds crew for getting us where we need to be. Doors are at 3 and parking is TERRIBLE (true). The Choice hits at 8. Plan accordingly.

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“A Go Go” tease at 2:52 in “Lick the Toad” from

…lovely night last Thursday at the Gospel Flat Farm Stand in Bolinas 🙏

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6 ❜ 9 ❜ 22. Snuck this sneaky private gig onto the archive : archive.org/details/tc2022

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This a good one! The Choice cannon grows…

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CHOICE TAPES VOL. 3! The most fully realized Vol. In the Choice Tapes series is now available. taperschoice.bandcamp.com/album/choice-t

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IT’S HERE! CHOICE FEST SCHEDULE FINALLY REVEALED! Single day tix: dice.fm/event/353d8-ch

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To whom it may concern (

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?): please add the “Tequila” tease at 7:01 in the 5’6’22 “The Dave Test (Yes)” where

helpfully and audibly shouts “Tequila” relisten.net/tapers-choice/

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So this exists …. Taperschoice.net

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Baby’s first SBD! You can take my word for it or just listen but this was def our best show yet (until the next one)

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5 ❜ 13 ❜ 22 in Big Sur is now available on the archive and ReListen. High quality SBD! archive.org/details/tc2022

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Not albums per se…just Choice Tapes. Avail now to listen!!

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Taperschoice.Bandcamp.com is now live! Purchase choice tapes volume 1 and 2 digitally.

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Taper’s in NYC (aka Jam Hollywood) on 4/24. Very nice of

to do a 4-night pre party for our big east coast debut

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4 ❜ 24 ❜ 22 TAPER’S TAKE NYC. @RelixMag presents: @TheSultanRoom rooftop sunset. 2 sets. Early! Doors at 6, music at 7. DJ @jesselauter all night. Flyer: @dnorsen_design (we’re not worthy!) See ya there, the day after New Year’s Day, ya freaks! Tix: link.dice.fm/Dbcc726c5fffF

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Here’s the thing, guys. Goose is way more reminiscent of Vampire Weekend than of Phish.

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Tapes: released

Taper's Choice Live at Gold Diggers on 2022-03-11 : Free Download,...

Taper's ChoiceMarch 11,2020Gold DiggersLos Angeles, CASource: Zoom f8n 24bitCh 5&6: Telefunken M60 FET/TK 62 (hypers) - XYLocation: Clamped to 2nd pole rail...

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We are really doing this damn thing

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@taperschoice

set at @golddiggers_la last night

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Good news…the boys will be hitting the greater Bay this summer

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Huichica 2022 has Woods, ESG, Turnover, and a new Real Estate/Vampire Weekend/Darkside supergroup called Taper's Choice bit.ly/3MhG4oQ

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Taper's Choice Gold Diggers Residency Tickets | From Free | 11 Mar 2022 @ Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles...

At long last, Taper's Choice make their much anticipated return to Gold Diggers. Complete with unfathomably special guests and DJs — all 3 of these residency...

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Bad news…the boys need a week to recuperate but will be back full force on 3/11 #311

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Boy.. Man… God… Shit. Dave had his appendix out. 3’11 we ride HIGH ! bit.ly/346C7Sr

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This Friday!!

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STACKED BILL! INSANE GUESTS! Tix: bit.ly/3hnQ0in Flyer: @dnorsen_design cc: @dharringtone @therealCT1 @B3RobertWalter @golddiggers_la @AlexFreaker

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🥯👀🥯 (only at the

show next Friday 👇)

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Thunder Shout dyes ONLY AT THE SHOW! Tickets : bit.ly/3oQoI8h

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My new jamband is coming back…3 Friday nights to the dome in LA. Full run tix sold out but single show passes still available. These shows are so fun, hope to see you there!!

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SINGLE TIX dice.fm/event/xr23m-ta

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We were so young twitter.com/cunningpscott/

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Trey and Adam Duritz overlapping at prep school…has this ever been properly investigated?!

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First show at

@golddiggers_la

on 12’10’21…come hang and lets all see what happens!!

Taper's Choice with Eric D. Johnson Tickets | From Free | 10 Dec 2021 @ Gold-Diggers, Los Angeles |...

Taper’s Choice is a new band from greater California comprised of Alex Bleeker (Real Estate), Dave Harrington (DARKSIDE), Zach Tenorio-Miller (Arc Iris), and...

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Couldn’t be more excited about it. Getting to know and play with

and Zach Tenorio-Miller has been incredible. Great mix of personalities and musicalities. We’re basically the Silk Sonic of jam bands…

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I have achieved the CT singularity: I am officially in a jam band now 🙏

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First show ever show @golddiggers_la with Eric from @Fruit_Bats 12’10’21

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I got to see this and it’s v v good! Literally all the Haim’s are 📈📈📈 rn!!

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Licorice pizza out this Christmas.

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These will be my exact thoughts after Outside Lands

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felt good being back out there with the guys let’s go Brooklyn

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RIP to Phil Schaap, a man who deeply influenced how I hear and think about music (jazz and otherwise). Such an honor to precede Bird Flight on

and learn, get corrected and occasionally receive a mind-expanding LP from the man himself 🙏

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you beauty. A moving origin story of our very own reverse Ted Lasso. Thanks for continuing to bring courage and joy to so many 🙏🦅

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I grabbed the last one

but you should go find your own copy of

‘s funny and touching memoir!! Easily the highlight of Dams LP1 was playing The Best Show, such an honor...

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Legitimately not sure if my nervous system can handle this current Nets run...Forgot how stressful it is when your team is actually good 🥵

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