Thomas Leeb picked up the guitar for the same reason as some other 13 year-old boys do: he wanted to meet girls. He soon fell in love with the instrument, played his first solo gig at 15 and released his first acoustic guitar album at 17.
Leeb is a frequent performer at concerts and festivals in Asia, the Americas and Europe and has been featured in numerous guitar magazines all over the world. Every year, he teaches workshops and master classes in universities and colleges and his album Desert Pirate was voted one of the top, essential albums of the last 20 years by Acoustic Guitar Magazine.
A sense of timing and groove
His peculiar guitar style owes as much to percussive techniques as traditional fingerstyle guitar. What sets Thomas Leeb apart from some of his contemporaries is his ability to make pyrotechnics serve the music. Three years studying West African traditional music give him a sense of timing and groove that is unusual in a guitarist. All this has earned him a loyal world-wide following and influential fans such as Eric Roche who was his guitar teacher, “for about five minutes and then I heard him play”.
Some review quotes:
Jolly good. Lovely playing, lovely sound – David Gilmour
10/10 Gomms – Jon Gomm
What Thomas does on an acoustic probably shouldn’t be legal – Guthrie Govan
I was his teacher for about five minutes and then I heard him play – Eric Roche
Who: Thomas Leeb
Where: The Thomas Easton, Cape Town
When: Sunday, 2 April, 2017
Tickets: R150
Book: At the pub, email admin@TheThomasEaston.com, or 079 744 3501
Another clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqSDFa8a7xQ
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