With some 40 years of professional experience, Creig serves as Director of the Drum Program at Atlanta Institute of Music (AIM). He is the author of the "Drum Techniques" curriculum taught in AIM's classrooms. Creig has been with AIM since 1991.

Creig's professional music background includes stints with such artists as The Drifters, The Platters, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, B.J. Thomas, Bo Diddley, The Brothers Brooks, and many others. While performing with The Brothers Brooks, Creig toured seven European countries and throughout the Southeastern United States

Creig began his music career in high school and majored in music at Alabama's Jacksonville State University where he played snare in the drum corps and was Percussion Section Leader in the symphony. He went on to teach several high school drum lines and was a clinician at the 1992 DCI Summer Games.

Currently a session drummer and Orchestra Director at Mt. Paran Church in Marietta, Creig recently traveled to Russia and the Pacific Northwest with Mt. Paran, and has recorded several CDs with the organization.

He has also served as a judge for the Southeastern National Teen Talent competition.

In addition to his work at AIM and Mt.Paran, Creig frequently records at various studios in Atlanta and tours the Southeast with different musical groups.
 

"Tom has the ability to make any contemporary musical situation sound and feel great with just the right amount of fire, feel, and groove. His dedication to the instrument should be admired by all, and he is purely professional in every aspect." - Dave Weckl

"Tom's technique is clean, precise, contemporary, and extremely musical." - Modern Drummer magazine

"Drummer Tom Knight actually "out-Weckls" Dave at times with his precision combination of single/double stroke technique around the drumkit and his strong sense of funk fusion grooves."- Mike Haid - Modern Drummer Magazine

"This is the difference: Other drummers play to the click, but with Tom Knight, the click plays to HIM." - Michael McKnight - Programmer for TLC, Madonna and Mariah Carey

"Unbelievable! Totally Awesome! Tom is a human MPC 3000!". - Dallas Austin

Tom Knight has exclusive endorsements with YAMAHA DRUMS, ZILDJIAN CYMBALS, VIC FIRTH DRUMSTICKS, and REMO DRUMHEADS

RECORDS AND TOURS

TLC: Fanmail

TLC: 3D

TLC tours: 1999-present

TLC: Unpretty Remixes: Germany and Australia

Monica: The Boy is Mine

Monica: Makings of Me

Texas: Greatest Hits

Texas: Song Book: Best of Texas

Doria Roberts: Radio Doria

Doria Roberts: Restoration

Doria Roberts: Woman Dangerous

Joi Gilliam: Star Kitty's Revenge

Joi Gilliam: Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome

Rehab: Graffiti the World

Shawn Desman: Back for More

Bill Hart: Subject to Change

Bill Hart: This is Why

Adam Nitti: Liquid Blue

Adam Nitti: Balance

Adam Nitti:

Pat Walsh: Egghead

FLED Motion Picture Soundtrack

WOO Motion Picture Soundtrack
 

Eric Sanders is a drummer and classical percussionist, originally from New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and was awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate in Classical Percussion Performance from Penn State and went for his Masters Degree in Jazz Performance on the drumset at NYU. He studied with John Riley and Dom Famularo, as well as taking some private lessons with Jojo Mayer and Mike Clark. One of the main drum instructors at the Atlanta Institute of Music, Eric has been teaching, gigging and recording in Atlanta since 1996 and has toured throughout the U.S. and overseas, working with numerous groups and artists that run the gamut of musical styles. He has released 2 solo percussion CD's on his own label, Flam Five Records, and is currently working on a 3rd disc, as well as writing a snare drum book.