Kevin M. Thomas

Winners of The 1rst AMA Music Awards!

The Winners of the first AMA (Anthology Music Awards) Awards with categories as created & picked by your fans across the grid are as follows & listed in no specific order:

Best Rock ~ Allister Westland
Best Acoustic ~ Phiona Ember
Best Live DJ ~ Mik Rosenfeld
Best New Live Artis ~ Sphere Quan
Best Jazz ~ Bones Writer
Best Instrumental ~ OneHempcat Oldrich
Best Folk ~ Frogg Marlowe & Jaycat Nicco
Best New Age ~ Jana Kyomoon
Best Duo ~ Erin68 Frog & Satin Galli
Best Venue ~ Hips West/Heron Island Performance Space/Carter Liveoak & Gillian Carthage
Best Female Artist ~ Grace McDunnough
Most Popular Artist ~ KevinMThomas Carpool

AMA Awards Info.
An Award for each in world music category list is created by the music fans (Peeps) and Best of chosen by the music fans (Peeps) of the in world every three months. Winners of AMA awards with be honored every three months by an award ceremony hornoring them as well recieving a copy of the AMA award with thier given achievement noted on the award with thier name. A duplicate of the award will be placed in the AMA award room with the artist or venue, name, picture, and bio information. Nomonations, as well category is made by the fans (Peeps), and voting is also made by the fans (Peeps) at Anthology and across the grid at venues with the AMA voting vendor. The vendor comes in 1 prim board, or a 3 prim newstand and due to it's scripting has to be placed by Trella McMahon, however you can contact also Tantulous Lupindo to make an appointment for your AMA voting vendor. Please do contact us for the vendor to be placed at your venue of this wonderful award that honors all working in live music in world grid wide as chosen by the fans.

Congratulations to one and all, THANK YOU ALL for the unending joy and work you each do in making live music what it is in world today as well as in our future! Please look for a note coming soon for an awards date set in Feb. 2009 at a time good for each of the above winners during a black tie & gown awards event. Contact either Trella McMahon or tantulous Lupindo to come up with a time and date good for everyone to attend if possible! Please too do encourage your fans to vote at the AMA voting vendors now going grid wide in the next go round of the next AMA Awards now in progress! For your own AMA voting vendor or one for a venue you would like to see it in please contact as well Trella McMahon or Tantulous Lupindo. - Trella McMahon

Why does everyone IM me when I'm reviewing but leave me totally alone when I'm free and got nothing to do!

Here's someone with a fascinating sound and a huge personality, and did I mention he can really belt out his tunes. I cannot recall hearing a guy in Second Life really belting this much like the way Kevin does and his voice is absolutely powerful. It certainly can fill a stadium if that opportunity ever arise.

He has a lot of original music, at least a CD worth in fact. But again we run into the fact that he plays a ton more covers then he does his originals. Though when he does his originals, he tells it very clearly and made sure we know it's an original and that's absolutely fantastic.

Well KevinMThomas Carpool does have solid voice and...

... very polished and strong performance. But comparing the sounds on his Myspace, I much rather hear him sing his own songs. He has this really big personality, yelling out to the audience as if he's standing at a real life stage with an audience there. [Update: Though at times it was a tad bit too much. But I suppose that's what this music is.]

He called out my name a couple of times, I think he read my profile in the show and doesn't know who I really am. I guess my name hasn't made it to his circle yet. Boy will he be surprised, hopefully for the better.

His original songs are really fantastic and I think better then any of the covers he did. His voice really works for his own stuff cause there are a lot of very high sustained notes and he does them very brilliantly. He really has a solid tenor voice and his higher range is really much stronger then his lower range, a rarity in Second Life for sure.

His original song "My Everything" works really well for him. It has a nice hook, but mostly I love the harmonies he uses and the way he puts space in his music. It has an unusual quality to it that is close enough to home to feel comfortable in, but interesting enough to be actually well, interesting. And you can definitely hear the influences of metal music in this songs for sure aside from the screaming like singing.

His cover of Guns and Roses, name of song I don't know, really show off his high range which is what he does best. And I am just glad he stepped back a little from the mic and balanced his voice with it. He knows exactly what he sounds like across the stream and knows how to work his set up to get the best sounds out. But when he covered U2's "With or without you," it showed that his lower range really isn't as strong as his higher singer. But it was still good enough to listen to until he gets back to belting.

Kevin's package works. The personality works with his original music and I think he can really draw people to his shows. It's always interesting to see how different performers interact with the crowd. I think Kevin may just be a little too prying into the audience sometimes with looking at profiles. It does add pauses to the performance. It's really tricky really to get that balance right though. I'm always working on that. I am an avid believer that a live online performer cannot have dead air. Not that Kevin had much. I'm sure there were very good reasons for them. But imagine if you heard those dead air on your over the airwave radio station. You'd probably not go back. We are more understanding in Second Life as an audience and by no means do I want anyone to teleport away if a performer has dead air. I just want performers to keep that in mind. There are more and more online live streaming events. Youtube has a live streaming section. A lot of people have off world streams. The advantage we have is the visual in SL so we can do it from home and not actually have to get a camera and all that good stuff. But with a growing online live streaming community outside of Second Life, we gotta stay ahead of the game and one up everything to create a even more solid show.

I love Kevin's sound, I really do. I think he's got some great stuff, especially his originals. I am really enjoying his talk too. I also gotten more used to it by the end of the concert. I think if he could tighten up the talking to get more stuff going on, or even just make some random noise with the guitar to tail slightly into his talk. Cause when he sings, I feel like I'm in a real concert. When he talks I feel like I'm in a concert. But when there's that few seconds of near silence, I hear his living room, if that's what a living room sounds like. Seriously I literally felt like I just teleported from an awesome concert for a brief second into someone's bland living room, then seconds later back to an awesome concert. It was really bizarre. It happened like two or three times throughout the whole concert.

But do check out KevinMThoma Carpool in Second Life and outside. It's some pretty solid stuff that's definitely worth checking out especially if you like some good new rock tunes. - Metaverse Music

I finally went to a KevinMThomas Carpool show. I see his name all over the place and finally got a chance to see him play. I have to say, I really enjoyed it. I took a seat on a crate right up front and pretty much kept to myself while I listened to him playing a mixture of his own music and cover songs. He did an acoustic cover of AC/DC’s Highway to Hell that was pretty cool, but I enjoyed his original songs more. If you haven’t seen him in either life, you should. - Portia Munz

“Just a small town boy, he took the midnight train going anywhere.” Modella MissitaliaSL, Gaia Ferrentino on stage next to KevinMThomas Carpool as he lights up the stage in a beautiful set covering classic rock. Rolling the dice one more time, as the models of Italia sat poised on the edge of the runway serenaded by the sweet sound of live guitar and cool vocals of KevinMThomas Carpool.

He heats up the night with Roxanne, And the lyrics just come pouring out “Time has come to make our lives just one”, “Hold on loosely, if you hold on too tight you'll lose control”, “Knock, knock, knocking on heavens door.”
KevinM says “A few more for you” .and rips out some more, ”A long and lonely highway east of Omaha, ...you think of a woman you used to know”, “You don't feel much like riding you don't know what else to do”, and lyrics I'll never forget “Baby you're all that I want, when you're lying here in my arms.”

I have never loved lag as much as I did in the open air at Firenzi where KevinM filled the plaza. And I gotta admit lag wasn't the only reason I was speechless, my camera kept going off all by itself for some unknown reason. The concert was in the open air of an Italian Plaza with a stage full of the finest models in the SL world. The perfect place to experience a live performance of the hottest rocking RL and SL performer KevinM Thomas Carpool. - Lanai Jarrico

KevinMThomas Carpool - Professional Musician
Kevin has only been in SL for 2 months but already he is performing at two gigs a day! He is a live musician who performs all over the SL metaverse as well as the RL in three separate bands, Nixon Nation, Ghasms & Wired Shut.
- Paisley Beebe

In addition to the Bid4aCure team, who donated themselves or goods for auctions and time, the following people or companies contributed time, goods, services and a place for the donation syringes to be set out: Curmudgeon Krasner, Ajay McDowwll, Fabien Desantis, Freestar Tammas, MiaSnow Myriam, Vicki Nilsson, Throughthesewalls Moody, Brooke Fairplay, KevinMThomas Carpool, Trindolyn Beck, Kat’s Meow, DJ Bill Mondegreen, DJ Crighton, Body Doubles, Mikelec Criss, MadCow Cosmos, Ambiance Interactive Furnishings, Jazzed Nouveau by Ronda Rall, Casey Burrito of Casey's Creations, Neferon Nevada of Emerging Media, Olivia Cascabel, Virtual Live Band, Friendly Fire, Heartland Ranch, DJ John Seattle, Nedria Cyr Designs, Nomad Rovio, Maximilian Kleene, EMJ Elexor Matador, Thadovian Caligari, Bobo Rosselsprung --Bobo's Masquerade, Club Taboo, and Syle Devin.

- Jocelyn Sands

Neuron Bandit celebrates the final closing party of club Poseidon.
Thursday 14th August, Club Poseidon celebrated its final unscheduled closing party on the beach just outside the mall, entertained with guest musician KevinMThomas Carpool, from Baltimore Maryland.
A highly competent performer with cheerful and comical communication skills. He engaged every individual on the beach by name throughout the entire performance. Considering the fact that the crowd peaked in at 40 individuals in a 2048sqm plot, I personally found this impressive in itself.

Kevin stood out as a talented musician playing both electric and acoustic guitars during the one hour performance.
He played and sang songs he’d written himself, many well known tunes and also his personal versions of well known tracks. Taking requests ranging from the beatles, nickleback, and the police, in fact his arsenal boasts over 160 tracks as advertised on his website, which the crowd were linked to during the gig.
From this list I chose a song I am personally very fond of and he did his own acoustic version of this audioslave track which was very impressive to say the least.
So to summarise, a fully entertaining event and a fitting end to the Club, the closing track in Poseidon style was ‘crazy bitch’ by buck cherry.
by Neuron Bandit - Neuron Bandit