Primus is COOL

I’m delirious today. For many a reason. First of all I got a letter!! (ok, so it was from my bank…) and then I started working in the hot section of the kitchen.. aand I found a pan to beat!!!

When drummers are interviewed they often say that they started out by banging on pots and pans…and the rest is history. Well I always thought it was extremely stupid. First of all, pots sound like…uuh…pots. And how can hearing that inspire you to drum for a living? Secondly, I picked one up today and started playing the bongos on it… Oh man. It was beautiful. You have no idea how many different great sounds can come from one pan; how many different osmotic (sonoric’s a word isn’t it?) combinations you can make… It was beautiful. That pan plays a lot better than lots of djembes and bongos I’ve tried. If you smack the rim hard you get this high pitched-but controlled sound. Smack the rim and leave your hand there and it completely deadens the ring and you just get the thump. Same thing can be done to the center, the part between the two…then you can mute the ring halfway through the note, play with your whole hand or just a fingernail…smack it hard or soft…sooo many different things you can do with it. Oh, and it makes good pasta too… now how many people can say that about a bongo?