Great contribution on both your parts!

SO cool

That's cool guys, Kirk throw in the POG (Electro Harmonics)

It is easier to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Thanks Kirk.

HA! Cool- Love what you did with this Kirk

@Reef: That's the spirit! Have your way with it!

Loving it Norm!!

Good to hear from your skin's brother ! Hmmmmm, Am I working this weekend ? nope ! * frantically downloading percussion track and arranging makeshift studio :)

Yes!! Been too long !! Great to hear your beats !

Very refreshing! I've been doing a little work lately with a music producer who is using a drum machine on everything. This is much better.

HaHaHa! I am still laughing at you, the collective interweb. No idea, right? Then admit defeat. I am the only person on earth who can conquer this melody. (Not really vain, just looking for mathematical discussion.)

Different and intriguing.

Well I like this just fine. That's the ticket Norm.

so much talent here! wonderful work,,

It was nice having the old gang back together ...Thanks all for your ears

Utt! Supergroup alert.

The super trio! Very cool vocals, guitars and percussion with norm. Good stuff

Brilliant, boys!

Eerie, but cool song. Nice collaboration.

Nice one dig it

Ha! Rick is right - you would be a great hypnotherapist. From a percussion point of view, I like how you rotate the accented pulse throughout the beats of this 3/4 pattern and particularly how you demonstrate the power of the off-beat at 1:36. Very southern hemisphere of you.

Very creative.

Excellent!

Great voice, as usual. Happy New Year!

Beautiful recording, Kirk.

@ Kirk& Kamachi: excellent observation, and you are correct. As most of my patterns are built around clave, and as clave is structured upon so many off-beats, to get my metronome to "click" on some key clave beats, I set my metronome at double time- so my bpm notation reflects what my metronome setting was dialed to. Here is a clave link that graphically shows how many times clave percussion scores are transcribed in 2/2 (cut time) to make it easier to read... but if one is counting 8th notes instead of quarter notes, the bpm will be doubled. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clave_(rhythm)?wasRedirected=true

@ Richard: many thanks- recording accoustical percussion is sometimes tricky and I'm still learning the skill sets required for that. I mount my own skins from bulk rawhide (so not actually tanned) but I don't actually make the rawhide from animal skins... that's a lot of work on a non-industrial level and there are some health concerns when it comes to working with (especially imported) fresh animal skins. Many of the (nonterrorist) cases of anthrax reported involve folks making their own drum heads, so I just use commercially cured cow skin from the USA for the latin drums and buy pre-made drum heads for the African drums, which are usually water buffalo, goat or some sort of deer.

Those long drives across the state on I70 always feel a bit disconnected, even slow motion like this, even at 80mph on the way home for the holidays...

@ Dave: thanks for listening! This recording is 8 tracks, consisting of 2 (stereo) bass drum, cowbell, clave, chinese blocks, and 3 tracks of various sized conga drums playing their parts. Traditionally it is performed by a group of percussionists, which I would *love* to assemble- but that rarely is possible for me to do where I live. Perhaps I should move to Africa.

How fun! Now the rest of your cyber friends can sing along- a mixing challenge to be sure.

Ha! Post the lyrics- we all want to sing along with you!

@ Jarvis: Ha! I'm vocally challenged, but to hear the lyrics, go here: http://alonetone.com/vaisvil/tracks/walk-with-sorrow-norm-rick-chris-emily

Very masterfully crafted. Well done!

Very nice. Nice lyrical observation, too.

Outstanding. You guys are really tight, and the vox is fantastic, as usual.

Excellent!

I *love* this one.

Awesome track!

Where's my Launched?? :(

Masterful. You really created some nice space here.