...if I had any pipes. But, man, unless you want to peel paint, I'm going to need to stick to the occassional narration. ;) Thanks for listening!

this, is, good! groovy and very well played! you'd sing more..

This is a great song to cover. Im pretty sure I heard a beer open near the end of the song.!

Nicely done mate.

GREAT COVER!! Thanks for sharing.

Awesome beats!

Excellent!!

very nice drum work

Great track Norm. Top beat mate.

SO. VERY. GREAT. I bet your bones are melodic.

Norm for Prime Minister.

Now this is perfect. Used to play conga's for my dad when i was 7 or 8. You just inspired me to go get my tribal on

I'm gonna have to do a drum solo Juz for Norm. MORE DRUM SOLOS!! I can dig that.

Sweeeet, I like the change up at around 1:10 too

excellent groove!

You've sure got rhythm, Norm. Happy Mothers' Day, Saint Monica.

Nawmy!! Cool shout out to mom! I might craft a little audio card for my mom now. Great driving conga beats!

All us moms are gettin' our groove on! w;-)

I'm Blown away by this Skill man!!! Freaking Amazing atmosphere you generate man!!! Awesome!!

Amazing!!!!! I think Drumming is one of the hardest things to do Musically! You are freaking Awesome!!!! Faved Bro! Did I say Awesome!!!!?!?! AWESOME!!

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.