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You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with the best abilities he had and captured all that what the song is all about.

For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.

The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.

Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.