Hey Thomas
I am with you 100% and i love the sound of the Djembe when played right.
when you said "is that it somehow got in the wrong hands. I don't know about Melbourne, but in my town Hamburg, Germany, the djembe was inflatiously embraced from the 1980's by self-emancipating young women and their devout male followers. Needless to say that their motivation was and is (mostly!) anything other than musical; consequently their drumming skills turned out to be not only technically unsatisfactory, but also non-directional and un-intentional. In an unsuspecting listener, that kind of drumming tends to cause physical reactions like nausea, impotence and several types of nervous disorder."
that sounds just like melbourne, yep, same kind of people.
i want to share his (Mr. Djembe) last comments with you all, this is after i just posted the history of the conga as well as some clips of mongo santamaria and giovanni hidalgo
Mr. Djembe said:
"most people do not start with conga's, because they are so difficult to play, and requires true dedication, to become even a reasonable player, and if thats you Psyammy then I take my hat off to you"
when he said that i was like "wow, difficult to play and requires true dedication, glad to see just how serious you take your playing
" the funny thing is i dont think he knows that he has already met me, as my online name is not the same as my real name, and my face book page as well as here, i use my online name....next time we met i am not going to say anything and just wait to see if he starts bitching about "this guy from the internet"...sometimes i do things just to make myself laugh
Psyammy