Yo, listen to this gorilla’s territorial jam on the youtube below.
First, the gorilla warms up with a series of ascending hoots like an owl, like a walking bass line, before pummeling out a thunderous drum fill on the membranophone of his own body, where every pec is a tom tom. This 4/4 chest beat carries for miles, letting other silverbacks in the jamboree know who’s got the fastest fists, or tightest pecadiddles or whatever. (And these guys are freakin’ vegan too!)
Gorillas use music for intimidation. They wardrums are found right there on they chests. It’s probably the same for human drummers. Los Doggies is all for raging against the dying of the machines and whatnot. It’s like the Yellow Emperor said,
Music begins with fear, and because of this fear there is dread, as of a curse. Then I add the weariness, and because of the weariness there is compliance. I end it all with the confusion and because of the confusion there is stupidity. And because of the stupidity there is the Way, the Way that can be lifted up and carried around wherever you go.
