The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a drum set. They cease to sound like mandolins.
I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.
Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.
Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
'Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta' is a kind of expansion of chamber music.
I love percussive instrumentation.
