[Ansteorra] "The drums! The drums! They're driving me mad! Mad, I tell you!"

[Peter Schorn]

"Robert G. Ferrell" rgferrell at gmail.com was over a barrel when "Tarantula"
took to the hills and wrote...

>Widespread middle-eastern drumming didn't really get started until
>around '86 or so. 

That's when the merchants started selling cheap drums with synthetic-"skin"
heads that would stay taut even in Ansteorra's humidity, thus beginning the
nights of endless boom-takka-takka-takka that put the "dumb" in "dumbek."

It's a pity this didn't show up until long after the craze had died down:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLDQOVrtgJ4

--Cadfan ("TUSK!")