Get a life ......................

I am so surprised to get the negative comments that we did! Wow, do we look that weird and do you really think we’re trying really hard to be something other than what we are?? Wannabe’s……….Yea, I wanna be a better drummer and a better person for that matter, and calling us a tribe is what we are, a tribe!! Family works too. I know Native American also and that’s not what we’re trying to be like here. We do our own thing. We do however celebrate our lives on this earth. We do like to feel the sand between our toes, and the cool river run over our bodies. We do feel the spirit when we are one with the drum, one with the dance and one with each other. Does it have to be so prim and proper to have a good time at night under the stars drumming? Have we not released ourselves from all this……….Rules. In the early days we called ourselves the “Unrulies” but now we’ve grown up in our way and we have rules……well, some rules. People come to us on Sunday nights to get away from what modern man has brought upon our society. They come to get away from all the negative nay sayers. Should we be embarrassed……..Hell No! We’ve been doing this for 15 years now and come they do. This last Sunday night was a good example of a really, really great drumming. People of all sorts greeted by hugs and love, professionals, down and outers, people with long hair and beards, woman in long dresses, guys in tie dyes, guys with skin heads, families from church, kids with drums, dogs, cats. Native American, Wadaba the famous drummer from Africa, Chuck who manages at Wal-Mart, a millionaire, Mexican American friends from the valley all here to drum and get together and be under the stars at night along the river with water that comes from the biggest trees on earth, dancing around a alcohol and candles fire with the smell of nag champa in the air, celebrating our lives! Wannabes for sure!! Oh and I forgot the burnt out psychedelisized hippes from the 60s………………you should let go sometime……..