We thought it was totally necessary to cover the full spectrum of our music. A lot of people thought that was pretentious, but they just don't understand. I'm curious about that. We've been doing it for as long as we've been doing that tune. Our version seems to be quite popular for some reason.
People like to see the percussion on the stage, and they enjoy the feeling of live rhythm.
Unlike a lot of groups, we don't leave the group when the drummer does a solo. Actually, what it is is a drum solo, but we accompany the drum solo with the percussion. We all have a certain rhythm that we play on our instruments, and we try not to vary from that rhythm, so we all fit together. The drummer improvises, and we all play set parts, set rhythmical patterns. It usually falls in.