Anyway, he is one of my biggest inspirations so I decided to record this song he wrote. He never played it with Panic, but it was released after his death on an album full of solo acoustic work like this. Really somber stuff.
On a side note, around this time, my Mother's Father had recently passed and his wife (my grandmother) was getting old and we could tell something was changing. Anyway, my Mom went to Iran to be with her in what would be her last months and she met a blind man in one of the bazaars that hand-made Dombaks (similar to the Djembe). Before she left the country, she picked up the one this man had made for me as a present. It has elaborate carvings and burnt in designs, a real piece of art and it sounds superb!
Basically I have been getting pretty good on the Dombak and thought I would record this song and incorporate my own drum playing. So here it is, Michael Houser's "Barbette's Song" (after his wife Barbette). I did one take of the song with 2 takes for percussion and another take for slide guitar. I hope you guys enjoy listening to it as much as I did recording it. It really brought back a lot of memories and made me realize how important family really is, even if it is just a song
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6wtciz
