Hitting things with sticks
Part of my childhood was spent in the Philippines. My dad was very briefly a missionary and he did a stint in the Southern Philippines before he lost his religion. It was there that I heard my first gamelan music and I never outgrew my love for tuned percussion. Then we moved to Texas where I had to resort to banging on trash cans. While this sounds like I may be making a statement about the Texas culture vs. the one I had just been a part of, the truth is that banging on trash cans is really not that different if you put a little planning into it. When I left Texas for California looking for "flower children," one of my first purchases for my new home was a few trash cans to bang on. My upstairs neighbors were not pleased.
A few years later, Snakefinger and the first incarnation of the Vestal Virgins played a show in San Francisco. The Vestal Virgins accompanied Snakefinger by beating on garbage cans with toilet plungers for drumsticks. Those were my garbage cans. I felt so proud.
Snakefinger, the original Vestal Virgins and my lovely garbage cans