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Amazing Solo Bass: Adam Ben Ezra, "Can't Stop Running"

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darthstar11/13/2012 3:31:32 pm PST

Reminds me of the joke (which I actually told to Phil Lesh once when I met him) about the guy who gets lost at sea and winds up on a deserted island. After a few days, he hears drums…boomba-da-boomba-daboomba. The island isn’t deserted after all! He walks across the island to discover cannibals playing the drums and cooking up missionaries in a pot.

So he decides to stay on his side of the island and survive as best he can, but the drums never stop…day in, day out, and throughout the night, rain or shine…boomba-da-boomba-daboomba.

Weeks go by…boomba-da-boomba-daboomba.

Finally, he can’t stand it any more and again crosses the island, getting ever closer to the boomba-da-boomba-daboomba. When he gets to the village, he just loses his shit and runs up to the chief and says, “I don’t care if you eat me alive! Just stop that incessant drumming!”

The chief says, “NO! If drums stop, bass solo!”