While researching a way to make a didgeridoo in Garageband, Nick went to Australia, in hopes of discovering a way to get the aboriginal essence of the instrument to somehow soak into his laptop. His efforts were unsuccessful. Computers aren’t very absorbent, especially not with sound. One day, whilst moping in the middle of the desert, Nick, who had forgotten to be properly hydrated in the desert, passed out. When he woke up, he hadn’t moved at all. He looked around and discovered he was surrounded by buckets of water. He stood up, dusted himself off and started drinking some of the water. As he drank and continued looking around, his eyes fell upon Joseph, a lone wanderer, trekking through the Outback. Joseph sat cross-legged on a large drum. Nick took a step toward him, but he pushed himself off the back of the drum and began hammering away, shaking Uluru with his epic beats. At this, the Conductor was practically love struck. Three days later, when the water was gone, the beat stopped. The drummer turned around and looked deep into Nick’s eyes. Then, politely, quietly and barely audibly, the man spoke.
“I join your band?” he asked. And he was in!
Being a native Australian, Joseph is also fluent in the language that is playing the didgeridoo and often lends those talents to the band as well. He plays any and all kinds of drum and when not rocking out in his “beat laboratory” he enjoys going on Walkabout and riding kangaroos. And surfing. There isn’t much he doesn’t like. But he doesn’t like anything like he likes the drums.
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