In the beginning

MC - Allan Watts, excellent. We are the music! The idea pursue your bliss do whats in your heart of hearts and doors will open.to quote Joesph Campbell is the key to living in tune. Music was always there inside us waiting to be expressed.

or perhaps the guy beating the log was just tired of beating something else lol 

Aewarren -good one

@infection 

Were you squatting or standing up?

@spenav  Both.

It began when a walnut fell out of a tree, hit the ground, made a "thump", then developed a distinct percussive cadence as it rolled down a hill arriving at it's final destination in a pond producing an audible "swish".  An individual in a group of an evolving species observed this and thought something similar to:  "Hey, that was pretty cool."  It peaked in 1968 with Ron Bushy's drum solo In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.