Feel the power—Recycled Percussion to rock Havens
January 12, 2006
KOKOMO, Ind.—Recycled Percussion, a group that redefines “junk rock” with a unique style of power-drumming, will perform Friday, January 27, at 8 p.m. in Havens Auditorium on the Indiana University Kokomo campus. The band plays traditional drums, as well as plastic buckets, metal tanks, chainsaws, jackhammers, and more. Now on its third major tour of U.S. college campuses, Recycled Percussion has appeared on NBC’s
Today Show and during National Basketball Association play-off games.
Admission is $10 for the public and $5 for those with non-IU student IDs. IU Kokomo students and staff will be admitted free with their university IDs Tickets will be available at the door. For information on group discounts, contact the Office of Student Activities, (765) 455-9203.
IU Kokomo’s Student Union Board (S.U.B.) officers decided to bring the band to Kokomo after witnessing a performance at a student leadership conference last fall.
Recycled Percussions’ jaw-dropping, high-energy sound is “like nothing, NOTHING, I had ever heard before,” said S.U.B. assistant director Adam McCombs.
The band played rap, RandB, rock, and covers of AC/DC, Metallica, and other newer rock sounds, as well as their own brand of “controlled chaos,” said S.U.B. director Michael Glassburn. “The percussionists were all over the stage. You’ll get tired just watching them and wonder how they do it.”
Glassburn especially enjoyed how Recycled Percussion created music and rhythms with ‘non-instruments,’ such as electric metal grinders. “They turned off the lights, the D.J. kept playing music, and then all the sudden three percussionists were attacking the metal stage set with these grinders. The sparks were flying everywhere!
“The light show, the fog, the intense stage performance—if these guys don’t please you, I think you are ‘unpleaseable,’ ” Glassburn said. (Glassburn is a communication arts major from Tipton. McCombs is an elementary education major from Greentown.)
For more information on Recycled Percussion, visit http://www.rprocks.com .
