Danny Elfman

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896 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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I was playing with musicians.

That was the first.

You're absolutely dead on.

It's because that's where I came from.

You know, I spent this year, I came back, I started working with my brother, the Mystic Knights, before Oingo Boingo.

And in that, although we did a lot of 30s music, and in my mind... But even that's very rhythmic.

It is very rhythmic.

I mean, I lived in the 70s, I lived in 1935, Harlem, my mind.

And... But percussion was also the center of everything.

And we built our own percussion ensembles.

We built an entire metal ensemble based on the Indonesian gamelan.

Right.

And then an entire wooden ensemble based on the West African balafons.

Yeah, right.

And we played these on stage, you know.

And for a while...

I really did think that was my future.

I was going to be some kind of ethnomusicologist.

I loved building percussion instruments, getting my hands, you know, getting covered with sawdust.

And that was my world.

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