So two years ago, a man walked up to Ricky Figueroa and gave him a stick with strings on it and told him to pluck the strings. The same man gave Patrick Roach a set of hollowed out dried gourds and flattened bells, he was to beat them. To Benjamin (The Benji) Orlansky he tossed a bigger stick with bigger strings and told him to pluck one at a time. To Charlton Roberts, he gave the teeth of a horse interspersed with slender black rocks and told him to bang them. Thus begins the sound of the Earth collapsing at the sound of a mighty...