Bongo drum

Brilliant.

He did a record called But You've Never Heard Gershwin With Bongos.

And another record called The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos.

And he also arranged and produced William Shatner's first album, The Transformed Man.

That sounds like a very storied career, doesn't it? Yes.

A very storied career, and the story is bongos.

Bongos and Shatner.

Ringo and bongo.

Prove it to me.

BONGOS That's fantastic.

Where did you learn that rhythm?

From my dad.

Here we go.

It's going to be Better With Bongos, 344 by John Cage.

Ho! This is a

live version.

is better with

bongos.

And now you have to agree with that, right? Bongos is better than silence.

Yes, but I feel like that this was a trick and that it was almost entrapment into saying bongos make this piece better.

Yeah.

And Bongos.

Here we go.

No-

Bongos are also cool, yeah.

Yeah.

So things are actually honestly pretty good is the takeaway.

Por eso quiere que tú le sigas.

Noah Bres en el bongó.

[upbeat music] Sigue.

Oh, sigue.

That is like y- you could just get out some bongos and it would be the same.

That's so funny.

Bongos was An- Andrew.

And the original song was gonna be, um, you know, he sings a song, and it was gonna be Janis Joplin, but they wanted 100,000, and Joel was friends with Ahmet Ertegun, so we ended up doing Respect.

And Andrew did a great job.

Só que ele volta e os pais dele já tão um pouco sem dinheiro.

E aí ele meio que tem que se virar um pouco e ele fica-- começa a ficar famoso tocando bongô.

Bongô.

Né? Era Joe do Bongô.

É.

Daí vira Jô Soares.

...de General Sardinha.

Ele era muito, ele era muito, muito sagaz, muito mordaz.