Mike Keneally/Marco Minnemann "Evidence of Humanity" CD/DVD

(Released in 2010. Read the All Music Guide review.)   One bright morning, world-renowned drummer Marco Minnemann settled down behind the DW kit in his secluded hideaway, punched the record button, and proceeded to pound out an astounding 52-minute improvised solo. When it was finished, he christened it Normalizer 2 and offered it as a sort of gift to a handful of his favorite guitarists, relishing the prospect of each adding his own signature madness to the mix. Mike Keneally was someone Marco hoped would dig the idea. In the throes of recording his intense and complex Scambot 1 opus, Mike leapt at Marco's offer the creation of Evidence of Humanity would be a joyous, freewheeling counterpoint to his meticulous work on Scambot. ""A fun ride,"" Mike would recall. (Of course, Marco recorded his own fantastic version, too, available at marcominnemann.com.) The ecstatic result is two of the world's foremost musicians improvising together, but not at the same time. It's a record unlike any