[playing bass guitar] (buynak) it always reminds me of the stone soup story where you have the pot in nothing but boiling water, and everybody is asked to bring what they have to the center. so i think that process is a very communal way to approach a piece of music. (donovan) there's so many different little processes that go on because there's going be vocal harmonies, there's going be vocal inflections, there's how the rhythm sections work together, the drums, the percussion, the bass and the drums, how the guitars work together. it's really complex, but a lot of times, if you listen to a song and you pick apart each part, you realize that there's no one part that is just incredibly complex. they're all real simple parts, all put together, weaved together to make this thing that sounds really complex, but in its essence, it's really simple. [mellow rock music with flute and drums] (berlin) the live performance-- that's the place where we get to sort of try it out on people and see how it works. the parts really take on a new depth to them. (glabicki) the audience gives to it. you c