Yes Grasshopper, you can distort anything... get a Vox Tonelab, some Boss pedals, hook up your drums to some contact mics, and you're set. Back at Chicago's Myopic Bookstore, improv percussionist Frank Rosaly takes us deeper into his suitcase full of distortion goodies.

In this installment, Rosaly runs his "cymbals" (actually scary-looking circular saw blades) through Boss Flanger and Octave pedals, and runs his snare drum through the Vox Tonelab, which he uses mainly as a delay. Hear the textured response in the Gearwire video.