STEWART COPELAND

to be held April 28th-May 2nd in Kuwait:

http://www.drummarathon.com/

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A United States Soldier is attempting to break a Guinness World Record for longest individual drumming marathon live in Kuwait!!!

Specialist Troy Yocum was born in Louisville Kentucky on June 25th, 1979 and has been drumming for the last 11 years. He is currently deployed in Iraq and Kuwait with the 100th battallion/442 Infantry of the pacific coast islands.

Troy started off learning percussion playing with street musicians at local art and music festivals, taking several road trips to play bucket drums at Mardi Gras, Hooka Fest, All Good Fest, Bonnaroo Fest and New York City subway stations . . . .

In order to beat the record he will have to play 120 hours in a row with only taking a 5 minute break every hour. He must also play to recognizable songs, without repeating within 4 hours and only 30 seconds of pause time in between. 250 Songs from many styles from the 50's to today will be played.
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Looks like the whole, dang, exhausting thing will be streamed live on Yocum's website.

All the cool people were born in Louisville, KY is all I know

(cept for all the other cool ones)

Thanks for the find, chiquita!

The guy trying for the drumming record is starting to post some practice updates on Twitter. He was scheduled to play for 8 hours today, but I liked his workaround and wanted to share:

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So I won't get to play drums for 8 hours today b/c the chapel here in Iraq is being used. So I will practice on Rockband.
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So this is a bit of a threadjack, but this article just hit my inbox and it made me think of you DM. Probably all old news to you, but I found it interesting to think of twitter within a business context. I hadn't really considered it seriously before, but will now.


http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4_ ... siness.php

[quote="Divemistress of the Dark"]All the cool people were born in Louisville, KY is all I know

(cept for all the other cool ones)

Well, the Churchill Downs TourZilla concert was pretty cool, to say the least....
This drumming thing sounds kinda' neat & kinda' exhausting.......

Thanks for the find, chiquita![/quote]

[quote="Chatchka"]So this is a bit of a threadjack, but this article just hit my inbox and it made me think of you DM. Probably all old news to you, but I found it interesting to think of twitter within a business context. I hadn't really considered it seriously before, but will now.[/quote]

Me, really? I'm on Twitter, but not in any professional way.

I can certainly see it as useful to some companies for feeding info to fans of their product or band or whatever -- and if you're, say, a big lover of Starbucks, then it's a great way to hear about the newest product or event or get links to coupons. And for celebrity (or close to it) professionals, there is both a way to reach out to fans for feedback (like Jonathan Coulton's setlist requests) or just genuine (albeit generally superficial) interaction (such as Stephen Fry, who is simply too adorable for words). Or -- in the case of David Lynch -- to read the weather report.

There *are* a good number of the people who use Twitter as an uber-marketing tool, though, who are generally in the industry of being uber-marketing tools. I have never seen so many "social media experts" and "marketing gurus" in one place in my life, and the pimping of wares that are wares about pimping is insane. Luckily you choose whether or not you have to see any of those folks, so it's pretty easy to avoid.

Everyone pimps himself here or there, me included, of course, but for me Twitter is a minor distraction. I signed on because Moeskido really wanted me to, and I've "met" some interesting people and even made a couple of useful contacts and picked up a small project, but those last were purely by accident. It's nice to know that if I ever do anything special, there are a couple of more people in the world that would think it's cool, but for me it's mostly about procrastination and watching how much wit or wisdom people can pack into a tight space.

This reservist guy's drum marathon record attempt is coming up next week, so I thought I'd give this thread a bump.

An article:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/ ... thon+title

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A week from today Troy Yocum will attempt to drum continuously for 125 hours — about five days.

In order to break the Guinness World Record for longest individual drumming marathon, Yocum will only be allowed a five-minute break every hour, must play recognizable songs (and not repeat any for four hours) and pause for no more than 30 seconds between songs.

But it is not physical exhaustion, lack of sleep or mental fatigue that worries him — it's sandstorms. . . .
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Yikes! Talk about repetitive stress syndrome!!

I just took a look at his playlist:

http://www.drummarathon.com/index.php?o ... &Itemid=54

and had to laugh because his one Police song is EBYT.

But considering, I can't blame him in the slightest. "No Time, This Time" would be a most definitely bad idea.

Having once done an event in the Middle East that was completely decimated by a sandstorm, I'd say Troy's concern is a wise one! It's a little like being pelted by teeny, tiny pieces of glass...hard to imagine keeping a beat under those conditions!

Good luck, Troy! Hope you get five perfect days!

[quote="DirtyMartini"]
Specialist Troy Yocum was born in Louisville Kentucky on June 25th, 1979 and has been drumming for the last 11 years. .[/quote]

11 years?!?! sounds like he's already done it.... oh, i've misread something here...

[quote="smax"][quote="DirtyMartini"]
Specialist Troy Yocum was born in Louisville Kentucky on June 25th, 1979 and has been drumming for the last 11 years. .[/quote]

11 years?!?! sounds like he's already done it.... oh, i've misread something here...[/quote]


I think he probably took bathroom breaks.