# DrumsAgainstCancer drum marathon LIVE right now

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 6, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drumsagainstcancer-drum-marathon-live-right-now/636876 "2012-10-06T04:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drumsagainstcancer-drum-marathon-live-right-now/636876/1 "2012-10-06T04:23:05Z")

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Dude’s gonna drum “until either I pass out, run out of sticks, or until the police show up at my door” to raise money for his friend’s chemotherapy and for the American Cancer Society. He’s quite a good drummer and he’s taking requests, including requests for game music and other geeky stuff. 🆒

https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=snareguy17&parent=boards.straightdope.com&autoplay=false

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drumsagainstcancer-drum-marathon-live-right-now/636876/2 "2012-10-06T05:43:42Z")

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I’m mesmerized by this. Guy is pretty darned good.

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**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drumsagainstcancer-drum-marathon-live-right-now/636876/3 "2012-10-10T19:44:11Z")

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He made it for at least 7 hours, which is when I fell asleep.

He’s doing it again tonight, at 5:30 PDT. His fingers haven’t even healed from last time and he doesn’t like to have to keep re-bandaging them so he says he’s going to try playing while wearing gloves.

From his post on another forum:

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> The backstory on why I’m doing this: A very close friend’s 16 year old brother was diagnosed in early summer with metastatic brain cancer after developing severe headaches that were perceived to be from heat exhaustion while playing soccer for his high school. His mother, the sole provider of the family has horrible insurance and will only cover a small portion of the chemotherapy required for his treatment.
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> I’ll be using my talents of drumming during this drum-a-thon fundraiser by accepting donations to play any song you request, no matter how obscure, complex, simple, annoying it may be. I have a knack for being able to compose any style of drum parts on the fly to any song, so continually being challenged by the Internet is always a fun thing to do, as well as being the best chance to raise the money required to pay for his treatment.
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> I will be playing for EIGHT consecutive hours, which is well over twice as long as any major concert for a band playing multiple sets.