Yes, folks, this is a once- (OK, twice) -in-a-lifetime opportunity to sponsor your Favourite* Hippo as he attempts to (not) deafen himself and 800 other nutters by them getting together in a Big Room and all simultaneously playing the same drum groove for a full three minutes.
WITHOUT A SAFETY NET!
And it's all in aid of The MS Society (//http://www.mssociety.org.uk/).
You can sponsor me here => //http://www.justgiving.com/John-Kennard
G'wan! G'wan!
What's MS? Why should I care?
It's Multiple Sclerosis.
Yep, sounds like some congenital defect that happens to Other People, doesn't it?
Well, it's not.
It's struck two of my friends completely out of the blue, and periodically turns them from fit, active, fun-loving people into helpless, dependent lumps. This does nothing for their psychological state, I can tell you.
So I'm keen to help them, and the 100,000 others in the UK like them.
You're doing WHAT?!?
Attempting to break the Guinness World Record for "Largest full drum kit ensemble" by playing this simple beat:
http://youtu.be/-0xvMXIvHL8 (http://youtu.be/-0xvMXIvHL8)
... for 3 minutes.
Together.
Yes, really. Drummers. Playing at the same speed. Hundreds of them.
That means we'll all have to speed up at the same rate!
You may remember we did this back in 2009. That time there were 582 of us, and we raised >£65,000.
This time there's 846 of us, so we should raise... um... even more!
Here's the Hippo's-eye view from '09:
(//http://racinghippo.co.uk/stuff/sitms09_hippo-eye-view.jpg)
That's only a quarter of the hall.
And there's going to be EVEN MORE this year!
* I am, aren't I? Well, you can at least pretend for now.
Anyone got any earplugs I can borrow?
Done! 8-)
Quote from: "D S"Done! 8-)
Supplied earplugs?
Quote from: "Mikey"Quote from: "D S"Done! 8-)
Supplied earplugs?
Heh! Can do that too if required. ;)
Done! You is a sponsee! :)
Hope it goes well.
I particularly enjoyed last year's(?) video when the free-for-all was ending...all those drummers doing their "big finish" thinking they were signalling to everyone else it was time to stop (as they normally are)...but other people just carrying on! :)
Hope you reach your target, matey.
Thanks Pedro :mrgreen:
I shall have an Assistant (a drum tech?!?) with me, so I'll see if it's possible to get some video of me Doing My Thang.