Everyone is drumming for a good cause these days! Troy Yocum of the 100th Battalion/442 Infantry will attempt to break a Guinness World Record. The event will be streamed on UStream.tv starting around 6am Pacific Time/9am Eastern. Yocum will play for 125 hours with 5 minute breaks every hour! Part of Yocum goal is to raise awareness and money for Kentucky Cancer Research Foundation. Our sister company, Sabian Cymbals, is one of the sponsors. You can follow Tory on Twitter @funkymonkeytroy.

Our last stop on the Beats For Eats Tour is today April 23rd at 5pm to 7pm at Tom’s Music in Victorville, Ca. We need singer, guitar players to rock out, and of course, drummers! We’ll give away our last Dixon Snare drum and more t-shirts Bring your canned goods for High Desert Homeless Services.
Update:
Thank you everyone, for coming out to have fun with Dixon Drums!

This week, one of our two stops on our Beats For Eats tour is in Santa Monica, Ca, tomorrow, April 22nd from 5pm to 7:30pm at Santa Monica Music Center, on the corner of 19th and Santa Monica Blvd. Again, we’ll play Rock Band 2 on a Dixon kit, sing karaoke-style, and tap-tap on those guitar controllers, and just generally do some rocking out. Nom on some grub, win Dixon t-shirts or a Dixon Snare drum, and bring your canned goods for The Ocean Park Community Center. Maybe afterward we can go outside and try to see the Lyrids Meteor Shower of 2009.
Update: thanks everyone for coming out! Here are the photos:

Don’t forget, we’ll be at Singer Music on La Puente, Ca, tomorrow, April 18th at 12 noon to 3pm for the Beats for Eats event. Play Rock Band 2 on a Dixon kit, sing, play guitar (controllers), eats free pizza, snacks, drinks, win Dixon t-shirts or a Dixon Snare drum. Bring your canned goods for The Gary Center. We will be posting photos to our Flickr, live tweeting from Twitter, and posting videos to our YouTube channel.

Update:
Thank you everyone for participating! Here are the photos of the event.

There are more at Singer Music’s fan page on Facebook.