July 15, 2009: Beat It

[xoxoxoBruce]

At Christmas we have a Little Drummer Boy... pa rum pum pum pum.

If that's not enough, we can have 12 Drummers Drumming.

Surely that's enough for anyone, right?

It should be, but Nooooooooooooooo!!!

They are the hellraisers of the music world.

But the 582 drummers who drummed together yesterday shunned the example of the likes of The Who's Keith Moon and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham to work together in perfect harmony.

They beat out the same rhythm for five minutes to set a new world record.

582 drummers? I'll bet there was alcohol and drugs involved.

The efforts at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, sanctioned by Guinness World Records, beat the previous record of 533 set by a group of U.S. drummers in 2006.

This aspersion shall not go unanswered.

But while Britain currently holds the title, America looks sure to try and get it back in November.

USA! USA! USA! Anything you can do, we can do stupider.

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