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Rick Drumm: Seizing the Day
by Ian Patterson
It's good to have dreams, but it's even better to follow them, to see them take shape before your eyes and to live them. Rick Drumm has lived more than one dream. Three years as drummer with NORAD, the North American Air Defense Band, was followed by two years drumming in the famous Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. After over 1000 performances later, there was hardly a corner of the United States that Drumm hadn't visited. However, Drumm's ...
read moreRick Drumm and Fatty Necroses: Return From the Unknown
by Ian Patterson
Music has figured large throughout drum industry veteran Rick Drumm's life. From drumming in a 60-piece Youth Band as a teenager to the US Air Force Band, and through various circus bands--including over 1000 performances across the USA in the Barnum and Bailey Circus--to President of world-renowned string manufacturers D'Addario & Company, it's been quite a ride. In 2009, Drumm was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and had to undergo chemotherapy. Drumm's friends got together to play a house gig to ...
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