Drummer attempts to play Foo Fighters’ entire discography in one sitting for charity

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Foo Fighters song ever made in one sitting for charity.Barton will drum his way through 128 songs on June 7 in honour of his grandmother, who has cancer.

He is also paying tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who passed away in 2022.In total, Barton will be playing for nine-and-a-half hours and plans to do it without stopping.

He has been preparing for months, isolating each Foo Fighters drum track with AI to improve his practice sessions.“Before you say, ‘That’s impossible,’ I did a six-hour play through last month and feel confident I can go the distance!” he said.The event will be livestreamed and all proceeds will be donated to the Cancer Research Institute.

You can donate to Barton’s fundraising page here.A post shared by Greg (@gbdrummin)Meanwhile, last week drummer Josh Freese paid tribute to Hawkins on his first anniversary in Foo Fighters.“A year ago today this aired and I got to stop keeping quiet about what had been referred to as “the worst kept secret in the music business” at the time (though I thought we did a pretty good job on our end),” he wrote on Instagram.He continued: “@foofighters released an hour-long special of us playing some songs at rehearsal.