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Billy Mason
(October 2005 Issue)
Tim McGraw's Good-Deed Drummer Billy Mason has one of the
most coveted country gigs out there
with Tim McGraw, but he never takes
his success for granted. Even though he's currently on the Soul To Soul
tour with
McGraw and McGraw's wife, Faith Hill, Mason never forgets
that there are people who are less fortunate, and who he wants
to help
if he can.
Last year, when Mason was performing in Atlantic City with
McGraw, he met a ten-year-old boy
named David who has multiple
sclerosis. David was in a wheelchair, and the drummer felt compelled to
talk to him after the
show. "I asked him what he wanted to be when he
grew up," Billy says. "And he said, 'I want to be a drummer just
like
Billy Thunder Mason.' I said, 'If you had a set of drums like mine,
what color would you want?' He told me
red."
Mason knew exactly what he had to do: He bought a set of drums
through DW for David as a Christmas
present. Zildjian sent cymbals,
Pro-Mark sent sticks, a bag, and T-shirts, and everything was sent to
David's house.
"Now he sits in his wheelchair and plays them," Billy
says. "I wish more drummers - and artists - would do things like
that."
Robyn Flans
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