Lo-Pan vocalist and my-favorite-person-on-social-media-to-whom-I’m-not-married Jeff Martin dropped me a line last night with the GoFundMe link above. The headline says it all. The band’s drummer, Jesse Bartz, whose kickdrum I’ve had the pleasure of having my ears blasted by on many, many occasions and always gratefully, has been diagnosed with cancer.

You know the deal here. This is community outreach. For over 15 years, Bartz has been an integral facet — essential personnel, in the parlance of our times — for Lo-Pan’s heavy groove, and I don’t care how many t-shirts you bought along the way, it’s time to step up and help out. I won’t sell you on it and I won’t keep you with some flowery description of Lo-Pan’s influence on heavy underground rock, their years of road-dog touring, or the quality of Bartz’s work.

Frankly, I shouldn’t have to. All of those things are great, but what matters here is that Bartz is a human being and this is an opportunity to help.

On behalf of myself and this site, I wish Bartz strength and a quick recovery. There’s no doubt in my mind he’ll beat it and be back to doing likewise to his kit on stage with all good speed.

Here’s the link to share: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-jesse-bartz-defeat-cancer

Spread that around as you will, but the point here is to donate. Now’s a good time.

Tags: Columbus, Lo-Pan, Ohio

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