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WANTED: PARALYZED DRUMMER SEEKS FELLOW DISABLED MUSICIANS TO ROCK OUT. ANYONE WHO WOULD RATHER SIT AT HOME AND LET THEIR LIVES PASS BY NEED NOT APPLY.

Three years ago today, Tim Brown laid in a coma. He awakened after six weeks and spent the next six months in University Hospital in Syracuse, where he struggled to adjust to life without access to his legs.

A dirt bike accident in Weedsport had damaged Brown's T-3 vertebrae and paralyzed him below the chest. He also pierced his heart, aorta and one lung, lost his sense of smell due to a head injury, and suffered severe abrasions to his skin.

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