NewsMay 27, 2023 10:16 PM ET4,943 views

Drain joined onstage by one armed drummer Jack Thomas in Vancouver

Jack Thomas

Drumming talent Jack Thomas, who gained public attention for his appearances on Canada's Got Talent Season 2, recently joined forces with California hardcore band Drain during their Vancouver, Canada show last night on the second night of their tour with Mindforce

Thomas, who hails from Burnaby, British Columbia, lost his right arm in a workplace accident. However, he didn't let his injury hold him back, as he's gone on to garner attention as a multi-instrumentalist and motivational speaker. Thomas shares drum covers on YouTube, and you can watch him cover Lamb Of God's "Laid To Rest" below, as well as a clip from the Drain performance and his Canadian television appearance.

Drain described Thomas as a "true badass" and a living embodiment of their Living Proof ethos. The band continues their tour with a performance in Portland alongside Mindforce tonight.

"We had the honor of rocking with @jackthomas_ in Vancouver last night! A true badass and embodiment of what Living Proof looks like!

Tour continues tonight in Portland with Mindforce!!!"

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anonymous 5/27/2023 7:44:45 PM

Talk about a handout…

anonymous 5/27/2023 7:45:49 PM

Looks like a handful to do all that

anonymous 5/27/2023 7:47:19 PM

Did they give him a hand setting up the drums or make him do it himself?

anonymous 5/27/2023 7:55:38 PM

The drummer from Def leopard only has one arm

anonymous 5/27/2023 7:57:49 PM

^And a vagina

anonymous 5/27/2023 7:58:08 PM

Bloodhound Gang > Drain

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:01:58 PM

Sink > Drain

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:02:20 PM

Draino > Drain

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:02:52 PM

Rain > Drain

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:04:01 PM

Niard > Drain

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:32:53 PM

Drain > Terror

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:40:37 PM

Turnstile > every other band ever.

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:52:41 PM

^^ touché

anonymous 5/27/2023 8:57:43 PM

No Goo comments yet?

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:02:32 PM

^You just made one

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:22:13 PM

Thin skinned mods - criticize Lambgoat and your comment gets deleted. Pussies.

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:37:34 PM

big hoss in the back

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:39:05 PM

What's with the big bloke in the back? Can't just enjoy the moment? Need to post on your instagram for 500 followers?

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:50:30 PM

She's nubs>

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:50:46 PM

Yes, this is the campaign Slithered entrails in the cargo bay

anonymous 5/27/2023 9:56:23 PM

Big man on camera duty straight disrespectful. Get off stage

anonymous 5/27/2023 10:01:33 PM

Why the phrase "stage potato" was invented

anonymous 5/27/2023 10:02:39 PM

Covid killed off obese people at a high rate. Bring back covid.

anonymous 5/27/2023 10:04:33 PM

Related lambgoat video is a Wes interview LOL

anonymous 5/27/2023 10:06:43 PM

They gonna have to get the big fella off the stage with a forklift

anonymous 5/27/2023 10:10:48 PM

Last time I was in Vangoover junkies were lined up behind the rickshaw f*cking and shooting up

anonymous 5/27/2023 11:12:34 PM

What's with the fat kid?

anonymous 5/28/2023 12:37:12 AM

work place injury?? f*ck that, sue those mfs & get that money

anonymous 5/28/2023 3:59:30 AM

1. Who gives a shit? Def Leppard drummer did it first 2. Ya who is the fat choad in back? Wait, nobody cares

anonymous 5/28/2023 5:49:43 AM

Probably sounded better too. The actual drummer is sloppy as shit on doesn't keep time

anonymous 5/28/2023 8:02:34 AM

This guy and the drummer from the ghost inside should do the fusion dance.

anonymous 5/28/2023 8:34:45 AM

Leave Drain's TM alone he was just doin his job!!!

anonymous 5/28/2023 9:12:44 AM

TM? Drain needs their jockstraps washed that bad?

anonymous 5/28/2023 9:55:26 AM

You can count on a 2023 "hardcore" band to do something like this purely to virtue signal. To Sammy Cilantro it's "yo look at the one-armed drummer playing with us - kewl!" Fu cking bozo. I bet Drain didn't comp that dude admission & dinner & pay him at least $100, just merch. This is exploitative.

anonymous 5/28/2023 10:42:15 AM

My parents are close with Jack's Mom, and I've met them both on multiple occasions (including his brother). But the rumor around town is he actually cut his own arm off for attention/notoriety - being the "one-armed drummer." As you can clearly see on AGT, it got him brownie points.

anonymous 5/28/2023 12:24:48 PM

^ Same thing was written about Rick Allen. They were going to leave his arm attached but they kept it removed to create even more hype when releasing Hysteria.

anonymous 5/28/2023 12:31:42 PM

AGT and all the other shows like it always pull the "boo hoo" card. Angela came from a poor background. Mark lost his father at age 6. Diane was homeless for 2 weeks. The list goes on. Guess what? Grow a pair of balls. It doesn't mean they deserve a shot any more than someone not in their predicament.

anonymous 5/28/2023 1:04:47 PM

^It's entertainment. They have to have a "Story" for people to watch

anonymous 5/28/2023 1:33:19 PM

Is he the son of the late Taylor Hawkins? If not, who cares?

anonymous 5/28/2023 1:33:41 PM

I heard he doesn't stand with Ukraine though.

anonymous 5/28/2023 1:44:59 PM

If you are sitting at home reading this article and thinking, "f*ck it, I'm gonna cut off my arm, too - don't do it." These paid articles are not what they seem. This guy, Jack Thomas, is a known grifter in Vancouver and this is simply his latest attempt at monetary gain through sympathy and various fund raising scams.

anonymous 5/28/2023 4:02:49 PM

This one took two hours Todd Jones here. Long story short, Clammy Cilantro from Draino asked NAILS to come on an interdimensional killing spree under the guise of a tour. I agreed, but only if he told me the location of the Namma, a weapon so powerful that upon impact, a beam creates a massive ion collision, releasing a burst of explosive energy that causes destruction on a massive scale. We soon departed from the Abandoned Cadmium Mine Practice Facility Near Hines Peak to meet with Clammy and Draino boyos when homeboy had the gall to tell me that "while he feels bad for misleading us, he doesn't even know which quadrant of sageotha to check." While posed in an ultra-GRIM stance, I stared into his eyeballs with a blackness that gazes into the very soul of its victims, transmitting my perversely macabre memories of multiple killing oddesseys, causing them to witness unspeakable cosmic horrors on an eternal loop. Poser LATERED. He will never be one of us

anonymous 5/28/2023 7:13:05 PM

^You should've spent those two hours to "drain" all the cum out of your butt. You're long overdue

anonymous 5/28/2023 8:20:48 PM

Todd Jones here. I hate this

anonymous 5/28/2023 11:36:34 PM

Lol…TD

anonymous 5/29/2023 1:38:42 AM

he was better in Def Leppard

anonymous 5/29/2023 5:28:24 AM

MY NAME IS JOSH HANES AND IM f*ckING FAT

anonymous 5/29/2023 7:13:12 AM

My parents are close with Jack's Mom, and I've met them both on multiple occasions (including his brother). But the rumor around town is he actually cut his own arm off for attention/notoriety - being the "one-armed drummer." As you can clearly see on AGT, it got him brownie points. >>> Man STFU & GTFO. You can't cut off your arm & live. Dude was either born with one arm or he lost it. Who removed your brain?

anonymous 5/29/2023 11:41:44 AM

Where the hell did this guy get his nub done, Shoprite's deli counter? Yikes. At the very least, they should have given him a nice smoothed-over nub.

anonymous 5/29/2023 11:44:01 AM

^ ^ Sorry, butter balls, but Aron Ralston cut off his own arm and lived perfectly fine. Just because Jack is a poser and you are too dickless to do it, don't go around spreading lies about other badasses who had no issue with losing an arm by their own hand (other hand obviously).

anonymous 5/29/2023 12:30:38 PM

Guy kinda has a point. That was the hiker dude who's arm got pinned and he cut his shit off himself. There's quite a few people who have done it, actually. Even the doctor from SAW cut off his own foot.

anonymous 5/29/2023 1:33:31 PM

There are plenty of people who have cut off their own appendages, just as there are even bigger bad asses who have doused themselves with gasoline and set themselves ablaze. Even cut off their own cocks. This one arm dude cutting his own arm off is a wannabeat best. Lose the other arm and start playing drums, then I'll be impressed.

anonymous 5/30/2023 5:33:07 AM

looks like a photo of Edward Norton playing Rick Allen in a Def Leppard movie

anonymous 5/30/2023 4:08:46 PM

Def Leapard wannabes

anonymous 5/30/2023 7:02:05 PM

You would instantly die from losing your arm immediately.




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