If you thought the Endless Setlist’s 58 song set was tough, how about a 235 song set?

Tom Chick conducted a great interview with Sean Feica, a Rock Band drummer who played all 235 songs currently available for Rock Band in one marathon 26 and a half hour jam session.

On expert, of course. He called it The Drum Day From Hell.

On Saturday morning at 9am, 22-year-old Sean Feica in Ontario, Canada started up Rock Band and drummed through “29 Fingers” by The Konks on the expert difficulty level. It was the beginning of what he called The Drum Day From Hell. Then he did a Blur song, then a couple Weezer songs, then “Eminence Front” by The Who. He five-starred them easily and was even getting the occasional 100% as he worked his way through all 235 Rock Band songs, from the easiest to the hardest. That’s right: all 235 songs. And he was broadcasting himself live as he did it.

Between songs, he looked over the list of upcoming tracks with comments like, “Oh, god. That hour’s gonna suuuuck….”. He talked to folks typing chat on the live stream, giving himself the appearance of a good-natured but slightly crazed fellow having a one-way conversation that included tidbits like: “Blisters? You have no idea” and “The zone isn’t even the word for it”. He cautioned against trying this with vocals in Rock Band: “You will probably cause permanent damage to your vocal chords. Don’t do it.” After “Green Grass and High Tides”, he blurted out, “I was getting such serious amounts of tunnel visions. I was tripping right out.” “I am not taking off my shirt,” he reprimands someone online.

He finished on Sunday morning, completing “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by The Who shortly after 11:30am. He let his sticks drop haphazardly. Someone walked into the room – a roommate? – obscured by the inset image of the Rock Band screen.

“Twenty six and a half hours,” he told whoever walked into the room. “Done.” They high five each other.

“You going to bed?”

“Oh my god, yes.”

But first he did an encore of “Still Alive”.

Lots of thoughtful Q&A in the interview. Harmonix has promised 500 songs will be available by the end of the year, and Sean plans to play all 500 of those songs in one sitting — again — when that happens. By his estimation that’ll take 48 hours. More of a Drum Weekend From Hell.

500 songs by the end of the year isn’t as crazy as it sounds:

• We have 235 song available now.
• Rock Band 2 adds about 80 songs on the disc, and Harmonix has promised 20 free DLC songs will coincide with the release.
• There are 23 tuesdays between now and the end of the year. Assuming an average release schedule of about 5 songs per week, that’s another 115 songs.

So, 235 + 100 + 115 = 450. Looks like there will have to be some fairly large DLC releases of 8-12 tracks in there, somewhere, for them to reach their stated goal of 500 songs by the end of the year.