SIU alumnus promotes music diversity in Carbondale with MMG artist By Tierra Carpenter, @TierraMC_ January 26, 2016
![Morgan Demling, of the band "Seamstress," plays the drums during a memorial show for the late Tim Beaty on Saturday night at the Lost Cross house. Beaty, a local drummer who was known to strip down to his underwear while playing, was killed March 27. The show at the Lost Cross house was as a celebration of and memorial for the late drummer. Demling said he knew Beaty for 10 years. "There's really no words to express what [Beaty] meant to me," he said. Demling said he stripped down to his underwear for Tim. — April 2, 2016, Carbondale, Ill. (Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto)](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/c7f8fa8388184a519a40aee530cd4330.jpg)