Rattlebrained

A random browsing choked up the King’s of Nuthin’ this Sunday morning. Wowie Zowie! What a great punk band, and with a washboard player! Filmed in Bochum, Germany 2.6.06

Now here’s some heavy washboard playing.
Great stuff!

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Washboard Jackson
Johnny Lowebow

Some days I just like to let the currents push me here and there. Offering no resistance can be a way to explore since it doesn’t necessarily mean remaining passive. Is that too far fetched?

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Isn’t contemporary art great! So much better than all those dusty old paintings that took hours to look at because there was just too much to digest. Now you can go look at an exhibition, pop through it in no time whatsoever, be delighted with it all and go on to the next one. It’s the greatest thing, and whats more you don’t need to worry about being smart or educated enough to understand anything. The zap through concepts that many hot young artists are chugging out these days are shrewdly calculated to nudge you exactly where it’s needed to trigger that automated response! You are putty in their expert hands…

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Last week I learned that the concert we have agreed to do mid June, warm up the room for a gospel choir, will be in a hall that can seat 1000 people. I am terrified. All the more since there is some fuzziness as to who will be able to play; for instance one member of the band is getting a tooth pulled two days before…

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Thought I’d search youtube for a bit of washboard fun!

I wasn’t ready for the wave of emotion that hit me this afternoon when I heard on the radio that Mstislav Rostropovich had passed away. And there is simply both too much and not enough to say about him.
Best is to put on an old LP of Brahms double concerto…

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