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Rube Waddell

"I Have Drinking Alone!"

About Me

The great George Edward "Rube" Waddell (1876-1914) was a fire engine chasing, hard drinking, alligator wrestling,baton twirling (to name a few) eccentric pitcher who played his most prolific seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 to 1910. His true legacy, however, cannot be contained, grasped, or truly understood by his time on the diamond alone. RUBE WADDELL the band is a quartet from the Mission District of San Francisco, CA that has taken him as their patron saint. Performing and recording their own breed of modern Americana music, they mix Blues, Gospel, American and Irish Folk, Country, Rock, Punk, comic Vaudeville, German theater, Mexican Banda, Mid-Eastern and Asian ditties into a raw junkyard stew stirred by their varied array of traditional and homemade instruments. Whether in their street performances, club appearances, or puppet shows, The Rubes invite audiences everywhere to dance, drink, fall down, drink, nail well-done steaks to the ground, remember conquests of days gone by, and embrace the aural mixed bag of confusion and good times that is Rube Waddell.Keep a sharp lookout for us showing up in your town so you know when to hide the silverware. As well, be on the watch for the definitive biography on the life and antics of the actual pitching phenom Rube Waddell, a weighty tome that is being penned by our very own Captian Feedback. It might be awhile, it has been nearly 5 years and 1000 pages and our story thus far has not even got us to the point of the oft thought "simple-minded" genius' entry into the minor leagues...This profile was edited with MySpace Help - Profile Creator and Editor MySpace Profile Help!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/8/2006
Band Website: rubewaddell.org
Band Members: Freddi "Mahatma Boom Boom" Price: vocals, trumpet, guitar, flutes, tablas, whistles, cittern, baritone horn, can-jo, toy piano, erotic historical discourse on iconoclastic philosophers, fantastical architectual prowess//Kirk "Captain Feedback" Lombard: vocals, harmonica, sousaphone, jawharp, Teignmouth Electron 2- string wonder, uke, ichthyology facts and boxing tutorials// Larry "Reverend Wupass" Henderson: drums,percussion, vocals, tenor and baritone uke, marimba, homemade bass, neo-classical facial expressions, ability to tame the minds of the tortured//Max "A.Million" Baloian: accordion, guitar, bass, banjo, washboard, saw, mid-east uke,unpredictable moments of physical collapse, exquisite bourbon collection.
Influences: Ossie Schreckengost, Roy Smeck,Johnny Cash, Harry Smith's Anthologies, early 19th century nautical gossip, Tin Pan Alley standards, Atilla the Hun, the anthropological juggernaut and pie eating champion CF Hibben, Douglas Mawson and the crew of the Aurora in 1912, Doo Rag, Cambodian Stan, Tom Waits, William Shatner's effortless rolls during the first 4 seasons of Star Trek, Obrien's "Third Policeman", Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Mannix (as played by Mike Conners, aka Krekor Ohanian),Eugene V. Debs, the Viking Demon, Joe Hill, Bukka White, Miss. Fred McDowell,bottom-feeding sea life, Primitive Folk and Garage Musics from around the globe.
Sounds Like: The Three Penny Opera as interpreted by George Jones, Harry Partch, and Little Walter after a 3-day binge on Rye and Monkey Face Eel; Son House fronting a Salvation Army band on a whaling expedition.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

RUBES PLAY THE HORNUCOPIA FESTIVAL! GET YOUR TIX!!

This upcoming Saturday,September 13th, your very humble-when-sober purveyors of "Junkyard Apocalyptic Americana" RUBE WADDELL will be performing at the Cafe Du Nord as part of the amazing HORNUCOPIA F...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:18:00 PST

Rubes make SF Chronicle’s 96 Hours section for 4/24/08

In conjunction with our April 26th show at Cafe Du Nord with Vermillion Lies and Agent Ribbons, SF Chronicle's Tim Sullivan asked the Rubes to express 11 things that the public should know about the m...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:29:00 PST

Mark Your Calendars: Rubes live at Cafe Du Nord Next Saturday

RUBE WADDELL will be performing live at Cafe Du Nord as part of the CD Release celebration of our good friends' VERMILLION LIES newest volume of work. We were delighted to be asked to join in on such ...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:40:00 PST

Putting the Edward in Edwardian, We’re Live @ The Great American Fri 1/25!

Don't Forget Friends,This Friday is the first day of the EDWARDIAN WORLD'S FAIRE at the Great American Music Hall featuring the art of Edward Gorey, the neo-archaic contraptions of Kinetic Steamworks,...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

Putting the Edward in Edwardian, We’re Live @ The Great American Fri 1/25!

Don't Forget Friends,This Friday is the first day of the EDWARDIAN WORLD'S FAIRE at the Great American Music Hall featuring the art of Edward Gorey, the neo-archaic contraptions of Kinetic Steamworks,...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:07:00 PST

AUGUST 5TH PARTY AT SHADE TREE!

Comrades! Lovers! Would-be lovers! Enemies! People of all sizes and smells!Your dear purveyors of Apocalyptic Americana Music for the Clinically Deranged (or A.A.M.C.D) RUBE WADDELL host a star-studde...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:55:00 PST

Success at Leeds, Cops can't hold us back

Yes folks, The hollowed tradition of Rube Waddell Live at Leeds lived on March 31st. The Rube himself would have been right proud. In true fashion the boys set up late, indulged in feedback and techni...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:12:00 PST

Rube Waddell live in Oakland, March 10th!!

RUBE WADDELL LIVESATURDAY MARCH 10TH!@THE OAKLAND METROhttp://www.oaklandmetro.org/index.htmlalso appearing...POLKACIDE, THE WHORESHOED, ONE MAN BANJO, and HOT PINK FEATHERSAll Ages8pm, $10...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:19:00 PST

Live in Monterey CA!! 3/07/07

RUBE WADDELL will be bringing their rye whiskey, fishing poles....and oh yes cornucopia of instruments to Steinbeck Land and the gorgeous club MONTERY LIVE. It's been awhile since we've been down that...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:15:00 PST

New Year's Eve with Rube Waddell @ Amnesia

A Happy New Year and various holiday salutations to one and all. Its been a meaty year for the Rubes what with the new album and all. We thank everyone who has stuck by us and welcome the new folks wh...
Posted by Rube Waddell on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:34:00 PST