So this morning on my way into work there was a long haired bearded dude wearing scruffy clothes, sitting at the bottom of the Embarcadero Station escalator cranking on some weird musical instrument and making a wonderful noise that had beat and background drone and a certain fun twang to it. I had no idea what it was but I liked it so I walked over and chatted with him about it. Turns out it was a Hurdy Gurdy! Which brought back memories of an old song from the 60's that I initially remembered as a Beatles song but when I looked it up it turns out it was Donovan. Here is a video of the Donovan song and here is a clip of a Hurdy Gurdy being played. Cool stuff for the Monday morning commute. I gave the Hurdy Gurdy man a buck and stayed to listen for a while.
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