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.
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