Music: Cutting the Mustard

"I was driving, see. cool like down the freeway. A young kid in a twin pipe job come up on me fast on the right. He was a goner. He cockeyed near cooled me, man. So I said, 'Jimmy, let's write a song about this cool cat.' I don't even know the name of the guy. But I got even. Man, I got even!"

The frenetic speaker is a 44-year-old singer-composer known as "Nervous Norvus" (real name: Jimmy Drake). His revenge consisted of writing and recording a nerve-jangling rock 'n' roll tune called Transfusion, and...

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