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Home-made musicians

The mysterious Media Man writes:
I spotted these two guys in Newtown a few weeks ago. The guy on the right, who I think is at least partially, if not wholly blind, has a ragged doll attached to his big toes, which he moves as he plays, causing the doll to dance in jerky spasms, causing its one eyelid to flicker eerily open and shut. His guitar is amplified by an old-fashioned radio and blares maskandi music out through a speaker to his right, which I think comes from an alarm system.
The guy to his left plays percussion, mainly on a piece of tin attached loosely to his home-made drumkit. The foot-pedal is a piece of wire which taps downwards on the drum on the ground. He keeps time on the tin, and then does these fantastic, varied rolls on the plastic-covered drums every now and then ...