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Mysterious 'Pied Piper of Los Angeles County' jams out on recorder at red lights

By Ben Hooper
Alex Grosse captured video of the mystery musician rocking out on the recorder to John Fogerty's "I Saw It On TV." Alex Grosse/YouTube video screenshot
Alex Grosse captured video of the mystery musician rocking out on the recorder to John Fogerty's "I Saw It On TV." Alex Grosse/YouTube video screenshot

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PASADENA, Calif., July 29 (UPI) -- Los Angeles-area motorists stopped at traffic lights have captured video footage of a sunglasses-clad man jamming out to rock 'n' roll classics on a recorder.

Redditors said the man has become a frequent sight giving performances while stopped at red lights around Los Angeles County, but no video footage of the commuting concerts emerged online until this month.

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A video posted to YouTube on Wednesday by Alex Grosse shows the mystery man using his recorder -- the musical instrument best known as the weapon of choice for third-graders blaring "Hot Cross Buns" -- to play along to John Fogerty's "I Saw It On TV" while waiting at a red light.

Grosse dubbed the musician "the Pied Piper of Los Angeles County."

A video posted earlier this month by YouTuber Colby captured the man using his instrument of choice to jam along to "La Grange," by ZZ Top, at a stop light in Pasadena.

"This man is a legend," the uploader wrote.

The YouTuber said he had previously spotted the man playing his recorder "several times," but "no one believed" his stories until he captured the video.

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