Photo via "Krafwerk's Big Day" flickr
David "Not Kraftwerk" Sanborn took the internet by storm last week with an album on Flickr called "Kraftwerk's Big Day", wherein he performed a series of mundane errands (trip to the DMV, getting breakfast, shopping for records) all while dressed in the iconic Kraftwerk "man machine" uniform, spread like wildfire. The photoset featured a Florida Driver's license photo that suggested that Sanborn had legally changed his name to "Kraftwerk." Not the case, as he told the AV Club: "I didn’t intend to fool anybody. ... I just had a rather mundane day ahead of me, dealing with the DMV, and I thought, ‘Well, let’s see how non-mundane I could make it.'" Sharp-eyed locals might remember Sanborn as co-owner of Bad Mood Records with Michael Donaldson (aka Q-Burns Abstract Message). [UPDATE: Read Sanborn's first-person account of "Kraftwerk's Big Day" here – weirdly, he chose to share it on an automotive blog. Ah, the internet.]
But really though, when your name is already that of smooth-jazz icon David Sanborn, do you even need to entertain the notion of a name change? Watch the other David Sanborn jam out with Sonic Youth on "I Wanna Be Your Dog" below.
