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Can’t get enough Keyboard Cat?

A painting of Fatso, the Keyboard Cat, by artist Bud Cadell, is circulating on the Internet (The Spokesman-Review)
A painting of Fatso, the Keyboard Cat, by artist Bud Cadell, is circulating on the Internet (The Spokesman-Review)


Now there's a painting.

Plus, the video clip was used in a bit on the MTV Awards last weekend.

Why does Spin Control care? Well, we wouldn't except for the Spokane connection.As colleague Doug Clark reported last month,  Keyboard Cat video was made by Spokanite Charlie Schmidt, back in the '80s.

And yes, sorry to tell you but Keyboard Cat, whose real name is Fatso, went to that great litter box in the sky many years ago....

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