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jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:02 am

Maybe I was too...

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:13 am

And maybe I was too

yep, definitely was.

I was being sarcastic.
Most of the street musicians I have heard have not been afforded the opportunity to record their music. (Except for a cool little string quartet I saw once?).

My comment struck me as pretty darn funny..

I do not own, nor condone Kazaa.
I do encourage generousity one the streets.

Now is where my insecurity forces me to respond with passionate vitriol and call you names...

but you are already called Chickenman,
and I agree with your point!

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:15 am

My friend makes quite good money over here in NZ in the summer, he'll go out and busk for a couple of hours and make enough to buy beer, then gap it.

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:20 am

ouroboros wrote:Now is where my insecurity forces me to respond with passionate vitriol and call you names...

but you are already called Chickenman,
and I agree with your point!

Haha

Yes in the right context your comment is extremely funny

I record some of the local buskers for free from time to time, makes me a little idealistic and bitchy.

ouroboros · Post by **ouroboros** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:47 am

Chickenman wrote:
I record some of the local buskers for free from time to time, makes me a little idealistic and bitchy.

very cool. Maybe you could post something sometime?
Give them their first big break!

I am amazed reading these posts how many talented musicians there are doing this. I've never had the fortune to really be around that. Most of the performers I've seen or known have been dancers.

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:03 am

The only stuff I could post would be my friends classical guitar stuff... maybe. I'll ask him tonight.
Copyright making the other stuff a no go.

ChimeraMan · Post by **ChimeraMan** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:15 am

griels wrote:There was some senile guy who had a little puppet which he would make dance to the latest hits, which he would play on his 1985 model ghettoblaster. Don't see him any more though - think someone must have snipped his strings one day

Strings are still attached. The f**ker hauled his blaster 'n' puppet down to Weymouth (Dorset)! Well c'mon, how many senile guys with blasters and puppets are there???

Gotta be the same one, surely.

t-willy · Post by **t-willy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:08 am

pretty good street musicians in new orleans from time to time. especially blues and jaaaaaaaaaaaath!

lates

t-willy

hues · Post by **hues** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:15 am

there was this guy
when i lived in NYC
who used to play this instrument
that he invented

it was an electric guitar
that he tore apart
and played on a skateboard
with these little steel mallets

it was plugged into an amp
it was a percussive instrument
that sounded like hendrix
i never heard anything else like it

and i'll never forget that

i have the upmost respect for street performers

TotcProductions · Post by **TotcProductions** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:17 am

holy shit, all the time man....all over the subways in new york...I give out way too much money to those guys.....bought a cd once, of some tribal type 3 man drum thingy these dudes had goin on.

Peace!

Robert T · Post by **Robert T** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:41 am

No street music here, it all tends to wind up in the living room. Sometimes on Sunday I go over to Hogtown and they're all at Tim&Terry's. That's about as close as it get here in rural America. But if I were driving my truck down U.S. 41-441 between Lake City and Gainesville and saw a guy on the side of the road jamming out I would definately pull a U-E and go back and listen and most likely give 'em a beer.

No Shit!

intel · Post by **intel** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:00 am

I'll agree about the kids who play drums on 5 gallon buckets. that stuff is intense. there used to be 2 kids locally who did it all the time, I gave them at least $5 every time I saw them. tremendous talent.

I do recall my trip to NYC and seeing the standard male vocalist w/ acoustic guitar. but the thing that stood out was the the guy with the car battery powering an amp, keyboard, mic and drum machine who was doing a freestyle rap while playing keyboard. it wasn't necessarily the greatest sounding performance, but man was he dedicated to it. I was upset that I didn't have enough spare cash to pay him for such a whole-hearted performance.

funkynuts · Post by **funkynuts** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:31 am

Living in London i come across loads of street musicians and i always stop to listen if they are actually any good.(a lot of them are)

I also give them a couple of pounds or something if they are intresting enough for me to stand and listen to and i often end up having a yarn with them for a while.

Its always cool to hear another musicians backgrounds and influences(and maybe pick up a technical trick or to:a 20 min chat with a busker at South Kensington Tube station helped my slide guitar playing immensely)

Glassback · Post by **Glassback** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:51 am

Yeah, we get some bloody amazing street musicians in Manchester but what happened to being called a Busker - did it become 'un-PC' or something?.

If they're good, it's a welcome break from the bustle of the CityCentre shops for a while.
We do tend to get some oddities as well, not just a bloke / woman with an acoustic guitar - I was watching a mini orchestra last week - they drew a MASSIVE crowd - and people were putting coins in the cello case

.

There's also the dude in a wheelchair with a whole bunch of synths... brilliant!

Never seen anybody selling CD's yet though... that's not to say they haven't been, just not the ones I've seen.

griels · Post by **griels** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:54 am

Chase wrote:I love street drummers. Especially this kind.

F*******K!

I hope he got paid WELL

Street musicians: do you listen to them?