Re: OT: Busking--it's hard for everyone

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

didnt Robert Fripp busk at a shopping center with his
revox loops at one point?

--- Paul Richards <paulrichard10@adelphia.net> wrote:

> (About a block later a woman passed by me and said,
> 'that was really lovely 
> what you played...')
> 
> Can you met chicks that way? If so, I may start
> busking myself!
> 
> Paul Richards
> 
> ---- David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote: 
> > At 11:14 AM -0400 4/9/07, Jim Goodin wrote:
> > 
> > >Most times the experience is more about doing it
> than income
> > 
> > I agree.  That's why I play the Farmers' Market
> near my home, which 
> > is a scheduled gig but pretty much the same as
> busking because almost 
> > no one is there to hear me play.  (I do have a few
> fans who show up 
> > when they know I'm going to be there, but still.)
> > 
> > 
> > >  however I have had a few nice things over the
> years.  A few years 
> > >ago a guy was watching me and appeared to be
> sketching.  He put a 
> > >caricture and a note down in my case to call him
> if I played 
> > >weddings so that led to a booking.  Have sold a
> few CD's and got a 
> > >few bucks.  One neat personal experienced
> happened one evening.  I 
> > >had quit and was walking out of the subway in
> Brooklyn.  About a 
> > >block later a woman passed by me and said, 'that
> was really lovely 
> > >what you played...'  Though those don't pay the
> rent in a sense 
> > >that's why we do it...
> > 
> > Nice stories.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
> > Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102,
> Oakland CA 94610-2730
> > Blog:  http://logblog.gdhour.com
> > Web site: http://www.dgans.com
> > 
> 
> 


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