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

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

I believe RF has been playing in public spaces for quite a while, from 
pizza 
parlors to Peaches/Tower Records, to the World Congress Center.  Some 
sites 
in the UK as well, but his attitude towards playing in the UK is I think 
spot on - "You can't sell ambient music in England", or something similar 
to 
that.  I'm attempting to build a busk-a-matic kind of portable rack for 
the 
purpose of doing the Carling busking thing, simply because I'd like to 
bounce my sounds off the tiles in the tube stations.  I suspect RF's 
efforts 
in England are pretty much artistically-motivated, and just that...

From: "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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