Coffeehouse Guitar vs street-busker

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

having done many forms of entertainment including I personally have high 
regard for the busker. I've learned that busking is not only a viable 
alternative to those of us that perform something that is on the fringes 
of 
accepted entertainment, it is also the most honest form of entertainment. 
How many times have you gone out, paid for a ticket and heard some crappy 
excuse for a performance and left thinking "that was a waste of money".... 
you see a busker, you stop and listen, if you like what you hear, you 
pay,, 
you don't like it, you walk away. I think it takes a lot of talent and a 
lot of guts to make it as a busker, a lot of stage musicians that I know 
would die on the street.


It's always been a great mystery to me how some performers can be so 
technically brilliant but soulless, some people have the ability to make 
every note reach inside and grab you. Sort of like I ask why some 
ambient/soundscape artists make evolving/shifting noise that doesn't go 
anywhere or do anything... and others whisk me away to some other 
dimension 
where time and space have no meaning. Is it in the equipment they use or 
is 
it a gift to be able to share their inner vision with someone else?

I hope sometimes I'm able to do that


Paul Haslem
dulcimer guy in Canada






At 04:19 AM 7/20/2006, you wrote:

>LOL  as a street-busker am i a lower life form than a
>coffee house player and is that any less rewarding
>than the club performer or those who find themselves
>touring the globe?what is the most evolved form of
>loopage artist?