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Re: OT: Busking--it's hard for everyone (Fripp)



I saw him at a Peach's Records in Ft. Lauderdale sometime around 1979. The place was so crowded, folks were standing on the record bins and filching records. Peach's was unable to maintain order. Great fun!

Rev Fever <revfever@ubergadget.com> wrote:
Fripp did a Frippertronics "tour" in the VERY early 80's where he
played places like record stores ( I saw it at the long gone now
Peaches Records in Dallas,TX)
and I think(?) even places like a pizza parlor, but that could have
also been a rumor way back then. (OR...?)

Rev. Fever

On May 1, 2007, at 5:50 PM, L.A. Angulo wrote:

> didnt Robert Fripp busk at a shopping center with his
> revox loops at one point?
>
> --- Paul Richards 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 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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