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

[Graham Miller <grahammiller@sympatico.ca>]

question about fripp:

does he have a son named john?

i think i met him last night... although the guy could be BSing... he  
was pretty drunk...

g.


On 1-May-07, at 8:55 PM, Rev Fever 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 <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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>>
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