Just because someone is a great musician does not make them a great busker. No busker in their right mind would ever busk at morning rush hour.
The first task of a busker is to choose the pitch. Busking is about getting an edge (enough people stopped so that other people will want to stop and see what is happening). That has to do with the pitch, season, the time of day, the weather and luck. Busking is about doing something that will catch people's attention, something that compels them to stop, something that they perceive as not likely being able to enjoy elsewhere. Buskers have to contend with police, street vendors, store owners, bureaucrats, yakuza, toddlers, photographers, other buskers and the occasional moron. On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Chris Bolton wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/ > AR2007040401721.html Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
