Pete, What makes a "showman" and where can we take lessons? Spud
On Jan 11, 10:24 pm, Petimar <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a Utube video of that Joshua Bell "street performance" I saw > a couple of years ago. What got me as much as anything is how few > people even bothered to LOOK in his direction, much less stop and > listen. > > My thinking on busking is it is moist about entertainment. I did my > fair share of busking when I moved to Seattle in the late 70s and saw > a lot of other buskers. The most successful I saw was a string band, > very below average in sound, but had a great act. They would play a > few notes, then all stare at the open case until the crowd dropped in > some money, then repeated many times. Finally after enough was paid, > they would play a whole tune. This was done in a comedic pantomine > way. They did this all day, every day and did very well. > > I played for 9 months with a guitarist who was a great showman. We > made good money, even though we didn't sound great. I made much less > with another guitarist who was not the showman, but we sounded much > better. > > Go figure... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
