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i saw the page about the toronto busking in the subway. i've done it for years. the reason that many stations are empty is we are restricted to playing 29 stations by law. socan has charged toronto transit 900 buck a year per station and the ttc can't afford to pat for more than 29. people do occasionally play others but they risk losong their licence. we used to have fifty sattions abd i would have liked more.

the audition process is rather arbitrary but most of the people who loose out have a problem with their stage personality. which in my experience carries over to being pretty angry and uncooperative in the sudways with other muscians. their is a ral divide between immigrants and the ontario born who really do think we ought to getbout of their way when they want to play. this approaches violence often and results in threats very often. a lot of the muscians you mentioned who lost licences are exactly the bully crowd. sorry to bring the bad news but people who are nice locally are not always nice in the subway. having been subjsct to alot of these threats i don't have much synpathy for them. they are usually counry pop players, and usually born in ontario. again i find the people with a problem getting the licence ought to look at thenselves as they are usually so difficult it carries over to the audition.

this is meant for marion who was talking about the buskers.