The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3858   Message #2868153
Posted By: GUEST,pablo the wizzard (capt. of the ship of fool
20-Mar-10 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: Street Musicians, Buskers?
Subject: RE: Street Musicians, Buskers?
.there, i hope that punctuation satisfies your beast,yea, the one beating in your breast. to fully comprehend this phenomenone that was known as the MUSIC CIRCUS. i'm led to believe it was created in seattle washington round about the time cosmic cowboy dog and crow began playing with reggie miles there have been suggestions by kirston A.that herself along with others, using a variety of props and circusy jym-cracks formed a cute little group made of,(let me choose these word lightly,) music and bubbles and clown costumes, and adding, what i learned about it, its goal was nothing short of saving the world, not bad work if you can get it. i met cosmic cowboy dog in santa cruz where i had gone to devote my life to be comeing a wandering sage minstral, busker to you'ins, i thought it was a good idea to get some authentic california input into my rep.having my first attempt at busking (in front of a bakery in albany ny, on rte. two, direction hoosuc falls, where i got free donuts, some money, a girlfriend and some beer,) for playing, hey mister thats me up on the juke box., 14 times,on a mandolin no less,the sky clouded over, and the crowd on pacific garden mall hunkered off,then like some pyjama clad gunslinger appeared c-dog. i had heard of these type's of North West theme hippies before with their zithers and raybans, this giant of countless arrays of songs in every corner of his brain , i was irradiated,ameiliorised, flabbered and gasted too!here before me was a living legend of my own cloth he spoke, to me , i handed my guitar to him a takamine twelve string solid mohagahny arched back,(added) shaller tuning machines, he sniffed, i deficated,my stalwart washboard player burstout laughing and so it was, c dog was no camper but as time unfolded there in jan luby land and tom noddy land and that decrepid saw player land ,i began to learn songs from( this cat seems to be cool) c.dog and the tale of the mighty crow began to caw-caws my imagination to over work? c dogs rep was brilliant the buskers song is priceles,hiroshima naw-gah-socki russion roulette, the old wino song, wow, bound for ketchacan, brilliant and these crow mystical crow songs the list was expansive and c dog never seemed to tire,oh yeah tires the brand new car i spoke of was in fact a 13 year old push button belvediere station wagon navaho blue,if you don't say