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Thread #59682   Message #953031
Posted By: *daylia*
15-May-03 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: Most lucrative songs for busking?
Subject: RE: Most lucrative songs for busking?
Well a couple years ago, some poor crooner got kicked off the streets of Barrie because he slaughtered Neil Young's "The Needle and the Damage Done" about 15 times a day. So you might want to avoid that one.

The local newspaper editor commented that the way he sang it, it should have been re-titled "The Song and the Damage Done".   I never heard the guy, but you must be in pretty sad shape if you get blacklisted for singing Neil Young out of tune!?!

Personally, it's "All Along the Watchtower" that makes me just wanna hit something ....   ;)

Now, I like to hear buskers do Gordon Lightfoot classics! "Minstrel of the Dawn", "Bitter Green", "Triangle", "Old Dan's Records" ... yes! (Hope I got the names right!)

But there's a song I remember from childhood -- "Last Kiss"? -- that every beginning guitarist is doing now. Starts out "We were out on a date in my daddy's car ..." --- and has the same d*** 4 chords OVER and OVER and OVER --- and if I hear it one more time I think I'm gonna chuck my cookies!

Thanks for the chance to vent!

daylia