The Ultimate Busking Tool

Subject: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 03:11 PM

I'm working on a re-design of the lowly gasoline container.
You know the type. Made of hard fiberglass, red, with the long spout that screws inside.

It has come to my attention that motorists will not pick up hitch hikers or musicians (more often than not) but they will stop for people in need of gas.

So ... my gas can design will substitute for a weekend or overnight bag. The container will be cross cut, with hinges invisible from the exterior that will allow it to unsnap and swing open like a door. There will be several compartments (mini shelves within) allowing toiletries, underwear, socks, change of clothes and a first aid kid, guitar strings, capo and picks. (You can bum a guitar off of some Mudcatter when you arrive at your destination.) I figure this is a good solution for someone wanting to get around cheaply. Haven't decided on what the containers should sell for yet, but I'm sure they can be distributed through Mudcat.

I'm also working on an exact replica of a bar stool only in miniature. Something about 5 inches high. This will be offered to laboratories when one has to go for blood workup and a "stool sample" is required.

Hey it's Sunday and I'm bored. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: Mark Clark
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 04:04 PM

What a great idea! And if you leave a vertical partition open for the full height of the container, you'll have room to stow your new guitar in its collapsed form. Who knows? There may be room for a stool sample as well.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 04:14 PM

A friend of mine used to keep a dove as a pet. The dove just loved to sit my friend's bar stools and, of course, would poop on them whenever it felt like it doing so. This made the bird very unpopular at parties, and is probably the source of the saying "no one likes a stool pigeon".

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: C-flat
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:19 AM

That's a great idea JP, you could even carry an oil can without fear of being found out!

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: GUEST,Johnny in OKC
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 12:58 PM

Great. Just don't let them know it's not a real gas can.

Now how about an eleven-foot pole?

For touching people with, that you wouldn't
touch with a ten-foot pole.

Johnny in OKC

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: TIA
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 01:32 PM

If anyone in a bar offers to push in your stool, you might want to decline (unless you're into that).

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: Mark Ross
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 02:40 PM

A hobo by the name of Gas Can Paddy did this in the Depression. That's how he got his name. I met him 20 years ago at the Hobo convention in Britt, Iowa.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: Gurney
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 03:22 AM

How about a roller-blind cut-out of a busty blonde. You could hide behind it, and you wouldn't have to invent a collapsible guitar.

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 09:11 AM

Say..
Mark Clark & C Flat

I have a Guitar neck attached to an enamelled steel hospital bedpan.
(For Real - got it off E-bay a while ago.)
Sounds a bit tinny - been thinking of setting it up Nashville style.

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: The Ultimate Busking Tool
From: C-flat
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 01:06 PM

Sounds like crap? Plenty of bum notes?
Actually I'd like something like that myself. Maybe I'll have a sniff around e-bay too.