although it has been awhile since i've done any busking. {although i might just go out and do a bit more sometime} I need to enlighten many of you. Often a muscian can simply not be heard without amplification. And if you cannot be heard no one will give you any money. The times I did play without amplification {becaause it was not allowed where i was playing seattle}I would sometimes talk to people and say hey listen to this and stand a couple of inches away from them so they could hear. This was solo acoustic guitar without strumming. If I sang my voice was too loud for the guitar.Backing tracks look the way of now and future people are way spoiled on big budget music. My own thoughts on rock lead guitar cranked up in New York city was wow this sounds better than all those cars and buses driving by.London? well you mean I really have to get a lincense for spare change?