I always look in on all the "Busking" threads, since I once spent a number of years trying to make a living at it, and I still appreciate the efforts of those who keep at it today. Well, most of them, anyway.

I just saw the reappearance of this thread, noted how very long ago it had been started, assumed that I had never seen it before, and started reading.

Lo and behold, there was my own (real) name, heading up MY VERY FIRST MUDCAT POST way back on February 5, 1998! That was long before I signed up as a member, certainly before I adopted my pseudonym. (Before I learned to enhance readability by inserting paragraph breaks, too.)

I don't really have anything to add, not having done any busking during the seven-years-plus since that message. All my streetsinging "war stories" are very old news!