Busking in Paris (subway/Metro) used to be a well-recognised tradition - supposedly Paul Simon and even Jimi Hendrix did it - certainly Ralph McTell did - and so did I - for about 3 years - made a reasonable (but not lavish) living... However, in 1979, people started playing in the trains, instead of just in the corridors, and so people started to get sick of it... now people are begging (CONSTANTLY) in the trains as well, and music in the corridors has pretty much died out. I never liked having someone "bottle" (pass the hat) - I just used to put the guitar case in front of me - primed with a couple of coins, just so it was clear what I was there for. Wellknown songs are best of course - in those days, if you could do a reasonable version of Simon & Garfunkel, Beatles, Eagles, etc, that was a good bet. My Kristofferson/Waylon/Leonard Cohen imitations were a bit obscure, but still, I did OK... Nick