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01 Oct 02 - 09:56 AM (#794737) Subject: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Roger the Skiffler Story in today's UK press about a French lawyer who plays street accordian as part of her town's traditional festival and has been called before the lawyers' governing body to answer a charge of bringing the profession into disrepute. Now I know there are some people who think lawyers are worse than accordian players, and I know the combination of the two may send a shiver down some spines, but this seems very harsh to me. No axe to grind, tho' I do find box players a bit , er, loud at times. RtS (not trying to get my own back for the cruel remarks about kazoos, honest) |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:01 AM (#794743) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: GUEST,Busker At least she might drive away the bloody Big issue fraternity! |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:20 AM (#794754) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Mountain Dog Which profession is she charged with bringing into disrepute? (Surely something good must eventually come out of this, as a double negative always implies a positive...) |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:28 AM (#794758) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: MMario if she was playing accordian during a trial; or if she was dispensing legal advice while busking - they might have a point. |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:29 AM (#794761) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Dave Bryant Richard Bridge and other Mudcat lawyers - beware ! |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:37 AM (#794767) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: GUEST Au contraire, she should get an award for playing music; it can only enhance the reputation of the profession of law! Rich McCarthy |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:50 AM (#794778) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Bee-dubya-ell On the USQRS (Universal Snobbery Quotient Rating Scale) LAWYERS score a 9. THE FRENCH score a 9. Therefore, FRENCH LAWYERS score a cumulative 18 which makes them SUPERSNOBS. ACCORDION PLAYERS score 1/2. They need all the friends they can get. Bonjour Bruce |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:50 AM (#794779) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: wysiwyg Imagine they'd love my priest husband in full vestment glory (brocade, lace, about nine yards)... with a banjo slung up his back while he preaches. No tip jar though; and the plate goes to the church! ~Susan |
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01 Oct 02 - 10:56 AM (#794783) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Midchuck I shall go forthwith to France and start performing music and practicing Law. Hopefully, they will disbar me in short order and I can concentrate on music. (Actually, I'm taking the coward's way out - staying here and waiting for Social Security to start before I quit the law and just do music.) Peter. |
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01 Oct 02 - 11:49 AM (#794808) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: catspaw49 Look Skiff, here's an idea for you.......Why not go join in with him on Kazoo? Give him that aura of respectability that only a retired kazzo player can impart............Take money for bail. Spaw |
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01 Oct 02 - 12:57 PM (#794874) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Seamus Kennedy The only thing worse than a busking French lawyer playing the accordian is a busking American lawyer playing the uilleann pipes on the streets of New York!! Seamusducking&runningforcoverbeforeLarryseesthis. |
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01 Oct 02 - 01:14 PM (#794881) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: McGrath of Harlow I don't know what they'd make of Larry (InOBU) with his uilleann pipes.
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01 Oct 02 - 04:19 PM (#794999) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: EBarnacle1 Seamus, Larry doesn't play on the streets, except to those gathered near the windows outside his East Village home. Please bear in mind that pipers used to be specifically banned from many municipalities. Accordion, banjo and concertina players were merely disapproved. |
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01 Oct 02 - 04:21 PM (#795002) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Bert Well, she could have been playing a Hurdy Gurdy, then she would have sounded like an accordian and The Uillean Pipes at the same time. |
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01 Oct 02 - 04:27 PM (#795008) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Marion If busking without a licence is illegal in the town in question, I can see where they're coming from - should lawyers be openly and routinely breaking the law, even if it is a silly law? But since this was "part of" a festival, I doubt she was doing anything illegal. Marion |
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01 Oct 02 - 06:16 PM (#795065) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Bennet Zurofsky I am a lawyer and I frequently sing in the streets. With some its improved my reputation. With others its hurt may reputation. Of course, the opinions of those others is not worth a fig. Most don't seem to care one way or the other. Judge my legal work by my legal work and my music by my music. Of course, I've almost been arrested a couple of times, but when the cops learn I'm an attorney they usually decide not to bother. Those First and Fourteenth Amendments are such a bother for the police. No one has ever suggested that I be hauled before the local Professional Ethics Committee, however. |
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01 Oct 02 - 06:43 PM (#795081) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: InOBU EBarnical! You should take the subway more and sell that old Volvo! Of course I play on the streets, when the subway is too hot! How do ya think I make a living a vic? Playing in ALL the folk clubs in this folk forgotten city! Hey Bennett! Am I going to run into you at the NLG convention in a few weeks? I believe I am going to be there to speak about the Toogood event. Cheers Larry the busker... |
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01 Oct 02 - 06:58 PM (#795094) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: McGrath of Harlow If she'd been playing in court it might be different. |
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01 Oct 02 - 07:23 PM (#795106) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: harpmaker Where there's a will there's a way! Busking built my workshop, and tooled it out!! Look at what I build today, www.dolphinharps.com support your local busker!! I say. It can allso pay the mortgage when times are bad. |
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01 Oct 02 - 11:45 PM (#795242) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Bob Bolton G'day WYSIWYG, "Imagine they'd love my priest husband in full vestment glory ... with a banjo slung up his back while he preaches ... ~Susan" Hey! Didn't Sydney Carter write a song about that (The Vicar is a Beatnik ( ...and ought to be defrocked ...!). If you have not seen it, I'll send you a copy - since Sydney's family don't want his work to appear on Mudcat (personally, I think a firm presence on Mudcat is the best way to stake a claim on his wonderful songs!). Regards, Bob Bolton |
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02 Oct 02 - 01:16 AM (#795270) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: wysiwyg Bob, Love it! motormice@hotmail.com Be sure to include the word MUDCAT in the subject line to survive the spam filter! Could use a bit of cheer, husband could too. GREAT timing. Thanks, ~Susan |
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02 Oct 02 - 04:25 AM (#795311) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: alanabit Anyone who is willing to practise two of the world's least reputable professions can have a beer with me! |
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03 Oct 02 - 05:28 PM (#796396) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Bennet Zurofsky Sorry Larry, I won't be at the Guild Convention this year, but which pub do I have to frequent to collect that brew from alanabit? |
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04 Oct 02 - 07:10 AM (#796710) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: alanabit Any decent boozer in Cologne, Germany usually, Linz (Upper Austria)if you are there for the "Pflaster Spektakel" next July or The Coachmaker's in Callington, Cornwall on one of my rare visits home! I may even make it to the Staes next Spring/early summer - so watch this space! Happy busking. |
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04 Oct 02 - 08:17 AM (#796747) Subject: RE: Busking lawyer 'disreputable' ? From: Willie-O Hey, last I heard busking musicians are disreputable too according to the rules of the American Federation of Musicians. Now my rulebook dates from the six months during 1979 that I was a paid-up member in good standing, and it specifically states that members aren't (weren't) allowed to perform in a public space for indefinite remuneration! On the grounds, I believe that it's 1. undignified 2. doesn't usually pay scale Anyone know if this is still on the AFM books? I made a hell of a lot more busking than I ever did as a union musician! W-O |