Worlds saddest story!!!
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Topic: Worlds saddest story!!!
Posted By: Garion81
Subject: Worlds saddest story!!!
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 19:19
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Rick Wakeman fails as a Busker!! http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1240751.html - http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1240751.html
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 19:55
Probably forgot to take the obligatory doleful-looking dog with him.
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Garion81 wrote:
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 22:29
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What in the hell is a busker? Should I know what busking is?
------------- "O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love 'n you should have us all O' you should have us fall" "Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 23:37
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Hey Aqualung, I had to seek for the meaning of the f**king word too, here it is: Main Entry: busk·er http://www.progarchives.com/forum/javascript%20popWin'/cgi-bin/audio.pl?busker01.wav=busker' - Couldn't they use the words street artist? Would be much simpler. The street is not his place, it's absurd for a prog' artist, what's he trying to prove? First stand up comedian now a busker. The sad thing is that probably N'Sync would have gathered a crowd. Iván |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 23:37
You know those guys who play music on street corners? Those are buskers. |
Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 12 2005 at 23:42
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WHAT! RICK WAKEMAN! THE RICK WAKEMAN???
------------- "O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love 'n you should have us all O' you should have us fall" "Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 05:36
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If anyone recognised him - which they probably did - why would they give their loose change to a multi millionaire?? Especially if he was strumming anything from 'Topographic Oceans' HE should be paying the public to hear that! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 06:54
C'mon Javelin Man, he was doing the "busking" for a TV show.The aim was probably to see if talent really made a difference to how much money was collected-or if it is merely a pity thing. -------------
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 06:57
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Paul MaCartney did something similar a few years previous with similar results and he was playing Beatles tunes!!! ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Pixel Pirate
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 08:28
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A music teacher here in Norway recently started a campaign to get street musicians up to a certain standard since we are daily tortured by morons who can't play an instrument to save their lives and he has had enough of it. And I agree. Pathetic folk singers who wail "Blowin' In The Wind" on a beat up old acoustic guitar on a street corner is one thing,but we are awash in people from Eastern Europe in this country right now who come over during the summer on a temporary visa and clutter the streets of the major cities with their musical mutilations. Usually on accordion,an "instrument" that's difficult to stomach at the best of times. I have been close to stuffing the accordions down the throaths of these noise terrorists more than once so I'm glad someone is finally doing something about it! ------------- Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 08:43
Thank God for Jethro Tull !! ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 09:09
which one's Jethro Clowny?Don Patridge was a busker,now there was a talent
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 09:25
The gentleman on the far left !! 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Fragile
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 10:05
There is a very striking resemblance there, must be the one leg he's so finely balanced on
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 10:13
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Are you sure that's not Earth Wind & Fire? ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 10:23
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Perhaps It´s Earth lots of Wind and no Fire !! ------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 11:06
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I know Reed, but I believe when a guy reaches the level of Rick, he shouldn't take that risks. Another anecdote, a few years ago I was taking adomestic flight to Cuzco (Machu Picchu) and in our airport saw a guy who's face was familiar, when I came closer he was Paul Simon alone walking through the airport, so I ran and asked him to take a picture with me (I always have my camera). The guy almost kissed me Iván |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: January 13 2005 at 12:21
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I hate reality TV but there was one show recently that was a fake one and the contestants did not know it was fake. It was about a "billionaire mogul" and the contestants would get to be president of his company for a month or some such nonsense. So the first day he has them out panhandling on the streets of I only watched part of one other episode and he was showing his mansion off to them. He had this sword encased in glass and was trying to convince the contestants it was the sword Excalibur held by King Arthor.
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