Shine on...

Just came back from work. And  when I got on to the platform of the 'Metro' there was a guitar player. Now with the terrorist attacks and the problems in the Parisian suburbs you have more police  controls, so you got less pickpockets in the subway, but you get less buskers too. So I was quite happy to have some music for my trip back home and  the guy really looked cool, middle-aged, all dressed up in black, black shiny hair, black goatee, a black epiphone around his shoulders, a mixture of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Cash and Zorro. So I followed him into the wagon and he settled his mini amp and effect box and started to tapp an intro on the neck and I thought I know this one and then he started to sing 'Remember when you were young/ you shone like the sun...' great, he had set a slight reverb on his box and played the tune ina very spirited and laid back way and when he finished singing he whistled for a time over the chord progression. Second song, cool intro and..'We don't need no education...'. Great.. when he finished he passed to collect money and I was the only person in the waggon who gave him money and he thanked everybody and he was quite sad and I wished I had given him some more...so, wherever you are keep on playing man!

I wish we had some prog buskers on the London Underground.
I always remember watching a free jazz  band outside the Pompidou Centre years ago. Almost unlistenable but they were great to watch.

 

I've heard that Dave Gilmour was a busker before he joined Pink Floyd

Wow. I know he was in bands with them before PF, or at least with Barrett.