Since I have been exploring the forums and the internet, I have been exposed to some thing that has just reached it’s boiling point with me.
I have been attacked for smoking, bad spelling, bad font, bad grammar, being tolerant for dumpster diving, have photos of me unshaved, posting to much, not posting enough, HAVING A CRASS SENSE OF HUMUR, being to opinionated, and on and on and on!
These people are not regal or civilized they are tyrants!
This is inhuman intolerant behavior.
When I go on the pitch I meet weekend warrior buskers who are experimenting with the idea of going full time.
they complain about the same and more about me and other full timers. they call the cops on other performers and want permits and zones and venue directors, and on and on and on it goes.
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT REGAL!
THEY ARE TYRANTS!!!!!!!!
IF YOU WANT TO BE A BUSKER YOU ARE GOING TO NEED TOLERANTS!
IF YOU WANT TO BE A BUSKER YOU ARE GOING TO NEED TOLERANTS!
IF YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW IN YOUR HEAD THAT, “HEY I AM JUST AGAINST THIS ONE THING OR THAT THING” YOU’RE THE INTOLERANT ASS I’M TALKING TO!
The street is the street! It is not the Ritz Carlton gig. IT IS NOT YOUR HOME.
IT IS THE PUBLIC STREET STUPID!
Busking is hard enough with all it’s intricate hurdles, why in gads name would you be wasting your time complaining and trying to fix the area so it feels like your special private place at home.
A REAL BUSKER IS AT HOME ON THE STREET….ANY STREET, ANY WHERE.
YOU DO NOT CHANGE THE PITCH,
YOU CHANGE FOR THE PITCH!
If you want people to like you and watch you and pay you and if you want to appear as a fun person YOU WILL NEED TO LOOSIN UP AND ALOW PEOPLE TO BE THEM SELVES EVEN IF YOU DON’T LIKE THEIR HABITS, FORM OF DRESS, WHAT EVER….DON’T BE AN ASS.
One thing I don’t like is vulgar shows but I DO NOT TELL A SEASONED PRO HOW TO DO HIS SHOW, THAT MAY CAUSE CONFLICT AND SHOWS A LACK OF RESPECT.
NOW IF YOU THINK RUNNING OUT THE BAD ELEMENT IS GONNA HELP JUST REMEMBER NO MATTER WHAT, THE POWERS THAT BE CONSIDER YOU THE BAD ELEMENT ALSO…..NO MATTER HOW NICE A MANICURE YOU HAVE.
IF YOUR UPTIGHT, WHEN YOU COME TO THE STREET LEAVE YOUR PURSE AT HOME, CUZ EVEN THE BUSKER CHICKS ARE TUFF OUT HERE.
STOP WHINING AND COMPLAINING.
OR STAY INDOORS BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT MORE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT OUT THERE THEN IF YOUR FRIEND SHAVED TODAY.
THERE’S CRACK HEADS AND WHORES AND BUMS PISSING ON THEM SELVES BEGGING FOR MONEY FROM YOUR AUDIENCE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR SHOW.
AND WHEN YOU SEE ONE OF US FULL TIME BUSKERS DON’T EXPECT US TO PUT OUT OUR CIGERETTES OR NOT SAY WORDS THAT OFFEND YOU OR WHAT EVER BECAUSE WE ARE THERE TO WORK, MAKE MONEY AND HAVE A GOOD TIME.
WE ARE NOT THERE TO HOLD YOUR HAND BE YOUR MOMMY AND PET YOUR HEAD AND TELL YOU EVERYTHING IS GONNA BE THE WAY YOU WANT IT.
IF THIS IS BOTHERING YOU REMEMBER THERE ARE PEOPLE WAY WORSE THEN ME OUT THERE.
….AND YOU CAN’T FIGHT THE WORLD AND STREET PERFORM AT THE SAME TIME.
AND REMEMBER YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE A MARKED MAN OUT THERE...BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN ON THE STREET.
you can be a gentleman out there,
but not a gentle castrated emasculated neurotic bundle of nerves, because they smell fear, your audience, the bad guys, the cops, everybody.
and you wont make money and you will be marked.
the audience will mark you boring or a hack.
the bad guys will see fresh meat,
the cops will see a hassle that they have to put up with instead of chasing bad guys or eating donuts....and that pisses them off!
this uptight attitude may work for you at the corporate gigs or the back yard show, but this is exactly what you don't want to do busking!
