optional buskers?

[an-art-worker.livejournal.com]

Anyone know if there is a pause button for Davis T buskers? Can I pay them to not play?


(yes, I love the arts, I love music but I don't love being a captive audience to someone with a cheesy amp, a boom box and a volume control that (apparently) goes to 11)

Comments

[matthew miller (from livejournal.com)]

I really enjoyed it when Haitian singer/guitarist Gifrants (http://gifrants.com) was playing at Davis. Haven't seen him in a while, though.

On the other hand, a month or so ago I was travelling through Park Street with a little kid I'd just gotten to sleep, and suddenly: Plastic Tub Drummer! Ow!

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

He's been hanging out in Harvard lately. I really like him, although he has one tune that he played so often I could chant the refrain in my sleep, even if I had no idea what it meant!

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Everyone knows that song...I honestly think he only knows like 4 songs, and he plays that 1 song every other time. I think he is good, but its pretty bad when everyone else knows the words to the song that is in another language because they hear it so freakin much.

[elements.livejournal.com]

I like his music but I hate it when I hear him because then I have at least one of his songs in my head all week because I know all four of them so well by now. I find myself singing them in the shower and stuff. And that just feels odd. And then if I start randomly singing one while I'm walking around outside I wonder how many other people walking nearby will say to themselves, wait, she got the chorus wrong just then, or something, because they all know it so well too. I think he should find another beat for a while so we can forget the words and get to missing him for a bit.