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

[elements.livejournal.com]

I'm no musician, but I think some instruments just don't function without an amp. So the key is a reasonable maximum volume. I don't know how you'd enforce it tho - an amp could be modded so it's "5" would still sound like 11 :). And asking T staff to carry decibel meters sounds a little nuts. But I am with you on the sanity/commonsense aspect of there being a volume limit. I like the noise-or-lack-of in my head more than music a lot of the time - or the quiet observation of daily life and humanity, which wearing earplugs or headphones cuts you off from.