I hate playing music on the street
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We have a relaxing late lunch cooked by Dobrinka as the sun sets. Just when we want to do nothing other than stretch out and a take a nap, we have to go to work. We have to unwedge the bikes, drag out the guitars, snap together the trailer. We lug it all downstairs, pack it, and bike into Belgrade with full stomachs.
Once we arrive at a suitable location (no cars, lots of foot traffic), uncertainty teases our nerves. Will there be enough people? Will we annoy anyone? Will the cops harass us? In Bratislava they stormed through our crowd in the middle of a song, clapping authoritatively. “Do you have a permit for this spectacle?” spat one of the officers. For the fourth time that day, we repacked the trailer.
In Budapest a woman yelled at us for making to much noise. When we tried to set up in the square, we incurred the wrath of a violinist eager to guard her turf. The cops kicked us out of our spot next to Burger King. In Belgrade we arranged a disadvantageous sharing agreement with break dancers after they set up next to us. Street musicianship is the closest I’ve ever come to gang warfare.
Playing music has become more complicated as of late. In Wienna I spent several hours being sent from one bureaucratic office to the next, only to be told in the end that permits for playing music on the street didn’t come available until October.
Once at a spot, we sit on the ground. Drew folds his legs Indian style for hours at a time. I switch the position of my legs between songs, but they still go to sleep. The physical and psychological pressure shortens tempers. We snappily disagree about the set list. Large gaps punctuate our performance. Passersby lose interest and walk off.
Give me a day job!
September 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
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what kind of day job? mom
September 20th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
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Careful there Jim.
First the job, then the wife, then the house, and of course the kids, and pretty soon all memories of your great adventure will be obliterated by your boring middle class routine.
Makes me sad to just to think of it.
Mike, the gray
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 pm
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It seems far are the days from “Women shi wuge ren. Women qile zixingche cong Beijing guo leide.” Soon enough you will have the day job, hang in there.
May 4th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
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