Last week at Penn or maybe Union Station saw an eight string bassist a cellist and a drummer wearing Commedia dell'arte masks like something out of Blow Up or a caper movie. I was predisposed to dislike them, they had a weird name too, but they sounded OK. youbredraptors.com
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
best i've seen in a while: two saxes plus drums trio at bedford ave L station, repeating a really catchy funk-ish riff over and over with variations.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:44 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
These guys are called Moon Hooch, and they are fucking amazing. Not to be confused with the one sax and drummer guys who seem to be copping their style.
Every morning at 51st st there's an andean pan flute guy who is playing the exact same melody every time. He plays with a recording, and I get the sense that the recording is providing most of the sound rather than his playing.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
Never send an Andean flute outfit that wasn't like that, tbh.
― An Outcast From Time's Feast (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
There's a jazz drummer named Thomas Galliano who plays on the L platform at Union Square most evenings now -- pretty sick! He usually has this tenor player with him who I like a lot. Occasionally there's this bass player who you can't hear very well (he's not very powerful and you can't use an amp on the platform). Sometimes there's an alto instead of tenor. A few times there was a jazz harmonica, which is up there with andean pan pipes and steel drums for me.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
nyc has a generally high quality of buskers imo
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
agreed, majority of what I hear is listenable to very good.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
On the fence about the guitarist on the 7 platform at Grand Central the other evening with a balaclava covering his head playing "Cosmic Slop."
― The Glam Of That All The Way From Memphis Man! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Three cheers for the three tenors in the Port Authority part of the subway tonight at the end of the tunnel that leads to the Seventh Avenue end of the station.
― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvODZf0yJZE
― Disco Cladistic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
Was so mesmerized by the guy playing popular tunes like “Can’t By Me Love” and “Happy Together” at Times Square this morning that I went up the wrong staircase to transfer.
― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Left out the three most important words, “on the ocarina.”
― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
one of the down ballot horrors that our current administration has done is eliminate the mariachi/latinx bands that used to busk on the subways
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
i have not noticed their elimination
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
In that you never noticed they were gone or that you still see them? Bc I don’t!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
saw one yesterday (or maybe friday?) although it was just one dude, not a trio
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
Ya I’m talking about the full band dudes. I’m sure they are out there in isolation
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
xxxxxp Ocarina of Time(s Square)
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
I've noticed when I go back to Glasgow or Paisley there's buskers everywhere, I'm sure the local councils are encouraging it in some misguided attempt to make the streets seem more, I don't know, vibrant? This is more true in a shithole like Paisley. Also so many of them are Ed Sheeran/ Lewis Capaldi wannabes.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:48 (four years ago) link
There are two older guys that always seem to be in Norwich city centre when I'm there that always seem to choose cool songs, last time I heard a lovely version of 'Harvest Moon' floating towards me, sounded great.
― Maresn3st, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link