Most days, as I'm selling my pictures on the street, I'm standing right next to Ed Alleyne-Johnson (violinist in the video above) as he plays his heart out to earn a few quid.
My son aspires to be busking on the streets with his accordian, and my daughter is talented...
It's freedom. The portrait is of a friend who sits nearby most days. What Covid meant to him was that he had a warm bed, a shower and some privacy for the first time in a while. Our leaders discovered they could in fact solve homelessness, if it would look extremely bad for their narrative. It sold almost immediately (and yes, of course, I shared the loot 50/50 with him.)
Re: Music for 2021
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 8:50 pm
by Harvey
Oh, I see what you meant. Yes, it's often a drag having to struggle and I'm aware that came through in my other comment, but that was also a portrait, while another side of the same picture is that after all these years, I'm not doing anything else. Why would I? It's a difficult life and entirely my choice, about that, I have no regrets.
Re: Music for 2021
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2021 11:07 pm
by conniption
^^^ What I meant? idk...I wasn't trying to sound snarky like the church lady, really... just being funny is all. Honestly I think it's great and look forward to the day...
I posted the above video at RI on Dec. 31, 2009 along with an open letter to Jim Kweskin...I'm sorry...did you say you wanted more drama here on the music thread? ...or less?
You gave a concert at Kent State University in 1970 and I was there.
I was surprised you performed without your jug band. Little did I know what you were into at that time. ( What Ever Happened to Jim Kweskin? )
Anyway after the concert, it may have been the following day, I saw you sitting all alone on a wooden bench inside one of the buildings as students hurried about on their way to class. You were wearing a black knit cap and a pea coat, and seemed absorbed in the book you were reading, which happened to be The Godfather.
More than anything else in the world I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your performance, but my heart would not stop racing and I couldn't muster up the courage to shower you with the adoration I felt inside. One smile from you or one word of kindness would have been all it took to sweep me off my feet at that moment. So I guess it was a good thing, because being so young and vulnerable I would have followed you anywhere. (gulp)
Several years later I wrote you a letter asking about a song you sang, Simple Boy, and you wrote back to me with the words and chords to that song.
Some of my best memories of that time, were of playing and singing your songs with our makeshift family jug band. I played guitar and sang, my sister played fiddle, her husband guitar, one brother played banjo, one brother on the washtub bass and my mom played harmonica.
Good times.
Then here recently, well I guess it was back in March and April, I came across the articles posted about your relationship with Mel Lyman. You can say I was a little disappointed...no... troubled by...no wait a minute, Jim, I was shocked...yes shocked.
I continue to try to make excuses for what happened like, "It must have been that hit on the head." or "It must have been the acid."
Whatever. The music is not the same anymore. Not as free and easy and fun.
PIPELINEFUNK - concert / Saxophone with a crazy natural echo from the pipeline / Armin Küpper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8GcHoSIPDg Armin Küpper
Jun 9, 2020
"Pipelinefunk" - Armin Küpper...my music at: https://ffm.bio/mbor0qj (Deutsch unten )
When I was preparing for my recording session on the tube, I got a visitor here and gave a little spontaneous concert.
The portrait is of a friend who sits nearby most days. What Covid meant to him was that he had a warm bed, a shower and some privacy for the first time in a while. Our leaders discovered they could in fact solve homelessness, if it would look extremely bad for their narrative. It sold almost immediately (and yes, of course, I shared the loot 50/50 with him.)
