The real way buskers play around the world

Whaddya talking about, Haggle - that's exactly what we're looking for! In Collingwood, mediocrity reigns supreme!

I'm not sure he's all that bad. Perhaps it's his selection of music that is controversial. Sounds like it might be something by John Cage. Or maybe Eno or even John Cale. All of whom did pieces with a single chord, as I recall. (Cale you might recall was with the Velvet Underground for a few years). There were a lot of composers/writers in the 1960s-70s who did challenging stuff that broke away from the traditional song forms.But who is to say what art is? I remember I had an LP of the avant garde composer, Pierre Henrie, called "Variations for a Door and a Sigh" that had a piece using a creaking door and bowed saw. Very Dadaist. Not an easy listen, though. And I had LPs by avant garde electronic composer Steve Reich with equally bizarre pieces made by looping and re-looping segments of conversation on tape. He did a similar piece with violins which you can hear on this YouTube video:Nothing you could go out whistling, but Reich is considered a great artist. Controversial? Yes. Often difficult to listen to, especially if you have no appreciation of contemporary music of this sort. Sometimes a bit too intellectual, but I liked it, albeit in moderate doses. All of which points to the need for a competent auditioning committee with a broad appreciation of art, not merely a group that wants to hear tasteful renditions of the Eagles or America or other pop tunes. Art can't be defined merely by what any person or group likes, or even thinks is appropriate. We have to be tolerant of a wide variety of tastes and talents. Simply because someone thinks country music is depressingly derivative of soft rock these days, doesn't mean we shouldn't allow people to perform it. Similarly with with pop art or avant garde, we have to understand that an artist might be performing, not just a copyist. We have to look well beyond what we might hear on The Peak.Me, I want to see this guy busking on our streets:Check out the other vegetable music videos, too.PS. Okay, he was a bad busker. But like a lot of people in poor places, he was probably willing to do anything for a little money to buy food. He wouldn't likely get past our selection committee, but if I saw him performing on a street elsewhere, I'd give him some pocket change because it would be the compassionate thing to do. I tend to drop change into buskers' hats almost regardless of what they do or how well they perform, as a token of appreciation.