Dunkin Donuts. I think this shot repesents the difficult time that musicians can have promoting themselves and finding an audience (similar to photographers entering online photo contests. :)) These buskers have 3 to 5 minutes to capture an ear while competing with station announcements and trains, getting a few bucks is nice, selling a CD is great, but just playing for people is what most of them said really motivates them. And as one put it, being underground gets you out of the cold.
believe it or not I know that guy. He is in boston right? nice photo!
ReplyDeleteHe's a Russian guy who did instrumental stuff. I think he did a Floyd Cover in his CD. Yeah...this is the Government Center stop in Boston.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why I just posted my answer as anonymous...
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ReplyDeleteThis was taken with an embarrassingly lame digital camera when I was just excited about capturing all the images I wanted for free.
I had gone to Boston to check out the subway busker scene. A musician friend of mine later told me that what I did was cruel. He said that if he had been playing and some non-music-fan-looking guy came up and took a photo and bought a CD he would be obsessively pouring over any paper he could get his hands on to see if there was a write up or something. :)