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In Germany and France, there were entire streets OWNED by spangers. Switzerland, you might have some problems. And don't forget that you're going to be competing with gypsies, who are the ULTIMATE spangers. One spanger we met in Nürnberg could speak English, German, Polish, and if he...

Agreed, Ilikepie Our friend in in the Canary Islands said it was good, but that's a hell of a trip and a hell of a gamble to get out there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Anywho, if anyone's interested and has finished masturbating with the one hand not holding a Four Loko, Sharmini has a...

Further updates: Pamplona at night is good. Lots of young folk with Basque haircuts tip generously. The city was gearing up for the running of the bulls, but there wasn't many buskers in the city besides a Polish dude named Lukas, a toothless German guy who sang classic rock covers, and a...

So far, San Sebastian is VERY good, but only when the rain stops. As in, two minutes after the rain stops, start playing. Pamplona is okay, but the tourists on the Camino de Santiago (all the tourists with two hiking stakes in their hands) are stingy. Beware the tour guides, as they'll set...

We're heading there next week. Anyone have any advice to make some skrilla in: San Sebastian Bilbao Pamplona Zaragoza Barcelona and any other little town that's hidden from my half-assed Googlemaps search. love, the cack

We made a video that sort of summed up the experience, though I wanted more about the cops talking about pigs needing little huts... We'll see for part 2...

Yeah, good point on that, but played our "stupid american" card and the cops just told us to move on and not to drink cider. Whatever, that shits awesome.

I think we hit Stafford for a minute--I ate GREGGS, pooped in Starbucks, and told the cashiers that everyone in America is stoned. We took the bus there, but the city was cleared out at 6, so we hitched to Newcastle. Is Penkridge good for busking?

Oh yeah, you can also drink on the streets in England.

Hey ya'll, I'm sure this'd be better in the "making a living" forum space, but whatever. We just spent a month busking in the England and Scotland. Here's what I know: Busking Guide: Tips for England and Scotland. England has many regulations for Covent Gardens, but it also appears to...

wow, the progress on this place looks incredible! Nice work, Cardboard.

Greetings from San Luis Obispo.

Thanks! Indiegogo is another one, but Kickstarter's got the name, maaaaannn. Greetings from San Luis Obispo!

Fuckin' a 50% funded. Tell your friends, enemies, and donate you fucks!

We gots 40% funded!!!! Holy shit, jump on the crack wagon!

Oh man, I heard Kokomo was the middle of nowhere. Either that, or I always figured it was that Beach Boys song.

These videos will increase the amount of pubes you have to keep you warm this winter. And give us some money to fund a WORLD tour: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/320150710/east-cack-busks-the-world

There it is! Finally got this damn video. Does anyone want to donate us a fucking new laptop? If so, just add money to this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/320150710/east-cack-busks-the-world

We were there for 3 hours! This happened fifteen minutes after I tackled some frat boy and put him in a choke hold for fucking with my costume. GO MICHIGAN

Motherfucking street-proselytizing old man Christians set-up next to us and started their shit. We ended up playing "I Should've Been Aborted" and told them to get raped, but seriously.... <object><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="movie"...

either that, or just casually repost to StP's forum in hopes that a trustafarian will donate large sums after they see it in "NEW/OLD" posts...

has anyone here done anything like this? Kickstarter, that is. Need press, ya'll........

It beats spanging. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/320150710/east-cack-busks-the-world

We got some new ones. This one's about Connecticut. This one's not about 2012 Does anyone have a cheap recording studio in the US? We've got some days off on our Kickstarter Promo tour in the next month. We will be anywhere between Pittsburgh to Chicago, then south through Colorado...

Yeah, I agree with this whole-heartedly. In October of last year in DC, old "hippies" and others in tie-dye apparel were waiting to get arrested as if it were a vacation. There were sign up booths for "what an arrest is like" and some people even went on vacation from Hawaii to show their...

Just to resurrect this thread, but.... WE BOUGHT TICKETS TO EUROPE! If anyone's got any suggestions for playing abroad, that'd be swell. How's Israel for busking? Turkey? India? Portugal? As for anyone doing this kind of madness (we're gonna be busking around the world... Kickstarter...

Sorry to let you down ;-D We started the series when we were on the tail-end of a year-and-a-half long tour and got housed up almost immediately in Georgia. My fiance plans to do more when we go touring again--we've gotten some great responses from people for this stuff. As far as cooking and...

I know a tiny bit of Lithuanian and Polish...

Time to brush up on my Russian!

any requests for the next few weeks?? Jaques Brel? GG Allin? Amebix? Vladimir Vysotsky??

Duly noted!

Yeah, Portsmouth is one of my favorite places to busk--its something about the Massholes who bring their Bostonian money... Cool stuff from the ladycops stuff--it reminds me of Smart Went Crazy or some of the Dischord stuff. Baaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh1h1h1h1h1h <--Goat speak

Awwwwww, may many mythical blowjobs be sent your way

Yeah, you never know with some people's responses. Pity becomes impressed becomes "uh, I got a buck and you should get a beer". What instruments are you guys playing? I'm thinking banjo and guitar for the road, as the banjo works for trad Irish stuff (tenor) and the "exoticism" of bluegrass...

The parking lot of a former Piggly Wiggly!

THANKS, absurdtoast! I gotta post another one we did in this parking lot last night...

Nice! That's actually the next step we're doing--getting a bus or an RV to do this travel madness on the CHEAP! Thanks for the advice. We figured out the hustle with the addition of a robot head this summer ($15/hr to $45/hr for just a stupid cardboard box with tinfoil on it)...

awwwwwww... I feel the love (or it might be the contact shroom high....)

We wrote this shit on request, bitches. If you want, check out other ones we did at www.youllhavetowalk.wordpress.com/virtual-busking-experience/

Dealing with indefinite traveling? Depends on what you want to do. For me, I hit the road as a journeyman busker-type. And I think the natural progression for most musicians who goes this route is the need to do more and more. I started in almost every college town and large city busking...

I have too many ;-D Thanks for the encouragement!

Travelogue post #2 The unofficial "mayor" of Ferndale, WA is a man by the name of Arthur. Art picked me up out of Salmon Creek, Washington in a white VW bus. To me, it kind of looked like a Marshmallow with wheels. To me, it was 7+ hours of straight conversation. Art had a wonderful story...

Travelogue post #3 1) I rode up in the back of a white rusted pickup with these two nice guys from Vancouver, WA @ the Jantzen Beach mall. Riding in the back is insane--some people say they can't ride backwards on a train? My god! It was my first ride on this trip, and very much like a...

Travelogue #4 1) Poor Amy of Bellingham. The girl broke my heart when she invited me up for coffee to her third floor apartment at 9am. She could have been suffering from mental illness or, more temporarily, mental anguish. I side with the latter. Drink hot black coffee and sitting in...

Travelogue #6 Playing music in Tacoma, a cop came up to my seated figure in the vestibule of a bookshop. The officer gave me an incredulous look--you're really playing music... HERE?! I noticed that he eyed the bookshop, moved within my 3-foot bubble (stabbing distance). I broke the ice--...

Travelogue #7 Tacoma's Druggies Tacoma was an empty place. The main drag on Pacific Avenue was virtually empty until the art school let out, spilling kids on the sidewalk Yahtzee-style. But, besides them and smiling tourists visiting the glass museum, nothing. By the transit center, men...

Travelogue #8 Stuck in Portland until VooDoo Doughnuts The concept of sticking to one's word--something I'm adamant about--is now manifesting itself in my life's outcome. For instance, I asked my friend Ines and her boyfriend Richard what doughnuts they must have at VooDoo Doughnuts...

Travelogue #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #9 #etc. Wild Bill and the Japanese Phenomenon Eugene, Oregon, without college students, is desolate. With a few dollars procured from a random guy who asked me about a stabbing, then thrusting $10 in my face, I sought out some place to relax from the constant...

Travelogue #11 Greg's Gift The ride with Greg was unusual. First, he was playing medieval music which skipped on an old 10-second delay CD player. Second, our conversation went along in a way that's similar to Good Morning America when two correspondents have a brief tape delay by location...