In true Bryce Forum tradition it's time to start another OT thread.

Now we've all been pleased to welcome our new mod - Bobbystahr - and we've all seen his AV with him on stage somewhere complete with guitar and microphone.

But I reckon it's about time we actually heard Bobby strutt his stuff for us guys on this forum.
So let's hear it, Bobby!! How about a song or two for us jaded head-bangers?

Can you pull it off or are you just a busker? Asylum inhabitants really need to know!!  

:b_cool:

PS: there's a get out of comfy-chair free card up for grabs!

mmmmm comfy chairy...... i bet it comes with leather finishing too :P

Well Chris...I just last week did a house concert which we recorded and later this week we're gonna have a listen and see if there's anything palatable to send to friends...I'm flattered that you ask by the way...my music is largely ignored by most cuz I'm a bit old and a folk type singer so there's no Bass n Drums to get the hips a shakin and the young ones seem to need that. I tend to be either cerebral, sappy or uptight..that would be metaphysical, love songs or didactic protest songs. I'd really like to combine all 3 into one but figger I might explode trying to perform that...LOL..I'll keep y'all posted thru this thread as I'll likely put a zip of mp3's in my file locker and link it here.. ...

I'd be interested to hear that too.

Intriguing...

ooookay... now you have me thinking Arlo Guthrie... which is always good. ;) Iiiii.. don't wanna pickle..

Now THERE'S an idea for a Bryce pic...
Alice's Restaurant...

(Can do the finger picking, can never remember all the lyrics, nor get the phrasing right...)

Cheers,
Diolma

(who never dropped any letters under any garbage - honest...)

Pardon my ignorance Bryster, but what pray tell is a 'busker'?

Thanks,
Jacques

PS: I was born, raised and liive in Los Angeles so using the comfy chair as punisment for my pathetic lack of knowledge probably won't work.

Then again...

I'd like to request a cover of ZZtop with "Hey Mr. Millionaire" ;-) not that much base in there ;-)

Fools, from Van Halen is quite good too ;-) or on the topic of fools... how bout  'fool for your stockings' also from ZZtop?

Sounds like we got a New Year's Month Challenge brewing here...let's hear some more suggestions and take a vote...if i can figger it out, maybe with Rod's help, we could get a few ideas and have a poll in the side bar like pushinfaders does in Photography, fast and anonymous.. ...

Deadwarrior: A Busker is someone who sings/plays an instrument in subway stations or on street corners for loose change. Often thought of by the unsympathetic as being little more than beggers. I've always found them interesting and in some cases talented.

Over here we have an opera singer called Bryn Turvil (ss) who put on a concert in the open air just this summer's end. One of his guests was a young lady who up until Bryn heard her singing opera on a street corner two weeks before was just that - a busker. 

BTW I love your tag line!
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, ***Come Inside, Come Inside."

"Brain Salad Surgery"
Emerson, Lake and Palmer*
I'm a life long ELP fan. Checkout my gallery to see proof.

A protest song...... yea!

woke up dis morning,
my render done gone,
that ole bryce she crash again,
my work is blown.

ah wait for dat upgrade,
but the man he say no,
o lord why do that daz
mess with me so.....

If there are any mo'   Keb Mo' fans out there besides myself, I understand he started out as a busker.

There are quite a few of our Canadian cities that hold annual Busker Festivals. I've seen a couple in Halifax and one in Windsor and a couple in Kingston. They are quite entertaining actually, there are some quite talented musicians, magicians, comedians, etc,etc,etc. You name it they got it. Some of these entertainers come from all over the world to perform in these festivals.

Well if the truth be known when I started playing guitar at 18, in response to my pa's death, and I left home, there was really not a scene as we know it today...I did in fact busk for the first year in the universities in their common areas in the cold months and anywhere at all when it was warm. Didn't know I was busking as I was an oblivious teenager in love with his guitar filling in a void in my life...just sittin' where ever with the case open. Then from '66-'69 when they lowered the stop thinking/drinking age /age of consent to 18/19 depending on province, there was a surge of 1 nite a week coffee houses from Thurs-Sat., an average of 5 a nite in this city, I played there and was getting $20.00 per set plus cab fare. Believe it or not, now-a-daze you only get $25.00 per set playin in the bars, and no cab fare..not a great cost of living adjustment over 40 years I'd have to say. But in '66 bux when our dollar was higher on average than it is today I was living hi on the hog as a 1 bedroom apt. place cost me $60.00 a month then...One nites work at 3 coffee houses. I continued in this vein till '69 when they all disappeared in response to the fact that the girls preferred booze over pot  and at 16 with make up and forged ID could get into the bars way easy and guess what...the boys followed..well not me..I wasn't yet an alcholic till after my first major heart break in '70. But suffice it to say my music did not sell booze and I became a veritable out cast as I didn't drink/didn't believe people should....Ah but I was so much older then.....struggled with the oxymoron Music Business till '77 when I could no longer reconcile both words in the same sentence and started mainly playing self promoted shows with no booze and active brains..I am a lyric wtiter and wanted my words heard, and not thru an alcholic haze.Truth to tell my music wouldn't work in bars back the anyway. Now I mainly give it away and do the odd gig which feeds my performace demon and pays, usually cab fare...LOL
I did a busker thing with my "Acme Brand Jug Band" in 1988 at the first Winnipeg Buskers Festival but am not big on breathing what passes for air on streets busy enough to generate a viable audience,, so didn't continue and went back to my originals.
So today ish UI do mainly house concerts and love 'em as I am a living room performer at heart...love the intimacy of being able to look everyone in the audience in the eye.
So now we're up to date...sorry If I was a bit over long but I felt I hadda really let y know who I am in real life. heh heh heh.. ...

Hey Bobby....I would love to hear some of your music. I was wondering how you find time to work/play in Bryce and perform too....but then I got to thinking that with the way Bryce takes it's time rendering a scene, you probably have plenty of time to perform while waiting on Bryce to finish. I know I've read many a good book while waiting on Bryce to do it's thing.

*Heh heh heh....*I also render in TG2[check out my gallery]...talk about using up my resources....at least I have 2 computers so when I actually get some thing happening worth a Bryce render I can easily tie em both up....LOL.. ...

Ah! Now we hear the truth of it! Bobby Stahr's a Hippy!!!!

Bobby, hows 'bout some Kingston Trio or Limeliters? Whinsical yes, but I loved 'em when I was a kid. "Riding on the MTA"? works for me.

Besides as an added bonus, you get to be on the album cover! :D

@The Bryster: Since H, R. Geiger did most of the ELP covers, that would be a hell (pun intended), of a subject for a cover contest.

Or maybe a cover in the style of Roger Dean, who did covers for one of my other favorite groups, YES.

As to buskers in Los Angeles. If you tried to perform in one of our subway stations you'd be 'buskered' alright. Buskered right to jail.

The County of Los Angeles only allows street performers/singers on the Venice Boardwalk.

Oh, and the performers need a permit, have a defined spot where the perform, (which they pay for), get liability insurance (where applicable), and are restricted to certain hours of the day.

And now you know why Los Angeles is called "The Entertainment Capitol of the World". ;)

Note to the younger members of our group who don't know who we're talking about: Just Google 'Roger Dean', (I'm too lazy to provide a link) and you'll see some very cool fantasy artwork.

This guy was doing Bryce before there was Bryce.

Well that's a wrap, I've got to get back to houswork, then start making some homemade turkey soup, Yum!

Oh, and render something I hope to post tonight. ;)

Best,
Jacques

*Oh, and the performers need a permit, have a defined spot where the perform, (which they pay for), get liability insurance (where applicable), and are restricted to certain hours of the day.

*Much the same here in the Frozen [currently] North. If you're makin money from it, no matter how little, the MAN wants his cut.......too bad...turns a lot of youngsters to crime if they can't afford a permit to do the only job they know how to....other than flipping MSG loaded burgers...MSG is used in labs specifically to FATTEN UP RATS and is done in aid of their tests to help deal with the very diabetes that's caused by the obesity generated by huge ammounts of MSG in everything...Rant Off...just hadda get that out...Hippy that I am, and relatively proud to still be one at 59.. ...

O K...we're getting some great suggestions here...gonna leave this run till the weekend and work it out next week, but so far we have:

**Alice's Restaurant...
Hey Mr. Millionaire
Fools
A protest song
Keb Mo'
Kingston Trio or Limeliters
ELP
YES
**
feel free to simply add suggestions to this list and repost it here folks.. ...

@bobbystahr:

That makes two of us Bobby. I'll be 57 this December.

Like Bobby, I'm still a hippie and proud of it. And if somebody wants to make something of it I'll tweak your nether regions with my roach clip! (Big Grin)

Yeah, I remember the 60's in LA real well.

Ahh...well most of it. ;)

OK, just the important stuff.

Ahh...What were talking about?

Oh yeah music. Anybody up for some LED Zepplin or The WHO?

Thought I'd throw a couple more into the mix.

Peace and Love,

Jacques

PS: 'You kids get off my damn lawn!"

Quote - Deadwarrior: A Busker is someone who sings/plays an instrument in subway stations or on street corners for loose change. Often thought of by the unsympathetic as being little more than beggers. I've always found them interesting and in some cases talented.

Hehe i wish they had more talented ones like that in amsterdam.. at least half of them are crack addicts that stole sum1's flute or guitar  and make 2 or 3 tones all day long :-/

Bobby and Bobby.. Dylan, that is, where the words write the music. Maybe a good dose of Arlo's dad, Woody, thrown in there. Let's not forget the Eagles, as in Hotel California. A little slick for folksy music, but some nice sounds.

Deadwarrior: @The Bryster: Since H, R. Geiger did most of the ELP covers,  WRONG!

and I bin there done that..

Actually a Giger challenge would be extremely cool....

Is that three mentions of a Giger challege? Does that make me a Giger Counter?

Actually I'd like to hear some Chad Mitchel Trio. How about Lizzie Borden?

Yesterday in old Fall River
Mr Andrew Borden died
And he got his daughter Lizzie
On a charge of homicide
Some folks say she didn't do it
And others say of course she did
But they all agree Miss Lizzie B
Was a problem kind of kid

'Cause you can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
Not even if it's planned as a surprise (a surprise)
No, you can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
You know how neighbors love to criticize

She got him on the sofa
Where he'd gone to take a snooze
And I hope he went to heaven
'Cause he wasn't wearing shoes
Lizzie kinda rearranged him
With a hatchet so they say
Then she got her Mother
In that same old-fashioned way

But you can't chop your Mama up in Massachusetts
Not even if you're tired of her cuisine (her cuisine)
No, you can't chop your Mama up in Massachusetts
You know it's almost sure to cause a scene

Well, they really kept her hoppin'
On that busy afternoon
With both down and up-stairs chopping
While she hummed a ragtime tune
They really made her hustle
And when all was said and done
She'd removed her Mother's bustle
When she wasn't wearing one

Oh, you can't chop your Mama up in Massachusetts
And then blame all the damage on the mice (on the mice)
No, you can't chop your Mama up in Massachusetts
That kind of thing just isn't very nice

Now, it wasn't done for pleasure
And it wasn't done for spite
And it wasn't done
Because the lady wasn't very bright
She'd always done the slightest thing
That Mom and Papa bid
They said, Lizzie, cut it out
So that's exactly what she did

But you can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
And then get dressed and go out for a walk (for a walk)
No, you can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is a far cry from New York

No, you can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
Shut the door and lock and latch it
Here comes Lizzie with a brand new hatchet
Can't chop your papa up in Massachusetts
Such a snob, I've heard it said
She met her Pa and cut him dead
You can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
Jump like a fish, jump like a porpoise
All join hands and habeas corpus
Can't chop your Papa up in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is a far cry from New York

actually, only 1 I know of was a Geiger. Tarkus was a cartoon (woops, already rendered that), Brain Salad Surgery (woops, already rendered that), Trilogy was a doctored photograph (hmm...), Pictures at an Exhibition was well, you guessed it...;) Works was (I and II) black and white, tho I forget what order, Love Beach was an atrocity, and there I ended my following of the trio...

There was the Nice, if you want to go backwards from start...;)

How about some Neil Young (Thrasher) or maybe Gordon Lightfoot (Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald) I know it's a little long but still a classic. Come to think of it  you have a slight resemblance to Gordon Lightfoot but with some chin whiskers. 

Lizzie Borden took an axe
and gave her Father forty wacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her mother forty-one.

(Old rhyme from somewhere.)

Quote - actually, only 1 I know of was a Geiger. Tarkus was a cartoon (woops, already rendered that), Brain Salad Surgery (woops, already rendered that), Trilogy was a doctored photograph (hmm...), Pictures at an Exhibition was well, you guessed it...;) Works was (I and II) black and white, tho I forget what order, Love Beach was an atrocity, and there I ended my following of the trio...

There was the Nice, if you want to go backwards from start...;)

Giger counters count demons and birth traumas, geiger counters count radiation :-)

Quote - feel free to simply add suggestions to this list and repost it here folks.. ...

oh dont get me started haha. if i get to make suggestions...

AC/DC - You shook me all night long
AC/DC - TNT
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Highway to hell
Live - Sun
Live - Run away
Live - Dolfins cry
Van Halen - Big Bad Bill
Van Halen - Right now
Damage Plan - Soul bleed

if ur ambitious on the guitar... ;-)
Van Halen - Eruption
Guns 'n Roses - Paradise city (i want ur babies if u can play the solo from the long version)

@pakled:

Geeze, I'd fogotten about Nice. Have that album too. Can't remember if it's any good or not, since I haven't listened to any of them since  the late 70's or early 80's. ;)

Yeah I hated Love Beach too; utter piece of crap.

Just curious, but did you listen to ELP first time around or on CD? Like I said, just curious since you sure know your ELP. :)

@Bobby: How about some Pete Seeger? Maybe some labor songs from the 30's or protest songs from the 60's? Been awhile since I've heard any of those.

So remember Brycer's, when you vote for a song, vote early and vote often!

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I got all ELP's stuff on Vinyl !!!

Welcome to the Bryce-forum Bobbystahr . My sugestion is The Moody Blues and Melancholy Man .