Walking through the Deák tér underpass on Sunday, I was surprised to come across this guy. Now, musicians in underpasses is hardly anything new. Occasionally you come across one that can actually play their instrument, but frequently it will be a howling guy with a few strings missing from his guitar producing a sound equivalent to when you accidentally step on your cat’s tail. There’s another guy with a keyboard who always gets some fast beat going before (at least from where I’m walking by) randomly hitting the notes without any attempt at making it sound bearable. It seems their goal is to get you to pay so they’ll stop.
Which leads me to the guy above, who not only did not suck, but was busting out lounge music. Unashamedly. He had the glasses, he had the attitude, and he had people in the underpass busting up with laughter.
Its a nice change from the Andean pipe music you used to get everywhere in BP a few years ago. Wish I could have seen.
They ought to do sponsored busking in the underground, like london. A beer sponsors it, they have to audition (which means the most untalented don’t get in) and commuters get half decent musical soundtrack to their journey. Plus its never beggars, mostly young musicians who would be home practicing even if they weren’t there.