[Harp-L] Frigging Froggy's Franc Exchange (was busking in Europe)
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- From: "Dave R. Fertig" <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:09:24 +0100
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Monsieur Fouquet's advice is sound and typically worthy of emulation
except, I regret to say, the one which got him 50 euros.
(Excerpt: Nicolas said he played ," n front of a jewelry in Shop
Street (Galway, Ireland). I have been asked to go away by the
waitress (very cute btw...). I just said: alright, 50 euros! She
smiled, I did to. Then She went to back to the store and came back
again with a E 50 note... I move 10 yards on the right and started
playing again.")
It reminds me of a '79 train ride - before Froggy was even a tadpole
- from Calexico to Guadalajara when, 20 hours into the grueling 0
hour trip, a sniffling ten-year-old kid stood next to my shoulder
and started caterwauling (i.e., like Dennis the Menace with a
toothache) with his hand out. When I gave him a peso he moved on to
the next row of seats and resumed his extortion.
Of course, we traded smiles, too, but I don't think the experience
found its way as an alluring anecdote into Busker-L.
Harp Content: It occurred to me to pull out a harp and start playing,
to drown him out, but the other passengers were already considering
throwing the kid out the window into the river, and I wasn't that
much bigger at the time . . .
-Dave Fertig
P.S.: MORE HARP CONTENT: As a temporary resident of France I must
attest to the fact that Nicolas "Froggy" Fouquet, despite his
sparkling yet ironic personality and his penchant for dressing - and
playing - like Dennis Gruenling meets Jason Ricci meets Big Walter
meets Mel Blanc (uh oh I am in trubba, bubba!) is one fine and
fastidious harptech, and monster player. Now if only he would stop
doing his Road Runner dance in public . . .
Here's Nico's next "gig,"
tomorrow: http://www.elmtreeblues.org/L'OPERA%20BOUFFE.htm
Several harp players from around the South of France are coming,
along with a bunch of others, to jam gutbucket blues til the wee
hours, a la Elmtree mode. Y'all come on down!
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