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I walked around the Quarter on Saturday.....
Posted on 3/1/15 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 3/1/15 at 6:45 pm
....easily 50% of the street musicians are of that brand of young, unwashed, unkempt carny folks playing that old-timey vaudevillian folk music.
I've noticed these vagabonds before, but it seems they've now infested the FQ. They're like their own sub-class of human. It's like they're casting rejects from Oliver Twist.
Do these people suck? Or am I being too get-off-my-lawnish?
I've noticed these vagabonds before, but it seems they've now infested the FQ. They're like their own sub-class of human. It's like they're casting rejects from Oliver Twist.
Do these people suck? Or am I being too get-off-my-lawnish?
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Posted on 3/1/15 at 6:53 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
are you talking about the kids who play drums on a bucket?
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:01 pm to Brosef Stalin
Hell no. It's the white kids, who literally haven't washed their hair in weeks, wearing vests and cobbled shoes and tweed knickerbockers, and whatnot.
They play washboards and fiddles and stuff.
They play washboards and fiddles and stuff.
This post was edited on 3/1/15 at 9:03 pm
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:16 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
quote:
easily 50% of the street musicians are of that brand of young, unwashed, unkempt carny folks playing that old-timey vaudevillian folk music
quote:would you prefer they were rapping?
They play washboards and fiddles and stuff
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:39 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
What's wrong with these guys? LINK
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:41 pm to Kafka
quote:
would you prefer they were rapping?
If they were good, then perhaps. But I don't know why it has to be one or the other.
I'm just commenting on how there used to be quite a variety of music being played on the streets in the Quarter. Now it's a bunch of extras from the Chili Peppers' "Soul To Squeeze" video.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:45 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
quote:
They're like their own sub-class of human
referring to them as subhuman or lower class human leads me to say the answer to
quote:
am I being too get-off-my-lawnish?
is yes.
This post was edited on 3/1/15 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 3/1/15 at 9:46 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
I feel like mumford and sons are partly to blame in some way
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:14 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
quote:
white kids, who literally haven't washed their hair in weeks, wearing vests and cobbled shoes and tweed
Lots of grade A heroin in NO
Posted on 3/1/15 at 10:34 pm to monsterballads
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I feel like mumford and sons are partly to blame in some way
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:01 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.
They've been down there for years. I agree the gutter punk problem has worsened, but I don't mind themz kids clawing on the banjo and mandolin all day, as long as they're not harrassing tourists for beer money. If you spend time down there you'll notice who hangs with whom and which ones are mixed up in the hard dope. A few of the musically inclined groups are pretty impressive, especially some of the rouses supermarket hangers. The late night Frenchman dope heads are pretty obnoxious- or at least the side-show crew that bums the stoop with them. Love this city, even the transient train hoppers.
Posted on 3/1/15 at 11:58 pm to Jim Rockford
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What's wrong with these guys? LINK
Nothing wrong with those guys. Much cleaner and much more talented than the multiple groups of frickups I saw Saturday.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 7:04 am to PaBon
quote:
. The late night Frenchman dope heads are pretty obnoxious- or at least the side-show crew that bums the stoop with them.
Frenchman is so overrated. I only head down there for big names now.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 8:20 am to PaBon
quote:
Love this city, even the transient train hoppers.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 10:30 am to HeadyBrosevelt
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Frenchman is so overrated.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 11:25 am to monsterballads
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I feel like mumford and sons are partly to blame in some way
Have none of y'all heard of folk punk?
Is this what they looked like?
It's winter, which always ups the population of gutter punks in the FQ. They'll move in the spring.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 12:00 pm to BottomlandBrew
folk punk, crusties, gutter punks, st. claude ave trash, dumpster divers, trustafarians, 6 to one, half dozen to the other...all the same sheet.
Posted on 3/2/15 at 12:50 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:
Have none of y'all heard of folk punk?
Is this what they looked like?
It's winter, which always ups the population of gutter punks in the FQ. They'll move in the spring.
The WTO clearly needs to host some more meetings in the US to give these kids something to do with their time.
#Occupy the French Quarter just doesn't have the same passion behind it.
This post was edited on 3/2/15 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 3/2/15 at 2:01 pm to monsterballads
quote:
I feel like mumford and sons are partly to blame in some way
Posted on 3/2/15 at 2:32 pm to BottomlandBrew
Found this on youtube.
LINK
I actually really like this song. And it's well done. The frickers out there this past weekend were fricking evil looking versions of this. Really druggy looking. Really dirty. REALLY dirty.
LINK
I actually really like this song. And it's well done. The frickers out there this past weekend were fricking evil looking versions of this. Really druggy looking. Really dirty. REALLY dirty.
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