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March 22/23. Jamming blues guitar for 95 minutes, no breaks, completely improvised. Two wackjobs getting way too close to me within 20 minutes of each other. I think that's a new record. Check the time stamps. You can see when I had the blues. Check out this Hendrix, SRV, Gary Moore, BB King style blues and wonder at the zombies! 13:45 Wackjob tries to force me to take a hit off his crackpipe. 39:20 Wackjob rams head into my camera while mumbling about God. 55:50 What? A sane person! I almost had a heart attack. 1:15:08 Backpack dog enjoys the blues! Didn't growl! 1:26:20 Man on bike stops to chat. Download the jam! https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/album/waterfront-blues-live-on-the-street-mar-22-23 Patreon support/Jam requests/Guitar lessons:https://www.patreon.com/Shatnershairpiece 2000 original guitar jams on bandcamp: https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/ Paypal tip: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/6milliondollarguitar?locale.x=en_US Google pay tip/Apple tip/cc tip: https://busk.co/30027 Tip with 'buy me a coffee' https://www.buymeacoffee.com/RobinSpanell Shatnershairpiece t-shirts! https://www.redbubble.com/people/RobinSpanell/shop?asc=u - Want a song request for a gift? $100 gets you an extended jam of your choice! - Get my book 'The Joys of Busking' on pdf for a minimum $10 tip on paypal - Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7EL6MC3QrqFd_8RBmbdhow/join #busker #guitar #comedy #music #live #street #amazing #inspiration #guitarsolo #tips #crazy #vancouver #parkerfly ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tTStU3yi0

Played this a couple times, but it got zero reaction. Here's your chance to tip if you enjoyed it! Busking still banned, and recovering from aneurysm. Patreon support: https://www.patreon.com/Shatnershairpiece Tip on paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/6milliondollarguitar?locale.x=en_US Follow me on bandcamp: https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/follow_me Entire discography on bandcamp: https://thesixmilliondollarguitar.bandcamp.com/ Shatnershairpiece swag! https://www.redbubble.com/people/RobinSpanell/shop?asc=u Busking and youtube facts: 1) Street playing is not all fun and games and dancing kids. Doing this for 7 years. I regularly face not only verbal abuse, but physical assault as I work a few blocks from downtown eastside Vancouver. I'm surrounded by addicts, drunks, and people who should be in mental homes. 2) I'm unemployed. All live music including busking, is banned. I lost all work last year and received ZERO compensation. I had a very bad year in 2020 and only recently came out of a depression. 3) I make ZERO from youtube no matter how many views I get. I was demonetized by Google years ago as part of their culling of small accounts.. I don't run ads. And more importantly, even if I did, most of my videos are instantly copyrighted and auto monetized by record labels because they are COVERS. If you see an ad, it's the record label collecting. If you liked the performance, please think about supporting me on patreon/paypal tip/bandcamp. 4) I'm a musician that writes his own music for 20 years. Check out my bandcamp page to see what I can really do with a guitar. 500 albums of original instrumentals. 5) It's a lot of unpaid work to post these videos all the time so please try to help me keep the channel going. Many thanks to those that have supported me! It means a lot! 6) I get asked this 100 times a day so here's the answer: I play on the street and not in a band because all the clubs closed years ago. I used to lead many bands from 2006 to 2018. That's all gone. It's also a lot more hassle, and less money, to run a band than play by myself. 7) I get asked this 100 times a day. "Why don't you try a better spot?" THIS is the best spot. How do I know? I've tried all of them. This spot is even better than Granville Island which is all tourists. Vancouver does not have many spots to play. Maybe 3-4 downtown. I have to go where traffic is heaviest or you make no money. Playing on beaches and parks or near homes, condos, apt buildings, is forbidden. This is the main transit hub of trains/seabus and also walkway for the convention centre as well as heavily touristed gastown. Anyone who has music work to offer can contact me at shatnershairpiece@yahoo.com Do not send me offers to advertise your apps or sell crocs. T ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBYvyWXZOPA

It's sad to see Mark Knopfler's younger brother, Shemp, still busking the dirty streets, playing songs he actually wrote for Dire Straits, but never got credit for. Shemp was the real writer behind the best songs of Dire Straits. He could have been in the band, but due to a bout of terrible gas that lasted for 3 years, and made tour bus living impossible, he was kicked out and forced to work as a roadie, often playing incredible solos behind the amps because Mark was a terrible guitar player and actually wanted to concentrate on his first love, the kazoo. Eventually, Mark got tired of being pelted with bottles for his kazoo solos, and simply used recordings of all Shemp's lead solos, pretending to play them live. No longer needed in the band, Shemp tried to form his own band called 'My brother's an asshole!' but found little success outside of his garage. Not surprisingly, in 1980, Mark Knopfler ended up kicking his other brother, David, out of the group for refusing to lose his hair like Mark was doing. David and Shemp immediately formed a new band called 'Romeo and Juliet's fudge tunnel' , which got them one memorable gig at the Queen's birthday party before they disbanded due to internal fighting over which of them hated Mark more. For the last 35 years, while Mark tours the world in fancy venues, still using Shemp's backing tracks, Shemp earns a meager lunch busking his songs on the streets, living off the donations of innocent children (2:22) who have no idea of the epic family tragedy behind the music, and the burned out cipher that stands before them. Copyright 2019: From Shemp Knopfler’s book ‘Walk of strife: the real talent behind Dire Straits’ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ZZ_tWh1tI