{"id":134875,"date":"2015-09-21T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=134875"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T14:56:48","slug":"busking-a-musicians-life-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=134875","title":{"rendered":"Busking – a musician’s life for me"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Max was given his first guitar at the age of nine<\/strong>, cost six guineas from the Bell Musical Catalogue. The first song he learnt to play was \u201cTwist and Shout\u201d by the Beatles. After playing in various local bands, in 1980 he moved to London to join street theatre group the\u00a0Demolition Decorators<\/a>, touring France and Holland with them. Whilst in London he also played in a number of musical\/theatre projects at the Albany Empire, Tricycle Theatre Kilburn and others, and in London he also tried his hand at busking for the first time.Tiring of London, or possibly London tiring of him, he returned home to Oxford and has been there ever since<\/h3>\n

\"\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I recently had the good fortune to meet my old friend Johnny Hinkes who was busking on the streets of Oxford. We had worked on a session together many years ago and I was impressed by his ability to get into the meaning of the music we were playing as well as his reading and improvisational ability.
\nSo why busk?
\nWe had an interesting conversation about busking, playing for love or money,accompanying classical music, \u00a0Richard Rodney Bennett and\u00a0“Stealing Bob Dylan from Woodstock: When the World Came to the Isle of Wight”<\/a> by Ray Foulk, amongst other subjects.<\/p>\n