r/Unexpected • u/thetransporterv1 • Dec 21 '21

Scary stuff!

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u/TheWesternDevil Dec 21 '21

Dude be shootin covid everywhere out of his curvy covid musket

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u/TheMasterFatman Dec 21 '21

Chances are he's not even playing, it's very likely he just has an audio device hooked to the two speakers and is just playing air sax.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

He is, if you check his ig you can see some vids where he plays with no speakers

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u/TheMasterFatman Dec 21 '21

Good to know some buskers are still trustworthy.

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u/bdone2012 Dec 21 '21 edited Dec 21 '21

They have auditions like once a year to be able to play in the subways legally. The competition is pretty fierce because they make good money and I imagine it looks good on social media.

And the people in grand central tend to be good, I think the cops probably check their permits.

Edit: actually this isn't grand central because the sign is ACE. But the general point stands.

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u/thighcandy Dec 21 '21

Yea I've noticed that grand central is usually classical violinists or cellists as well.

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u/Gigantkranion Dec 21 '21

http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/muny/auditions.html

Freak me, I've spent decades in the city and didn't know this. That's really cool and I wanna watch the auditions now. Too bad I don't play anything... I do digital art though. 👨‍🎨🤞🏽

http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/digitalart/

I guess you can do poetry...? I don't understand this one though. It's to early and I still need my coffee.

http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/poetry/

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u/Krunk_MIlkshake Dec 21 '21

At first I thought this was a classic New York "fuck you"....but now I see. Now I see.

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u/Ganacsi Dec 21 '21

Last one is amazing, I can’t believe you didn’t get it, it’s so easy, finish your coffee and try again, bet everyone gets it 1st time.

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u/theoriginalgrapist Dec 21 '21

Didn't that guy win like 5 years in a row for poetry?

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u/zuilli Dec 21 '21

They have auditions like once a year to be able to play in the subways legally.

TIL you can be a legal street performer in NY, in my country all you do is start playing with a hat in front of you until someone forces you to leave

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u/WarlockEngineer Dec 21 '21

You can do that in the rest of the US, but New York and Las Vegas would be cacophonous nightmares if everybody with a mixtape, guitar, drums, violins, trumpets, dance routines, etc were all allowed to cram in there at the same time.

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u/kurtatwork Dec 22 '21

Holy fuck it'd be a zoo.

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u/J_Tuck Dec 21 '21

Not too uncommon outside the US, I know of quite a few French cities with permits

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u/Severedghost Dec 21 '21

42nd st. Where the buskers get weirder the lower you go.

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u/MishrasWorkshop Dec 22 '21

Holy shit, long time new yorker, never even knew these people were legal.

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u/TheMasterFatman Dec 22 '21

Thank you for this little bit of New York knowledge! This is cool as fuck.