Untill August 2010, I made my living playing in rock groups, first in Canada, then, after I’d emigrated, here in England. I had been doing this for 30 years, but when the inevitable hearing problems got so bad, I could no longer perform onstage.
The band I was in sacked me and all my attempts at getting other work failed. In desparation I started busking, playing solo instrumental guitar – first in Southampton, then in Winchester, where I live. From the first day “on the street”, I found I was meeting people I never would have met, had I not been busking. Some of these people were quite entertaining, some quite the opposite. I decided to start a diary – Diary Of A Busker, in which I would write after coming home from a days’ session…
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