Smooth ahole - Or how to deal with jerks who wreck my bike while I try to play Santana

Busking is fun. Not only do you have to learn to play, memorize, improvise, watch for psychos, watch for thieves, try to concentrate on CREATING MUSIC while sirens blare, bus tires pop, and people ignore you, you have to watch your bike, too. Watch this asshole at 4:15​ as he rams his bike into the rack, trying to make room, while knocking my expensive bike over. At first I thought it was Brother Theodore. Unfortunately, you can't hear the expletives exchanged as the recorder was near my amp. Just another in a long line of 'blockades' one must deal with while playing music in public. The feelings of 'creating music' and 'rage' don't sit will together, but that is often the milkshake you get while playing on the street.

Thankfully, this was at the end of my shift. I bet Santana never had to deal with this during a show.

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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 had a serious brain aneurysm in April 2021. Still recovering from that.
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.

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