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Monday, February 1, 2016

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Blaha Lujza station concourse--Budapest 7








Blaha Lujza station concourse. He was playing "House of the Rising Sun" chords.



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3 comments:

jac.bane.sr said...

Hey Linh,

Busking. Things can't be too uptight if they allow a twanger to play near the train stations. House of the Rising Sun is a good choice - since the busker has to immediately sell something popular and familiar that nearly everyone knows, including in Budapest. I imagine there's no place in Europe, Central Europe where they don't know rock music and probably loved it even more after the fall of communism and cutting the barbed wire on the Austrian border. It is interesting, I wonder how dude strumming makes out. Here in the US it can be brutal, confrontational, and depending where you are, get arrested or stolen from, and then beaten up.

jac.bane.sr said...

ps - as a middle aged American I find "House of the Rising Sun" both annoying and a bore, I imagine I tolerated it better when younger. But when you're on the job, you gotta give it to 'em.

Linh Dinh said...

Hi jac.bane.sr,

These subway concourses are filled with people just hanging around, and quite a few homeless, which surprised me. I hadn't known Budapest has such a serious homeless problem.

In Germany and Prague, most of the buskers would sing in English, but this man didn't sing.

In 1995, I was at a party in Hanoi. It was in a thatch house on stilts, a replica of the kind lived in by one of the hill tribes. There were dancing Vietnamese teenaged girls dressed like the Muờng, a hill tribe people. Alcohol was drank through reeds from a common jar. People sang. There was a white American there, and soon enough, people asked him to sing something. A good sport, he belted out "House of the Rising Sun."


Linh