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Ah, but as I'd said before... here comes the crackdown! The Council will make sure Billy is gone, the other drummers, the string instruments, the kids and their dogs, the old lady and her jesus cart, then we move on to mobile salespeople and eventually all the tourists.
Maybe, as #1 suggests, you're just kind of annoying.
I'd rather listen to a busker of any sort than that fucktard.
That's going to be FUN!
I kinda wish there was a place where Busking drummers, Scientologists and LaRouchites could all go together and live in some cohabitative unifying peace... say, hell.
I mean, since he wants to give something back.
I blame you, Bucket Boy from the early-90's Levi's commercial.
(OK, maybe it would have. But I have to have my obligatory F&N reference whenever anyone mentions Nordstrom)
I don't know from this drummer. But can they please get rid of the bagpiper by The Bon?
I wish with everything that I have that we could get the SPD to turn their attentions to the never ending parade of LEAF BLOWERS that fill the city with sound pollution, and leave the goddamned bucket drummers alone.
There are traffic laws that specify how loud radios can be by how far away you can hear the music.
The same should apply here. So it can be 10 ft or 25 ft but not nothing.
I mean, there are plenty of people walking around Seattle having conversations that really annoy me. At what point are they so loud I can tell them to shut up?
I, for one, won't miss him.
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Isn't it about time for some roving teens to beat the crap out of him?
They were also generating resentment towards street people and making it harder for talented buskers as noted by the comments above.
It frightens me how painfully little some Slog denizens seem to understand or respect the fundamental freedoms accorded by the Constitution.
Oh, and under the dome of the Convention Center, the sounds carries very well. So yeah, knock it the fuck off.
As someone who prefers percussion over strings, there's nothing more annoying for me to hear than some acoustic guitar echoing down the subterranean corridors of my local public transit system.
I don't remember hearing this Billy dude in Seattle, but in Toronto, one guy who's been performing at Yonge and Dundas in front of the old Eaton's has done so for over 20 years, and he draws immense crowds each and every time. He's a bit of a local legend, and tourists dig him, too.
This is especially true when the activity is commercial such as regulations on advertising cigarettes in proximity to schools.
Some level of street performance is protected, but cities can and should make laws both for safety reason and to prevent, say, some dumbass from banging loudly on buckets all day long. Its that whole balancing of rights thing we forget sometimes.
Is he going to stop drumming?
Are noise tickets for noisy bars or neighbors next?
I doubt it.
What does this $23 ticket accomplish, aside from fodder for the slog? What a stupid waste of taxes paying police officers to write noise tickets to homeless people and city workers to process ticket (or non-payment of ticket) paperwork.
he is a bucketer
These cops couldn't do something more productive with their time and walk over to 2nd & 3rd where cops are actually needed?
Fuck you, Mister Nordstrom, for cunting up the more pressing matters in our city. I hope your store tanks this quarter.
Or maybe there should be a law to do that, or a social service, or a vocation program run by the state.
Or, maybe you should grow a spine and just say something about it to him - to his face - rather than being a slimy internet whiner.
I tried that once with the other really loud bongo guy and it worked. He moved around the corner, sparing our apartment building.
This guy on the other hand is a dick. Him and his Hot Topic aggro buddies talk a lot of sh*t to passers-by. Why do bucket drummers hate Americans?
That said, I agree most bucket drummers aren't very good, and might want to consider another, more melodic and portable instrument.
But I still think we have to keep a space for people who have nothing to climb back out. And I'd rather that space be busking than burglary and mugging.
If you don't like street musicians, you kind of suck.
also, the Nordstroms are douchebags and always have been...AND, their stores SUCK...shitty, shitty overpriced CRAP.
Man. A lot of you guys sound like completely insufferable douches.
I can't imagine how angry and depressed someone must be to find street musicians to be "the most annoying thing about working in downtown Seattle." Very, very sad.
Get down there and get in a fist fight with a guy who is hitting plastic buckets with a broken hammer. That's what I'm suggesting.
And to anyone who just "loves buskers" and thinks that bucket drummers make Seattle "vibrant", please post your home address in this thread and the times that you are home, so that I can sit outside your abode with my plastic buckets and drum away. I'll bring my friend who plays bagpipes to really make your home feel vibrant.
not sure 10% of what a busker earns is worth the trouble, even if that were true?