A Liverpool Legend

[Ross08]

This is a photograph I took last month of Stu with one of Liverpool's most famous buskers.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/taxipix/March2007062.jpg


When Stu asked if he could have a photo with him, he gladly obliged. He then started to move his fingers as he played his cardboard banjo - even making the sounds with his mouth.

A real Liverpool legend.

[marie]

Great photo!! Thank u!!

[Max]

This is a photograph I took last month of Stu with one of Liverpool's most famous buskers.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/taxipix/March2007062.jpg


When Stu asked if he could have a photo with him, he gladly obliged. He then started to move his fingers as he played his cardboard banjo - even making the sounds with his mouth.

A real Liverpool legend.

Hahah he's still going.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[snoochie boochie]

This is a photograph I took last month of Stu with one of Liverpool's most famous buskers.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/taxipix/March2007062.jpg


When Stu asked if he could have a photo with him, he gladly obliged. He then started to move his fingers as he played his cardboard banjo - even making the sounds with his mouth.

A real Liverpool legend.

What makes him a legend??
Just cos he dont work for a living??
Some of em' earn £280 a day in London!!

[stan]

His names Jacko Nesbitt.

[Ged]

The thread on his trainers look a **** sight better than mine - where's my cardboard drums, I think i'll join him.

[snoochie boochie]

The thread on his trainers look a **** sight better than mine - where's my cardboard drums, I think i'll join him.

And he's smoking Yyves St. Laurent bifters!

[Aprillove20]

Anyways...What makes him a legend?

[scouse smurf]

I'd assume it's coz most ppl have heard of him and a good few of them have seen him in action

[lindylou]

Anyways...What makes him a legend?

He's a legend in liverpool because everyone knows 'Plink Plink !' Even local radio presenters used to talk about him, and got him to come in the studio.
Even the young kids now have heard of Plink Plink :)

[lindac8941]

He's a legend in liverpool because everyone knows 'Plink Plink !' Even local radio presenters used to talk about him, and got him to come in the studio.
Even the young kids now have heard of Plink Plink :)

I have worked in Liverpool City Centre and travel also every day in there, but I have never heard of plink plink. Where exactly does he busk??

[GNASHER]

Isn't this bloke a 'tribute' act?
I seem to remember that the original was a small bloke with black hair and always had army webbing around his neck.He used to 'play' on the corner of Button St and Whitechapel.He would give/sell cardboard banjos to the kids.

[gregs dad]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/2243796923_5e7479beef_o.jpg
This is Jacko when he had just taken delivery of a plastic guitar from a firm in liverpool in 2008

[naked lilac]

There was a horrible rumor about him...that he passed (was beaten up by a gang), and now ,I hear he just came out of the Royal Hospital (another forum)..

I saw him years ago, and he said hello to me... Nice chap... Any confirmation if this is true...and is he on the streets again...or in some comfort of a house?

[scouse smurf]

I'm sure someone told me that he was loaded. He said a mate of his gave him some money and he gave him it back saying he didn't need it.

[lindylou]

There was a horrible rumor about him...that he passed (was beaten up by a gang), and now ,I hear he just came out of the Royal Hospital (another forum)..

I saw him years ago, and he said hello to me... Nice chap... Any confirmation if this is true...and is he on the streets again...or in some comfort of a house?

Local radio presenter Roger Philips mentioned Jacko in the Liverpool Echo a few days ago.
Here's a quote from Roger:

'Talking about classic Liverpool characters, there's Jacko who you'd see around town 'playing' his cardboard guitar - I recently found out he's in a home now and not well.
People loved him because he was so crazy - he couldn't sing, he didn't have a guitar but people put their money in anyway! '

[Ged]

he couldn't sing, he didn't have a guitar but people put their money in anyway! '

Thought he was describing our group then.

[lindylou]

:)

[gregs dad]

I'm sure someone told me that he was loaded. He said a mate of his gave him some money and he gave him it back saying he didn't need it.

He kept my £1.79 modelling fee I paid him

[scouse smurf]

He kept my £1.79 modelling fee I paid him

Well, he earned that fee lol

[wsteve55]

There was a horrible rumor about him...that he passed (was beaten up by a gang), and now ,I hear he just came out of the Royal Hospital (another forum)..

I saw him years ago, and he said hello to me... Nice chap... Any confirmation if this is true...and is he on the streets again...or in some comfort of a house?

I remember a couple of years ago,by Stoniers,in Williamson square,Jacko was sitting on the floor with his guitar,being circled by a gang of young lad's,who to me,were weighing him up for something!? Me,and a couple of mates stood close by,shouting over to him,till the lad's got fed up,and moved on! I think they were surprised anyone would care,if they were going to roll him?

[ItsaZappathing]

I have worked in Liverpool City Centre and travel also every day in there, but I have never heard of plink plink. Where exactly does he busk??

Loads of people have never heard of him. To call him a legend is a joke.:PDT10

[scouse smurf]

There's ppl who've not heard of Bob Paisley or Howard Kendall. Does that mean they aren't legends ?

[gynsman]

Here's another picture of him. Well, I hope it is anyway as I've never tried the attachment thingy before!!

[Billy D]

It would be interesting to hear about his history and how he ended up like this,,

Bill