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This is a photograph I took last month of Stu with one of Liverpool's most famous buskers.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...rch2007062.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.
Great photo!! Thank u!!
Hahah he's still going.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
What makes him a legend??Quote:
Originally Posted by Ross08
Just cos he dont work for a living??
Some of em' earn £280 a day in London!!
His names Jacko Nesbitt.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Anyways...What makes him a legend?
I'd assume it's coz most ppl have heard of him and a good few of them have seen him in action
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aprillove20
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??Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
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.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/...7479beef_o.jpg
This is Jacko when he had just taken delivery of a plastic guitar from a firm in liverpool in 2008
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'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.
Local radio presenter Roger Philips mentioned Jacko in the Liverpool Echo a few days ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by naked lilac
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! '
Thought he was describing our group then.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindylou
:)
He kept my £1.79 modelling fee I paid himQuote:
Originally Posted by scouse smurf
Well, he earned that fee lolQuote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by naked lilac
Loads of people have never heard of him. To call him a legend is a joke.:PDT10Quote:
Originally Posted by lindac8941
There's ppl who've not heard of Bob Paisley or Howard Kendall. Does that mean they aren't legends ?
Here's another picture of him. Well, I hope it is anyway as I've never tried the attachment thingy before!!
It would be interesting to hear about his history and how he ended up like this,,
Bill