Liverpool Buskers and Street Performers

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Originally Posted by lindylou

Saw this old chap in Paradise st today.
I felt sorry for him -he looked so bedraggled and frail ! The music he was playing was so feint you could hardly hear it !
He looked to me like he should have been in a comfy armchair somewhere - not hanging around the town.
It's a shame !

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I took a photo of him a couple of weeks ago ,I've never seen him play as everytime I've gone past him he's standing over his case trying to get his violin out
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...s/DSCF6234.jpg

He does look clean... Just a musical olde soul.. Love it...

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Liverpool busker by exacta2a, on Flickr

Seen in Church St today, couldn`t play at Wimbledon so picked a "racket" in Lverpool, the 17th string was a bit flat though.

Hi Joe

Is that just a gag or does he actually get some sound out of it?

Chris

He's trying to copy 'plink plink' - the famous cardboard guitar character.

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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Hi Joe

Is that just a gag or does he actually get some sound out of it?

Chris

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See the cd player on the floor Chris,the funny thing is,the tune coming out of it was Acker Bilk`s "Stranger on the shore"


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Jacko from liverpool by exacta2a, on Flickr
For you Linda "Jacko" as I knew him with his new guitar when he went upmarket

Any body remember Harry Bendon ?
the busker from outside GH Lee in Liverpool in the 70's ?

follow the link below for more Harry Bendon photos outside GH Lee..

.... a little info about Harry that is not well known around Liverpool..
Harry was born in Glasgow.. he topped the bill at the Glasgow Empire after the war
as a child performer under the stage name of 'Boy McLean'

Harry passed away in 1994 in a West Yorkshire nursing home.. he was 74..



This is >> Harry Bendon..




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Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..

..... and a bit of info on my old friend Jacko...
he was fed and looked after daily by my good mate Tony Bolland..
when Tony managed Hessy's on Stanley St...
Tony gave Jacko his 1st cut out guitar in Hessy's
.. and that was that.. he was off and away..!



Best viewed very large.. on >>> Here..





http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ious/Jacko.jpg



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Very fine, Joe and Gerard. I had seen that photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor Rigby monument but Gerard's photograph of him is new to me. As you say, Gerard, there is a story in those eyes.

All the best

Chris

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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Very fine, Joe and Gerard. I had seen that photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor Rigby monument but Gerard's photograph of him is new to me. As you say, Gerard, there is a story in those eyes.

All the best

Chris

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Thanks Chris, that photo Chris was taken outside Mother Care on Whitechapel.

Not long after Jackson was beaten up by low life and was almost left for dead..
he was in the Royal for a long time and later a nursing home..
he's out now... or was, I'm not sure how he is or where he is
as he has not been seen around the town for a long while.




talking of which...
I'm off out... to capture Liverpools past today..


Cheers Chris...


Gerard..

In Jacko's Eyes

As you say, there's a whole world in there.
In the photo, he's unshaven with battered

straw hat, smoking a filter-tip cigarette,
his white eyebrows shooting out wildly.

We remember him at the Eleanor Rigby statue,
on the bench sitting next to her bronze figure,

strumming his cut-out cardboard guitar.
"Ah, look at all the lonely people!"

Christopher T. George

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"Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..."
Close-up portrait of Jacko by Gerard Fleming

Photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor
Rigby Statue, Liverpool, by Joe Neary.

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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

In Jacko's Eyes

As you say, there's a whole world in there.
In the photo, he's unshaven with battered

straw hat, smoking a filter-tip cigarette,
his white eyebrows shooting out wildly.

We remember him at the Eleanor Rigby statue,
on the bench sitting next to her bronze figure,

strumming his cut-out cardboard guitar.
"Ah, look at all the lonely people!"

Christopher T. George

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"Jackson Nesbitt.. Jacko...the story in your eyes..."
Close-up portrait of Jacko by Gerard Fleming

Photograph of Jacko performing at the Eleanor
Rigby Statue, Liverpool, by Joe Neary.

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Thats brilliant that Chris mate..
thanks for using my words about Jacko for the title.. :PDT11


Gerard.

Thanks, Gerard. I thought you'd probably like the poem.

Chris

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Originally Posted by robbo176

I took a photo of him a couple of weeks ago ,I've never seen him play as everytime I've gone past him he's standing over his case trying to get his violin out
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94...s/DSCF6234.jpg

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Doesn't anyone ever help him?

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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Thanks, Gerard. I thought you'd probably like the poem.

Chris

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My pleasure mate..

Thanks for the pics GD and Gerard. It saves me the job of hunting for a pic :)
I was going to try and find one to post up after I'd mentioned 'Plink, Plink'

I think this fella is good ......he just stands or sits for hours :)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5318/...d8f09e1366.jpg
IMG_0078 by robbo176, on Flickr

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IMG_0077 by robbo176, on Flickr

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IMG_0072 by robbo176, on Flickr

yeah, he's amazing :)