Twenty bloody years...

[Rex Boyd]

Let all the 20 year members remember that we were all just children starting off back in the days when Keano, Gazzo and the Butterfly Man were already haggard old legends talking about their glory days like we are now. Only the old bastards didn't have the internet. I think they used telegrams and morse code.

Rex

[martin ewen]

Good point. Butterfly and Keano are indeed the generation that precedes us however Gazzo is far far older than he looks.
Not many people know this but he was actually born an aquatic mammal.

[Butterfly Man]

From one fossil to another ...

Gazzo has lobbed-finned feet … he is from the Devonian period.

He survives by eating winged insects and stealing their larva lines.

I hope his ontogeny recapitulates his phylogeny.

[harmonicakev]

Hmmm.

Originally posted by Butterfly Man
Gazzo has lobbed-finned feet … he is from the Devonian period.

He survives by eating winged insects and stealing their larva lines.

So that's how he does his cups and balls thing!

Kev.

[Peter Voice]

Gazzo does have a deeply disturbing reaction to the smaller forms of arachnidae that regularly share the Australian environment.

Hopefully he has now heard about the really scarey ones.

[Rex Boyd]

He also has bloody lot of stuff to sell about himself. Have you guys seen all this?

http://www.magicpitch.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=10

It's almost like a Gazzo museum.


Rex

[space commander]

almost 3 decades!

Congratulations Paddy...and to all the rest of you who are still out there. I'm back on my favorite pitch in europe this summer and am amazed that I am still having a ball.

I still love doing street shows and still get that ripple charge of nervous energy every time I go out.

I never thought that juggling show i did at Toronto Airport during the airstrike in 1978 would lead to this most amazing voyage. I have seen and learned quite alot in 28 years. I have had the opportunity to work with some incredible people, not least of which is you Rex Boyd, my old partner Fritz, who taught me that all you really need to do is stay funky and keep dancing!

Nick showed us that the best way to be successful is to become Gazzo.

Gazzo showed all of us many years ago that the best way to become a legend is to be pronounced dead.

After hearing the Gazzo Macee had died, I wrote an obituary that praised a man who was a great performer and had a great impact on my understanding of technique. I wrote the standard stuff about how he would be greatly missed and how influential he was, but I really meant it, because it was true.

Two days later, Gazzo posted on Performers.net to tell me that he wasn't dead and that he didn't realise I felt that way. Needless to say I was a little freaked out and was never quite sure how to repsond, so I didn't. I think it was the last time I was here.

In all of my years on the street I think I have come to realise one basic truth;

Street performers never die. If they do, then its' probably just a publicity stunt.


Space Commander Hotch Chmarzinski

[AJJames]

Paddy, hope you had a good glasto, thats where I first met you 12 years ago, I was an acrobat with a circus theatre company. I turned up in covent garden the following spring and you were the only one apart from Chris and Pete (hoopal) and Alex D that talked to me on my first day. Windsor , protested to me joining in the sunday draw because I hadn't done a midweek audition, and you lied for me and said that you had seen me do one, thanks for that,

Hotch , hows it going mate? Hiya to Abbey, come over to the UK, you can't waste your genius in belgium, come to the lake district and visit us.
Richie, did that guy from Bizzarre magazine find you in time for the 100th Issue ?

[Rex Boyd]

Hi AJ,

I don't know how Richie got into this conversation but it does remind me that I was browsing through the 100th issue of Bizarre to find that there are some awesome photos of him (Lucky Rich). One photo has him completely naked knealing down like Buddha. The other has him in a fabulous purple pin-striped suit that is just the coolest thing. He has his hair in two little white tufts on either side of his head. It was last months issue so I don't know if you can still get a copy. I didn't actually buy one but I probably should have.

Rex

[Rex Boyd]

For anyone who hasn't seen lucky lately here is an article and photo you might find interesting.

http://www.tattoodaily.com/mag/most_tattoo/most_tattooed.html

Rex

[LUCKY DIAMOND RICH]

Rexy Baby!

Hello Rex,
I got your email,and glad to hear your well.Could you send me a copy via email of that addition of Bizzare Mag!Love to you and Shara and the kids

LDR

[Rex Boyd]

Hey Lucky,

I'm an idiot. I didn't buy the magazine, I just browsed through it and saw you and now the newstands have the next month's issue on sale. Maybe it's possible to get a back issue from the magazine. I'll check into it.

Has anybody else seen it?

Rex

[Rex Boyd]

I found this on the Bizarre website:

For Back Issues of Bizarre call +44 01458 271 270

I couldn't find any photos from that issue on their website however, but if anyone wants to look at lots of bizarre stuff you can find loads at:

http://www.bizarremag.com/

I haven't actually looked at their site yet. My wife and kids are in the house and I don't want them to have nightmares. : )


Rex

[Paddy]

pssst... it is 14 years later. I stopped street performing about 5 years ago. Still do Glastonbury. I compered Gazzo. He liked one of my gags/I might have given him a new gag. We have lost Butterfly. Who from this conversation/bicker is still out there?

[space commander]

Where's the party?

I was living in Australia until 2004, then Abi and I split up and I ended up living in Belgium waiting for a new engine for my bus. Sometime around 2009 I moved to Berlin where I ran an improv room, taught classes and did a street show designed specifically for Berlin called "Groove Machine". In 2012, I officially released my book " The Pavement Stage", a chronicle of all the performers and shows and stuff I encountered from 1977 thru until 2012. Then my daughter Grace was born and we gave up our European lives so I could take a job as a clown at Cirque du Soleil in Montreal, then Las Vegas. My contract ended abruptly and I found myself doing street shows again in 2013 in Vancouver. I am now Associate Producer at The Vancouver International Busker Festival...

Today I am in Campbellton, New Brunswick, doing street shows in a hurricane.


Yay.

This chat room feels like a time capsule, likely looking at the after effects of a party long since ended. Nobody swept up the glitter or streamers