Who Taught you!

[heckler]

He got tired of the cities sit and left a couple years be fore I did. I don't think he went back.

So I heard.
Sounds like they are inviting Buskers again.
I think they learned their lesson.
Another friend told me he saw him there last summer.

Are you coming around again, Jeep?
Isaak says "hey"

[jeep caillouet]

I did hear they were hiring performer there now also . I have plains to go there next spring . Issak?

[heckler]

I did hear they were hiring performer there now also . I have plains to go there next spring . Issak?

Give a hollar if you come.

Crazy russian juggler from boulder.

[jeep caillouet]

Oh Esock. I just called him yesterday outa the blue. Said he had hip replacement and was not working. Now, Heckler?

[heckler]

Oh Esock. I just called him yesterday outa the blue. Said he had hip replacement and was not working. Now, Heckler?

Yes, he's getting around pretty good for a 1/2 replaced hip. I was his original mentor back in the eighties. I see he is putting some of my jokes to good use. (Fine by me actually, I haven't been using them much myself lately.)

I don't think we have actually met, you and I, although I saw your act(s) in key west this past winter. I was in the casino entertainment business already by the time Isaak was on his own, I didn't busk much once I moved inside with my act.

But I miss it...so I'm out in the chalk circle again...

Hope to see ya this spring!

[ALAKAZAM]

Can you guys go back to facebook and let this thread go back to what i started it to be!!

[heckler]

Can you guys go back to facebook and let this thread go back to what i started it to be!!

You mean largely ignored and on it's way to page 2?
No prob.

[ALAKAZAM]

.........GFYS

[Butterfly Man]

heckler stoppers

Al,
You are right to want to see this thread continue but never get upset with hecklers... they usually are not prepared for the situations they create, so the best choice is to always have some fun making them look stupid.

In this case, you might have dispensed with the "gfys" and simply responded:

"like your act?"

It might not always shut them up but, for me, it was always nice when they got mad and kept trying. Besides, this heckler guy probably couldn't get anyone interested in his act long enough to heckle. Maybe he should change his name to "yawn", that sounds more befitting.

[ALAKAZAM]

I still have so much to learn! You are the man!!

BTW i'm at a wicked fest in Burlington with waldo and woodhead, glen singer, hilby and rob torres. All we need is a butterfly!!

I normally ignore hecklers, but every now and again i find them later and headbutt them. I find a headbutt really scares a person.

Thanks for being on my list of people who taught me a thing or 2.

[heckler]

^^^
"Can you guys go back to facebook and let this thread go back to what i started it to be!"

[EpitaphofSanity]

Tim Kelly

Thomas John

[Lightfoot]

pealing back the layers

Jeff edmonds opened my eyes to the fact that people were amazed at throwing playing cards on top of buildings. We both were starting out working the sidewalk show and had trouble stopping people. He would throw playing cards onto the building across the street and people would stop and watch. So we all started doing it to get a crowd and just fool around. I read a book by, I believe, Ken DeCorcey that gave the advice to end your show with skill. So I moved the card tossing, onto the building, to the end of my show and it worked!

Other inspirational street performers that were a education to watch for me personally were HP Lovecraft who made me reevaluate what I considered a well paced magic show should be.

puppeteer bob hartman a artist of comic dept to profound for words!

Reverend Chomley wordsmith comic madman of the highest order!

Watching harry Lorrayne do the magic square at a convention in Sf opened my eyes to how math number effect could be exciting. He had been push the virtues of the magic square in his magazine...but until I saw the energy of the man himself asking a spectator to name a number between 32 and 100 and the speed that he completed the combination...lets just say that I was hooked!
abbott & costello, jack benny, bob hope, marx brothers, danny kay, phil silvers

[harmonicakev]

Stanley from NYC
Sean Morey
Scott Mastro, who is probably now a lawyer.

Cyrus, aka Boris, is still performing in the greater Boston area, as well as dabbling in real estate.
Ciao - kev

[Gregory Rush]

No Title

Inspired by many.
Bruce Lee
Harry Houdini ( I did magic shows in my garage 10-12yrs old)
The Great Wallendas ( saw the great old man fall to his death on LIVE TV )
Harry Anderson
FLIP
Michael Davis ( saw him and learned to juggle when i was 15 years old )
Jim Cellini
Sonny Holiday ( Rocky )
Tumbleweed, Tumblin Tom Morrison ( taught me a backflip in 5 minutes flat at a Bar in Minnesota...1978 a real life bar hustler Harry Anderson type not a performer then but he could walk out of bar either being chased or thanked pockets full!)
New Orleans Break Dancers
New Orleans Tap Dancers ( told me to collect tips..I was just doing it for free... )
Amazing Jonathan ( fun to hang out with lol)
Just , well , all of em, all of you, you know who you are....
All who I did not list, you want the whole list its well into the triple digits or higher...
Anthony Gatto
Max Winfrey....
Bounce and oola la la < my first unicyle and I still have
it, it is called a black widow ( brand)
The above also taught me many things by observation
abnd or association starting 1973 or earlier as I started as a magician and am now juggler/martial artist/acrobat.
OK well too many to list here...so let me add
my teachers were the best inspirations. Also
many juggling clubs, festivals and IJA conventions.

In Person and / or shows with, lived with and travelled with. Also many hung out with, gym practice, burning candle at both ends...does not include people I taught.
Although i learned from them too.
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Now my TEACHERS who I love and Cherish as friends.
Birdie McClaine
Cyrus P Koski < sp>
Perry The Hobo
JoJo
Emmet Kelly , JR Clearwater , FL. He offered me one of his
dads hats as souvenir, I refused it, I was not worthy I felt.
Robert Kirk ( Kirk Keifreider )
Billy Prudamn < spelling, someone find Billy for me!>
Michael James
< laughing at teh what not to do list > you know who you are...leaving you out! > lol jk but yeah...
Scotty and Joan Houghton < sp>
Mickey...?
Jeff Moche
Tom Frank
Gregory Popovich ( yes I joined Ringling for a season selling cotton candy and Tiger flashlights in the stands just to join the Greatest Show on Earth and get to know Gregory. The Chinese Acrobats too were fun to work with. )
Do the questions get harder?
Anyway the above starting at the top sum up who took me in, actually lived with and taught me, save Billy and Michael James although we spent many hours together practicing and had crash parties I never actaully lived or travelled with them. The rest I did at some point or other. Ahh the late night brain storm crash parties in New Orleans, you all been there. Billy hmm.. " can you see the tension mounting, can you sense the energy building? Can
FEeel the pickpockets lifting your wallets?" one of Nawlins best pitchers , he had the enrgy of a great one. Where is Billy! Just before his 5 ball piruoutte (SP again) oops.
Still only person I seen juggle five objects, one an egg, and catch the egg on his neck never cracking that I saw.
Again too many yeachers to list sorry if I left anyone out tried not to make this a Facebook thing and stick yo who I actaully lived with travelled with and or performed or has sessions with Yes I am writng a book....
OK let me think of one more...
Butterfly Man! There is always more, this is a great man too!