I think as a follow-up they need to put the silver guy in a convert hall and see what kind of box office he makes.

You don't go to a subway to listen to music. I've never thought "it's Friday night in Paris.....let's go hang out in the Metro!"

While I don't mind a good busker now anad then, most of the time it is a sub-par musician and I'm not around them long enough to get an appreciation for their musicianship. Usually, I'm only around long enough to get some annoying song stuck in my head before my train arrives.

Is it just me but does $42.89 (likely tax free for most street musicians) an hour seem pretty good?

If that were consistent and treated like a full time job (obviously this isn't likely; though there there used to be a really bad saxaphone player outside my San Francisco office who made a pretty good effort at it) that would be $85,786/year with two weeks of vacation.

Probably still pretty poor. The converts would have given all their money to the church.

Clearly I've gotten too used to Firefox's spell check feature - damn explorer and personal poor spelling & typing.

I like buskers so I stop and listen when someone grabs my attention. Sometimes a group grabs my attention; I loved the plastic can drummers that used to hand out in NYC subway stations - this one group in particular was amazing to watch. NYC was pleasant because so many of the young musicians were Julliard students; the had talent.

Hot DAMN! Sadly, I never saw him play. Man.

I was thinking the same thing. That's actually pretty good for 45 minutes work and he didn't have to work that hard.

I also agree that he would probably make more not being in the subway where people are in a hurry. I remember a lot of street musicians in San Francisco last year.