# An awesome street musician

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-awesome-street-musician/497132>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 21, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-awesome-street-musician/497132 "2009-05-21T01:40:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![smurfslappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@smurfslappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smurfslappa)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-awesome-street-musician/497132/1 "2009-05-21T01:40:01Z")

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> **[ItemFix - Social Video Factory](https://www.itemfix.com/?r=ll)**
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> Social Video Factory

The guy creates a few layers with his pedals and sings. This sounds a little like Sublime I think, if they were still around (damn you Bradley). The name of the band he performs with is Dub FX, not to be mistaken with another band that goes by the same name. The name of the song is “Free World.”

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**Author:** ![smurfslappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@smurfslappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smurfslappa)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-awesome-street-musician/497132/2 "2009-05-21T01:45:04Z")

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Here’s another one of my favorites:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/vUO6kYLb6As/hqdefault.jpg "Awesome Electric Violin - Ed Busking Chester") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As)

Ed Alleyne-Johnson, in case you haven’t heard of him. I guess he used to busk in the streets of Chester until he was cited for selling his CD’s without a permit, so he moved his act to York. He makes his violin sing.