Notes from My Journey as a Subway Musician

I got a job and I. At a drugstore, and I immediately got fired. And so I. Haha. And then my dad goes, yeah, well, you gotta come home. I said, no, no, no, please. I gotta do stand up. I gotta do it, you know, in New York and that kind of thing. He goes, but you gotta make money. I said, I’ll sing in the subways. So he goes, that make. How much you make doing that? I said, I don’t know, let me give it a shot. And so I used to go to. It was humiliating because I wasn’t great at it, but I would literally walk with my guitar case. Walk in. You weren’t back. Now they assign spots to people. Back then it was just like you randomly did it. I’d go to, like, to the R train or to what, the A or the C or to whatever. Show up, walk downstairs, be people kind of waiting to get on the train. I’d open my guitar up slowly. That the guitar case. I’d see them all going, oh, god, no. Haha. And then I would start singing the tunes. What songs would you sing? I sang some Beatles. I sang some. I sang some, you know, stones. I sang. My big one was. Remember, I think it was a Paul anker. Good morning yesterday. That one. I used to sing that. Yeah. Thank you. Like that. We remember. Yeah. Yes. So the times of Your life, dude. It was a sad one. People would be looking at me like, what are you doing? Why are you. Why are you making us so upset? I’d be like, don’t you wanna cry with me? Nothing. Nothing. But they give me money. I make like 20 bucks an hour kind of thing.