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People were starting to play little gigs
in these coffeehouses in the Village.
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We called them basket houses.
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We didn't get paid a dime but we would
pass a little bread basket around...
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after the set
and people would throw change in...
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and then we'd pack up our guitars
and go round to the next club.
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They'd put the singers on in between
beat poets to turn the house, essentially.
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So you'd get...
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three songs, you could sing three songs.
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And what it came down to is...
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if at the end of your three songs
there was still anybody seated...
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in the house, you were fired.
You weren't doing your job.
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Needless to say, we didn't get fired.
That we could do.
:38:22
When we played in the city,
who was the audience?
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Who were those people walking
up and down MacDougal Street?
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There was a lot of them.
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Some were people from the suburbs
coming in to look at the weird scene.
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Some were from the city
looking at the weird scene.
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Some were the weird scene.
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It was never clear that this was the audience
and this was the singer.
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Because maybe half the audience
if they had their druthers...
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they'd be up on the stage singing as well.
It was very interesting.