Wanna start doing some promotion for Boston shows with my rock band. Me and my singer will just jam out our tunes acousticly and give out demos and flyers and shit.

Will we get hassled by the police if we dont have a permit?

What are some good areas to do this?

Yes, you will

so how do we get a permit to do it legally then?

and can i sing love ballads to Tom Menino and John Kerry in the elevator of the Fed Reserve?

Gov't Center would be a better choice. During the day though, it's kind of a ghost town on the weekends

you have to call town hall about it. I think it's roughly $50 for several hours.

Only the Jamaican trashcan drummers and incredible guitar player in South Station are real.

eh thats not bad we have some band funds to toss around. i just wanna try to create kind of a buzz in the city so we dont have rely totally on our worcester fanbase for our upcoming show at Copperfields.

Just play at hennessys before me & Julio. You'll have all the 35 year old poontang you'd ever want

you had me at poontang

the band would fit perfectly

I've always been told its 25-30 bucks for a pass that lasts you a full year, from the day you get it.

http://www.mbta.com/business_center/subway_performers/

Cambridge: Harvard Square is best area in the evenings and weekends. Cambridge permit is $40 from Cambridge Arts Council, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 617-349-4380. http://www.cambridgeartscouncil.org or http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CAC/ Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA permit and regulations.

This permit is good for one year beginning January 1st. You can sell your own cds and use amplification at 80db in a 25 feet distance. Download copies of Cambridge Ordinance from this site or the arts council site (Laws are periodically updated so always check the City Clerk office for latest version).

I can't find anything about actually playing on the STREET in BOSTON, though. Just MBTA stuff.

awesome thanks dude!

Tom Bombadil and the Unnatural Disasters coming to a street corner near you

Extremely useful information is extremely useful.

Not a problem. I've been meaning to look that shit up for myself anyway. TEAMWORK.

I hope you saw the slightly amended version of your advice in the other thread.

just make sure you dont do this....

http://www.aolnews.com/story/wis-police-street-musician-hit-man-with/1266425

....i mean DO THIS

hahahahahaha

go shred on the corner of Newbury and Fairfield in front of the CVS, enough room to set up without being on the sidewalk and you can usually play for at least an hour before the cops try to fuck with you if you dont have a permit

This is funny as hell! Bongo Jesus? Awesome name!

HAHA, very true.

No originals though. Those saggy poons only like shitty Journey and Bon Jovi covers.

Actually, I'm getting a guy I work with (who frequents there every Friday and has had sexual relations with every woman in that bar) to talk to the person about possibly booking Hard Number 9. Doubt he'll remember but we'll see.

wtf...we play mostly originals with a few covers