Comments on: Native Americans in Europe

by: louis

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:25:12 +0000

hello ..I am a musician similar this music ..in my md player I have a playback this playback don’t have flutes but many teams used the cd player only ..mimo… soory my englhis is not good….I speak spanish … the history firts 500 years ago.!!! only remember this …bye

by: Tdom Bah

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:03:14 +0000

Well, we seem thm all over the world and all seem to be doing the same… PERUVIANS dressed like Native Americans selling CDs with stolen music and making clowns of themselves. It seems that there is no ending… but NOW people are noticing and I do hope we get these fakes off the street… GOOD WORK

by: Joseph

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:56:16 +0000

My wife and I were in Garmisch, Germany on January 12, 2007, and we saw these exact some Native Americans. We said the same thing Native Americans in Germany? I went up to talk to them because I wanted to know what tribe they were from. Get this they didn’t even speak English. One of the guys spoke broken English with a sever German accent, and all he could spit out was the price of the CD.

by: Des

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:50:48 +0000

they’re everywhere. http://www.creativelyimpulsive.com/2007/01/native-americans-in-germany.html

by: Anonymous

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:29:00 +0000

Josh…I know this comment is quite very out-o-date…but I wanted to inform you that I’m fairly certain these exact same “Native Americans” were in Lorrach a couple weeks ago. I took an inconspicuous snapshot, but I’m not sure what happened to it.

–big dave b–
http://www.heraldrysociety.us/

by: Randolfe Wicker

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:01:00 +0000

The fact that these people are able to earn a living doing this reflects more on the audience than on the performers.

I really dislike seeing “street performers” dumped on even when they deserve it because so many really talented people perform on the streets and in the subways of NYC.

Maybe, so “moral” European will give them some blankets on a cold winter day and we’ll all be done with them “the old fashioned way”!
:)

by: Anonymous

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:54:00 +0000

Josh, I’m a South African who’s lived in London, England for 7 years. I hate to break it to you, but those ‘native americans playing pan pipes’ were busking in one of the big casinos in Johannesburg more than 8 years ago, so they’ve certainly got around the globe,(and there was a pretty caucasian “groupy” dressed up in the gear too, playing a drum. Makes you wonder if she knew the truth, or if she was ’searching’ ?). I have seen them in many cities in Europe, and they appear in Covent Garden every now and then too. Thanks to Bev who points out that they’re playing Peruvian music. What a hoax!

by: Mongo Brain

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 01:27:00 +0000

Gosh, they play the same cheesy synth-ethnic music that some street performers play here in the states! It is nice to know that cheese is universal.

by: David Meade

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:52:00 +0000

Bah! I keep meaning to do an expose on the street performer scams I see in Chicago.

you should have interviewed them one at a time and asked each one which tribe they were from.

- Dave
http://www.davidmeade.com

by: Natasha Wescoat

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:40:00 +0000

hahah! I have seen that here, somewhere in a mall years back. I wondered the same thing.

And you got a good pic there of them playing their flutes. If they wanted to look real, they would have realized that in order to get any sound through their supposed powered microphones, they’d need to play the instruments with the side and or end near the microphone.. not by their lips. funny stuff! ;-P

by: Insurgent

Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:44:00 +0000

Josh… I got two questions for you.

1. Was there a guy pretending to play an electronic drumset?

2. If not, how do you know that it wasn’t just the beats coming through the minidisc player?

Missbhaven’s probably correct that they were dressed up as indigenous people from North America, and the music is definitely from Peru, but I’m not convinced that the con goes behind dressing up in elaborate costumes and that they are really playing the instruments after all…

by: Martin L. Miller

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 06:25:00 +0000

It sure looks like the same bunch of guy who show up in Downtown Crossing in Boston Ma. portraying being from Mexico, in the spring and summer here. go Figure, why would they do that?

by: ryanne hodson

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:41:00 +0000

this made me laugh out loud.
WTF
those are the kind of people you are embarassed just to be near.

by: Big Dave

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:58:00 +0000

Josh Leo is awesome. He would be slightly more awesome if he had visited his friends Beth and Dave in Germany, but he is still quite awesome.

–dave–

by: Becca

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:09:00 +0000

Hi Josh,

Nice vlog. BTW, I tried checking out your previous “livestock” vlog and when I clicked on the picture, it shows the native american vlog instead. Just thought I’d let you know.

Also, do you use iMovie to create your vlogs? I’m using iMovie and exported one of my vlogs using the “Broadband” settings, but for some reason the picture’s not showing up on some of my friends’ computers. Any ideas why? Please let me know and if anyone else is reading this comment knows, please HELP ME!!! ~Thanks