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...Thursday at five o'clock Harvard Square bustles with Cantabridgian commuters eager to put an end to their work days. But for twenty-five year-old Tony Throne the work is only beginning. Throne, a local street performer, pounds on his drum set--a homemade contraption of plastic buckets and dented metal casserole dishes--in front of the Coop. Though most people hurry by Throne with scarcely a glance, no one within a three-block-radius is oblivious to the seemingly incessant pounding of his bass bucket. Pimply pit rats nod their heads in cool appraisal of the rhythm...
...Tony Throne offers a more aggressive assessmentof the necessity for the street performer tomaintain faith in self. "If you listen to whateverybody else says, you ain't getting nowhere.Everybody's trying to hold you down." The drummer,who claims he got the idea of bucket drums fromhis "cousin Larry, the 501 commercial guy in NewYork City," is currently working on an albumslated for release this summer...
Though he figures he'll be performing in theSquare "for another five years, at least, until Iget my props," Throne says heenjoys streetperformance. "I like it when everybody likes mymusic...when everybody's around me dancing. I makeeveryone happy, I don't make anyone riled up."Throne shakes off the criticism of people whoaren't into his music, saying, "They're justjealous that they...
Although Copley Place generally pays better(Throne says he earned $900 there on New Year'sEve, 1993), Throne says he likes the audience inthe Square. "There are so many styles of people, Imean you got your punk rockers, your skaters, yourcollege kids your brothers, and your fine-asssisters...
...This guy John," Tony Throne's favorite. "He has a puppet that dangles from the end of his electric guitar and has a drum machine connected to his body so he can walk around...