You're on the subway, it's packed, you just want to be home... but you're zoning out to some smooth jams provided by this sax player, so it's pretty chill. Until he decides to start improving with some never-ending high notes. "Why is he doing this to us?," you wonder, as the sax starts replicate the sound of possessed children screaming.
Are you familiar with this man? Last year we gave him a dishonorable mention in our best subway buskers list (mostly because he can play, but chooses not to do it well at times)... but maybe we were looking at it all the wrong way. Maybe it's not all about the music, man, maybe it's about the reactions from those subjected to it.
Longtime Gothamist reader Michael Prohaska sent along this video from Thursday night on the L train, when he heard Sax Man "shrieking and wailing and making some of the most maddening sounds I've ever heard. It was non-stop." When the train rolled in, he tells us, "everyone waiting on the platform was visibly relieved to finally escape the madness. Well, the doors open, and I walk onto the train only to discover that he got IN MY TRAIN CAR." Listen below, as Sax Man expertly trolls the trapped straphangers, getting louder as anyone asks him to stop, and even dropping in a Barney's "I Love You" teaser.
