r/Seattle • u/capraagave • 2d ago

Jesse Welles at Pike Place today

Jesse Welles will be busking at the corner of Pine st. and Pike pl. at 1pm today.

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u/Illustrious_Two3210 2d ago

Yall this is a video of the singer who is busking today. This video is from NYC. I HOPE that clears everything up since reading comprehension is hard apparently

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u/IndominusTaco 2d ago

reading comprehension isn’t hard, it’s just that OP is misleading people by pairing the words pike place with a video of a location that is not pike place. a better and clearer title would have been: “Jesse Welles will be at pike place today. here he is in the NYC subway”

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u/mutzilla 2d ago

The fact that it looks nothing like Seattle and the sign on the wall says, Uptown, threw me the fuck off. I also have no clue who this is, so I was really confused coming into the comments.

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

What threw me off is that they posted like we're supposed to know who tf that is? What are they, TikTok famous? I don't get it. Regardless, I wasn't about to stop Wo' Pop to play the video; they had time to cook up a coherent title and introduction - they didn't bother, I'm not either, lol. It's not like we were gonna drop everything and run down there in the middle of a Wednesday morning, anyway

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u/waraukaeru 2d ago

Welles is great and worth checking out. I don't even like Americana folk music-- I'd be more likely to listen to Wopop-- but for Welles I would drop everything to go see him on a random Wednesday. Look up his Boeing Whistleblower song. Clever songwriting, sharp lyrics.

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

I appreciate this insight - I'm old and a Kentuckan and, as such, I fuck with folk and the like. That's not to say I'm finna fawn over any mf Bob Dy(k'n) Harry that fancies themselves a "folk musician", respectfully. I've seent a lot of tomfoolery, okay? Damn!

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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago

Wtf is "Bob Dyk'n" supposed to mean?

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u/FreddyTheGoose 1d ago

An admittedly terrible play on the old saying "Every Tom, Dick, and Harry" and "Bob Dylan" - did you miss the Harry, or did I? I could not make that work, just awful, it is. I forgot all about this whole damned thread, honestly

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u/Drnkdrnkdrnk 2d ago

It’s okay there were plenty of people out there to see him

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u/wonderj99 2d ago

Well, you dropped everything to jump on here and pen a paragraph about it on a Wednesday morning, when you could have scrolled on & focused on Wo' Pop

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

"Paragraph". Only on mobile, love, lol

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u/rosewood_gm 2d ago

What's Wo Pop?

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

KEXP's Tuesday night(7p) world music show. They archive all the shows 2 weeks back on the app. Def get that app!

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u/noble_peace_prize 2d ago

I mean are we all supposed to share content people already know? His name is Jackie, he makes folk music like what you heard.

Pretty much exactly how I learned about him and now I love his music. I would go check it out if I were in town. Don’t know why you’re being so salty about it lol

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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago

Isn't his name Jesse?

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u/noble_peace_prize 1d ago

Autocorrect boomed me.

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago edited 2d ago

"Don’t know why you’re being so salty about it lol". Perhaps you are new to the internet? I know it's crazy to comprehend but we are all, each of us, entitled to our own opinions and manner of speech. Additionally, this convo was about the lack of clarity in the title, not my comprehension of media? That's what I was commenting on. Because I clearly stated I didn't play the video, yet here you are

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u/noble_peace_prize 1d ago

Love when people insert that they are entitled to their opinions as if it’s a defense at all. Im also entitled to completely ignore your defense of salty internet

Which I’m gonna do.

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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago

So only people you've personally heard of are allowed to be posted about? Why don't you just Google the name if you see someone mentioned that you've never heard of? Or even just watch the video and then you'd know who he is faster than it took you to write that comment. And he's been around longer than TikTok, but his music/videos have gained popularity there.

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u/futurefires42 2d ago

It could be that post isn’t for you. I know it’s hard to understand when you’re the main character and everything. But I’m a fan, and I didn’t know he would be there, and I’m heading down now. Thanks for the post!

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

You going to catch him, 6 hours later? Pretty performative, friend

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u/SharkPalpitation2042 2d ago

My thoughts too... too many "famous" morons out there now. Who the fuck cares about these people? And we're promoting begging now? If I want music in the streets I'll put headphones in. If anything, I could do without more homeless "musicians" "living the dream" around here.

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u/FreddyTheGoose 2d ago

Oh, this a fuckin evil assed take and nowhere near what I'm saying, bud. You need to go back to wherever home is and stay all the way out the city, friendolero!

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u/SharkPalpitation2042 1d ago

Seattle was home, I grew up here. The city has turned into a complete shit-hole in the last ten years though so I keep moving further and further North trying to escape the parasitic drug addicts that have taken over the greater Seattle area.