Marten5892

1. When I first made the idea public to my family my father only replied: "Son, thats a wonderful idea, but are you aware that you all you have is 140 EUR on your bank account and its not even the middle of the month?"The coming next 8 months I worked my ass off often more than 12 hours a day 7 days a week to be able to buy a old ice cream truck and pay the first reparations.Eventually I won a year long 700EUR / month scholarship, did a small crowdfunding and found a few product sponsors like shure for microphones.After some try outs and the building phase I left with enough money for 6 months.I was so broke twice that I only ate rice for weeks or went recycle food.But always after a phase like this someone believed in this project and supported it further without attaching strings. One of them was a Dutch Culture production house that is state funded for talent development.At the moment tbh my bank account is - 2000 so its about time to get this project into the world :DSo I would say it was a good mix of hard work, luck, stupidity and stubbornness.
2. Already partly answered in 1. But I only went to campsites for a total of 7 days or so, and was usually when I was sick and I needed a toilet nearby :D
   For the rest I tried to live as cheap as I can, knowing I wont have enough money to finsih the journey. But hey I had money for 6 months, ive been on the road for two years and I didnt die. Far from it, after accepting the dignity hit of recycling food I really felt free and even more motivated to finish this project

It happened twice that I with fellow broke artists or vanlifers checked the supermarkets garbage bins to find food that was just thrown out. Usually still sealed in plastic

It changed througout the 2 years as you can imagine.
First I tried to meet them also online first but that wasnt the best solution.
But usually I just spend a lot of time walking through the capitals of Europe talking to every street musician I found. Depending on how thrilled I was I asked them first just some random questions about the city, the busking scene and then step by step telling them what I really do.
Actually no one ever said "no i dont wanna participate"

Very hard question. I left also on this trip because I couldt decide between Germany and Holland. Now I cannot decide between so many places which in a way makes a really restless now.

Some that I would like to live in: Madrid, Budapest, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Berlin, Ljubljana

If you are asking if I paid them to play a song, then no. There was barely budget for the diesel.
But every musician keeps 100% of their copyright and most of the work I recored is original music.
So every time a song is streamed, printed, downloaded played on the radio and more they get paid by their copyright organisation. Also if they don't have it yet they can still can claim all copyrights from the last two years.
Then when it comes to the profit of the album sales, 50% of it will be given to charity. Also because I am only a one man operation and I simply cannot do the royalty accounting for 40+ musicians.