Ego Stroking

Call it ego stroking, call it what you will, I call it a bonus to the tour guide and the group.

You’re out on a walking tour, showing your guests the sights and sounds of the city when you stop to hear a popular musician play his tunes.

The musician is doing his thing, has the whole audience in the palm of his hands and he stops specifically  in front of your group to say hello to YOUR guide and to his guests.

The tour guide gets a great ego boost, the tour guests get a good chuckle from being singled out and the entertainer gets a few more sales!

Here we have Carl “Safe Sax” Ferris.  A well loved smooth jazz saxophonist who plays most nights on the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

On a recent Vegas night tour, we stopped to hear Carl belt out a few of his own tunes and do his usual memorization of the crowd.  Checkout Youtube to see him in action!

In-between numbers, as he schmoozed the audience than came to a halt in front of my group.  Smiled that smile of his, posed for some pictures and said hello to me and thanked my group for coming down.

From there he signed a few autographs on some CD’s my guests were buying and posed for more pictures. Carl is such a ham!  Ok, maybe we both got our ego’s stroked.  But the guests love the personal attention!

FYI:
One of Carl’s songs is the theme song to the podcast I co-host for a Vegas Tourist website.

Still, it gives everyone a little boost to be intimate with a “star” on their tour!