I try very hard to keep this blog from becoming a vanity blog. But you know, i’m a musician, i make music and every now and then i like to share it.<\/p>\n
I make albums, theater pieces, and all that jazz, but i also help eek out a living by playing piano. I have never recorded myself playing piano as i keep it utterly\u00a0separate\u00a0from my composition\u00a0and\u00a0production. On piano, i play just for the moment. However, a promoter here and some other guy asked me to make a recording they can use of myself playing a pile of songs. So i did.<\/p>\n
It’s for basic promotion only, and to be honest, i did not spend any time dealing with perfecting the sound, correcting little mistakes, etc. It’s for some bars and clubs to show i can, in fact, play. So i just sat down and played. On some tracks i even pressed record on my crappy little computer camera and took really bad video while i recorded. It can never be used for anything, but it’s here anyway in case you like to stare at something while listening.<\/p>\n
Thus, i’m gonna entertain you today by posting a couple of\u00a0the\u00a0tracks. They are all covers. I do not care about playing my own material on piano. I spend most of my life creating my own material carefully in the studio and when i play piano i just want to blow off steam playing songs i like by other people. And since folks in bars also like this sort of thing, it’s win-win.<\/p>\n
Famous Blue Raincoat:<\/p>\n
[soundcloud url=”http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/30646317″ params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=390b02″ width=”100%” height=”81″ ]<\/p>\n
Born Under A Bad Sign:<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3MnNf2cRupA]<\/p>\n
The Amy Winehouse Death Suite:<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vE1ySbtti5o]<\/p>\n
The Gambler\/Pokerface Piano Mash-Up<\/p>\n
[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARbEM8IiErI]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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