MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Now imagine you are an amateur musician busking for fun, and suddenly out of the crowd appears a famous artist who’s song you happen to be playing to sing along with you. Some cool spontaneous celeb street performance moments here.
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Hi Jurgen, It’s amazing how any scenery comes alive, like adding pearls to a seabed of sand, when you add music. Was incredibly relaxing and beautiful seeing Alaska and it’s wildlife unfold here. The last 30 mins just repeats the same scenery, but the first part is nice. Will be doing another trip up to Alaska possibly this summer so this really resonated with me. I was imagining composer/songwriters like Strauss or John Denver had amazing nature on their mind when they wrote some of their music.
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Hey everyone’s vinyls looks great. While I think I was one of the earliest to receive the Why? CD when it came out last year, looks like with the vinyl will have to wait. The Western Canada post is so unpredictable. Always love and cherish all the extra goodies MLT send along in the parcel.
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Love Mona’s twangy slide guitar sounds, and Lisa’s bluesy vocals so heartfelt and expressive.
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I’ve always enjoyed some of Sheryl Crow’s bluesy songs over the years like this one. When I heard Mona and Lisa’s bluesy Waiting For The Waiter I was so thrilled!
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The first MLT original with a piano, and what a beautiful song.
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Hey Jacki, thanks for that. Didn’t realize it is Piano Day. March 29th 2023 is in fact the 88th day of the year to mark 88 keys of a piano. There is still 2 hours left of Piano Day where I am. I remember back when I bought an acoustic piano (a small Baldwin upright) for my piano practices, and my mom really liked having a piano in the house. She’d sometimes came downstairs while I was at work and played around on the piano she told me. When I moved out and got my own place, it just didn’t feel right taking the piano out of my mom’s place, and it’s still there.
I don’t have any pictures of me and the piano, so here is a practice session from back then. I polished this up more and performed it at a piano competition at the piano school I took lessons. My piano teacher at the time felt it was good for me to do that, so I memorized the piece and did my best, the only time I ever performed a musical instrument to an audience.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Jung Roe.
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Hi Chris
It looks like you found one, a 1960’s-1980 Melodigrand, if you put it on a sturdy trolley you have Jonny Hahn’s piano. His looks more weathered, and full of character. At 200 to 250 pounds, it’s certainly more easily transportable than your typical full 88 Key upright. What an interesting little practical piano.
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David, nice find! I would think many famous artists would in fact love to do a spontaneous street performance just for the love of playing. Problem of course is the crowd and mobbing afterwards if Paul McCartney suddenly showed up on a street corner singing like that. At first people may be skeptical thinking it’s just a Paul lookalike, like the droves of Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas.
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Watching this, it makes me imagine what would happen if Paul McCartney just started to busk on the streets of Liverpool somewhere under the guise of a hoodie. How long before someone would clue in that rendition of “Yesterday” sounds a lot like Paul. That was quite an interesting video of Joshua Bell busking. It looks like that one lady in the end just stopped and stood there, wonder what must have went through her mind as she watched listened in disbelief. That Bach Partita would have probably have made me stop and look.
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Hi Chris
That is an interesting piano indeed, I wonder if it’s custom made for him. I’ve never seen one like that on wheels and with just 64 keys, I presume like the keyboards in Bach and Mozart days.
Yeah, busking was a new word for me too, and learned it here at the MLT Club, in fact learned a lot of new things here. I really enjoyed MLTs experiences they shared about their busking. I think it takes courage and confidence to go out and do that in front of the public that can be so unpredictable.
I found this interesting interview with Jonny Hahn that really gives some amazing insight into the world of busking and life long dedication to his art, and hearing him talk, he is very aware of the world and music industry. His comment about how diverse Pike Place Market is and the wide array of people that come there, and all are touched by his music, there is that point about how music crosses all boundaries between people. Really a bright and remarkable fellow.
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Hi Chris
That sounded like a lot of fun to play with a couple of strangers who share the passion of music like that, and to have an audience who appreciated it and got into your playing. Thanks for sharing that.
When I got into practicing the piano through the 90s, while it was the classical music and new age piano sounds of the likes of George Winston, Eric Daub etc, another performer that really had an impact on me and I felt the passion of what it must be like to live a life of music was a street performer in Seattle. I often visited Seattle and I’d always go down to the Pike Place Market area to see this amazing pianist, Jonny Hahn, play. In the winter when it was really cold or rain, he use to play wearing these gloves with the finger tips cut out. He had this small upright piano on wheels he carted around and played at different locations in Pike Place Market. I remember one year I loaded my portable Casio keyboard in my trunk and took it with me on my road trip vacation and played it in the hotel room, partly inspired by Jonny Hahn. It didn’t matter what happened in my world, with my little piano and passion of playing, that’s all I needed. I was filled with that passion for a short time in the 90s. I hope I can have that feeling again when I’m finally retired.
I found a youtube post of him from 3 years ago still playing at the Pike Place Market. I have a CD from him from a number of years ago.
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Hi Chris
That sounds like a wonderful area with all those pianos. It must have felt nice to be able to play like that sort of spontaneously. That reminds me of my old work place a few years ago, there was a little square next to a shopping area where they had basketball hoops, and in the corner there was this little upright piano donated, so any passers by good play it. At lunch time when I walked by you could hear people play it. That area was a low income neighbourhood, and sometimes you would see people of all walks sit and play a tune, it was quite remarkable and heartwarming to see. Music was a bond between people no matter a person’s stature.
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A double heads up David, Ukelele day Feb 2nd. There is time to prepare! 😉
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Hi Chris
Here is that performance by Hilary Hahn I remember. I may be biased, but I think the first movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is the greatest violin solo piece in music. The emotional range Beethoven takes you in music here is amazing and second to none. I’ve heard good performances, but when a musician makes it all their own with their unique nuance, and you feel every single note, it is truly remarkable, and I think she pulls that off here.
