Gonzales - Solo Piano c/d

Wanna impress a friend...burn em this CD...they're love it...unless they don't...

Still would absolutely LOVE to learn how to play "Salon Salloon."

The new one is basically an updated version of Joe Jackson's 'Night & Day'

The new one would rule if anything else was as good as Working Together. I gotta get around to ripping it without all those bonus tracks though.

^^ did this – it’s basically a B-minus Billy Joel album after the first track.

Whilst I agree that the album is patch solid diamond, I have to say that "Working Together" is only the 2nd best track because THIS:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/54222497ec058e6c/

is probably the greatest single track anybody put out last year.

PAtch = patchy

Yeah 'Unrequited Love' is the only thing I can remember from this album (besides 'Working Together' obv)

The middle 8-y/inter-verse "Can't sleep and ya/Can't breathe and ya..." is incredible.

Unrequited could have been a massive hit for another performer (with Gonzo's arrangement*) - Working Together sounds perfect delivered by him.

*He can still sing the middle eight, that is fantastic.

Six years this week since I've seen him live. Come back please!

I like the guy, I think he's a talented musician, but I always find his records pretty weak - like he doesn't really believe in what he's doing...

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/1984/94528135.jpg

Canadian pianist Gonzales launched a bid on Sunday to break the world record for the longest-ever solo concert during a grueling 27-hour performance.

Gonzales took the stage at midnight at a small theatre in Paris' trendy Montmartre and was determined to stay there until the curtain drops at 3:00 am Monday (0100 GMT).

"He's doing fantastically well," said Frank Chambers, an official from the Guiness Book of World Records who was overseeing the record-breaking attempt.

"This is not just an endurance test, but an artistic performance."

You go Gonzo!

He was just played 'Private Dancer' blindfolded.

The stream kept breaking up earlier, I did hear him speeding thru some of the Solo Piano pieces tho.

The streaming's got better since earlier.

So I see.

26 hours in, he's playing boogie-woogie blindfolded! awesome

the record's broken now... but he's still playing!

haha this is cool

This really was a thing to see and I wish I hadn't needed to get some sleep so I could've watched him over the final couple of hours. Good work, fella.

dvd asap imo

ah, I went to the last concert he did before this, in the same venue, the previous week.
it was pretty nice and roughly a rehearsal for this (he played there 8 sundays in a row before the attempt).
Must have been a nightmare to play/talk for so long... how was he by the end ? how long did he last ?

he stopped after 27 hours. i watched the last two; he was full of energy and smiling and playing really well. didn't seem fazed at all. it was fun to watch.

good. anything special at the end ?

Did he stop to go to the bathroom?

there was a little party at the end, lots of cheering and streamers and stuff... i don't know what the last tune was, but it was really great. xp yes he had a little pause every three hours or so apparently!

i'm sad i missed this. :(

can someone make an animated gif of the whole thing

just woke up, very hard to get to sleep. experienced hallucinations onstage, couldn't recognize people i knew in the backstage. wrist pain

http://twitter.com/chillygonzales/status/1834534048

Anyone else bought 'The Works'? Two CDs of the 'greatest hits' from the 27 hour show.

For sale on iTunes and Amazon, etc.

no way

whaaaaaat?!

http://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Record-Works/dp/B002HFM3Z6

Includes covers of Careless Whisper, When Doves Cry and Eye of the Tiger

The cover of Jamie Lidell's "Multiply" is just fucking incredible.

Amazing how much of this I remember from the performance two months ago.

On dis ting no hype.

No actual CD for this "Two CDs"? :(

Think it is download only, yeah.

^ SBed

the opener off solo piano was soundtracking sports tonight clips last night, trufax

oh man ANDREW WK AND GONZO PIANO DUEL IN NYC NEXT FRIDAY

after hearing his piano "cover" of Waves, my money is on Chilly.

Has it been officially released yet? Or is it just on Errol's 6music mix thing?

Just on the 6mix for now, but he said it was coming out (on 10" vinyl no less! curse that man for getting me back into buying vinyl) on Boys Noize records in, erm, November, I think?

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's a lot better than I was expecting.

hey i see that 'solo piano: deluxe edition' has popped up at juno today with a DVD of videos, concert footage and the like. i can finally retire the old mp3s of this!

Yawn. Call me back when they release a super awesome deluxe version of the Solo Piano sheet music book with "Salon Saloon" on it.

AWK vs Chilly pt 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBIscATqAwk

He's not a young man anymore, and this could be his last chance.

Playing a residency at La Pigalle in London starting November 4th with Jarvis Cocker.

http://vimeo.com/6898262

Now with added Youtubes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeouuK42_PA

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

He smashed a guitar! HE SMASHED A GUITAR AND IT WAS FUNNY!

New song with Jarvis and a free record for every table.

Also plays the piano with his feet whilst standing on it.

Lovely lovely album...makes you wonder why he hid his Light under a bushel for so long...

snrub, did you ever get these?

http://www.amazon.com/Gonzales-Solo-Piano-Notebook-Pieces/dp/B0035HKKIW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340279303&sr=8-2&keywords=gonzales+notebook

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Gonzales-Solo-Piano-Notebook-Volume-2/18665896?d=sem_SFD&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=productads

Sure did! Unfortunately, I suck!

anyone got this yet? few listens in and i think it's fantastic.

so this is out? totally forgot about - might pick it up tonight

came out in London weeks ago in a Rough Trade exlusive with a bonus 15 mins or so of piano improv, annoyingly

not being super familiar with most of this guy's work, I checked out the trailer for the new piano album, and have to admit I don't see how to take him seriously. the music is imo pretty tedious, and his expressions, all the sweating...looks like send-up of a "serious artist", and not a funny one. in fact, it's eerie to me that he seems so popular. I don't get it

Just went to see him at the Barbican. Not so sure about his piano concerto, but everything else was ace.

Think this will be the only time I'll ever see anyone crowd surf at the Barbican.

http://chillygonzales.spinshop.com/details/224584?parent_url=http://app.topspin.net/store/index/32077