Reminds me of the music for the end credits from the Incredible Hulk TV show. Only longer. Perhaps if someone photoshopped (videoshopped?) McCain’s head over Bruce Banner’s it would be pretty funny. I hear there is green screen footage of McCain out there just waiting to be used.
Glenn Gould was brilliant and left behind a wonderful legacy of achievement. J.S. Bach’s accomplishments tower over our culture and constitute a perpetual gift to music lovers.
John McCain is a dickhead, who doesn’t deserve to be “given” this video.
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It was Glenn Gould who FIRST discovered that the weird time signatures in the middle movement of the Piano Sonata Op 111 by Beethoven, for years considered incomprehensible, were in fact ragtime signatures, and he played it with the appropriate flair. Yes, Beethoven invented boogie-woogie rhythm.
I realize it wasn’t the point, but I really enjoyed that. Turns out, watching the innocently and creatively weird enjoy themselves is great entertainment.
As proof whereof, show me a recording of Op 111 from before 1972 where that movement is played that way (pretty rare find if you do manage find one at all!), and then show me one recorded after 1977 that was NOT performed a la Gould.
August 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm
This is a reference to possible “fugue states” experienced by Ambien consumers, right?
Except, musical fugues are artifacts of rigorous musical intellect, and fugue states are, well, wacky.
Glenn Gould was wacky, but not with a keyboard in front of him.
Piano lessons for McSame?
August 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Does this cool guy need to pound the keys like that. So rough!
August 26, 2008 at 8:29 pm
metalols have never come so thick and fast.
August 26, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Prog…Fusion…New Age…Freedom Rock…FUGUES!
August 26, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Reminds me of the music for the end credits from the Incredible Hulk TV show. Only longer. Perhaps if someone photoshopped (videoshopped?) McCain’s head over Bruce Banner’s it would be pretty funny. I hear there is green screen footage of McCain out there just waiting to be used.
August 26, 2008 at 9:38 pm
All right smarty-pants. I’ve got your “fugue state” right here:
August 26, 2008 at 9:55 pm
It’s the comments on the You Tube video that did it for me…
August 26, 2008 at 10:40 pm
So Gentle Giant does rock after all.
August 27, 2008 at 5:31 am
well, I’m partial to the fugue.
August 27, 2008 at 5:48 am
Well it was that, or Mose Allison doing “Your mind is on vacation (but your mouth is workin’ overtime)”.
August 27, 2008 at 5:51 am
behold:
August 27, 2008 at 6:03 am
Glenn Gould was brilliant and left behind a wonderful legacy of achievement. J.S. Bach’s accomplishments tower over our culture and constitute a perpetual gift to music lovers.
John McCain is a dickhead, who doesn’t deserve to be “given” this video.
August 27, 2008 at 6:20 am
I didn’t know Woody Allen played piano.
August 27, 2008 at 9:04 am
this guy needs to get laid.
August 27, 2008 at 11:16 am
Now, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
August 27, 2008 at 11:42 am
So Gentle Giant does rock after all.
Fuckin’ right they do.
August 27, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hilarious.
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Predilection for abuse?
August 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Frank: he’s dead. Like we all will be if St. BBQ gets elected.
August 28, 2008 at 5:44 am
It was Glenn Gould who FIRST discovered that the weird time signatures in the middle movement of the Piano Sonata Op 111 by Beethoven, for years considered incomprehensible, were in fact ragtime signatures, and he played it with the appropriate flair. Yes, Beethoven invented boogie-woogie rhythm.
August 28, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I realize it wasn’t the point, but I really enjoyed that. Turns out, watching the innocently and creatively weird enjoy themselves is great entertainment.
August 29, 2008 at 6:50 am
As proof whereof, show me a recording of Op 111 from before 1972 where that movement is played that way (pretty rare find if you do manage find one at all!), and then show me one recorded after 1977 that was NOT performed a la Gould.