<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Duaine, Duaine. For the love of God, man. Can you spell peer-group suicide?<div><br><div>I agree: <b style="font-size: 18px; ">the most thoughtless and ill-conceived post I've ever seen here. </b><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br></b></span></font><div>When I say, over and over, that everything is eventually revealed, I'm not kidding---give 'em enough rope, and someone this clueless will certainly swing and twitch...cut him down and take him away....</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I invite y'all to watch this clip with either headphones on or through good speakers. You will hear, and see, and feel the majesty of a talent beyond genre, beyond stupid titles. What a gift are fine musicians, fine artists. What a heartbreaking, shameful pity that one of our fraternity not only can't feel it, can't see it, can't hear it, but belittles it...drags it in the dirt.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Surreal. Truly.</div><div> </div><div>David Andersen</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote cite="mid001c01c84711$40f14930$6500a8c0@piano" type="cite"><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 18); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws"></a></span></font></strong></div></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote cite="mid001c01c84711$40f14930$6500a8c0@piano" type="cite"><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 99, 18); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws">http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws</a></span></font></strong></div></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Just because you can't find and/or follow the melody doesn't mean there isn't one. Did you ever think that (from your own words "I really don't play") it might be too abstract for you to find/hear? </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Oscar Peterson was one of the greatest Jazz Pianists ever and this video is a wonderful example of his incredible playing which was not influenced by drugs of any kind.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">To say that you "could probably come up with something like he is doing" is ludicrous and your reference to drugs was more than a little offensive.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">If you really feel that you could "come up with something like he is doing" - How about we give you a year? Ten years? A lifetime? 10 lifetimes?</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Brooks Weisman RPT</font></div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="dahechler@charter.net" href="mailto:dahechler@charter.net">Hechler Family</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:40 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: Oscar Peterson</div><div><br></div>I listened to this all the way through.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I never could get used to this form of jazz because WHERE THE HELL IS THE MELODY ?<br><br>I really don't play BUT I could probably come up with something like he is doing!<br><br>No offense to anyone who likes this form of jazz but being my teenage years was the 60's and 70's, this sounds like something composed on cocaine or pot.<br><br>Tom Driscoll wrote:<blockquote cite="mid001c01c84711$40f14930$6500a8c0@piano" type="cite"><div><strong></strong> </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><div><strong></strong> </div></div><div><br></div><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2">Ahhhh----So long Big Man.</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"> Tom D.</font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"> </font></strong></div><div><strong><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws">http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws</a></font></strong></div></blockquote><br><br></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>