Hot Jazz

• Sid Morrison
  March 11th, 2008 at 8:17 am

  Now here’s a Japanese guy who DOESN’T subscribe to the Kyoto Protocol! Yuk yuk.

  That said, this seems like a big waste. Even if the piano is a bit worn, couldn’t it be donated to a music school somewhere? I’m a libertarian and it IS his property, but as a tightwad engineer I don’t like wasting anything with remaining utility. His call, though…

• Ali S.
  March 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am

  Hot jazz hands!

• Luudzu
  March 11th, 2008 at 9:31 am

  Sid Morrison, have you ever played burning piano on the beach. He didnt wasted a piano, man.

• bean
  March 11th, 2008 at 11:16 am

  I can’t wait to see how he pays respect to his family.

• gail
  March 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Sid, I wouldn’t burn a musical instrument either, but I guess if Jimi Hendrix could burn guitars, this guy can burn pianos.

  Bean, Cremation is pretty much the standard in Japan. As long as the family member is certifiably dead.

• bean
  March 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  Gail-
  Yes, but that piano was not ‘dead’. The human equivalent would be setting fire to his ex-wife and having sex with the corpse.

• gail
  March 11th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  And all at the same time too. That would be something to see.

• Christophe
  March 11th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

  I do appreciate hamburgers. I cook them the same way.

• Sid Morrison
  March 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  @bean-
  I wonder if the instruments of dead Indian musicians are tossed on the funerl pyres with them, akin to widowburning…

• stiggy
  March 11th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

  I really wish I could have heard the peice.. I bet the severe change in the piano would have made for some INTERESTING sounds.

• kid_icarus
  March 11th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

  i wonder if he plays the broccoli too?

  what a waste…..

• Denita TwoDragons
  March 11th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

  A nasty, smelly, environmentally unsound waste of a perfectly good instrument, all in the name of the postmodern claptrap that passes for “art”.

  (And I cringe when I watch Hendrix burn his guitar, too.)

  –TwoDragons

• Hamst3r
  March 11th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

  Oh great, an “artist”.

• Adam Farrington
  March 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

  Destroying awesome pianos keeps artisans busy making awesome pianos instead of kitchen cabinets.

• VonSkippy
  March 12th, 2008 at 12:16 am

  Wussy. Next time be a “real” artist and do it without the flame suit on.

• ted
  March 12th, 2008 at 6:32 am

  Funny thing about this is the firewall between him and the piano. It’s definitely there beneath the piano, and it looks like it’s there on top as well. The player is at no risk from the fire whatsoever.

  It makes an unusual picture at first, but is completely pointless when you consider it’s nothing more than a staged, controlled trick.

• Mick
  March 13th, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  This is like Jimi Hendrix at Monterey. I personally don’t believe in destroying musical instruments,given that so many young musicians can’t afford one, but who am I to criticize Hendrix (or The Who, for that matter)?

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