Comments on: Hot Jazz

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:00:21 +0000

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)?

By: ted

ted — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:32:28 +0000

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.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:16:40 +0000

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

By: Adam Farrington

Adam Farrington — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:08:34 +0000

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

By: Hamst3r

Hamst3r — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:56:42 +0000

Oh great, an “artist”.

By: Denita TwoDragons

Denita TwoDragons — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:54:00 +0000

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

By: kid_icarus

kid_icarus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:50:14 +0000

i wonder if he plays the broccoli too?

what a waste…..

By: stiggy

stiggy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:00:42 +0000

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

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:49:25 +0000

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

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:44:38 +0000

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

By: gail

gail — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:52:41 +0000

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

By: bean

bean — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:04:40 +0000

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.

By: gail

gail — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:37:01 +0000

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.

By: bean

bean — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:16:50 +0000

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

By: Luudzu

Luudzu — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:31:28 +0000

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

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:29:09 +0000

Hot jazz hands!

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:17:11 +0000

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…