"Sing Us a Song, You're the Piano Man . . ."

January 26, 2007 2:29 AM

fter working on Law Review stuff until about 10:30, I decided that I would join Cole, Kristin, Chris and others down at bar review. Tonight's bar review was at the Orpheum, a downtown movie theatre and bar. This was in spite of the fact that the original announcement said bar review was at the Great Dane, an altogether better and cooler bar. Still, a bunch of my friends decided they were going to go out, so I did, too.

For various reasons, I was in kind of a bad mood tonight and was suffering from what I've decided to call S.A.D.: social anger disorder. Simply put, I was in a touchy mood. The fact that the Orpheum sucks as a bar didn't help.

Eventually, Emily, Noel, Chris, and I went to the Piano Bar. That's not actually what it's called, but I don't remember its real name. In any event, we went and we sat at the bar built around the piano. The Piano Bar is cool, I think--you can sit there and talk while listening to piano music. The piano guy himself is pretty nice. He's an altogether shitty piano guy, though.

For example, he played Elton John's Tiny Dancer, which is an amazing song. But he played it way too fast. He probably played it at about 150% of the original tempo, which just didn't work with the song. He also tends to make the songs, well, piano-bar-y. Plus, a lot of the songs just don't lend themselves to piano-only renditions. For example, he played Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror, a song I like a lot. But that song just doesn't sound nearly as good with some guy and a piano. To top it all off, the guy's a terrible, horrible singer. I mean, really bad, off-key stuff here.

But it doesn't matter--the piano bar's fun, and, for all of his flaws, the guy's nice and he knows a lot of songs.

And he's willing to play Piano Man on demand. But no more than twice a night.

1 Comments

Utah said:

After two requests, he had better know my songs next time...All I Know, which is an all-around fantastic piano song, and Fergalicious.

January 26, 2007 11:21 AM

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