Mike Garson's piano solo on "Aladdin Sane"

[Botch]

Keyboard magazine has a pretty extensive interview with Mike Garson, longtime keyboard/music director for David Bowie and countless others. He talked about a recent music project which performed music to help heal people from cancer. There were a lot of good things said about it, but apparently it's still only being performed live and no recordings are available yet.

At the tail end of the interview they discussed his piano solo in Bowie's Aladdin Sane ("A lad, insane"?). I'm not a huge Bowie fan and wasn't familiar with it, got this from EweTube:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2y9inP4CqE[/youtube]

That solo is, um, avante-garde, to say the least. He was hired to work with NIN, Gwen Stefani, and Billy Corgan based on that solo, for which he was paid $33.00.
Still want to hear his recent, cancer suite, however.

 

[Flint]

Steve Nieve The keyboardist for the Attractions, of "Elvis Costello and the Attractions", was famous for his insane piano work. Same with Terry Adams, the guy from NRBQ.

Listen to Steve Neive on the tune "Let them all Talk." Not only is the piano arrangement amazingly brilliant, it is also freaking insane!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ke0C5opoU[/youtube]

I always thought of him as a genius freak.

 

[Botch]

Another "out there" piano solo that I"ve been fond of is from Squeeze's The Last Time:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdIkV-V0Ho[/youtube]

I couldn't find a video of the studio track, but this live video (were they playing a frat party?!?!) is much more interesting. The keyboardist is one Jools Holland, the current host for that Palladia show...