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This guy makes an outstading performance in a particular and unique way, he makes music with physics, the final part is most impressive.
Jul 1, 2004 3:47 PM
Re: Playing with balls
I wish music sounded when I played with my balls.... :P~~~
Re: Playing with balls
Studying it, youre right. Its not real. Really interesting and entertaining though. Maybe someday I can play my guitar with my balls.
Now dont take that the wrong way, I cant juggle. :)
www.jonrobertquinn.com
Now dont take that the wrong way, I cant juggle. :)
www.jonrobertquinn.com
By: jonrobertquinn
Re: Playing with balls
I've seen this guy perform live and he's even more amazing. What ought to have been a Gong Show type of talent turns out to be a real crowd pleaser.
By: spam_vigilante
Re: Playing with Balls
Unfortunately, this guy's a fruad. His 'piano' is just a MIDI trigger device wired to a sequecer. His rythm is perfect and he is a great showman, but thats about it. You could tap your foot anywhere on the keyboard and play the right notes. Good effect, fun to watch, not all that impressive overall.
Re: Playing with Balls
Sounds like you are the one who is a fraud. Show proof for your accusation.
By: PookiePoo
Re: Playing with Balls
his name is Wally Eastwood. He is a Vegas performer. He stole the idea from Dan Menendez(The Piano Juggler). He has never let anyone examine his keyboard. I have played piano for 25 years, the first 10 notes of "God Bless America" (he started on a C note) would use only the six keys in the very middle of his keyboard. So right off the bat there's a tell. Half way through the performance he throws a ball and there is no sound. There are many times that he hits a low key and we hear a high note and vice versa. Sometimes when the same consecutive note is heard, the balls are hitting in different places. The last part of the last song changes key, yet he throws the balls at the same place. The last part of the last song would only need the top half of the keyboard, yet he is all over the place. Lot's of inconsistencies. His biggest feat is holding the world record for juggling 7 ping pong balls with his mouth.
Re: Playing with Balls
so yeah, he's amazing, but he'snot playing a piano with his balls
Re: Playing with Balls
Well thanks for the explanation. After watching it again you may be right.
By: PookiePoo
Re: Playing with Balls
Don't get me wrong, the guy is fun to watch, and still a great showman, but like many others it's smoke and mirrors, it doesn't make him any less entertaining.
Re: Playing with Balls
It probably is a fraud, but its even worse to have people trying to act all logical and ruining the whole thing by trying to explain why it is a fraud and everything. Just stop ruining it.
By: niick
Re: Playing with Balls
Actually the photo is of Dan Menendez but the video is of Wally Eastwood. Hmmm
By: hooper
Re: Playing with Balls
That raises what I think is an interesting point. I have seen several angry posts about Eastwood having stolen the routine from Dan Menendez (though nothing from Menendez on the matter). I grant that Eastwood copied the routine, but is there something wrong about that? If two magicians both saw a woman in half, is one of them a thief? Eastwood and Menendez are both entertainers, their job is to please the audience. Must they refrain from doing a trick because someone else invented it? It's a good trick, after all, and kudos to Menendez for doing it first. He was on Carson in the 80s and showed the world his trick. He's very successful (as successful as a juggler ever is). Does it hurt him somehow that someone else is doing his trick? When I tell a joke, it's almost always a joke someone else told me. Should I be ashamed? I don't claim credit for the joke, except by telling it (and embellishing it, and I must say, I do embellish well (-:), but neither do I preface all my jokes with, "Well, so-and-so told me this joke, so here goes". Is it because there's money involved? Because these guys are professionals, so they shouldn't be using each others' material? Painters copy the masters before they paint their own stuff, and they'll sell those copies, too, if someone will buy them. Professional athletes will do whatever it takes to be the best, and if someone realized that exercising a forgotten muscle group before the game really improved performance, you can bet no one would worry if doing that was theft or not.
How do beginners learn without copying somebody? And at what point should they hope to get a little in busking tips? Should nobody but the best be performing in hopes of getting money for it? Where does the idea of protecting intellectual property go too far?
How do beginners learn without copying somebody? And at what point should they hope to get a little in busking tips? Should nobody but the best be performing in hopes of getting money for it? Where does the idea of protecting intellectual property go too far?
By: lochleinn
