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thanks for sharing your video with us.
barry
i'd like to request that in the future, and i hope you have a lot more for us, that you'd post these in the "music videos" forum, the link is over on the left just under "the piano lounge".
i'd also like to request from everyone else that we all get off our rear ends and start posting our own videos! even i have no excuse, i've a web cam hooked up to my system, i do live stuff on ustream regularly, but i haven't posted to you tube yet. soon!
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by Scot Ranney on 10/18/2009, 11:31
"nothin as sexy as a fine young lassie playin gershwin."
this is not a comment on your music but rather a "showbiz" performance comment.
you need to breathe through your nose. iow, if you're not singing (or smiling) keep your mouth shut.
this will make you look both prettier and more intelligent.
some might think i'm joking, but i really am serious here.
rhapsody in blue is indeed a great piece of music, but people will joke about it because it is overplayed just as the moonlight sonata and stairway to heaven are overplayed!
this is not a comment on your music but rather a "how to be a human" comment.
you need to take up some kind of meditation practice: zen, yoga, whatever. iow, find your center.
this will make you less critical of others and far less likely to be so irritated by the minor imperfections of others.
some might think i'm joking, but i really am serious here.
i was not irritated, i was not being critical and was only trying to be helpful.
in show business, "the look" is very important.
oh, and while we're on the subject of disrespect, when do we get to watch one of your videos, or hear some of your piano playing, cynbad? hmmmm?
titanicpiano14 isn't afraid to put herself out there, in spite of her limitations. at least she walks the walk, unlike you.
i was not the one who criticized her.
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