Hahhaha. it's the cheap £5 casio drum beat in the background ticking away that gets me...lol, then the "I do like to be beside the seaside....." Hhhahahaha
@@josephgraif2588 It's not even that, really. (As a gay dude, the pipe organ as an instrument is VERY extra, but still way out of budget for it to really be 'in') The problem is that he's so incredibly pretentious about what he's doing, and not only believes his own hype, but actively seeks and creates it. Yeah, a touring pipe organ does sound like it could be an innovation if done right, and especially if it was made any degree of commercially available. However, he's presenting himself like he's gonna become the Steve Jobs of classical music because of it, and that's what turns everybody off from him.
Excuse me, do I detect a homophobe? As far as I know, the organ is and has been THE gay instrument for quite some time. It’s part of it’s identity. And I agree that we shouldn’t be making it about the music, but rather about the performer. Without the performer the music has absolutely no meaning, and cannot be perceived by many people in a representative way, so the performer should be the one who gets the credit, not the music. Bad performers can ruin amazing music, and good performers can make formerly less than amazing works shine brilliantly. I’ve never understood so many peoples fealty to blots of ink on a page.
@@ryangiraldi5722 plenty of straight men (and straight women) play the organ too. Possibly even some lesbians too, but I've never met or heard of a lesbian organist. Carpenter's whole visual aesthetic looks like something more at home on a Pride march than a concert hall stage. He's not charming, he's just off-putting. Carlo Curley managed to be "extra" with a capital E yet was never arrogant, self-aggrandising or off-putting in the way Carpenter is. The performer should be at the service of the music, whereas with Carpenter the music is just a tool for the glorification of the almighty ego of Cameron Carpenter.
Better if he played synths ... Al much as the digital organ has advantages of space and cost... A good pipe organ will ALWAYS sound better cause each pipe is distinct .... 20 25 speakers cant replace the pipes....
NO...REALISTIC CRITICISM. he plays the way he does BECAUSE HE CAN, not because of any theory regarding baroque era interpretation. Also, he gives NO credit to any of his predecessors who might have held similar views...
@@josephgraif2588 Well on the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, is it really typical for most pop musicians to shout-out their heroes onstage at every gig? I mean- I've seen and heard it done, and it's awesome (and I do it), but in my experience, they tend to reserve that for when they do interviews for magazines etc. So rock-guitar-gods will shout-out their blues heroes/predecessors (and jazz) etc; other vocalists and instrumentalists will talk about their influences etc. They might not trumpet the respect from the rafters, but it is still there and influences what they play. "No man is an island" etc. And yes sometimes they do it onstage, but not maybe every gig or every concert (or at least every tune). The paying public, after all, wants to hear them play their tunes, not necessarily yak about how they got there. When I play a ragtime festival, I'll yak for up to 5 minutes before a tune to explain the history etc because I'm confident there are enough fellow nerds in the audience to give a shit. When I play in public at a normal venue like a bar, I mostly shut up and just play and don't even announce tunes, unless I get a big enough 'hand' after one, that I announce it (and the composer), to give them due credit, because people were actually paying attention. Otherwise, if people enjoy the music (unconsciously or not), great! When I play a formal concert that is in a venue not typically patronized by ragtime nerds, I will do brief yakking but try to limit it to 30 seconds to 1 minute before the tune, just enough so people learn some bite-size and interesting factoids about the piece, but not so long that their eyes glaze over. When I make a UA-cam video, I can include and edit all the yak and make it look pretty and then cram it all in the description box where viewers can look (or not) at their leisure. Obviously a classical concert (with a formal printed program etc) is quite different, but I'm not so sure this man is styling himself as 'a classical musician' despite signed to a classical label and playing many classical pieces. I do wonder if he would get as much criticism if he didn't play any classical music at all, and only played popular music (since in that case, the ivory-tower snobs might entirely leave him alone because 'that music', they sniff, 'is beneath them'). Again, there are most certainly pop-music critics, but they apply (in many cases) very different forms of criticism and judging criteria than do the classical pundits I have read. As a person who sees all music genres as potentially equal (since things that are overly simple in one genre tend to be canceled out by other elements of that same music that are much more complex than another compared genre, and with equally dedicated, passionate and careful musicians existing in each niche), this sort of contrast in criticism (some critics completely ignoring important elements of the whole, like rhythm, timbre, mood etc) mystifies me, but I guess with the rigid 'boundary lines' between music genres having been put up so long ago, and only more recently (well, since the last 100 years) started to be erased or torn down, some people out there are still manifestly not OK with the postmodernism and equivalency.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes to be good at any kind of art, including music. It is part of how one assesses one's own ability to help with practicing and actually improve, or else they'll never get any better. You have to be realistic in looking at yourself. So no doubt he laughed at this. Also, a parody means you've sort of 'arrived' if you're famous enough to be parodied. I laughed at the parodies of my friend Joe Rinaudo at the Fotoplayer on Huell Howser (to date there has been a remixed Skrillex parody; a polka parody; and even a reenacted funeral home parody with actual actors), since I realize that means he's risen to the general level of pop-culture-awareness that someone (or three someones) actually went to the trouble to make parodies. So it denotes a level of fame. Of course, besides the parodies, one needs to know how much respect the person gets when they're not being parodied, and Joe gets a lot of love. I also see some amazed and respectful comments on Cameron Carpenter videos as well, although no doubt it's all over the board.
Love it :) I don't think that Mr Carpenter's the problem, merely an exponent of the functioning (or as you wish; failure) of a world-wide system: commercialization of music ... Anyone's free to join!
incongra No, he really is right into all this. An utterly insensitive player who displays nothing but arrogance and contempt for his colleagues and the rich tradition of which he is an inheritor yet which he's doing his damnedest to destroy.
Doesn't work so well as the original didn't need shredding! Thanks for alerting me to this guy though, still can't quite believe it's real. _how can we make organ music sexy..?_
he thinks he is the next virgil fox, while hoping enough time has passed for all of us to forget virgil. he wants to style the organ as the "gay" instrument. he will never succeed.
It is possible that the notes alone in the song could be considered a groundbreaking expression of himself through by use of the organ as well as the cheap beat, but the grunts make any sincerity or clarity of your message disappear, at least for me anyways.
You may wish to go view a video entitled "Beach Boys shred" and then come back here and think hard and really decide whether you intended to leave this comment on this video. If you have, and you know what you are doing, then this is an uber-troll and I doff my hat to you sir.
I LOVE SELF CENTERED HIGHLY EGO DRIVEN PEAPLE. BUT IT IS TRUE HE IS A VERY TALENTED ARTEST AND HAS GREAT VISION. HE WILL DO MORE IN HIS LIFE THEN MOST OF YOU WILL DO IN YOURS! BUT THAT BEING SAID THIS WAS REALLY FUNNY.
Huge organ plays organ. So well done.
One of the best shreds I've seen.
I came here looking for the original. It took me until 1:12 to realize this wasn't it. I was so confused.
+Christian Cline Ha!
+Christian Cline Really? Not 0:38?
PenguinHQ I was still confused at 0:38.
Very very funny and clever. Thank you. Love the synth jabs on the solo manual, and the old car horn on the piston.
I saw the original of this, and I'm still not sure whether or not it's a joke. Loved the 'I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside' bit.
Somewhat more musical than the real version...
Hahahaa...most certainly more enjoyable!
Thanks for this! I really needed a good laugh.
you probably play like someone with lepra in the hands.....
Who, me? No, I don't. And why should my enjoying a funny video mean that I play badly?
Every time I need cheering up I revisit this. Thank you! :-)
Every time I watch this video I laugh really hard! Genius!
Hahhaha. it's the cheap £5 casio drum beat in the background ticking away that gets me...lol, then the "I do like to be beside the seaside....." Hhhahahaha
odd really...
"Beside the Seaside" could be there as a nod to someone who knew how to play, and sell a record!
Much as I admire his technique, the problem for me as a music lover is that Carpenter's playing is not about the music, it's about him.
yup...it's all about making the organ the "gay" instrument, and i despise him for it...
@@josephgraif2588 It's not even that, really. (As a gay dude, the pipe organ as an instrument is VERY extra, but still way out of budget for it to really be 'in')
The problem is that he's so incredibly pretentious about what he's doing, and not only believes his own hype, but actively seeks and creates it. Yeah, a touring pipe organ does sound like it could be an innovation if done right, and especially if it was made any degree of commercially available. However, he's presenting himself like he's gonna become the Steve Jobs of classical music because of it, and that's what turns everybody off from him.
Excuse me, do I detect a homophobe? As far as I know, the organ is and has been THE gay instrument for quite some time. It’s part of it’s identity. And I agree that we shouldn’t be making it about the music, but rather about the performer. Without the performer the music has absolutely no meaning, and cannot be perceived by many people in a representative way, so the performer should be the one who gets the credit, not the music. Bad performers can ruin amazing music, and good performers can make formerly less than amazing works shine brilliantly. I’ve never understood so many peoples fealty to blots of ink on a page.
@@ryangiraldi5722 plenty of straight men (and straight women) play the organ too. Possibly even some lesbians too, but I've never met or heard of a lesbian organist. Carpenter's whole visual aesthetic looks like something more at home on a Pride march than a concert hall stage. He's not charming, he's just off-putting. Carlo Curley managed to be "extra" with a capital E yet was never arrogant, self-aggrandising or off-putting in the way Carpenter is. The performer should be at the service of the music, whereas with Carpenter the music is just a tool for the glorification of the almighty ego of Cameron Carpenter.
Why does this have to be about sexual orientation? An instrument is an instrument, an inanimate piece of equipment.
I cried because I could not stop laughing.
It's like an Earthbound battle theme.
Better if he played synths ... Al much as the digital organ has advantages of space and cost... A good pipe organ will ALWAYS sound better cause each pipe is distinct .... 20 25 speakers cant replace the pipes....
OH MY GAWD!!!! I AM LAUGHING SO HARD MY EYES ARE WATERING AND I'M CHOKING ON MY PIZZA!!! BWAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHH!!
This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
The funniest shred video in my opinion...!
1:22, genius move right there!
Sadly, the real version of him playing is about the same quality.
JEALOUSY....
NO...REALISTIC CRITICISM. he plays the way he does BECAUSE HE CAN, not because of any theory regarding baroque era interpretation. Also, he gives NO credit to any of his predecessors who might have held similar views...
@@josephgraif2588 Well on the one hand, yeah.
On the other hand, is it really typical for most pop musicians to shout-out their heroes onstage at every gig?
I mean- I've seen and heard it done, and it's awesome (and I do it),
but in my experience, they tend to reserve that for when they do interviews for magazines etc.
So rock-guitar-gods will shout-out their blues heroes/predecessors (and jazz) etc; other vocalists and instrumentalists will talk about their influences etc. They might not trumpet the respect from the rafters, but it is still there and influences what they play. "No man is an island" etc.
And yes sometimes they do it onstage, but not maybe every gig or every concert (or at least every tune).
The paying public, after all, wants to hear them play their tunes, not necessarily yak about how they got there.
When I play a ragtime festival, I'll yak for up to 5 minutes before a tune to explain the history etc because I'm confident there are enough fellow nerds in the audience to give a shit.
When I play in public at a normal venue like a bar, I mostly shut up and just play and don't even announce tunes, unless I get a big enough 'hand' after one, that I announce it (and the composer), to give them due credit, because people were actually paying attention. Otherwise, if people enjoy the music (unconsciously or not), great!
When I play a formal concert that is in a venue not typically patronized by ragtime nerds, I will do brief yakking but try to limit it to 30 seconds to 1 minute before the tune, just enough so people learn some bite-size and interesting factoids about the piece, but not so long that their eyes glaze over.
When I make a UA-cam video, I can include and edit all the yak and make it look pretty and then cram it all in the description box where viewers can look (or not) at their leisure.
Obviously a classical concert (with a formal printed program etc) is quite different, but I'm not so sure this man is styling himself as 'a classical musician' despite signed to a classical label and playing many classical pieces.
I do wonder if he would get as much criticism if he didn't play any classical music at all, and only played popular music (since in that case, the ivory-tower snobs might entirely leave him alone because 'that music', they sniff, 'is beneath them').
Again, there are most certainly pop-music critics, but they apply (in many cases) very different forms of criticism and judging criteria than do the classical pundits I have read.
As a person who sees all music genres as potentially equal (since things that are overly simple in one genre tend to be canceled out by other elements of that same music that are much more complex than another compared genre, and with equally dedicated, passionate and careful musicians existing in each niche), this sort of contrast in criticism (some critics completely ignoring important elements of the whole, like rhythm, timbre, mood etc) mystifies me, but I guess with the rigid 'boundary lines' between music genres having been put up so long ago, and only more recently (well, since the last 100 years) started to be erased or torn down, some people out there are still manifestly not OK with the postmodernism and equivalency.
omg! I'm sure Cameron loves this :)
To be fair to CC, he did retweet/ facebook this video. So he's not without a sense of humour.
You have to be able to laugh at yourself sometimes to be good at any kind of art, including music.
It is part of how one assesses one's own ability to help with practicing and actually improve, or else they'll never get any better. You have to be realistic in looking at yourself.
So no doubt he laughed at this.
Also, a parody means you've sort of 'arrived' if you're famous enough to be parodied.
I laughed at the parodies of my friend Joe Rinaudo at the Fotoplayer on Huell Howser (to date there has been a remixed Skrillex parody; a polka parody; and even a reenacted funeral home parody with actual actors), since I realize that means he's risen to the general level of pop-culture-awareness that someone (or three someones) actually went to the trouble to make parodies.
So it denotes a level of fame.
Of course, besides the parodies, one needs to know how much respect the person gets when they're not being parodied, and Joe gets a lot of love. I also see some amazed and respectful comments on Cameron Carpenter videos as well, although no doubt it's all over the board.
Poor chap - can't even afford a shirt and has to play in his vest
Love it :)
I don't think that Mr Carpenter's the problem, merely an exponent of the functioning (or as you wish; failure) of a world-wide system: commercialization of music ... Anyone's free to join!
NICE
Hahahaha . .
I love this . .
haha nice parody it had me fooled for a moment. Actually the "real" clip is equally appalling, is Carpenter a real person?
yes he is...
I reckon he's probably just a geek and Sony have forced him to adopt this "interesting" persona.
incongra CC did Facebook this video, so looks like he doesn't take himself too seriously.
incongra
No, he really is right into all this. An utterly insensitive player who displays nothing but arrogance and contempt for his colleagues and the rich tradition of which he is an inheritor yet which he's doing his damnedest to destroy.
there does seem to be a market for this kind of stuff ( unfortunately).. old ladies and gays I guess. Fair play to the guy.
WELL PLAYED MY FRIEND
Doesn't work so well as the original didn't need shredding!
Thanks for alerting me to this guy though, still can't quite believe it's real.
_how can we make organ music sexy..?_
The sad reality is that Carpenter is nothing but an attention whore with a staggering technique. No musicality whatsoever.
10/10. Did laugh.
I am 60 years old.
he thinks he is the next virgil fox, while hoping enough time has passed for all of us to forget virgil. he wants to style the organ as the "gay" instrument. he will never succeed.
That's my grandson ! He played that the other day!
HOW DO I FIND THE ORIGINAL???
+Ross Grimley Must've been deleted, I can't find it. It seems it was called Touring Organ if you want to do more research, though.
You can find the original on Vimeo, taken off youtube
nice thanks man :)
OMG!
Didn't see that coming, I'll be honest lol
It is possible that the notes alone in the song could be considered a groundbreaking expression of himself through by use of the organ as well as the cheap beat, but the grunts make any sincerity or clarity of your message disappear, at least for me anyways.
You may wish to go view a video entitled "Beach Boys shred" and then come back here and think hard and really decide whether you intended to leave this comment on this video. If you have, and you know what you are doing, then this is an uber-troll and I doff my hat to you sir.
Hilarious.
I'm so dead
bello!?
WTF did I just watch? Temper tantrum?
At 00:19 his face looks like a scull. He really looks bad. I don't think genius is very good for him.
lol
That's NOT music!!
assez scatologique sa musique, non? et puis, il aurait pu enlever son "marcel" c'est d'un vulgaire !
I like Phillip Glass... BETTER...!!!!
What a waste of God given talent. So sad.
I LOVE SELF CENTERED HIGHLY EGO DRIVEN PEAPLE. BUT IT IS TRUE HE IS A VERY TALENTED ARTEST AND HAS GREAT VISION. HE WILL DO MORE IN HIS LIFE THEN MOST OF YOU WILL DO IN YOURS! BUT THAT BEING SAID THIS WAS REALLY FUNNY.