House Is A Feeling

I watched quite a bit of Gonzalez doing this live last night and it was about the most vital thing I’ve ever seen on a Sunday night at 1am (challenged only by many life changing Tiffany Amber-Thiessen TV movies involving murderous wives/drifters)

Gonzalez, whose sleazy weird concerts some of you may remember, performed for 27 hours, using 300 songs he had prepared already, without any repetition of material. He took a five minute break every hour. Amazingly no booze or stimulants were involved (he was tested) but I imagine his fingers must be in serious pain right now

The crowd actually picked the tunes from lists which his assistant then crossed out. He had them entranced (I think he rotated crowds after a few hours) and moved from showtune standard stuff to blues to classical and generally all over the place. I never knew he was actually such an accomplished pianist, having only heard his (actually quite good/funny) cover of Daft Punk and Romanthony.

Hopefully some clips with better sound quality will emerge but something about watching him feverishly hammer out song after song live was amazing.  I’d like to think there were a few fans or associates there for the full 27 hours. I mean, how different would a song sound when you’ve watched the performer playing for 6 hours? How about for 12 hours? 18? It’s got to be interesting.

You can read how he prepared here.