You must see this! Cat plays piano with orchestra! :)

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You must see this! Cat plays piano with orchestra! :)

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Hahahaha! Gotta love it! Watch out composers! This cat is reportedly moving to LA and looking for your gigs!

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He's not overplaying.
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Woooooow!

That's amazing, cute and even beautiful!

Kudos to the composer who wrote the orchestral music around the cat's performance. For our sake, I hope it wasn't written by another feline :lol:

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I thought this was too cool. Actually, I think it's a really good exercise and interesting experiment. In 1982, guitarist Adrian Belew did something similar. He secretly recorded his 4-year-old daughter plinking at the piano and then wrote a song around it, The Final Rhino:

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/The+Final+Rhino/238LK?src=5

BTW, I think there's controversy over GrooveShark. I couldn't find another link for an example. :(
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Such Meowsic!
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Shooshie wrote:Such Meowsic!
Ha!

I forgot you guys spell it meow and not miau, like we do in Spanish.

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i wanna hear iguana rock! :headbang:
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kgdrum wrote:i wanna hear iguana rock! :headbang:
It's not really rock, and not as talented as the cat, but...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/747 ... 20Park.mov

:D

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Hilarious - and very clever.

Thanks for the posting, James.
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I guess it's an interesting exercise in composition and one can appreciate the composer's ingenuity, but I don't find it the least bit entertaining. Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy. :(

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FMiguelez wrote:
kgdrum wrote:i wanna hear iguana rock! :headbang:
It's not really rock, and not as talented as the cat, but...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/747 ... 20Park.mov

:D

My big dumb green baby!
Now THAT's entertaining!

Just bustin' 'em FM and James. Hey, FM, how'd your hand heal up? That was a nasty bite you had a while back.

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Phil O wrote: Just bustin' 'em FM and James. Hey, FM, how'd your hand heal up? That was a nasty bite you had a while back.
Ha!
It's healed perfectly, Phil. Thanks for asking :)

I have only a little scar left in the palm of the hand (in a weird way I wish it had stayed bigger). But she's been great!

Since that incident, she has only gone wild on me once more, and that was when we moved back to the city. She bit me again (but this time I was wearing my protective gloves! Phew...), but that's because she was so stressed out due to the moving and the new surroundings.
She's very sensitive to any changes in her environment, so I bent backwards to make an exact clone of her new cage in the new apartment. After a couple of weeks, she regained her appetite and went back to her normal docile self.

I'll give her a kiss on your behalf :)
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Reptiles... what are you gonna do, right? :)
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Excuse me, gentlemen, but this is how it's done...
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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Excuse me, gentlemen, but this is how it's done...
Whooooooa!!

Now, THAT's groovy.

And the cat seems to be enjoying it :lol:

Is that Kassonica, by any chance?


Come on, Phil! Your turn! Show us what your fly can do :lol:
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