Want to See Me Play a Fender Rhodes Piano? Hold My Beer!
My friend Richard; he's both a hillbilly and a hippy at the same time. He's a Hippabilly.
Mudhawk
Mudhawk is a four-piece machine that plays a mixture of bluesy New Orleans-flavored swamp goo mixed with outlaw Americana and some deep city funk, just to keep 'em guessing.
The band recently recorded a music video featuring Richard Burnett's song 'I'm a Hippabilly', and I had the honor of playing piano and singing some backup vocals on the project.
This Video Should Answer Some Questions
Lately I've been getting questions like "If you're the real Paul, shouldn't you be playing in a fabulous four-piece band or something?"
Others might just ask: "Do you really play the piano, or is that just more of your quirky fiction, Paul?"
Seriously though, I would like to show my friends what I've been up to lately, and for those who are interested in seeing me play a piano, below is a music video with just such a thing.
The Costumes
For this video, I put together my best Hippabilly costume, wearing my plaid black-and-yellow flannel shirt for some outlaw hillbilly anarchy, and I felt like my Pie Town ball cap with glassless glasses was as hippabilly as it gets.
The instrument that I played for this tune is the Fender Rhodes electric piano.
Have a look, and listen, because Richard can really say it best, as he explains how he's a Hippabilly in his song, 'I'm a Hippabilly'.
Nice! I think you did very well! I've got some old Peavey's myself so I love looking at all the equipment and, of course, the musicians actually using it. Gonna check out your channel and see what else you've got going on. Enjoyed!
Thank you for commenting. I was just dragging around a Peavey keyboard amp this last weekend- a heavy but effective tool. That Utube channel is the channel for the studio where we recorded, but it does have lots of local artist's videos that Crisp Studios has been producing.
wow that video that was really cool :D i enjoyed it
Thank you! Glad that you liked it.
That was cool. You did well on the keys. I used to dabble in that when I was a kid. I had a keyboard, was teaching myself. I'd get distracted though. It had buttons. Too many buttons. Some of those buttons made funny noises. I don't know if I ever told you this; I like funny noises.
No I didn't know you dabbled with such buttons and levers. I taught myself too, on a tiny little Casio with toy keys and not-very-funny sounds. I decided that I would have to squeeze a song out of that pawn shop Casio before I could move on to the bigger toys, and eventually got a Rhodes much like the one in the video. That was where I really learned the most, the Fender Rhodes, keyboard of the gods.
Yeah. Gotta have the right tools for the job.
Why do bass players always look so intense?
That bass is a lot of work, if he stops in the wrong place it is acutely heard by all. The addictive tones keep em coming back around to churn it again, and again... an intense job it is that they have succumbed to.
I have a friend who plays bass in a band. Always in that zone.
wow this is great..i love this :) good job
Thanks! I'm glad you heard it. :)
This is so beautiful!!!
-cheers-
Thank you for saying! I appreciate it a lot.
cheers-
Sounds amazing. Keep it up. :)
Thanks!
Wow what a nice surprise we get music today! Looks like a lot of fun going on there :)
I had some muscadine wine one time up in the mountains from that fancy winery up in the smokies.
This just takes me right back.
Piano sounds great Paul!
Hippabilly! Haha! Great word, great song, great playing my friend! Glad you decided to put this up :)
P.S. That zubir guy just commented on my post, hit him with futurama guy again! haha!
Yeah this was done only a few weeks ago, it's fresh from the studio. I thought I'd dressed down into the hippabilly attire, but that's really my well-worn black-and-yellow anarchist shirt that I wear constantly at home, it's not much of a costume!
Yeah that guy keeps crying "help me" and I tried to explain how that's not going to work. He doesn't read my posts though, that is about the only thing I feel sure of. I suppose next time he asks for help, I'll have to help him out with a flag, so maybe he can learn how I feel about him showing up so unprepared in my comments.
I asked him 'do you even read my posts?" And he answers "Friend please help me..." I told him it was annoying, and he's "Yes friend, help me" like a... like a robot? I asked him what his language is, so that maybe we could start a dialogue, and he says something like 'Yes friend engish my home speak please help me.' That's when Frye's eyes started to narrow a bit.
I'm thinking that Hippabillies are like Hobbits. :)
Hobbiton was indeed an anarchist society, no rulers or centralized .gov, just voluntary interaction between hobbits. Now, some of the real hillbillies of these hills around here come from families of moonshiners, and that lawless spirit eventually morphed into the modern version of moonshine; the regional weed cultivators. They would fit right in with the hobbits. ;) The hippies, I don't know. Seems like most of my old hippie friends have become socialists, and seem to demand that a gigantic centralized control freak be created in order to hand out food and resources-- quite the opposite of a hobbit village. Besides that though, hippies would make great hobbits, I think. :)
Freakin awesome - LOVE IT!!!
Posted by request, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
so much more than you could imagine, loved your backup as well as key work, hahaha, yes, that song was great too!
I had learned the lyrics properly by the third time around!
hahaha, yeah, I saw a bit of lip fumbling there in the beginning LOL I sent your song to @rondon in a msp-chat, he sometimes plays music there on one of the channels, and I just know that he will LOVE this song.