I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.
I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how everybody was going to go nuts on the set. Because a film tends to set up the way people are going to behave.
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.
'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.
I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.