I grew up during the heyday of Jerry Lee Lewis and always appreciated him as the crazy
rock'n'rolling master of killer piano and piano stool kicking, and getting his shoes on the
keyboard, and doing those amazing riffs and rolls on the keys, and a red hot vocalist too.
About five years ago, I came back to his work, and was fascinated that just below the
mayhem was a mysterious calm in the voice, while the keyboard was flying faster than
the speed of light. He was never pushing or yelling (much) but had an even control of the
whole explosion. Going back to him today on youTube, I am astonished at what a precise
pianist he was, behind all that fire and crazy energy. The naive teenagers who made him
a star weren't wrong. He's an incredible talent. I can only shrug at his crazy personal life,
but once on stage at the microphone, he was a complete original and master of his form.
rock'n'rolling master of killer piano and piano stool kicking, and getting his shoes on the
keyboard, and doing those amazing riffs and rolls on the keys, and a red hot vocalist too.
About five years ago, I came back to his work, and was fascinated that just below the
mayhem was a mysterious calm in the voice, while the keyboard was flying faster than
the speed of light. He was never pushing or yelling (much) but had an even control of the
whole explosion. Going back to him today on youTube, I am astonished at what a precise
pianist he was, behind all that fire and crazy energy. The naive teenagers who made him
a star weren't wrong. He's an incredible talent. I can only shrug at his crazy personal life,
but once on stage at the microphone, he was a complete original and master of his form.