I thought the organist was pretty good.

Bail Prestor Organist.

Getting the novice church organist may save some money, but there's a reason you pay to hire musicians.

From a cotton farm in Turkey Scratch Arkansas to the very pinnacle of the music world. 71 year old Levon Helm will soon be gone. Thought I'd post this tribute song written by Elton John from his 1971 album "Madman Across the Water".

Story here. http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Entertainment/Music/6474166/story.html

From the above story "Born May 26, 1940, in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, the son of cotton farmers, he learned to play guitar and drums as a child. By 17 he was appearing in honky tonks in and around nearby Helena and taking in performance by such southern legends as Conway Twitty, Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley, and Ronnie Hawkins.

He joined Hawkins’ rockabilly band The Hawks just before they moved to Canada in the late 1950s.

In the early 1960s, Helm and Hawkins recruited Canadians Robbie Robertson (guitar), Rick Danko (bass) and pianist Richard Manuel and organist Garth Hudson. They left Hawkins and toured as Levon and the Hawks before backing Bob Dylan in the mid-60s. Fans weren’t initially receptive to Dylan’s switch from acoustic folky to electric folk-rocker, and Helm headed back south, working on offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of years until bassist Rick Danko asked him to rejoin the group that would become known around the world as, simply, The Band"

Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Levon+Helm+near+death+wife+daughter+with+videos/6474166/story.html#ixzz1sLwHMdvM

Absolutely brilliant. And he's a great pianist/organist to boot.

From Wiki

Lloyd kept copyright control of most of his films and re-released them infrequently after his retirement. Lloyd did not grant cinematic release because in the main most theaters could not accommodate an organist, and Lloyd did not wish his work to be accompanied by a pianist: "I just don't like pictures played with pianos. We never intended them to be played with pianos". Similarly, his features were never shown on television as Lloyd's price was high: "I want $300,000 per picture for two showings. That's a high price, but if I don't get it, I'm not going to show it. They've come close to it, but they haven't come all the way up". As a consequence, his reputation and public recognition suffered in comparison with Chaplin and Keaton, whose work has generally been more available.

Oh dear, something tells me he would not approve of this version Thankfully his work has gotten more recognition as of recently.

Now if only someone could stumble across that elusive copy of Cleopatra...

I had a cheapo low quality VHS of Laurel and Hardy when I was little my parents would let me watch and recently the same short got a restoration, the difference was night and day. Preserve the classics!

I just want to add that if I ever do by that drum set that I always wanted as a child this just my be the very first song I learn to play on them. And that organist is freaken awesome!

This looks real to me.

Patch changes - You can program keyboards to follow music and change patches at appropriate times. You can also layer patches, so that you can play several instruments at the same time. Combine the two along with some skill and you have the ability to play an orchestral piece with two hands and two feet.

Sped up? - No. This isn't as difficult as it sounds. Try turning off the volume and just watching the performance. This is well within the grasp of a decent organist.

Percussion? - It does sound like some of it is tracked or perhaps triggered via patch changes.

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this reminds me of Helmut Walcha, the brilliant pipe-organist, who memorized and performed all of Bach. he was blind, of course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Walcha