Here's a guy really rocking his black leather jacket...

[BobJ]

Fantastic. Jerry Lee lewis without voice. @BobJ any idea where this was taken?

It was taken at Kings Cross Station in London. I followed up on Corsair42's post and watched several of his videos, some on public pianos and some in studios and on concert stages. And watching the videos closely, and looking at google images, it does, indeed, apppear to be a Lewis Leathers Western Jacket. He wears it well, looks better than I thought it would.

I'll be forst to comment on the fit... Perfect!

Here's part two of the original video, in which you can get a better look at the jacket.

 

[BobJ]

Yeah.... he even had that "Killer Scowl" all he needs is a bigger DA and a more destructive (of pianos) personality!

Worf

He's showing a bit of piano-destroying personality here!

 

[devilish]

Ah, I knew he looked and sounded familiar. The Jim Jones Revue rock! As did Thee Hypnotics before them. They did the best version of 'Sweet Emotion' since Aerosmith cleaned up.

 

[Edward]

I'm not quite sure who the jacket is targeted to. On Reddit they are calling it "Dad-core", so are they aiming at us?

Well, normcore is a hipster thing; instead of wearing a bunch of stuff that really sticks out, they buy everything from the Gap - beige, beige, and more beige. Like the normals, but they wear it ironically. I'm assuming Dadcore is a variation on a theme, suggesting that something is the sort of bland, inoffensive fare that someone it out of touch with cutting edge fashion, like a suburban dad. would wear. Equivalent of 'dadrock' music. May or may not also imply that the wearer thinks they're really cool, but to everyone else they look kinda naff. At least that's how the term reads to me.

As a lefty you would do great with the bass line, but your right hand still needs to play the melody.

Yeah. The piano layout always felt perfectly logical to me - I suspect it's sort of a simlar feel to the guitar, with my right hand doing the fiddly fretting and the left on the plucking. Tried to learn right handed, but it felt so wrong it was pointless (though there's always some genius trying to tell kids a lefty should play guitar the right handed way, and that they're at n advantage if they do..... yeah, work out the logic in that one....). I've evne had people try and claim to me guitar isn't a 'handed' instrument....

I later learned to read (after a fashion) on the trumpet (good instrument for lefties), and later on the guitar, which most lefties play upside down--See Albert King and a host of others. Jimi Hendrix was also a lefty who did quite well for himself. When people ask me if Jimi played the blues, my standard answer is, "Sure he did, just not the blues of this planet!"

I've always fancied a saxophone. Possibly a retirement project.... I play true-lefty, but I can pick out a bit by flipping a right hander and playing with the strings upside down, through years of fidling with other people's guitars and such. Jimi was something else.... I'm still tempted by the idea of a 68 reissue, restrung and set up as a Hendrixalike..... On a similar tack, I've also long fancied picking up one of those Hendrix trbiutes they did that was basically a left handed guitar strung right handed, with the 'mirror-writing' logo on it, and setting it up as a lefty. That would be pretty cool.

Can't think of a truer statement on this or any other forum ever!!!!! LOVE that sound!

I love to jive to boogie woogie. This sort of stuff, and JLL (so glad we got to see him in his last London Show!), are why I regret droppnig the piano as a kid. I'd love to be able to wander up to one of those public pianos and do that.