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    Your alter ego piano player/vocalist: "It would have to be Elton John or Billy Joel." He described going to the recent concert of the two. Full Article at TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
    It would have to be Elton John or Billy Joel.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
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Tampa Bay's piano men are playing our songs
  1. Usually songs I hate the most, I make a lot of money on.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  2. I sat down one day and wrote out all the songs I do, and it was close to 300. Out of the 300, about 50 were instrumentals, so I know lyrics to about 250 songs.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  3. My style would be catering to the room. I have a variety of music: rock 'n' roll, reggae, jazz. It depends on the age group. We run the Sinatra gamut.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  4. I'm an old-school funk kind of guy. Tower of Power, Average White Band, Earth, Wind and Fire. I like to work that kind of stuff in and really enjoy playing it.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  5. I felt so inspired by them. They both have a giant catalog of great songs. . . . They showed you could make a living out of playing the piano.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  6. Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. I do an impersonation. It's not a cheesy one. People who are eating dinner will put down their fork and come running into the bar to see who's singing. It's a signature of mine.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  7. I play to the crowd, and try to guess where it's at. If I hit a nerve, I'll stay there. People love the Sinatra stuff. I get requests for Billy Joel and Elton John all the time.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  8. Billy, you've paid my rent the last 20 years.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  9. The Internet has been good ... I can look up music real quick and display the lyrics in front of me if I need them.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago
  10. An average tip day is about $50 or $75. A good tip day is $150. A great one is when they're giving you $100 for each song. I had one guy who wanted to hear Kansas City and gave me $100. Five times I played it, and five times he gave me $100.
    SOURCE: TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times 1 month ago

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