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November 10, 2006 |
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Piano Man
FOUND by Stan Merrell
in Gambier, Ohio
I found this photo in the late 70s. It was in a box of papers that was being pitched out (we were cleaning up a practice space at Kenyon College). I've always wondered what character the Piano Guy was playing.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Is that Bill Evans? :)
I love how the woman in the back with the darker hair is so obviously the third wheel.
I'll tell you what he's playing: He's playing those two lovely ladies. That guy is one stone cold pimp.
it appears Kenyon was just as strange in the seventies as it is now! (and if that picture was taken here, i bet i've played on that piano)
Hilarious. Looks like the boy is trying to be cool and plink the piano key while the girls are talking to him. The girl on the right looks like Scarlett Johansson!
Could be...
found in the 70s, eh? from the way the people are dressed, it looks like it was shot in the 50s.
Looks like Truman Capote, or at least Phillip Seymour Hoffman's version of him.
It's a play. That makes it harder to tell when it was actually taken. The black-n-white format suggests that it was earlier than the 70s, but the picture is remarkably clear to be that old. I'd love to know what show it is!
"Sorry ladies, this is the only note I know how to play."
It might actually be a photo from the 50's. I have some photos of me as a child from the 50's and they are in better shape than ones taken in the 70's and 80's......the guy even has an authentic flat top haircut, and is wearing white socks with his suit. The "costumes" look really authentic, love the glasses on the guy.
Actually, the woman in the black coat looks an awful lot like Queen Elizabeth in her younger days.
Whoever the woman in the black coat looks like, she also appears to be looking like someone who doesn't buy this guys line o'bull...
He's playing an "F". The pretense is that this is some kind of ear-training exercise. The woman in the back is singing back "F". The woman in front refuses to sing anything. She's hip to the piano man's Svengali ways. The sexual tension is almost unbearable. It's a watershed moment for these two. Forty minutes from now they will either be in bed together or one of them will be dead.
What a stud.
I'm pretty sure that's Tom Lehrer. He's too highbrow for those two.
I LOVE all the comments!
I am 100% certain (yes, 100%!) that this is the '50s and not a later play about the '50s. You can just tell (plus I've looked at a lot of period photos for my job.) As well as people can do dressing for a certain period, I've never seen it look 100% right. Don't know why.
Actually, it could be a play in the '50s and set in the then-present time. The vertical line behind the painting looks like it could be set walls put together, and the general sparseness...
What struck me at first was the strange body position of the guy. It's very hard to read.
A fascinating photo!!
this dude, a svengali? hehehehehehe. "i tinkle the ivories, uh, Tickle the ivories..."
ohhhhh... you guys already figured out it was a play... doh!
He looks like my Dad did in the 50's, and like my Dad, he's not reading the music. Chicks hate guys who can read.
Yeah, I met a guy JUST LIKE THAT when I was at Kenyon. I think he was talking about Sartre, in a vague sort of way. And that twinkle in his eye? He's going to take those ladies down to the Peeps lounge and, well, you know.
Love the comments!!
The woman in the back has given up on the pimp with the piano. If this was a play, she's flirting with someone backstage. If not, she's making conversation with the lamp.
Bill Evans indeed, hee hee hee!
Kenyon is STILL like this.
Love, love, love.
I think this is one of the coolest FOUND photos ever!
$20 says it's a stage production of Jane Austen's "Emma".
Wow,My mom went to Kenyon!But, in the seventies,not the fifties.
What a session that was! From left: Suggs before his Madness days, Mireille Mathieu and Ingrid Bergman.
Night of the Living Dead Piano Man.
So was this photo torn in two diagonally and then scotch taped together? is that what I'm seeing there?
Companion photo to this one, posted today:
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/11852
Twas indeed torn and repaired...