Cameron. You are a very good organist. You play with both hands and with both foot together at the same time. You use more register and you play very impressive and your play-style is very intresting for me. You master many pieces and songs and rearrange very famous, popular and really complex pieces and songs. I am a piano and organ player and I find your skills so fascinating. I play piano and organ with many enthusiasm and my musical ability is based on a lot of practise and a little bit of talent, which also contribute to this. You play the organ better than I do. I can play with both hands and with both foot at the same time, but you can play faster and with more coordination with your feet.
I really wanted to say something here. Cameron is without a doubt a genius. Even though I made a living playing “at it” for a number of years I can't begin to fathom just where he has taken his talents. I heard the comment “show off” by someone in this forum. That is so unfair. I would prefer to describe it as demonstrating just how much a musician, people not normally known for physical prowess, can put into a performance. Not to mention the mental and creative ability the man possesses. I am so very happy for him. He has spent years realizing the dream of building an instrument that can take his love of the music he plays to any corner of the globe he wishes. One that does not need to be tuned or learned a day or two or maybe even hours before a performance. One that suits his style, ability and temperament. (I'm sure that wasn't a didgeridoo tab I saw mixed in with the stops, but who cares if it was) All I know is, he as gone to great length and expense to in some way make up for the hundreds of pipe and theater organs that have been lost to the ages. Due to my location, I only get to hear an “Artist” or theater organ on rare occasion and I have to travel hours to make that happen. We should feel indebted to him for that if nothing else. I too miss the “old” Cameron and yearn for the completely melodic and easy to follow melodies and arrangements. He did them impeccably, pouring copious feeling one minute and lighthearted joys the next. He made it look easy… WAIT! Is that it? Where do you go when the nearly impossible to others becomes easy or God forbid mundane to you? When you have taken your skills and even the instrument on which you perform to a new level. I say you stretch and test your abilities. You broaden your horizons. You invest volumes of work to do what? “Please Yourself”? Allow me to say, there’s nothing wrong with pleasing yourself, discovering another level that exists out there or just inside of you. Complacency is the death of invention. “Good enough” never cured a disease or got man off the ground or wrote the next symphony or film score. I am. at best, entertaining. I’m not a good musician at all. I describe what I do as “playing for my own amazement” lol. I am writing this feeling very upset with myself because I too could have, without thinking, agreed with those who put down what we don’t quite understand or particularly care for. In fact, I almost did. Instead I am thinking, how fortunate would I be to spend an afternoon standing alongside this marvelous talent witnessing him discover that new chord or even discord that just "works" where he wants to use it, or realizing that with enough practice you can somehow use your ring finger to play a note a third above your pinky even if you can only make it happen in one score a in the performance. To see that smile appear on his lips, the one that wouldn’t be there if he had chosen to “play it safe”. Writing this, I’ve gained a whole new respect for Cameron. He continues to be the charismatic and vibrant performer he has always been, instilling love of the music all of us here care for in what is sure to be new generations of young people. I’m just more than happy to be along for the ride.
I love Cameron's unique way of rendering organ music; the colours and astounding technique! His ease of performance and sense of communication. He has demolished the typical organist notion (much to the dismay of stuffy purists)! Way to go, Cameron! Thanks.
Well full marks for fireworks and no marks for musicality. He is clearly a genius -- but also schizophrenic? I'll be going to a live concert on April 17, 2018. We'll see.
@@RixTTube Hey..so how was the concert? Sorry I just read your posting😞 Most geniuses have always possessed a few idiosyncrasies, haven't they? The Music Director of TSUMC in Dallas where I was on staff for awhile, was brilliant at improvisations, one was playing the Vidor Toccata on manuals and the theme from the TV show DALLAS on pedals (simultaneously.) Charles R Harris actually remained fairly "normal" with his gifts..but not everyone can;) Doesn't matter..I would endure a few quirks to play like Cameron or Charles.
@@sharonstromley9350 You just reminded me that decades ago I was at a concert where for the encore the organist (forget his name) did Widor's Toccata to the melody for an old TV commercial for Alka-Seltzer ant-acid tablets - "Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is", if you recall that old jingle. It was hilarious.
@@ckott99 Hi, Scott! I am familiar..that would've been Hector Oliver's who transgendered to Wendy Carlos..absolutely brilliant and pioneered work with the Moeg Synthesizer..I think he/she had a recording "The Well Tempered Synthesizer " but don't know if recorded as Hector Olivera or Wendy Carlos. Either way, a m a z i n g! Thanks for reminding me 'cause that was a long time ago!
I really like Gordon Lightfoot's music, especially this tune. I just love the way you reinvented the tune as a wild, jazzy jingle like that! That was great!
No denying this guy has talents, but, well....it's certainly a one-of-a-kind arrangement of this tune, but for now, I'll hold onto my Gordon Lightfoot version. :)
Right, so we have a sort of electronic organ meeting a Yamaha Electone which also meets a Wurlitzer... basically if this were food it could be a sort of spaghetti alla bolognese with strawberry ice cream and barbecue sauce. Lovely! Bon appetit!
The more I listen, the more I realize how brilliant this instument is. It is the only one capable of giving Cameron what his (as I call it) alternate reality calls for. From the full throated growl/roar of something waay beyond a 32' bourdon to the glistening fairy dust sparkles of a glockenspiel on acid, Cameron's pipe organ is like Dr. Frankenstein yelling, "It's alive! Ir's alive!" The instrument Cameron has birthed i s a beast but thankfully no one will want to burn his creation down...except perhaps some crazed kapellmeister whose Sheep May Safely Graze will never be the same when he hears Cameron play it:) I feel sorry for Cameron in a way though. The instrument must have ruined him for playing other instruments who cannot compete with the Allen, Baldwin, a pinch of Wurlitzer, a dash of Conn, a hint of Hammond, and something of the pipe organ's every rank and registration e v e r created..mercy!
He's on to something with that piece. I can tell it would sound lovely if played by an orchestra or at least multiple players, to make more even and relaxed. Not bad writing at all.
My mind is in a whirl..not q u i t e blown...but close. Sometimes I think it's "a hot mess" as one described Cameron's music and then out of nowhere (well that's not quite true) out of Cameron's alternate reality comes floating something beautiful and I am done in, captivated by his creativity. Would love to hear Lola Astanova and Cameron do duelling piano and organ. OMG! Have you heard her play her version of Rihanna? Same thing..alternate reality. .
Sorry, but that's a hot mess. It's all over the place and almost nonsensical. What's the point of making melancholy a whimsical farce? Clearly the guy is talented but his direction is really misguided.
