One Lady, One Piano, One Deep Purple Classic
Well this is an excellent way to start the day and to close out Yesvember. Award-winning classical pianist Vika Yermolyeva and her solo piano take on Deep Purple's classic rhythm and blues rocker, "Lazy" in extremely admirable fashion. After you watch Vika's performance, come inside to check out the original, especially if it's never penetrated your ears before and to learn about Vika's other unique performances.
Since "Lazy" is based primarily around Jon Lord's keyboard riffs, this seems like a natural for a pianist to cover. But as you will hear after watching both the cover and the original, Vika is holding down all five musician's spots (including Ian Gillan's vocal lines) in her performance.
This was my first introduction to Vika Yermolyev, and I am glad I found out about her, because after listening to "Lazy" and perusing her website, it seems she makes a thing of doing classical piano spins on popular rock songs, including covers of Queen, Coldplay, Motörhead and Nine Inch Nails. Her cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" is particularly stunning as well. If you weren't familiar with the song, you might think its an aggressive piano piece, not a cover of Black Sabbath's anti-war anthem. Two horns, way up, Vika! \m/ \m/
Source: The Highway Star
Since "Lazy" is based primarily around Jon Lord's keyboard riffs, this seems like a natural for a pianist to cover. But as you will hear after watching both the cover and the original, Vika is holding down all five musician's spots (including Ian Gillan's vocal lines) in her performance.
This was my first introduction to Vika Yermolyev, and I am glad I found out about her, because after listening to "Lazy" and perusing her website, it seems she makes a thing of doing classical piano spins on popular rock songs, including covers of Queen, Coldplay, Motörhead and Nine Inch Nails. Her cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" is particularly stunning as well. If you weren't familiar with the song, you might think its an aggressive piano piece, not a cover of Black Sabbath's anti-war anthem. Two horns, way up, Vika! \m/ \m/
Source: The Highway Star
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