This video...I don't know, man, it bugs me. Not the transcription, that's obviously great, but the actual video. Here you have a man genuinely giving his all to this piece, legitimately playing with everything he's got...for a stupid instructional video infomercial. For piano lessons. That he himself has certainly never seen. And yet, for this dumb advertisement for this probable scam (most instructional tapes were just scams of varying degrees cashing in on the VHS hype), he plays with every ounce of skill he has to give. His reward? The polite applause of one man (not out of awe, but out of... obligation, I suppose), a "bravo, Bobby" that sounds as uninterested and awkward as I assume Scott and his piano lessons are, and almost certainly far less money than that performance deserved. And despite all of this, despite definitely understanding that all of this effort will be functionally wasted, Bobby Floyd does not compromise. He delivers a wonderful, technical, emotional rendition to an audience of one Scott and one unseeing eye, for no greater reason than his own dignity. And I'm not sure what to take away from that.
