Raggin' Piano Boogie Daily Blog
Click here for the Raggin' Piano Boogie home pageJuly 30, 2025
Las Vegas, NevadaMy piano on a truck work in life becomes more and more un-special as time goes on. When I first began in 1987, music coming from a speaker in the back of a regular truck was almost unheard of. Boom boxes on the ground were still new. That is nothing special now. Homelessness was fairly rare and it certainly was not accepted by most other people. Now it is desensitized. Even back when I was having trouble finding a place to stay in the beginning people would never allow it. As time passed it became more acceptable without any need for personal action to help out. Although piano's have been played in public throughout the ages, they were on rare fun occasions or for short journeys. I was the first to ever create a full time paid career playing the piano in public for twenty years.
Now there are commercial public piano projects everywhere and online people are making beaucoup bucks copying what I started in having musical interactions with strangers. There are many Youtube and Instagram channels of that. Although, I am still special (lol) in having kept myself as the only person to have worked twenty years in a respectable way with no fees, tips or commercial affiliation with a piano on the back of a pickup truck. But soon everything unique about my work will disappear. Iv'e already seen AI images of what I do and what I have created for life. People will think that what they see of my work is fake AI. As I drift away from the internet along with my life I am finding myself left with nothing but who I am in spirit. But that is all there really ever has been, right?