In Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, we quiz an artist on their own career to see how much they can remember – and find out if the booze, loud music and/or tour sweeties has knocked the knowledge out of them. This week: pianist and rapper Chilly Gonzales takes the ultimate test! “‘ Room 29 ’, plus ‘Solo Piano..
.’ ‘1’, ‘2’, and ‘3’ equals..
.35.” CORRECT.
‘Solo Piano 1’, ‘Solo Piano 2’, ‘Solo Piano 3’, plus ‘Room 29’, your joint concept album with Jarvis Cocker about Hollywood hotel the Chateau Marmont. “I met Jarvis around 2002 when I opened for Pulp at Cornwall’s Eden Project. I asked him: ‘How do I walk to the stage?’ because I was backstage needing to soundcheck.
He replied deadpan: ‘Well, you put one foot in front of the other!’ That silly interaction led to a friendship where we hung out in Paris every few months for years. We had the first inklings to do something together around 2013, and the album came out in 2017, so it was a slow-motion process. It was a total pleasure, a bit here and there, with some very constructive debate, but we never butted heads in a way that led to any drama.
” “ Shania Twain .” CORRECT. “Who I have also met.
When I first played the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2015, its unofficial godfather, Quincy Jones , was eating his dinner side-stage watching me play. Afterwards, he told me: ‘You’re a bad motherfucker!’ Which I wanted tattooed on my forehead – it’s high praise f.
