Glenn Tilbrook/Squeeze and the iPad solo

Floyd Montana

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/7894171/Squeeze-perform-using-iPad-as-keyboard.html

Squeeze are so enamoured with the new gadget that they abandoned one of their conventional instruments on a live TV gig.

Appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in the US, keyboard player Stephen Large played an entire keyboard solo on his iPad.

Large played the real-life keyboard with one hand while keeping his other hand on the new technology throughout the performance, keeping the enthusiastic audience in suspense until his iPad solo in the third minute of their song Pulling Mussels (From the Shell).

They are so happy with the solo that they are intending to perform an entire song only using iPads by the end of their tour.

The band, which originally formed in 1974 but reformed in 2007, appeared on the show as part of a tour of America, including a concert in New York last night.

Music websites are crowded with discussion of the iPad, which can also mimick the sound of the piano, trombone and organ, as well as playing sampled voices.

The band used the Pianist app, produced by MooCowMusic, to replicate the keyboard sound.

D_F_T

Brilliant, I've seen them so many times over the years starting at Thames Poly in Woolwich and I'm going to see them again on Dec 6th at Southampton Guildhall

DA9

I will never forget the free Charity gig by Glen Tilbrook in the Cons club a couple of years back, an absolutely awesome afternoon.

falconwood_1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJf_0xuMFw&feature=youtube_gdata

Hope they get Apple's attention..

BrentfordAddick

Hope they get some of Apple's money...