Good stuff!A week or so ago, I ran into some YouTube stuff by a guy named Tom Coster.

Best I've ever heard on an arranger. He's posted lots of stuff, including a great version of Europa.


Check it out. Donny's right. It really is the player, not the machine/equipment.


Russ

So...you take a top level concert pianist...and have them play a cheap tinny digital piano and it will sound awesome?

Yes, it will sound a lot better than a poor player...but...It takes both skill and a great instrument IMHO.

Lee S.

Here is Europa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oRy90Yacg&feature=related

Eric thanks for the link..real nice stuff !!

Europa always puts me on a Hammock on the beach in a small beach Front town near my families summer home in Italy..

dnj,

Hadn't seen Tom Coster outside Santana - nice and greazy, and funkier than I thought.

Thanks for the link.

Coster is great, but I had found a link where a young man was playing Europa on a Tyros 4 in arranger mode. The title was something like Europa by Santana and Tom Coster. I thought the player was a Coster, but he was a much younger guy...very good, though.

I'll look for that link in a while.


R.

I'm just not sure about some of the whole thought process behind demos like this. A very average or below average player goes to something like this, thinks 'Wow! I GOTS to have one of these...' and buys it. Takes it home, and immediately sounds like poo.

But then, he goes, in a couple of years, to the NEXT presentation, and repeats the whole mistake! Over and over... And probably sounds no better on his latest purchase than he did on his first. But he keeps buying 'em!

God bless the rich! These things would never get made if the manufacturers had to rely on people that CAN play!

Here is the Link to the other Tom Coster playing Europa on the Tyros3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQeyWPoXv3c