That was totally awesome and unique. You never cease to amaze me. Keep it up!

This is absolutely delightful! Aside from the unfortunate flashbacks to an unfortunate high school production of Oliver(!). I think Mandy was my favorite.

This is possibly the coolest thing I have seen. Ever.

Regular series of this, please!?

That was awesome in so many ways. Bravo!

Adam, if there were a virtual tip jar, I would be so stuffing it right now with dollar bills! ;-)

I have to say this impresses me far more than any of your culinary accomplishments. I guess because I know how hard it is to sit down and play off the top of your head without any sheet music or chord symbols and I know many successful professional musicians who can’t do what you just did (don’t think I can say that about chefs though and your cooking). Are you sure you’re in the right field?

I especially enjoyed the grin at 2:05? 2:06? Gold! I went to a restaurant once where we actually had to sit at this weird bar built around the piano and the guy playing the piano would talk to us. I made a request for something classical and he said he only knew show tunes :( Still a nice guy though.

oh god, joanna newsom! i am in awe.

adam!!!! i love you.

This is simply awesome!!! I’m eating this with my freshly baked cinnamon rolls :) Loooove the Karma Police.

You are so good! This was terrific to watch.

*squees*

Oh, Adam, you made my night after a long, hard day. That rendition of Bridges and Balloons was beautiful. Even Mandy was pretty, despite my instinctual aversion to Barry Manilow :p

Thank you so much – and I hope this becomes a regular thing.

Good god, man, you are talented! I am also on the “make it a regular thing” bandwagon.

Love it! You’re the coolest, thanks for the breakfast entertainment!

I have to agree with Craig’s comment above. I am a semi-professional musician, and being able to play off the top of my head like that has always been difficult for me. So, I am impressed with your musical talent (no worries about the botched gliss in “Misty”- heh)– your segues into each song worked pretty well. Bravo to you for coming up with such a creative and interactive idea!

If Herb, by some chance gets stuck back in the “instiutional”, you could be an excellent substitute piano player for Kiki!

I am super impressed! I used to play piano as a child but never excelled to such a level! Great job…and I definitely wouldn’t mind if you made this into a series :)

Thanks, Adam!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks, Adam!

What a treat!

Adam,

You are AMAZING! That was, by far, my most favourite thing I’ve seen on your website!

I’m curious about how long it takes you to learn those songs… and if it’s all just learning by ear?

Amazingly impressed!

Hooray for the multi-dimensional!

Holy wow, that was awesome!

That was *classic*. You come up with some of the *funniest* stuff for your blog… great job!

You just had to do it didn’t you, Adam — I’ve been a long time reader of your blog (like your work on SEats, too) but I’ve never felt compelled to comment — but with this, I can no longer resist…

Amazing!

You are possibly the most awesome person alive. Just thought you should know. Still waiting for a meetup in Houston! I’ve even got a keyboard waiting when you arrive.

Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to heart you anymore…

Sometime you need a blog post about 10 things Adam CAN’T do, ’cause, dude, you amaze me. :)

Pretty neat! Yeah, weekly would be nice! Very unique idea! You’re right… what other blogger does that?! I sure couldn’t, people would cringe at my clashing chords. :)

Encore encore!!

Wonderful! Sure put me in a good mood after a really crappy day!

Hope you can do it again sometime.

Oh my! I’m a frequent visitor, rare poster, but I had to comment on this. As an Australian exchange student who has been studying in the US for almost a year now, I couldn’t believe my ears (and eyes!) when Land Down Under came up. Add to that the fact that my clarinet choir played Misty for years (well, we weren’t sitting there with our instruments for years. You know what I mean), and that I’m a piano player myself who hasn’t touched any keys in a year, and this was just a great big whopping hit of nostalgia. Thank you!

You are so amazingly talented! That may just be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. You are a talented man!!! Maybe something Latin for the next one?

For some reason, I was waiting on the Charlie Brown intro…I guess it was the keyboard. If you do this again, can that be your first new request? The Charlie Brown intro. (I don’t know the name of the song) It always makes me think of Christmas.

Adam:

PLEASE make this a weekly feature!!!! I almost teared up when you started in with “Mandy”. I suppose partly because I didn’t read the requests so I didn’t know what was coming beforehand, but still, this was so much awesome!

Jules

House of Jules

Amazing! That was fun.

Wow this is pretty awesome.

[enthusiastic applause]

That was f*cking AWESOME!!! I’m a sucker for medleys and I have to say that the segue from Sound and Vision into Eye of The Tiger was totally unexpected, silky smooth and laugh-out-loud hilarious!

You play the hell out of a piano! I took lessons forever but simply lacked the natural talent for it.

You are one talented dude!

I’d like to put in a request for the official reintroduction of the Thursday Night Dinner Song. C’mon… we all like your music. Pretty pretty please?

My 6 month old twin nephews asked me to put in a request (although a bit untimely) for Donna Summer’s She Works Hard For The Money. It helps them get the burps out after a big bottle. Think you could include that in your next medley?

Adam you are a genius! This was so much fun to watch!

That was insanely charming. Well done.

ok, so you pretty much ROCK.

that was great!

awesome. and on the next one, can you move the camera so we can see your facial expressions? there are parts where it looks like you’re totally about to bust up laughing.

What a creative, fun thing to do! I’m a professional musician (classical though), and I really enjoyed your renditions of these. More Ben Folds next time!