Cool Story About Richard Manuel's Piano by Bill Payne

"When I played the piano for the first time, all my questions were answered and then some.
“The piano damn near plays itself!” was my thinking.
Tony Braunagel, a great drummer, producer, and long time friend of Little Feat, and I were talking about that very subject up in San Francisco a few weeks later. I was sitting in with Tony and Johnny Lee, along with Texacali horns Darrell Leonard and Joe Sublett (who played on our record), for a gig with the Blues Brothers.
Tony said, “You can’t play anything on that piano that doesn’t sound good.”
I laughed, telling him I felt the same way. The truth is, it’s a Steinway. This one in particular has the “magic” (a word I tend to use a lot, but I always mean it). A few weeks later I called Johnny Lee and asked him about the history of the instrument, starting with when he first became acquainted with it."
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Good read thanks....

+1 thanks!

I think there was a story in Ian Maclagan's autobiography where he stashed a bunch of coke in that piano and found it years later after he cleaned up?

Very cool story. Thanks for linking it.

Cool story, I enjoy reading stuff like that. The handhake, too much. I gotta remember that!

That's a great story. Some wonderful history. Thanks!