so there’s a kick to it. The dance
floor is out of their mind and then
one piano player picks up the guitar and he sounds like B.B. King!
We do a mixture of Blind Faith,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Steely Dan, Stevie
Wonder. We even do some Jimmy Buffet and Bob Marley. It’s like
a power rock trio but with pianos.
“With the dueling piano shows
what we kind of do is look at each
other and say let’s do some ragtime. We’ll start with that or some
blues stride. And we trade off so-
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los until the point where you can’t
sizzle any more, then we end and
head into a vocal. It’s an actual
duel, but one we only do a couple
of times a night for 12-15 minutes... but it gets intense.”
“To me, the Shore has become a
guitar haven, it’s all you see,” said
Seldin. “So, I think it’s refreshing. Dueling pianos is the idea of
something other than guitars and
drums and that really excites them
a lot.”
While Seldin is known through-
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