I'm sticking with Tom Baker even though I know it isn't.
The Great Curator. THAT would explain all the time splits!
Sounded like he played more than one song during that set. I'm assuming "heart breaking" was the one with the pronounced tone that caught Dougie's attention?
Yes, I'm quite sure of this. Moreover, the sound editing and camera work seem to suggest only Dougie/Cooper hears this music!
The style and chord progression of both sections bears more than a passing resemblance to"Sycamore Trees," the Badalamenti composition performed by the late Jimmy Scott at the climax of Fire Walk with Me. I think we're seeing "Dougie" experience memories triggered by sensory recollections (Proust?), i.e., olfaction/gustation (pie, coffee aroma, sparkling wine) and audition (music)-- above and beyond vision.
Thus the hallucinations (the appearances of Mike in the Red Room, the sigil that alerts Mr. Jackpots to the winners each combine with the the bent-note reverb-guitar each time Dougie/Cooper hallucinates) are mixed up with vague recollections of material objects (e.g., red shoes, the American flag, police badges, pistols, etc.)
Amazing!
I'm sticking with Tom Baker even though I know it isn't.
What about Danny Baker?
Hmmm, agree it couldn't have been him from last year, but maybe old footage from years ago was used? Still convinced it's Burt - like you say definitely not Angelo despite being credited. Maybe it's Burt's doppleganger 🙂
Old footage using the exact same restaurant set? They'd need a time machine.
Pieter Dom has posted the answer.
BF, spot on with your Proust reference. Though the cherry pie that was Coop's madeleine doesn't seem to have brought the memories of who he is flooding back yet, nor yet the music.
A la recherche du temps perdu (lost time) does seem to be an appropriate theme, not just in what we're watching but for us as the audience too. Even if we aren't expecting to go back to the old Twin Peaks occasionally we suddenly connect through a visual or auditory motif, or just a mood.
I'm not very convinced by the link to the Laura Palmer theme (other than it being Badalamentishly haunting and on the piano), which I think was only heard as non-diegetic (see earlier comments from another poster). I'm also having trouble finding Ravel's Pavane in this, which you mentioned on another thread, but hey - if the sensory echoes work for you then that's entirely in keeping with what's going on here.
Oh and someone somewhere said it couldn't be Badalmenti because this guy obviously wasn't playing the piano. I thought so too. But it turned out he was (just not this piece).
I'm sticking with Tom Baker even though I know it isn't.
What about Danny Baker?
Danny Baker, now there's a name. Met him back when he was a young journo, cutting his teeth with NME. Interviewed my band and gave us a good write up. Years later, I was on his radio show, on a phone in competition. Won myself a Steely Dan CD.
Hmmm, agree it couldn't have been him from last year, but maybe old footage from years ago was used? Still convinced it's Burt - like you say definitely not Angelo despite being credited. Maybe it's Burt's doppleganger 🙂
Old footage using the exact same restaurant set? They'd need a time machine.
Tom Baker. Told you. 😉
I suppose "Heartbreaking" is the one played while the credit list is scrolled.
But just before the first toast, the song resembles a variation of Jeanette's "soy rebelde". Though it looks really weird.
See you!
Hmmm, agree it couldn't have been him from last year, but maybe old footage from years ago was used? Still convinced it's Burt...
But, not seriously, right? It's an actor named Smokey Miles, and he's not even doing much of an attempt to convincingly play the piano. He just sways a bit, his movements not being what they would be if he was actually trying to match the soundtrack. It's another quirky Lynch touch.
Badalamenti wrote and performed the piece, "Heartbreaking," and apparently that made some people assume he was also on camera - even though it's so common for non-musicians to pretend playing instruments on TV. The piece is played twice, first when the first toast is made, and Lady Slot-Addict comes up to the table, and again at the end during the credits.
I would say this is definitely music only Dougie Coop is hearing - hence the large room reverberation added to the sound, unlike the close up sound of the piano when the European, minor key folk-like piece is played.
Fire walk with