Star Wars, The X-Files, more... (Organ stop pizza, mesa AZ)

[danielmkubacki]

Yes Star Trek!

[lcextra]

I can't count how many times I've heard all these themes played here but they were fantastic every time. Lew and Charlie definitely know how to put on a good show!

[danarw81]

There was a place like this in Washington I went to as a kid it was called Pizza & Pipes

[ferretboy1187]

I get to play a 4/28 wurlitzer..... And i thought that one was impressive.

[fujitsulifebooke342]

1 person hasn't watched star wars!

[MsAutobodyman]

there used to be a movie screen in one pizza place i went to not here though

[motorbreathblake]

wowzer , whats the average wage for the remaining that are talented enough?

[mfuji02]

@motorbreathblake used to be tips jar & a free pizza back in the day. :/

[Nicoleisous]

OMG I love this place. I want to die here.lol

[MrSidMan]

I think my brother requested this one! haha Organ Stop Pizza, about the only best thing in Metro Phoenix area. But in Mesa. You don't see all the doo-hickular-thinga-ma-bobs that are a musically part of that organ. I search for organstop pizza, and I think this is the only one out there folks... Anyone know of any similar place????? great place to see a true organ setup! amazing!

[TheBaritoneCrooner]

I've heard better Star Wars on the TO but the X-Files and Star Trek themes were just stunning! Praise to the Organ Stop Wurlitzer and It's staff. There is nothing that organ can't play. Except maybe rap or death metal!

[ferretboy1187]

@TheBaritoneCrooner You might be suprised,ive heard rap done on them, and metal actually fits quite nicely into the tonal range of them

[ProfRikk]

FIVE

BIG

STARS

[TheBigDaddy51]

the Paramount Theater in Seattle has one....as does the Orpheum Thearter in dowsntown Los Angeles

[weylin6]

Wow those people near to learn some respect and shut there mouths when someone is performing.

Too bad the quality of the vid is so bad D:

[johnmadsenjohn]

This organ is in the middle of a two-story dining room at the Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa AZ. They play every 30 minutes or so as people are coming and going and eating pizza. It is a really fun place.

[calarch78]

It's not a concert performance, weylin6. It's in a crowded dining room at a pizza parlor -- the atmosphere is very festive, with families sitting and eating, enjoying each other's company and listening to the music. Frequently the dinners will sing along with songs that have well-known lyrics. People that go here regularly have great respect for the organist, but are under no obligation to listen quietly. It was never the owner's intent that they should do so.

[Pricher1991]

Great. Much better than the other Star Wars Wurlitzer performance...

[peterlimks]

We have starwar, X-file, star trek, theme from ET & back to starwar again. Great music.

[doomofkvicksud]

That's... *speechless*.. Thumbs up for that!

[BayAreaBiker2001]

An instrument from the 1910's or 1920's playing music from the 1960's, 1970's, or 1980's? I'm surprised it worked as well as it did.

The Star Trek theme sounded a lot like the original.

[crixxxxxxxxx]

The Star Wars theme is from a musical style that began in the the 1800's - The romantic era. Star Wars brought the old romantic orchestral theme back to the movies.

[DakotaWRS3]

The medley consists of (in order):

Main theme from Star Wars

Theme from X-Files

Theme from Star Trek (TOS)

A Star Wars main theme riff

A few bars from the primary musical cue from Close Encounters Of the Third Kind.

[nokia628000]

the people in the background have to shut up!

[hammyhog]

an organ is a restraunt was probably the idea of somebody was either a bit of a wacko or a genius. Bloody marvellous. Where is this place i got to go there!

[XiathFoxote]

it is in Mesa Arizona USA. The video does it no justice. I am lucky enough to live like 15 minutes from this place. It is amazing!

[BayAreaBiker2001]

How about an organ in a department store? That's the Wanamaker in Philadelphia.

[fordman15088]

the third song is star trek

[Gooberandco]

We used to have on in INdianpolis

[obscureashell]

That's at a restaurant?  Really random but neat. Where is it?

[LovesJeanValjean]

I use to go there all the time, I love that place. Now I live 2,000 miles away from there, sigh. Homesick.

[Blitz350]

Where is this place?

[junior09252007]

Mesa Arizona.

[silentblackhat]

lol who the f*** puts an organ in a pizza place? A genius thats who! I want to go there

[johncas1]

Thid place was it an old movie thearter converted to a restraunt or was the organ moved from anothber cinema

[tempetiger]

You just have to be there to enjoy the absolute power of this instrument! You should hear Lew when he plays Chattanooga Choo-Choo. At the beginning, he uses the low C on the 32' Diaphone. It will literally vibrate the building!

[FourFootFagott]

Organs make for some good and scary music!

[stvandy1]

pizza wasn't the greatest, but the organ was.

[mrsgiff]

Always good to hear the Mighty OSP Organ... and as for the kids -- yeah, it's noisy. But if you go later in the evening, most of the rugrats have left, and the organ just seems to get louder. A good thing in my book! :-)

Thanks for posting.

[playa2]

1: Star Wars

2: The X-Files

3: Star Trek: OS

4: Star Trek: TNG

5: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[veldmaat]

actually, the 4th theme is ajazzed up version of Star Wars!!!

[paranormaalutrecht]

I thought it was buck rogers? This tune..

[acchos]

Star trek is another theme and the last bit is from close encounters of the third kind.

[paranormaalutrecht]

dat does not work. Kids have to learn to be quiet... and listen.... it has no respect to the food, God or the artist. sorry. We always learnt not to shout when we where eating, and behave ourselfs...

[acchos]

Well at least the kids have came to the place and are being introduced to the theatre organ, wich is a dying breed of instrument, places like this are the organs future.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

The Stanford Theater is one of the few theaters remaining with an organ. It opened in the 1920's and still in business. The organ is still in use.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

The kids are too young to remember this music, from the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. The theater organ pretty much died out in the 1930's, when movies started getting recorded soundtracks. The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto is one of the few remaining theaters to have an organ.

[bmhall100]

@BayAreaBiker2001 Theatre organ didnt die out in the 1930s, depending on where you come from. Here in the UK, it didnt properly die out till the 60s, mainly through the picture that the media painted of it.

[sayspepe]

yes exactly

children today, have to learn not to shout through these types of concerts and I was brought up to be polite either when you're listening and/or eating. To me, the theater organ is the god of all instruments, and only gods of the organs can play like this.

[paranormaalutrecht]

same problem: all these children why????? What is the all these screaming?

[captainphlaxis]

Family restaurant... Kids, you get the idea. It's a pizza place, not a suit and tie sit down restaurant ;) (And I'm glad it's that way)