Richard Feynman Plays the Bongos

[mvasx]

What do you care what 9 people think?

[lost4468yt]

orange juice.

[DoctorNociceptor]

Go Richard, go Richard....

[jmcmma9]

Amazing!



[PrometheusRumiHuxley]

Thank you very much for uploading!

[scuzzulus]

hahaha the kid is like stoooopppppp but he just goes faster...

[StellaRondo68]

I love the kid noises in the background.

[crusher8576]

why is he so pro at everything

[rainstormz28]

The only scientist that was cool

[MaximPodolsky]

@rainstormz28 Well that's probably an impression people get because Feynman was just about the only scientist of such a magnitude to have been filmed so many times. Then again one could argue that he was filmed precisely because he was so cool :)

[rainstormz28]

What an amazing man, Feynman can really make those bongos talk, I tried the bongos once and all they said was "HELP"......and I am surely not joking....

[JediKenobix]

8 people are surely joking.

[kiemul136]

YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS­SSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[peterindigital]

rest in peace feynman i miss you even i don't know you personally

[volound]

richard feynman is a pretty cool guy. eh smokes bongos and doesnt afraid of anything.

[pretzelberg]

And who says science genuises can't tie their shoelaces? Fantastic!

[jarradcoombsroxxors]

What type of drums is he playing here? Because I'm led to believe that he played the Conga drums, rather than the Bongo drums? 

I need this information for my Christmas present everybody!

[artregeous]

at manhattan project you tube video speech he tells how excited he was playing bongo gettin drunk to celebrate the success of

the atomic bomb.i bet that was his best performance

[asopaso07]

I just fucked my wrist up trying to play this on the bongo drum.

I have a single so there isnt much space to play like him ...

[Ubiquitial1]

Why are all the awesome ppl dead?

[Webfra14]

@Ubiquitial1

To make place for all the awesome ppl that are born every day.

[tripware]

black man in a white man's body, dude's got rythmn

[nailenmot]

Wonderful, Dick !!!

[ebutu11]

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii jasonnnnn

[Navidsinghrao]

he should have launched a music carrer and been a nobel prize winning physicist

[ThePhotonicsGuy]

@Navidsinghrao: he did actually - he composed and performed music for the ballet.

[ThePhotonicsGuy]

@Navidsinghrao : he did actually - he composed and performed music for the ballet.

[albedoshader]

@Navidsinghrao: Yeah, Like Buckaroo Banzai and his band "The Hong Kong Cavaliers" :)

[ultimatesonic88]

I recommend HIS book Surely "You're joking mister feynman" if you like him as much as me, but it can be hard to find, this guy was fixing radios by thinking!

[vitr1ol]

I just uploaded a video of me playing, I'd appreciate feedback.

[indgiu]

now THIS is more like it, that orange juice clip ain't very good, but this is

[carbondecay]

cool

[AlbertX78]

Greatest physist.

[zafiroshin]

I love him!

[klgamit]

can someone make out what are the few words he's singing ? :)

[MrBluesy91]

i could see a bit of john bonham influence here!!

[RetardRage99]

man this vid gave me the image of richard feynman in a grass skirt and coconut halves on his chest and it's weirding me out

[bjnartowt]

Richard Feynman would probably approve!

[LeMegasandwich]

Feynman is my favourite human :)

[frohman101]

@LeMegasandwich Yes, Feynman is awesome, but please don't forget our friend Carl Sagan :)

[Androly]

@LeMegasandwich

I feel ya man. He really was an interesting individual. If not my favorite, he's surely up there!

[st3real]

grande feynman

[Trajedya84]

good hand speed dick.

[Arteeest]

Nice! Truly a man of many talents.

[smudge6699]

@Arteeest No he's a talented man who expresses it in many ways, there's a difference.

[monroetsd]

He's pretty good, but his talent is disproportionate to how much he probably practiced. I think it's sweet. At least he's having fun. He's a genius on so many other levels, you have to cut him some slack somewhere!

[mikeroephonics]

@Zubinen Try telling that to Pat Metheny...lol

[GV14982]

I must say, he is a genius, just not a musician...

[bbsonjohn]

'not just' a musician, right?

[DrBPhD]

He was also doing theoretical physics which got him the Nobel prize in 1965. More physicists have won a Nobel prize in the past but he is considered as one of the really great physicists of the 20th century. And he was very good at jokes.

[RodrigoMunozCarrasco]

I read about him, he was quite the man, doing work in an area that fascinates me although I understand very little of, I'm just a musician, I guess this clip would have been more suitable in a more private area where the people who new him can remember his lighter funny and playful side, YouTube is what it is

[veryrice]

Wouldn't you say that YouTube is there FOR people to express the more personal and private sides of their lives?

[whateva1983]

you would say, as a musician, that he is not a good bongo player?

[whateva1983]

surely you are joking mr feynman!!!

[methodplusmind]

You are right good input. The professors bongo playing is absurd. Even crazy the more i think about it.

[Coutorlz]

carnaval

[Agallochness]

Win.

[0FauxPa0]

Wicked :) Very talented.

[Empathisantin57]

WHOW!!

[Ehelon]

Awesome. Feynman rocks :D

[ramobu]

What a brilliant man..

[Br1an37]

Fantastic

Was there no limit to this man's talents A total genius. He is sadly missed :-(

[BirdFantastic]

I love this man

[soccom8341576]

I don't think you got enough frame rates on that camera to capture his genius!

[helpadelpa]

All I can say is: King of the bongos

[spamespame]

What a fresh mind! He's full with sense of humour and scientific abilities at the same time; one of the greatest geniuses.

[Thumbface]

I didnt know who this guy was b4 seeing this,but after reading the comments i will be searching for his work.

[SaintKnyte]

Kaku plays piano. Wish someone would post him playing.

[ChristopherJSykes]

This clip was recorded in the 1960's. The 'Orange Juice' clip was recorded in 1987. It's called 'Richard Feynman Playing Bongos' on YouTube and you can get to it by clicking on the Video Response thumbnail above...

I agree it's a little confusing...

[DLPBurke]

excellent play there by a great man

[DLPBurke]

appatently his last words were "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring"

[alexisbel]

he had two diffrent forms of cancer

[DLPBurke]

didn't know that, thanks!

[prashantparikh]

he's referring to another video, the orange juice one, which was recorded before he died.. not this one

[greenleaf81]

Yeah I have seen that video as well. I thought he was confused but he is not.

Thanks though. Time to learn some bongos :)

[sent2null]

If he was as good in physics as he played those bongos, no wonder he won a Nobel Prize for is work in QED.

[quantumOflux]

A gold record by it's own right.

[dannyboy12357]

too bad einstein couldn't join with his violin

[omnipotentfish]

yeah. and steven hawking could do the singing

[Gilgamesh149]

HAHAHAHAHAHAA!!

[mamatalu]

@omnipotentfish Prof. Stephen Hawking did give his voice in the song "Keep Talking" of Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.

[whiteycab]

cool

[SPRMSSVBLCKFOTSEN]

dream band joey santiago and jimi hendrix on dualing guitars dave grohl on drums marvin gaye singing mani on bass richard feynmann on percussion, everyone should buy the layman guide to qed the beauty lies in the fact that the system is ridiculously simple. if apples and pears were used they could teach it in first schools,im not exagerating niether

[tarvuz]

"They" have no idea what they are talking about.

[cjcdrums]

Richard Feynman was a genius! But saying his bongo playing was better than his physics is ridiculous.

Playing 11 against 10 simultaneously is really not hard to play if you know the method to to work out polyrhythms.

But that doesn't take anything away from the man or his bongo playing which I think sounds great!

[deviantdopefiend]

is this video not speeded up?

[ashish19]

Now that is awesome.. who says physicists dont have fun.. Hats off to the amazing fellow...

[lordoftheflown]

Gosh that beat was infectious...if he wasn't a physicist guaranteed he would have joined a band as a drummer.

[futbolusa]

Brilliant!

[MJMHolland]

Very nice!!!

[quantiseduniverse]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing.

According to the book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out", it is claimed that Feynman can beat 10 times with his right hand and 11 times with his left hand SIMULTANEOUSLY! And it is said that this is more difficult than quantum electrodynamics!

[zurd073]

muy bueno

[zurd073]

muy bueno

[chaoslynn]

What a brilliant man!

[Tarkahamra]

Can't a genius goof around with his favorite instrument? I liked his goofing around hehehe :D... thanks for the postings.. both of them ... one more question since i can't get a straight answer from anywhere.. where can i buy the documentaries from? DVD or VHS don't care as long as i get them ! They would be a wonderful collection and i think that everyone should have them especially the one "The pleasure of finding things out".. Its an eye opening documentary about many facets of life.

[araldite]

i disagree, i am down with the orange juice sessions

i consider it the b-side to his work on superfluidity

the sort of thing you'd find on a rare demos and freestyles compilation

"6 early pieces" or something like that

[SanjMetro]

You don't give up, do you? Heh heh...

[pablompa]

And thank you very much for this clip. I am the one who posted the orange juice one, for which I apologize, as I didn't know who to ask for permission.

[ChristopherJSykes]

No apology needed! It's great you put it there for people to see...

[pablompa]

Wonderful

[hamstermanvideo]

I'm off to buy some bongos.

[dreamerri]

Wait for me! (Just kidding) I plan on getting some bongos because of RF, although I know I will never even get near his level of expertise.