My favorite is the Van Halen one where it goes into a brief bit of "Iron Man"--dudes, I was on the floor....dying!
― JN$OT, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe one of you geniuses can explain it better
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i guess the joke is that theyre dudes who dont normally play lengthy abstract guitar solos but dude made it look like they do
the opposite of this
― chaki, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
the subjects of these videos are generally regarded as great guitarists. but the music is...not that good!
― gff, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Favorite moments:
Keyboard player in Clapton vid @ 0:38 Percussion dude in Santana vid @ 0:26 saying something into the mic Fuck it, the whole Santana vid
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
The first of these I saw made me gently smile once. If I don't find them funny more than once does that mean I have no joy in my heart? They just seem funny like ironic cover versions are funny, i.e. never-to-once and barely.
― caek, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
got it during the slash one
i have such a faint idea of how clapton plays anything except the radio hits that, watching that one first, i was just like "err whats the big deal?"
― Mark Clemente, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
funnier than these videos = picturing aw trying to decipher spinal tap
― deeznuts, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
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do u need to like eric clapton to find this funny?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
NO!!!!
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont get the big joke of sitting through a 5 minute guitar solo video to find out that rock music isnt very interesting to listen to
― and what, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
hhaaahahaha ethan you really don't get these at all
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread makes my heart sing!
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the music here is to rock music what me rapping would be to rap, you dig?
the joke is people playing horrible music.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
J0hn you are killing me
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, the Clapton one somehow seems too good (or at least somewhat more plausible than some of the others).
― JN$OT, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread is making me laugh even harder than the videos. Best ILX!
― Øystein, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
hhaaahahaha ethan you really don't get these at all http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=13247
― Mike Dixn, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Metallica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaqVd0rOjA
― sexyDancer, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
That Darth Vader thing he did with vocal samples from "Coming To America" is mega-fresh, as well.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
They're not actually playing what we are hearing, Ethan! Get it?
― JN$OT, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
But most of these people couldn't handle Passion & Warfare. Blow they fuckin' minds.
― Jordan, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, the passion of Yancey
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
also re these vids: its not so much the "concept" of the videos but the execution. for example: slash's whistling just sounds fucking funny.
― chaki, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I get them. They are not very funny though.
― caek, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna do a me version of "Long Kiss Goodnight" to make a video for E so he can share our joy in this stuff
srsly tho E if you go to that sound opinions thread, scroll down 'til you find the actual video of Steve Vai shredding on his triple-neck. It may not be music you dig, but you'll be able to appreciate his musicianship - the guy gets great tone, he's doing his thing, hits some really beautiful chords...even if you don't like it, you can space out with SV a little. Now scroll up and play the one that says "steve vai shreds." See how the music, from the first second, is really, really terrible? but how the audiene applauds anyway?
I can't even think about these without getting the giggles
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
oh fuck the steve vai one is so amazing, I mean the way he just...stops. for no reason. and then starts up and plays some horrible scramble of notes and then stops again. and then everybody claps. gaaaah
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Tony Levin in the Van Halen one.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
well trying to explain them to slow guys kind of take the funny out. thanks ilm.
― chaki, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
chaki that's a damned lie and you know it, there is nothing that can ever diminish the funny of when the keyboard guy in the santana one starts playing "the final countdown"
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Clapton's initial bend at like 0:04 is beyond classic.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Davey have you watched the Steve Vai one
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes. Oh yes.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Goddamn, Vai's facial expressions during those fretboard slides might be the best thing in the history of A/V.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ everything
― roxymuzak, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe this is only funny to musicians?
― chaki, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=22DUD5XBx7U
― max, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I was wondering that chaki - I mean, I'm hardly a great musician but I do play and I wonder whether that just attunes your ear so that the second Vai does that opening slide you go 'wait dude's amp sounds like it cost a dollar'
― J0hn D., Monday, 22 October 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Chaki cracks the code
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link
You might have to grow up around the classic rock environment. American mid west preferable
― filthy dylan, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
No wait. The Santana one has to be funny no matter what.
― Davey D, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
this has opened up a whole new world to me.
― Clay, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
these make me laugh like those GIjoe parodies from like five yrs ago
― 69, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
trumpet lady shreds (on star wars)
― Jordan, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
thank you steve vai and carlos santana.
It does feel like musician jokes.
― Jordan, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Not for musicians only by any means. It's funny to me, and I don't play anything at all. Of course, I saw Derek Bailey at Tonic.
― unperson, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
The first one I watched, I couldn't tell if somebody had rerecorded the part or just ran it through some kind of anti-autotuner or maybe it was the actual recovered part from the original gig that had later been overdubbed/tweaked/buried in the mix to sound better. Like one of those Linda Macca backing vocals.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
someone should do a reverse "Jandek Shreds"
― sexyDancer, Monday, 22 October 2007 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if it's an actual 'shreds' video or a 'musicless' music video as the title implies but it's sort of the same concept.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 November 2019 04:24 (four years ago) link
ok I see now by looking at the related videos that the 'musicless music video' is another thing but they live in the same awkward universe as the shreds ones. I'll be right back I will be watching as many as I can.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 November 2019 04:27 (four years ago) link
I feel like this one was shared earlier in here but it makes a ridiculous music video even better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 28 November 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
the ableton 10 tweet died so here's the og video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3UlKCqtZrc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Is this also the thread to share “fails” vids? Prince fails etc
― calstars, Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
xpost I still think that is the funniest thing ever. I lose my shit at the air horn.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 30 November 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
Tamplin wasn't so diplomatic with Sebastian Bach, lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuXQJc2aoRA
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 November 2019 06:24 (four years ago) link
I don't know where else to post this, but 10 years ago on YouTube there was a version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" where the vocal track was about a quarter second behind the beat, and it was hilariously bad, and I can't stop thinking about it today.
― Attached by piercing jewelry (bernard snowy), Thursday, 7 July 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
I heard an anecdote from David Gamson (producer / Scritti Politti member) where he found that the separate tracks in the Pet Sounds box sit together perfectly in Protools. So he pitch shifted some of them so they were just out and made a mixdown. Then, when he next had guests round for dinner, he started a conversation along the lines of "Don't get me wrong, I like the Beach Boys but their tuning could have been better" and played them the mixdown when they asked what the heck he was talking about.
― Supposed Former ILM Lurker (WeWantMiles), Thursday, 7 July 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
must hear.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Thursday, 7 July 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link