the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

have you heard stevie's spanking? its funny.

true story about a famous old mothers groupie names 'laurel'

His name is Stevie Vai,
And he's a crazy guy
Last November, I recall,
He needed a spanking

He decided then
A female specimen
Would be exciting for a night
To give him a spanking

Laurel was her name
She came to Notre Dame
He told me just the other night
He oughta be thanking
Her for the spanking

She was large and soft
And she beat him off
Made him drool upon his dork
And gave it a wanking
After the spanking

Hair brush!
Oh! What a hair brush!

Then did she exclaim:
"There's another game
That we can play with this device,
And then a banana!"

It was slightly green
Vapors in between
Rising up to fill the room
And COOK the banana

Later in the dawn,
Laurel carried on
Got right up and dressed herself and
Ate the banana

I prefer stun guitar to stunt guitar.

^^^ YES. E Bloom ftw!!!

Also, xpost nickalicious, I think the answer to yr request is the very recent footage of the reunited Van Halen trying to play "Jump" along with a malfunctioning pre-recorded synth track. Someone link it, it's amazing.

Speakin' of Vai - you dudes remember when he lost a guitar duel with...wait for it...Ralph Macchio in Crossroads? Well, here 'tis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb2dUtTpuU

that's on ship arrive too late to save a drowning witch, right? i can remember exactly how the tune goes, anyway.

"haiirrr bruuuuushh... oh what a haaaaaiiirrr bruuussshhhh...."

these videos make me love life

Øystein already linked to that Van Halen fiasco on this very thread:

OK, I guess it might be bad form to post this here, but it so brought this wonderful thread to mind:
http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/

-- Øystein, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

van failin'

Only pitch will tell if we can stand the test of pitch.

Speakin' of Vai - you dudes remember when he lost a guitar duel with...wait for it...Ralph Macchio in Crossroads? Well, here 'tis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb2dUtTpuU

-- JN$OT, Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:44 PM

lol I was gonna link to that

I taped it off my television when I was 7.

Found this while searching for the Sanatana shredding:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZyB9i5cRB4

I taped it off my television when I was 7.

I picked up a copy at FYE when I was like 16 and resold it for 60 bucks later :D

Someone needs to overdub that Derek Bailey footage with plank spankin' widdletasticness, and make it look authentic.

That "Crossroads" clip was hilarious.

Not the same thing, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTTHS9hwvU

"small mammals are good for the hands" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJ1ccnC1GI

StSanders's santana video made me think of rené lussier when he did some musique actuelle "comic" sync to moving images . there are not many videos of him on youtube but 50 seconds into this one he does a bit of shredding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmnxIRyCk0g

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Look a bit closer people. This isnt Eddie playing.

This is someone at home on their computer with a guitar and some samples, overdubbing their own audio to the video.

It doesnt even sound like Eddie.

OK wow how did I miss this thread earlier. I am in hysterics at my desk.

I think the Slash one may actually be my favorite. I was watching it with my brother a few weeks ago and we nearly passed out laughing. The Ozzy/Jake E. Lee one is great as well, especially when Ozzy picks that thing up off the stage and whips it out into the audience.

New one just posted:

Satriani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwFKkV9r6A

hahaha, the whistling!

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These are all great. My only complaint - and it's a minor one, all told - is that all other players are heard *only* when on-screen. Kind of works against the suspension of disbelief that makes these videos so wonderful.

I showed these to a roomful of people last night: 75% were in absolute hysterics, and 25% were utterly annoyed and unamused. I think StSanders has accidently stumbled upon some kind of weird humor litmus test here.

As for me, they make me laugh so hard I can barely breathe.

The Satriani one! OMG at the very end the lightswitch sound killed me.

1) I wish someone hadn't ruined this for me
2) re van halen: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/18/onstage-tech-disasters-van-halen-goes-microtonal/

wow tons of comments -- offhand the sampling rate difference intuitively seems like it'd be right to raise it from c to above c# but a sampling rate change wouldn't be linear since an octave is a freq double? I tired

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/23/great-musical-mysteries-van-halen-mishap-remains-unsolved/#more-2621

fuck'd if i know

3) I want to see Mick Fleetwood making his stupid face on one of these videos

the litmus test comment above really fascinates me.

yeah i played this for some french people and one guy - an avant-garde jazz drummer - was in absolute hysterics, the others had no idea why it was funny; when they finally got it they were amused, but more by our amusement than by the video itself

the clapton one is the best done

love the whammy

the litmus test comment above really fascinates me.

To be clear, I'm not trying to say that some people "pass" and others "fail." The people who were annoyed and unamused in the room completely understood the concept and the joke, they just thought it wasn't at all funny. The whole thing really made me wonder about the differences between people's humor, and for some reason reactions to the shred videos really demonstrate those differences to a degree I don't think I've seen before.

I'm not sure if they author's intent was to have the production of the hoax sound purposefully amateurish or not.

I think it helps to have been around people who have played more or less in that style (or to have been such a person). Helps you understand just what the difference between a crap sound and a "pro" sound is, since that's one of the really amazing devices in these things. They sound more or less like something someone would actually play--just not those people, in those settings.

Also I was listening to "Saints" by Marc Ribot and the first track kind of reminded me of some of this stuff... (better obv.)

These are so hysterical that they've gotta be fakes. Real people aren't capable of that much disjointed noodling. The camera angles are similarly cut-up, so it must have been edited together. And the intermittent applause must have been dubbed in. Right? Right?

Uhh, ok, I've actually watched these again now, paying more attention to the guitarist's fingers. Whoever did these did a good job. Still, a three-necked guitar is funny no matter what you play.

jazz joeks:

http://www.myspace.com/johnnybowtiebarstow

Wow. And there's a whole CD? Remarkable.

similarly, http://www.myspace.com/hansgroinerplaysmonk

Wow, Barstow is fantastic! Have you heard the whole album? It's somewhat embarrassingly tempting to buy the xmas CD. Hell, Christmas is coming up, and I need presents...

I only got into these via the dude's Darth Vader overdub, which is his best work.

link plz?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWoL4nXu0Q

Actually, 3:26 to 3:32 in the Santana one may be his best work.

Bowtie Barstow is kinda great on Mack the Knife

Louis: oh, I thought you meant Barstow did a Darth Vader thing... - thanks though!

the one for Metallica's "One" music video was pretty hilarious, especially due to the tempo inaccuracies that eerily resembled their live flubs circa the 1997-98 live era

New one just posted:

Satriani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwFKkV9r6A

we have a winner.

Iron Maiden vid is great for the time StSanders breaks into the Ringling brothers theme

damn, i should've put these on my year-end music list!