the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

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!

When I first saw the Eddie Van Halen video, I thought he was just really drunk until it got the "Iron Man" part. I knew that EVH could not fuck up "Iron Man" that bad. Then I got the joke.

These are so great.

I saw that people are starting to copy this style ie Judas Priest Shreds. Not nearly as funny...

I dunno, that Priest one is pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZBevXohCI

The Priest one is stomach clutchingly funny.

Oscar Peterson shreds

New StSanders one I hadn't seen yet: Paco De Lucia. Pay close attention to all the guys in the back of the set, because he matched their sounds too! This guy is so dedicated to his art.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz9g3ymsDk4

The new Anssi Kela one is hilarious too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAPHu7yDB9Y

The lone clapper at the end sort of justifies the whole existence of the internet.

The Van Halen one was the first I ever saw. And is still my fav, dunno why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstApYoLUM4&feature=related

the dude who made these was on Jimmy Kimmel's show .. with Slash as the guest! he is a Finnish guy, and apparently the show flew him over and it was his first time ever in America!

saw it over X-mas break. Kimmel was a total retarded douchebag towards the guy ... it was obvious he didn't "get it". But the guy tried to do his thing live, holding a guitar, to a video of a Slash performance. Then the man himself got onstage and "jammed" next to the guy. Completely bizarre.

And is THAT on youtube?!?

hahahaa.... while indeed it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXB5MSTDfQ

oh, and i see i actually watched when I was back in Rochester for my g-ma's funeral, not X-mas .. got my Rochester trips mixed-up :(

yeah, that was um ... yeah

can't help but feel that whoever set that up didn't quite *get it*

The guy got the kind of reception Andy Kaufman was always striving for.

funniest YouTube comment exchange:

Papilindo11 (1 week ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

this is kind of stupid and boring, the dude is not doing anything that makes him standout

mtoivo (6 days ago) Show Hide Marked as spam

I agree. No wonder he and Axel Rose don't get along.

humorless metalheads get dude shut down

Why am I not surprised it's Yngwie behind that.

stsanders unleashed the fucking fury

Ojala said that while he has no plans to file a lawsuit, his dubbed creations fall under Fair Use and his censorship by YouTube is unjust.

Fair Use applies to legal matters, not what a company allows to be posted to their website.

If they sued him, yes, it would be unjust.

Right, but they cited copyright infringement in their removal of the vids.

He's saying there wasn't any copyright infringement cuz Fair Use etc

I don't know jack about copyright law, so he may be hilarious rong, but eh

I'm willing to bet that using 5 straight minutes of someone else's video doesn't fall under Fair Use.

If you can't watch "shred" videos on YouTube, what is it for, anyway?

^ actual fact

I'll bet it was one of those guys in Santana's band.

They didn't like that he made them appear to be playing "out of clave."

Goddammit, I had JUST found out about these (always assumed this thread was about serious shredding appreciation and thus completely avoided it). Are they anywhere else, like on the shadier YouTube knockoffs or something?

RIP

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Dammit, that sucks.

I think somebody has to photoshop one of those onto the mural between Floyd Landis and Jay Blancmange.

I tried dialing these up this morning in search of a laff, and found they're gone -- what a mega bummer. Hopefully the dude will put them all back up on a website of his own.

It's cool he was on Kimmel, but yeah -- watching him do it live obviously isn't how the humor "works"! (It was funny how they had Slash come up at the end, as if to "show him up" -- though maybe it was meant to be a friendly jam session, hard to tell.)

I thought the thing on Kimmel was cute.

Dear internet, just because producers try to take something hermetic and insular like a dude editing videos in his room, and make it interesting for television, does not mean they don't "get it"

how great would it have been if after slash came up, dude dropped his funny-bad style and totally outshredded him.

Haha, for reals. (They didn't select very good clips -- the Slash one he was playing along with barely had any shots of Slash's fingers/guitar -- though maybe the guy himself chose them, who knows. I think you really have to watch the entire clips to appreciate his deal... the laughs come in how they "develop," with the weird pauses, etc... but yeah, it's cool they tried.)

Dude, I was watching some concert salute to Roy Orbison on VH1 Classic late one night -- it was from the late '80s, around the Traveling Wilburys time... there was a big mega superstar jam going on to "Pretty Woman" -- Roy sang a few verses, then it veered off into Clapton, Tom Petty, etc. (I forget who they all were) playing on and on and on. all I could think of was how utterly perfect that jam segment looked for the StSanders treatment. I was delighted just imagining it, while watching the goofy video of those guys playing and mugging...