the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

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

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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

!

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...

that one of prince at the rock n' roll hall of fame would be great too.

Next guy to do this should be some trained-from-birth Manchurian Candidate mole who will be able to go on J. Kimmel and unmask, outshredding whatever guitar slinger they throw at him.

I wasted a separate thread on the demise of this a few days ago.

Seriously fucking angry !

- boring hairy girly, note perfect, tuneless, passionless, ugly cunts!!!!

St Sanders will rise again

UNDERWIRE RESURRECTS ST SANDERS

Many thanks Big Hoos aka the steendriver.

Any idea how I can save this work of the world's greatest at the top of their game.

The Clapton one particularly should be buried in a time capsule. Along with the great man himself. Immediately!

i can't do a proper search for these clips anymore - not since some dude developed a hairbrain scheme to imitate the original idea, but in a way that's not funny at all. and he's done a whole bunch of them, somehow missing the point that the guitar overdubs are meant to sound amateurish. take it easy on the legit, rehearsed pentatonics, bro!

that Steve Vai one is priceless. He HAD to be one of the dudes that complained. It makes him look like such an ass.

It was Malmsteen who complained no? He's a total fuckwit anyway

Some tonight (Conan?) show actually had StSanders and Slash playing together, so I doubt it was him.

They said 3 guitarists complained and mentioned he thought Vai and Malmsteen were two of them.

#3: Gotta be Eddie VH

'that one of prince at the rock n' roll hall of fame would be great is fucking brilliant too.'

yup

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

eh that's not a shred vid of prince is it?