the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

the subjects of these videos are generally regarded as great guitarists. but the music is...not that good!

-- gff, Monday, October 22, 2007 8:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

do u need to like eric clapton to find this funny?

NO!!!!

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

hhaaahahaha ethan you really don't get these at all

This thread makes my heart sing!

the music here is to rock music what me rapping would be to rap, you dig?

the joke is people playing horrible music.

J0hn you are killing me

Yeah, the Clapton one somehow seems too good (or at least somewhat more plausible than some of the others).

This thread is making me laugh even harder than the videos. Best ILX!

hhaaahahaha ethan you really don't get these at all
http://soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=13247

Metallica: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaqVd0rOjA

That Darth Vader thing he did with vocal samples from "Coming To America" is mega-fresh, as well.

They're not actually playing what we are hearing, Ethan! Get it?

But most of these people couldn't handle Passion & Warfare. Blow they fuckin' minds.

Oh, the passion of Yancey

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.

I get them. They are not very funny though.

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

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

I love Tony Levin in the Van Halen one.

well trying to explain them to slow guys kind of take the funny out. thanks ilm.

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"

Clapton's initial bend at like 0:04 is beyond classic.

Davey have you watched the Steve Vai one

Yes. Oh yes.

Goddamn, Vai's facial expressions during those fretboard slides might be the best thing in the history of A/V.

lol @ everything

maybe this is only funny to musicians?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=22DUD5XBx7U

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'

Chaki cracks the code

You might have to grow up around the classic rock environment. American mid west preferable

No wait. The Santana one has to be funny no matter what.

this has opened up a whole new world to me.

these make me laugh like those GIjoe parodies from like five yrs ago

trumpet lady shreds (on star wars)

thank you steve vai and carlos santana.

It does feel like musician jokes.

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.

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.

someone should do a reverse "Jandek Shreds"

lol

maybe this is only funny to musicians?

Agreed. And my playing makes Mt. Johnny sound like Steve Fucking Vai!

i would like to watch this black oak arkansas clip with big jim dandy's voice dubbed ove rwith beaker from the muppets. http://youtube.com/watch?v=SGAPhLK8qdk

trumpet lady shreds (on star wars)

-- Jordan, Monday, October 22, 2007 8:16 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ROFFFFFLE

Maybe it is for musicians. The "Iron Man" riff from EVH hit me hard since that's one of the few songs I know how to play on the guitar.

For the crowd to go wild at that and go "Oh, yeah,Iron Man!", that's funny.

The trumpet lady is pretty amazing.

I have never seen any of these and am so gonna watch them tonight, fuck a laundry.

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.

must hear.