the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

"people who laugh at stuff I don't get must have terrible taste"

i cop to liking all kinds of dorked out guitar mag shit when i was little and learning how to play. shrapnel records shit.

I just started a King Crimson poll, for Christ's sake, but I draw the line at Zappa. It's a thick line.

It just occurred to me that "Fripp shreds" would be rather amazing.

i love zappa.

LaMonte's logic is really breaking down

Shit, that Iron Maiden clip. *whee!*

I was all prepared to hate this thread but OMG the hilarity

Double shredding.

xp

i can only hope that and what and enrq are involved in some mort of double bluff here. the santana one is boss.

i said probably

a friend showed me the eddie van halen one and i was all why is he doing that wtf

duh me

Shredded WAHT

wtf @ haters on this thread

my theory is that you have to be a musician to appreciate the genius of these videos.

My theory is that you have to be a crap musician.

But they're funny.

Guys don't forget AGNUS YOUNG:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH3FWM2ZCeQ

Oh wait that must've been like a prototype haha.

this is awesome

maybe this is only funny to musicians? people who have a molecule of knowledge about how music is made?

Although it is pretty retarded that the guy put a cowbell sound on the scraper in the Santana video. If that was intentional, it doesn;t follow the theme of his other videos.

its a joke

god

sorry chak

I just watched the Van Halen one... I love how "Iron Man" limply falls apart...

02:46-03:10 hyper improvisation jam

This all being said, the rap equivalent wouldn't be very funny

But maybe like some DMC footage turned into random scribbles and noise

its ok whiney xoxoxo

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DMC the turntable competition, not DMC the devastating mic controller

Start this clip at 5:15

Ugh...

yuk - he sounds almost as bad as the shreds version

In other words, typical Clapton

oh Davey I think that's a bit of an overstatement

article about the dude who does this:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/shredders

def no surprise that it was the vai performance that inspired this

Another fine piece of Internet journalism

The saxophone with Clapton... and Slash's 'evil' laugh after the whistling...

Danny Mendez never expected to become an internet sensation. When he first created "Flaming Shot Disaster Montage," he was just out for a laugh. "My buddies and I really liked watching the flaming shot mishap clips, like where a dude would spit out the shot and light a girl's hair on fire, and I had the idea to put a bunch of them together set to Green Day."

"If I actually played like that, perhaps I could finally be on MTV and in Rolling Stone and have a real career," said Ojala's original target, virtuoso guitarist Vai, through a spokeswoman for his label, Epic Records.

aww, somebody's bitter :>

Vai o vaiii

I actually detuned my guitar slightly yesterday with the intention of doing this to a Mountain Goats clip. Then I realized that it would take a lot of time, what with me having zero video-editing experience and zero audience-cheer samples. Bummer.

I woulda fukken rocked that "Deliverance" banjo-theme though!

So who's going to unleash the fucking fury then? Forget about it!

Let's not forget the one that started it all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsXS5fCq4LU

The facial expressions alone...GAWD!!!

lol @ "people who think this is funny are into _____"

the hip hop equivalent would be a clip of someone considered to be "one of the greatest MCs ever" but overdubbed with someone with really amateur skills/flow...

but maybe the genius of these clips is that the guy is actually a good musician pretending to be a bad musician...

kind of like in a movie about acting and the actor has to "act" (Mulholland Drive deconstructs this well), and the viewer can tell the difference.

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/

their genius rests in how well everything is synced up - LOOKS LIKE THEY COULDNT BE PLAYING ANYTHING ELSE LOLOLOLOLO

well yeah that too... but it's the amateur quality of the playing which initially made me laugh.

My favorite shredder is the guy with Santana on the timbales.

for me, the appeal is the starkness of the audio setting. the background accompaniment and the audience roars are just reduced to feet shuffling and canned polite applause audio looped from a cheap sound effects cd. It's a bit like that first Neil Hamburger single "Looking For Laughs" except these videos are even better. Even better are the low key or abstract vocal submissions.

The guitar playing sounds like Paul Leary minus effects which I doubt was intentional.