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
― chaki, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I prefer stun guitar to stunt guitar.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ YES. E Bloom ftw!!!
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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$OT, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
that's on ship arrive too late to save a drowning witch, right? i can remember exactly how the tune goes, anyway.
"haiirrr bruuuuushh... oh what a haaaaaiiirrr bruuussshhhh...."
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link
these videos make me love life
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Øystein already linked to that Van Halen fiasco on this very thread:
OK, I guess it might be bad form to post this here, but it so brought this wonderful thread to mind: http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/
-- Øystein, Tuesday, October 23, 2007 6:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link
― StanM, Thursday, 25 October 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
van failin'
― Jordan, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Only pitch will tell if we can stand the test of pitch.
― Jon Lewis, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- JN$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.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 25 October 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Found this while searching for the Sanatana shredding: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uZyB9i5cRB4
― Eazy, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I picked up a copy at FYE when I was like 16 and resold it for 60 bucks later :D
― trashthumb, Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone needs to overdub that Derek Bailey footage with plank spankin' widdletasticness, and make it look authentic.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
That "Crossroads" clip was hilarious.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 25 October 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the same thing, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTTHS9hwvU
― StanM, Monday, 29 October 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"small mammals are good for the hands" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pJ1ccnC1GI
― StanM, Monday, 29 October 2007 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Sébastien, Monday, 29 October 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
nonkertomph (1 hour ago) Show Hide Marked as spam +1 Poor comment Good comment (Reply) (Spam) 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.
― gr8080, Thursday, 1 November 2007 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
OK wow how did I miss this thread earlier. I am in hysterics at my desk.
― Trayce, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 November 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
New one just posted:
Satriani: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nwFKkV9r6A
― three handclaps, Sunday, 4 November 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha, the whistling!
― haitch, Sunday, 4 November 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Teaflax (1 hour ago) -1 (Reply) (Spam) 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.
― sleepingbag, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― J, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The Satriani one! OMG at the very end the lightswitch sound killed me.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 4 November 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 5 November 2007 07:45 (sixteen years ago) link
the litmus test comment above really fascinates me.
― cutty, Monday, 5 November 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 5 November 2007 13:33 (sixteen years ago) link
the clapton one is the best done
love the whammy
― Charlie Howard, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― J, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if they author's intent was to have the production of the hoax sound purposefully amateurish or not.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
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 Robust Cookies, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 08:30 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Rich Smörgasbord, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Rich Smörgasbord, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
jazz joeks:
http://www.myspace.com/johnnybowtiebarstow
― Jordan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow. And there's a whole CD? Remarkable.
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
similarly, http://www.myspace.com/hansgroinerplaysmonk
― Jordan, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Øystein, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I only got into these via the dude's Darth Vader overdub, which is his best work.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
link plz?
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfWoL4nXu0Q
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, 3:26 to 3:32 in the Santana one may be his best work.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Bowtie Barstow is kinda great on Mack the Knife
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Louis: oh, I thought you meant Barstow did a Darth Vader thing... - thanks though!
― StanM, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
we have a winner.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Iron Maiden vid is great for the time StSanders breaks into the Ringling brothers theme
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, i should've put these on my year-end music list!
― Jordan, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Nate Carson, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 01:59 (sixteen years ago) link