the "[famous guitarist] shreds" videos on YouTube

My favorites are "Kenny G and Michael Bolton Shred"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6QYWqRxww

Also the Hall and Oates Maneater. I have to take that one in small doses, it's so good.

St Sanders is probably the most accomplished (was he not also the original shred video maker?) but the Beach Boys' I Get Around and Johnny and June Carter Cash's Jackson both still leave me gasping for air

the Elvis one too, that one is brilliant

My only issue is that the original song isn't much less ridiculous than this version.

― emil.y, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Truth.

― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, September 27, 2017 12:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Both sound like a bit of a rough patch at a jamband festival.

I finally found something redeeming in 'Take On Me":
https://youtu.be/4vmS9-1-3tA

lol. Thought that was going to be the shittyfluted version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF7lv1gfP1Q

The best shreds are definitely for me the guitar-heavy mainstream rock/pop-rock - the Focus tune seems about the absolute limit. Any further and we're going down the Captain Beefheart shreds route.

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I smell a hit

ahahaa

fantastic

Nothing makes me laugh harder than Shreds shit and this takes it to a new level

oh my god 1:23 - 1:26

Had to close my door from laughing at the drum pad with the "Damn!" and air horn sounds.

Yeah, the air horns did me in.

yessssss

That's just the funniest thing, but perhaps the funniest thing to the fewest people for the most specific reasons.

^^^^^

Given the hysterical response to that video, it's clear that I should continue to keep my Beaterator tracks to myself.

holy fucking shit this rules

I was curious enough to go watch the original video, and in only made the shred one funnier.

the st. sanders guy who makes all these = total hero

― J0hn D., Monday, October 22, 2007 2:57 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that mixer preview is amazing tho

omg i missed this one from a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgbGPGDgOQI

have the original St. Sanders Shreds videos ever been re-uploaded to YouTube? i was really bummed when they got taken down & that was years ago

another classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22i57u2eMDE

Dying... I hadn't seen that before

omg when chick goes through all the different stupid presets in his keyboard!

Maneater
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l56Hdjx0ckg

oh my god that Corea + Hancock video is so well synced up

the grin on Herbie's face is killin me right now

and yes @ that Hall & Oates one...pew! pew! pew!! gettin a Legion of Rock Stars vibe from that one

still think the Elvis one's never been topped but man, these are all so good

I went back and watched the Eddie Van Halen one, which might have been the first or one of the first I ever saw, and it still kills me.

the part where he plays a little bit of iron man and fucks it up, holy shit

https://news.avclub.com/its-3-p-m-lets-watch-fred-durst-unleash-an-astonishin-1826142870

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MI-_jWAmlE

i have seen this and to be fair to fred, i believe he was sound checking

“Ill fated shredding”

I thought this was a St Sanders esque redub with hilariously bad vocals but...nope. actually Vince Neill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pdQnZLEWNo

omg

It was a treat to see Questlove discover and fall down the *SHREDS* rabbit hole a few weeks back, he was posting tons of videos on his Instagram story.

I love to revisit them. Still haven't lost their shine.

wait what the hell are the actual lyrics then

Nobody knows, the scrolls were lost

I still laugh out loud when I think of the end of Help, "ELM.....BEEF!!!......ELM!!!!!.....BEEF!!!"

so meta:

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H and I still often quote the Bohemian Rhapsody vid: "It's my bad cool dad!" "WE MIGHT BE HAVING FIIIISH" etc. I think sometimes we don't even remember where it came from when we're saying it, these are just things that we say.

I hadn't seen the Celine Dion 'My Heart Will Go On' one until recently but my god there is one particular moment in there where I'm pretty sure I laughed so hard I ruptured something.

Vince Neil is without a doubt the worst singer I have ever seen perform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdwTP1-WL5Y

^ The most diplomatic guy ever, and apparently Sammy Hagar's cousin.

Vince and Paul need to tour together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LNXOIGuxHU