This is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen on youtube in a LONG time. Check the “Related Videos” section of spoofs of other artists, too.
Thanks, boingboing :)
Guy overdubs his atrocious guitar playing over Clapton concert – Boing Boing:
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, March 17, 2008 12:09 PMLate last year a Finnish media artist named Santeri Ojala got a lot of attention for a series of hilarious YouTube videos in which he lifted concert footage of various guitar heroes and overdubbed his own intentionally awful playing. The bad musicianship was funny enough, but the verisimilitude made it even funnier: Ojala was great at matching each player’s hand movements and timing, and he sprinkled lukewarm applause and other sound effects throughout. The videos were like alternate-universe versions of rock-god cliches.
A month or two ago, YouTube yanked the videos and suspended Ojala’s YouTube account, apparently due to copyright complaints from several of the guitarists. Many of the videos have now resurfaced on YouTube, and because I never got around to posting them the first time, here’s one of the best.
2 Comments
JohnBoy
Ow! My ears…. thanks for drawing extra attention to this. I actually had to stop the video, that was like nails on a chalkboard.
Dork
Haha… I love all of the other ones, too. My fave is the Iron Maiden one: “It’s the monstaaaah!”