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"Late 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. "
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fissionchipsWas going to post this, my title was:
Clapton shreds; Guitar fans cringe
CaptWillardHilarious! I saw the Eddie Van Halen one a while back but then I forgot about it. Nice pick.
kulpimsLOL. and really well done, too
KevlarYou there, Sift! Move up to the front page! We're making a push to the Top 15!
sbchapmI love this.
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residueOh man, I lost it at the sax riff at 1:30...
The drum sync is really good too
videosiftbannedmeThat is funny. It's like the Weird Al of the guitar world. If I were Eric Clapton, I'd be laughing my ass off at this homage.
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ridesallyridencsays...Anyone catch the "Enter Sandman" riff at 1:51. Cracked me up.
gwiz665This syncs up surprisingly well. Poor Eric Clapton.
joedirtdrums and the sax take it to a whole new level. It's too funny by the end.
10615That actually sounded better than most authentic Clapton to me.
RhesusMonkThis is too good.
XaxLOL! I wouldn't have thought something like this would be so funny, but the sax pushed me over the edge. More!
T-manThe Santana and Ozzy ones are classic. The Santana one is on the sift
but it's currently dead.
residueI found the source:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eric-Clapton-ACTUALLY-shreds-fans-DONT-cringe
southblvdThe Van Halen and Slash ones are better.
AeroMechanicalsays...John Zorn?
blankfistOthers I posted a while back. These are so well done!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ozzy-and-Jake-E-Lee-shred
http://www.videosift.com/video/Carlos-Santana-Shreds-1
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slash-Shreds
lucky760
viewer_999Laughing so hard I almost threw up!
PaybackI don't know if I'd call him a BAD guitar player. Sounds like one of those New Age Music Of The Spheres Saving The Whales Hug a Tree Acid Dropper bands...
...or Frank Zappa... wait, same diff...
Soupskinsays...*holding lighter in the air*
XaxOh God, the one with Ozzy made my stomach hurt.
Payback>> ^Xax:
Oh God, the one with Ozzy made my stomach hurt.
It's the "Developmentally Delayed" Ozzy clapping..
Bidoulerouxsays...I cried laughing at Eric Clapton! If only he played like this while contorting as he does here his concerts would be worth it!
choggiedoes sound kinna like Heretic,eh AeroMechanical? Or some Zappa-Shut up and Play yer Guitar segues....
Spoon_Gougesays...Up voted this before and just re-watched it again due to a post on another video. Man! This one just doesn't get old...
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