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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Ken Lang
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Simi Valley, Ca
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Posted 17 Oct 2007 7:49 pm |
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I always thought shredding was done in a song context, like the old Van Halen stuff. Not somebody doing a solo bit and playing whatever the heck he feels like.
I don't care for it myself, not that I can do it of course. |
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Skip Edwards
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LA,CA
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Chuck Thompson
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Illinois, USA
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scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 17 Oct 2007 10:52 pm
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oh man... that's right up there with Hans Groiner!
out of fairness to Jake E. Lee, here's THIS
that's pretty bad when Ozzy grabs him by the hair and basically takes him down... but didn't Ozzy try and kill his wife around this time too? he was pretty messed up.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 3:51 am
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| The funniest one of this series may be the one on Clapton - check out the sax player. The ensemble work on the Santana clip is pretty hysterical also.Slash's bird whistles and grunting are priceless as well. For those who somehow haven't grasped what this is all about,real video clips have been expertly dubbed with new audio to make the whole thing sound incredibly lame.At this point in my life nothing much seems that funny anymore but this stuff had tears rolling down my face. |
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P Gleespen
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Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 4:16 am
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I can NOT get enough of this stuff. I think they're all sheer genius. The Santana with the keyboard playing "The Final Countdown" is brilliant, as well as the Van Halen part where he plays part of "Iron Man" and the audience claps in recognition. Comedy gold.
I love the comments from the guys who don't realize it's fake. 
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Don Sulesky
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Citrus County, FL, Orig. from MA & NH
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 5:13 am
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I'll take Mark Knopfler over this trash any day.
Don |
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P Gleespen
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Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 6:14 am
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| I love the comments from the guys who don't realize it's fake. |
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| I'll take Mark Knopfler over this trash any day. |
Exactly! Just like that.
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Richard Sevigny
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Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 6:54 am
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I want $5 of whatever StSanders is smoking.
No.... make that $2... I don't think I could handle $5 
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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 12:12 pm
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Get 'em while you can. I'm assuming that this is the same guy who made the short Yngwie video that I posted a while ago. When I looked for it the other day it was yanked for copyright infringement. I agree---I can't get enough of these. I was roaring out loud at the Santana one. Everytime the camera landed on someone he provided a little club-handed tinkle, or hit or whatever. And then the polite audience applause after each 'solo'. lolololol!
btw--I'm playing with a young picker who, after I sent him a link to the Yngwie vid, told me that he once had the actual video--it was a guitar tutorial video. He said that the hatchet job on the video was funny but not nearly as outrageous as I thought it was. He said that Yngwie was such a flaming creep in the video that no amount of lampooning could touch the real thing. |
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Glenn Suchan
From:
Austin, Texas
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ajm
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 4:41 pm
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"I'll take Mark Knopfler over this trash any day."
I realize that some people don't like certain kinds of music for whatever reason. If anyone gets anything out of any of these I hope it's:
a) a chuckle or two, and
b) the curiousity to go and see what the original videos and performances were like.
Like it or not, most of these guys are, at the very least, more than competent on their instruments. I would love to find a rock oriented forum where someone has done the same thing with some country or steel videos. I can only wonder why someone never has.
I have seen a video like this on the net with a very famous rocker (not seen in these), where he comes across like these, but was actually playing and being serious. Now THAT was funny.
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Michael Johnstone
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Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 5:03 pm
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C'mon now - no serious guitar shredding talk allowed on this thread!
Myself,I'd actually like to see a similar parody on steel players but there's not that much of the same kind of footage(regrettably). It would take someone with audio/video skills as well as major chops and a wry sense of humor like Joe Wright to pull it off.Can you imagine Buddy Emmons out of tune,shoveling clams,missing harmonics,mugging into the camera and getting scattered applause in the process.On second thought,there's really not as much to make fun of because steel players as a rule are generally not pompous roosters like the guys lampooned on these videos... |
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Tom Olson
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Spokane, WA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 5:11 pm
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This is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time!!
Has anyone watched the Angus Young (AC/DC) clip? Wait til the very end, right after 2:00, when he falls down and starts kicking the floor and spinning himself around in a circle -- you can hear his feet hitting the floor and a couple of guys in the audience start chuckling. Absolutely hilarious!!
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Chuck Thompson
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 18 Oct 2007 9:35 pm
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| came home from work and watched these again - who ever did these is awesome - though i think he stole as couple of my licks |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 19 Oct 2007 2:30 am
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| How about having Buddy Emmons play behind a singer and then just stomp all over the dude with tasteless overplayed steel guitar? That would be rare. |
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