Comments on: Guy overdubs his atrocious guitar playing over Clapton concert

By: scottfree

scottfree — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The main difference in the overdub is lack of distortion, rather then technique. I reckon what he plays, apart from the comic stops, wouldn’t sound out of place if he put a pedal on it. Equally take distortion off your average rock track and you wind up with Ojala.

By: jackjumper

jackjumper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Brilliant!

I actually was looking at creating a web site for just this sort of thing – audio only, however. It was to be called “rottenguitar”. People would upload their rotten guitar playing and others could vote on the worst examples (who is the rottenest of all?). The site would sell ads for guitar stuff and such.

In any case, when I talked to a lawyer about it he said I’d probably get sued because people don’t want to hear just any rotten guitar, but rotten versions of songs they know…

Bleah. I do have a couple of examples of (my) rotten playing on rotten originals here: http://rottenguitar.googlepages.com/home

By: username

username — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

guitar face = big laughs even without the overdubbing

By: Dillenger69

Dillenger69 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That was so funny it brought a tear to my eye.
Good Stuff!

By: PolishQ

PolishQ — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was a big fan of these, so I’m glad to see some of them are back online.

My favorite thing about these is how, for the most part, only the instruments on screen can be heard. See “Santana shreds” for the best example.

By: William Joseph Dunn

William Joseph Dunn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“A month or two ago, YouTube yanked the videos and suspended Ojalaâ€™s YouTube account, apparently due to copyright complaints from several of the guitarists”

Lame! I would think these guys would have a better sense of humor and be flattered that someone went through the trouble. The Clapton one is great, but I think my favorite is still the Ozzy one because of the hand claps…couldn’t stop laughing.

By: robophonic

robophonic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think I heard that guy play the last time I was at Guitar Center.

By: toilet

toilet — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was a big fan of this guy as well. He also posted a really funny Star Wars overdub here using James Earl Jones’ dialog from Coming to America.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=utGXF5orynk

By: shannonpatrick17

shannonpatrick17 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

scottfree: yeah you are so right, most guitar legends use cheap tricks like distortion and “pedal” as you say to make up for any real “talent”. Because nowadays any kid can plug in a plastic guitar into their x-box and shred,finally we all realize that we have been hoodwinked into the rock mythos and we can stop believing this ridiculous untruth.
P.S. your many platinum albums and years of having a successful music career etc. give you the credibility to comment on such things as technique, and school all of us unknowing average readers into sharing your belief of what is actually cool and what guitar playing is all about… long live emo

By: takeshi

takeshi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, but what about this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs&feature=related

By: takeshi

takeshi — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, but what about this guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs&feature=related

By: sluggo

sluggo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You can see Slash get uncomfortable when he is the object of this treatment live on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpXB5MSTDfQ

Slashy gets up and tears out a solo in response. It’s kinda sad – he just can’t take the ridicule.

These ‘special’ guitarists just can’t stand to be taken anything but seriously – which is why I’m guessing all the videos got takedown notices, signed, “Bruised Ego”.

HA!

By: mandeville

mandeville — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Huge improvement of the usual Clapton snoozefest.

By: sammy baby

sammy baby — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When I was in high school, I was in a band which ahd a string of really laughable gigs, including one in the parking lot of a McDonald’s. We’d wanted to record a live session of us, so our drummer & vocalist (as well as the guy who actually had his own recording equipment) recorded the performance… but because a “crowd” of ten people and assorted traffic noise from the nearby highway didn’t make for compelling background sound, he dubbed in the crowd noises from “Frampton Comes Alive.”

I still laugh thinking about it.

By: Bionicrat2

Bionicrat2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#28 Toilet,

Thanks for that link. Big laughs!

By: Riblets

Riblets — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Textbook Definition of Parody

By: ill lich

ill lich — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I always thought the Ozzy/Jake E Lee one was the best, Jake E. Lee has the most exaggerated guitar-god stage moves that are perfectly juxtaposed with the horrible playing, plus Ozzy’s occasional “grunts” into the mic are priceless.

It’s a testament to how well he put these together– I showed them to a musician friend of mine and (not knowing who Jake E. Lee was) he just assumed it was a bunch of crappy musicians. “Jeez, that guy is horrible, how’d he get on stage in front of all those people?”

By: djam

djam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i’d like to hear the original! the sax is hillarious

By: franko

franko — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

wow, they all sound just like how *i* sound playing. if they all were about a thousand times worse than they are. hilarious!

By: tubesoda

tubesoda — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In a similar vein, but without as much effort, I just stumbled upon someone who overdubbed several cheesy 80′s love ballads over the SAME Manowar video, and it’s amazing how well it works. I think this one is the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a_i6GbPntE

#47: That Mother parody was made by the Legion of Rock Stars, where some guys listen to a song that they don’t really know on noise cancelling headphones so they can’t hear themselves or each other, and simultaneously attempt to play what they’re hearing. The Danzig one is possibly the funniest just because that’s pretty much what Danzig normally sounds like. The rest are here: http://www.youtube.com/user/fibboks

By: f sharp a sharp infinity

f sharp a sharp infinity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Genius of the Clapton thing is when he sneaks in that tiny phrase of ‘Enter Sandman’ while the camera is off Clapton and as it cuts back he makes it sound like Clapton is embarrassed at being caught out. Genius.

By: howtoplayalone

howtoplayalone — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It does sound like the Grateful Dead, especially when the keyboards come in.

By: Art

Art — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh…THAT…IS…GREAT!!!

I haven’t stopped laughing.

Thank you so much for the post.

By: Amplifier

Amplifier — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#47 Rallen

Beat me there, those Legion of Rock Stars clips are hilarious. And they must have had so much fun making them.

Now these guys better hope they don’t get sued by Gibson.

By: Ian Holmes

Ian Holmes — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yanked again :-(

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hilarious!

I love Clapton’s facial expressions, and how energetic the drummer looks. Such incompetence, mixed with that “hell yeah” attitude. Hehehee

By: paddysat

paddysat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Brilliant! Thank you SOOO much for that. Made my day!

By: Xeniphobic

Xeniphobic — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought that this was absolutely hilarious until the keyboard and drums kicked in…then it hit too close to home. I can’t believe that nobody’s said this yet, but this sounds exactly like a Grateful Dead concert! I’m a Deadhead and love the good ol’ Grateful Dead, but during live shows beginning in the late 70′s they played crap like this for about 20 minutes each show and called it “Space.” Some Deadheads liked it, I thought that it was usually pretty crappy.

By: Kyle Armbruster

Kyle Armbruster — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have tears running down my cheeks. Brilliant!

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

thanks, you just made me usee the last diaper in the box