Ukulele Blitzkrieg Bop

Gus and Fin perform Blitzkrieg Bop on ukulele. (And here are the Ramones doing it, live.) (via Otomano)

• [howtoplayalone]

  Watch these guys do” What Do I Get” – it’s way better

  http://howtoplayalone.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/holy-crap-i-want-one/

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWk3dgy9hqU&eurl=http://howtoplayalone.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/holy-crap-i-want-one/

• [Birdguy]

  My ukulele group used to play Blitzkrieg Bop as a regular feature (the chords we used are here. We played it in a more restrained fashion, a bit like the Yo La Tengo surf guitar cover.

• [MiceHead]

  I personally love (and have been listening to incessantly) their version of “Are Friends Electric?”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAOWKs4dcPE&feature=related

  I’m collecting covers of this song. I also like Information Society’s version:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmU-aZPJnfA

  But they don’t use ukuleles, of course.

• [flosofl]

  What a fun version!

  Well, now I know what I’m doing with my “stimulus” rebate check next week. Buy myself a Uke!

  Just doing my part…

• [Tommy]

  It’s a testament to the Ramones that the song rocks, even on ukulele.

• [Wingo]

  Totally. F-ing. Awesome.

  I have a Uke that I’ve never played. I guess it’s time to put some strings on that baby…

• [Otter]

  Did somebody say Yo La Tengo? Love this version.

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

• [the man who was thursday]

  Look for the ukulele orchestra of great britain

  Their versions of punk classics are brilliant, but the deadpan cover of Je’taime wins hands down

• [Foolster41]

  This is pretty cool. Makes me want to try to learn this, though my fingers are probibly not quick enough.

• [sandyfeet]

  Our uke group (the Saturn Street Strummers of SPI) plays pirate songs in pirate gear and we are quite formidable if I do say so myself (and I do.) This seems like a natural to add to our cover set.

  Arggghh!

• [mh]

  This is great!

  My daughter is a uke fan as well. Check her work out here:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNN2L-Wh5I

  and

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_gvhKJMVmw

• [texasroute66]

  Thanks again, Gus and Fin!

• [ClownX]

  This postulates, nay, proves that the next Rock Band needs a ukulele peripheral. EA is eating all of my money.

• [LSK]

  I love ‘ukuleles! I’ve been working on a version of “Mr. Self Destruct” by Trent Reznor.

• [so1omon]

  I’ve got my Cordoba on my lap right now. I always love seeing people having fun with my favorite instrument. Everyone should play ukulele… they’re cheap, and easy to learn enough to play some tunes on.

  I do have some concern that the ukulele’s newfound popularity is a mixed blessing. People still seem to think of the ukulele as primarily a novelty instrument. Unfortunately, my own music doesn’t do a great deal to change people mind of that fact… It’s a dilemma.

  I won’t whore out my music here… that just feels wrong. I will say that The Bittersweet Way on MySpace is haphazard, abbreviated pop songs that will bring a smile to your face. I am a whore.

• [Takuan]

  I want to see street gangs with ukuleles hanging around my neighbourhood intimidating the hiphop brats

• [Maddy]

  George Harrison was a big fan of Ukes, and even supposedly received oral goodness from a call girl while playing his Uke (source: You’ll Never Make Love in this Town Again) …

• [TedJohnson]

  The ukulele was the gateway drug for me.

  I got a uke from my grandma for Christmas when I was five or six years old. But I never really tried to learn to play it, or any instrument until I was 15.

  It was 1977, and I wanted to be in a Punk band. The uke was the only instrument I had around the house, so I started Punking out, playing Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks songs.

• [Fnarf]

  Yeah, George was OK on the uke, but if you really want to hear something track down some Eddie Kamae, especially his stuff with Gabby Pahinui in Sons of Hawaii.

• [JavaJunkie]

  Good Job!!! Good Stuff! Good times, good time. :)