This is a video of Chinese musician Zhang Qihui dressed as a beautiful lotus flower and performing on progressively larger flutes, starting with a diminutive six-incher, and ending with this behemoth, which is so large it requires two more helpers to cover its holes. Now that’s a big flute! It
Traveling even further back in time than that 2001 BBC news report about cameraphones comes this January 31, 1978 Talking Heads performance of ‘Psycho Killer’ on a British music television program called ‘Old Grey Whistle Test.’ Catchy name. I actually love ‘Psycho Killer’ and used to play it all the
This is a video of musician Jared Halley performing all the individual instrumental parts (including vocals) of Green Day’s 1992 banger ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ acapella, combining them into a multi-track performance of the entire song. That’s neat. You know, I always fancied my voice a bass guitar. It’s deep.
This is a video of two Nebraskan sousaphone players at Bennington High School (which apparently had no problem lifting their mascot from the University Of Wisconsin) having a lightsaber duel, and providing the appropriate lightsaber sound effects with their instruments. That’s fun. Way funner than anything I did in high
This is a video of musician Ralf Bienioschek covering Queen’s classic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on recorder, layering multiple tracks to perform the entire song. That’s impressive. And those recorders are impressive too, nothing like the ones we played in elementary school, which were basically McDonald’s straws with holes in them. And
This is a video of NBC10 Philadelphia’s Emmy award-winning reporter Sheila Watko providing a traffic report while packing in 23 out of 26 of the new track titles from Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ and Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘The Loneliest Time’ into the segment. That’s fun. Way more fun than a regular
Note: Just watch the video, you’ll be amazed or I’ll go back in time and give you your 54 seconds back. This is a video of musician Timothy Fletcher (Instagram, TikTok) performing to Juvenile’s 1998 banger ‘Back That Azz Up’ on a snare drum with about as much extra flair
Dream it, and you can achieve it. Case in point: all my nightmares coming true. Or this video of musician Alan Gogoll performing 10,000 harmonics on acoustic guitar in under fifteen minutes. That’s impressive. Maybe not as impressive as my acoustic guitar playing skills, but I once invited a girl