This is a video of musician Ichika Nito performing his own uptempo arrangement of Beethoven’s Für Elise on guitar with a drum and bass backing that turns the song into a speedy club track. I remember in high school my music teacher actually tried to convince us Für Elise meant
Because some people presumably can pat their head and rub their stomach at the same time, this is a video of musician Pat Hinds performing Dire Straights’ ‘Sultans of Swing’ on a double harp guitar, with one hand performing the guitar medley, and the other the bass line on the
This is a short video of studio musician Martin Motnik using an electric guitar to mimic the meows his cat makes. I smell a duet! Or is that the surprise turd your cat left in the bed because you didn’t give it what it wanted when it wanted it? You
This is a video of luthier Burls Art making two electric guitars with thin layers of translucent slate, complete with backlit tops so light filters through the stone from behind. That’s beautiful. Too beautiful to smash on stage at the end of a concert? Considering all the time and energy
This is a video of Japanese guitarist/composer/producer Masayoshi Takanaka performing jazz pianist Mal Waldron’s ‘Left Alone’ on a guitar that has a functional model train running around it. How about that! The train only goes around the outside of the body then stops and reverses though, it doesn’t actually cross
This is a video of musician Christian E. Boeger playing the ‘Les Pallet’ electric guitar he constructed out of a wooden shipping pallet. It sounds great. Is it practical? Absolutely not, but there’s never been a more appropriate guitar for smashing and setting ablaze at the end of a live
This is a video of a small flashmob performing Nirvana’s 1991 banger of bangers ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ at a European railway station. Obviously, the woman who requests the song at the beginning is in on the mob, but the rest of the travelers at the station were not. As
This is a video of a custom nine-neck guitar produced by the Fender Custom Shop being played by three musicians simultaneously to perform Nena’s ’99 Luftballons’, with one guitarist sitting, one standing, and one standing on a chair. Granted, they each only play a single neck, so it’s unclear why