This is a video of musician Christian Nolen strumming his guitar while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor growing near the hand/motor area of his brain. Doctors needed Christian to be awake and using his hands in order to monitor Christian’s motor control during the operation, and playing the
Because dream it and you can achieve it (unless you’re painfully unqualified like most of the people I meet and try to inspire in real life), this is a video of musician Charles Berthoud covering Scott Joplin’s classic of all ragtime classics ‘The Entertainer’, with a fingerstyle performance on electric
533 attempts in the making, this is a video of Guitar Hero 2 world record holder CarnyJared full combo-ing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Free Bird’ at 300% speed. Talk about fingers of fury! Jared says he has all the Guitar Hero 2 world records now, which I can neither confirm nor disconfirm,
This is a video of musician Andrea Boccarusso performing 25 menacing/evil sounding guitar riffs from songs. How evil were they? I got the goosebumps! And not just because I refuse to turn the heat on until October and it’s 52 degrees in here, but my girlfriend has like six sweatshirts
This is a video of Nikki Kundanmal filming herself practicing Sixpence None The Richer’s 1997 banger ‘Kiss Me’ when a hawk lands on her balcony railing. Then it casually comes inside to inspect her cereal bowl (that may not actually be cereal, but if she’s anything like me she just
This is a video of a youngster (how old is he, two? Seven? I’m terrible with kid ages) performing a bit of impromptu karaoke and the man behind him providing some beautiful guitar accompaniment to his singing. It kinda reminds me of one time I heard Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You
This is a video of The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing ‘Hey Joe’ in 1967, just a year after the band was formed. During the song, Jimi plays part of the solo with his teeth and tongue. Classic Jimi! I also included a remastered HD video of the band performing the
This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz building and playing what is allegedly the world’s first gas-powered guitar. Move over, electricity, this guitar runs on hydrocarbons! The result is actually a lot cooler looking than it sounds, which is like the lovechild of an electric guitar and leaf blower.