Because there’s zero chance of ever forgetting this is the internet, here’s a video of musician Bob Strachan performing Coolio’s ‘Gansta’s Paradise’ to the tune of Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’. It works surprisingly well. I can’t say I’m shocked, but I did wake up this morning in the backyard
This is a video of an elevator full of people including Canadian folk artist Jessica Pierson, who took the opportunity to treat the captive audience to a sing-along. Some of the passengers look less than thrilled about the performance, although the two men in the back of the elevator do
This is a video of guitarist Andrea Boma Boccarusso providing a history of rock from 1965 – 2022, playing one popular song riff for each year. Man, there were a LOT of tasty jams in there. So many if you could preserve and jar them you could make a fortune
Because shredding knows no boundaries, this is a video of musician Bernth (previously seen playing an acoustic guitar filled with water) performing his own ‘Banjo Death Shred’ on, well, banjo. It’s like death metal meets Deliverance. Which, just for the record, is not a combo I’d like to run into
This is a video of very talented bagpiper Piper.Ally performing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s epic ‘Free Bird’ guitar solo on her instrument. She does a fantastic job, and I’d like to request that instead of a bagpipe rendition of ‘Amazing Grace’ being played at my funeral, I want this instead. And I
In a step towards playing air guitar and actually having sound come out and shock the people watching, this is a video of Tim Sway attempting to build a ‘0% wood’ acoustic guitar, constructed almost entirely out of clear acrylic plastic with metal hardware. But how does it sound —
Because dream it and (with enough cans and a recycling center paying 5¢ apiece) you can achieve it, this is a video of luthier Burl of Burls Art crafting an all aluminum electric guitar after melting some 38-pounds of aluminum cans (over 1,000) to cast the neck and body. My
Because experimentation is the mother of the mother of invention, this is a video of musician BERNTH filling his acoustic guitar with water to record a new track appropriately titled ‘Waterworks’. Granted I would have called it ‘Soggy Bottom Blues,’ but that’s just me and I know how to produce