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From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Mannheim Steamroller ran over Nelson Riddle while Dream Theatre was driving? Now you know. This player chose to remain wisely anonymous, because if he didn’t, people would be showing up to his house to pimp-slap him.
On a slightly unrelated note, I’m trying to imagine the universe where this would be considered a reasonable contribution to our shared culture. Wherever it is, I _never_ want to visit.
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I'm pretty sure he mic'd the recording, since you can hear this really rapid clacking sound every time he gets really furious.
I don't know why, but I think that's the funniest part of the video - listening to the keys just clack away like mad while this decapitated fool thrashes away on keytar.
Careful now or some sucky type will be along to chide us all for not appreciating how technically able this is all supposed to be. Oh no, we're such haters.
It was worth it only to check out what other videos this guy had posted on youtube, including this abomination with Eddie Van Halen and Jan Hammer together on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsOiYPQ3MKE
Yup. This surely is a nut licker.
I never knew how many people were devoted to making shitty music with keytars until I started reading this blog.
This video mainly sucks due to the lack of obligatory 'pained' (aka 'soulful') faces and chicken-pecking motions.
Please don't post headless videos of bad keytar playing. We want to see the _entire_ package.
Thank you.
Whats even worse than the music is the guys shirt...
How many D cells does that shirt take?
Clearly an homage to the ending credits of Neon Genesis Evangelion...
ok keytards have become boring.
The thing about these videos that really bums me out is knowing that there are people out there who can't see the difference between mis-spent, pointless virtuosity like this, and that of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Or, since we're talking keyboardists, someone like Kenny Kirkland.
Fly ME to the motherfucking moon!
Hmmm, I really don't see what is so awful about this one. I found it quite enjoyable, neh, that's pushing it but I thought it was ok. It's a fusion(esque) keytar solo. Do those get any 'better' than this?
I still vividly remember those 3 jap guitar shredders, oh yeah.
all this type of stuff sounds like some 80's jingle/B-movie soundtrack gone bad.. er worse.
Come on, everyone went to the page and no-one followed the link to THIS classic musical masterbation clip? Featuring Eddie Van Halen doing guitar masterbation, with Jan Hammer doing keytar masterbation!!! Truly awesome levels of skill, producing truly bad music, featuring full facial contortions and bird head gestures and everything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsOiYPQ3MKE&mode=related&search=
RexRhino:
more like JAM Hammer (holds up rock horns hand gesture)
Actually is it just me or does Mr Miami Vice Theme look just like George Costanza in that clip?
Antix2: My grandparents, loyal American citizens, were thrown into concentration camps by their own government because they were labeled enemy "japs." So yeah, I'd appreciate it if you didn't throw around that racial slur.
Oops. I really meant that as an abbreviation, no a slur.
Sorry about that.
If I was about to slur I'd bring dental floss and so forth. I have family from Manzanar myself. But sure, sorry.
If I was Jewish I would probably be offended by you using the term 'concentration' instead of 'relocation'. But sure, sorry.
Ok, I'm off to order some roundeye roll. Mmmmm, yummy.
C.K.
Getting all serious for a second.
If I offended anyone, I apologise.
I was sent to a concentration camp as a kid, but I'm still can't hold a thought for more than fourteen- hey, what's that over there?
Midtown, seriously, did you think any single gearslut reading this board has a darn thing against Japanese people? People on this board have probably contributed significantly to Japan's GNP by purchasing items with names like Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Alvarez, etc. Matter of fact, I'm looking at items by all four without even turning my head.
I refer to my Japanese-made chopped-up Stratocaster as my "Jap Strat", and believe me, it's said with a certain tongue-in-cheek respect - because the low-end Fenders made in Japan in the 80's are damn fine guitars - but not so expensive I had a problem mangling the thing - and have something of a cult of appreciation out there in the world.
My Mexican-made Jazz "Taco Bass" has made me pretty damn happy too.
Ok, somebody? Call me a cracker, say something about my music being "honky-tonk" so I can be all radical and shit and NOT get offended that someone said "honky!" in the direction of my incredibly-white self.
Okay, this conversation ends now, or I'll start using the KILL! button that is next to everyone's name. Just for posterity's sake, it looks like this:
http://www.analogindustries.com/samples/cracker.jpg
-CR
It is time to stop the keytar threads! Keytars just tend to inflame the passions.
Hahahaha......
Thank you for comment in various ways. : )
Please watch other performances. Because they recorded it in a video camera of a toy, as for this, both a sound and a picture were the worst. Oh, a performance is the worst, too. :p
Well,,,
forgive this performance movie,,,
because it is time killing of an amateur. :)
bye!
Chuuta2003 from JAPAN
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chuuta2003
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