Pachelbel’s Canon on Guitar
Today’s New York Times highlights the cover of Pachelbel’s Canon by a Youtube guitarist named funtwo:
Eight months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply ‘€œguitar.’€? A black-and-white title card gave the performer’€™s name as funtwo.
This video, not to put too fine a point on it, rocks…
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Wonderful. Thanks for sharing, Matt.
Someone get this kidan agent!
If you search for “Canon” on YouTube, the writer of this rock version plays it as well. This is just a cover of it.
There’s about a million amateurs who play at this level. What the hell is wrong with the media????? This style of 80s neo-classical is over 20 years old, too!
AMAZING this kid will go far. don’t care if it is a copy he very good. XX
He’s good, but I picked up some quite obvious mistakes towards the end of the piece.
Given a few more years and some discipline, he’ll be great.
Well.. If you wanna see something, here is the SAME SHIT but by another guy in Taiwan supposedly. Thing is that all is just dubbing. NONE OF THEM REALLY DO IT:
http://haltingpoint.blogspot.com/2006/08/rock-version-of-pachabels-canon-in-d.html