Parody guitar videos shredded to a pulp
Posted on February 9, 2008
in parody, YouTube
Earlier this week, YouTube pulled the plug on funnyman and media artist Santeri Ojala, whose hilarious and popular “shredding” videos poke fun at the world’s great guitar players.
Three complaints of copyright infringement were reported, and as per how YouTube deems a “repeat offender”, YouTube took the videos down. Intrepid businessmen that they are, Wired is now hosting all the videos on its Wired Video site.
Anyway, Ojala poked fun by dubbing his own bad guitar playing over videos of the guitar greats, from Yngwie Malmsteen with Japan’s Philharmonic to Steve Vai live in Denver. Somehow, that loses its oomph after the first one or two examples; popular these “Shredded to a Pulp” videos may have been, but their deletion is not such a loss for humor lovers.
Luckily, has yet to yell at YouTube to take down the John Petrucci Psycho Exercises:
I think that’s enough YouTube for a day or ten.
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