Lang Lang Shreds

[Guitarist]

[ch1525]

This is the best performance of John Cage I've ever seen!

[Guitarist]

Haha. I should probably explain the title: "Shred" is a rock/metal slang term for playing very fast. Some fellow had the inspired notion of taking videos of well know rock and metal bands and replacing the original audio with him (I presume) playing the most awful out of tune/time garbage that you can imagine! That concept has now spread to other genres.

[CharmNewton]

There's nothing funny about this. It is a smear of the artist. graffiti applied to a performance. Hopefully the people at YouTube have the good sense to remove this kind of crap.

John

[Donald Isler]

I agree with John.

[stenka razin]

I agree with John.

Make that three of us. Revolting and not funny in any possible way..........

[Guitarist]

Oh, come on people, go to the 99 Cent store and buy a sense of humor!

[hangos]

While I agree with Donald and Werner that it is in puerile bad taste, "it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" - Lang Lang has made himself an easy target for this kind of thing - hard to imagine them doing it to Rubinstein, Arrau or Argerich, all non-poseurs par excellence ; who knows, Krystian Zimerman might be next on their hit list (great pianist but he looks so precious and affected even though he clearly feels the music deeply)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sChVRfNIdOA

Martin

[Chalkperson]

Oh, come on people, go to the 99 Cent store and buy a sense of humor!

Go Online, you can probably get one for free...