Shred!!!

I am always a year too late finding these viral videos

I first found this by accident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKCwH3amLaU

and I was fooled for about half of it, then I realized something was wrong. It's not a modern music escapde, but rather somebody overdubed new audio onto existing video. The original master was one StSanders:

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/shredders

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/parody-videos-s.html

he was shut down, but his videos live on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89zM9pZzt0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI

and now there are so many copycats that this has even gone over to classical!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zh3Pme7PY

I have to admit that this Santana bit reminded me of Surrender to the Air, an avante garde Phish side project that I saw in 1996:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrLEuzVCVQ

I think Surrender to the Air was a bit overrated. Just a bit.