I generally do not like instrumentals. I’m an a cappella fanatic. But even those with superior tastes like me can appreciate the following.
Here’s a movie of a dude who gets more music out of a little guitar than you ever would have thought possible. Not only amazing skill, but incredible musicality as well. Jake Shimabukuro (NOTE: Monster file. This thing is 28MB. Sorry all you poor unfortunate dial-up users! Credit: Google Blogoscoped.)
Alternate link: Google Video
Note, this is not a regular guitar, it’s a little guitar. There are all kinds of guitars. Big guitars, little guitars, micro guitars, regular guitars, guitars with holes, guitars without holes, guitars you plug into the wall, guitars you don’t, guitars you hold, guitars you stand up, guitars you play flat, guitars you play with a bow, on and on. But the rarest guitar ever, one you rarely come across, is the one that is played in tune!
What’s the difference between a piano and a guitar?
The piano burns longer! Ha ha!
23 Responses
June 6th, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Wow Tom, that fellow really worked that little guitar over! Thanks for the heads up on that. you can tell he will be going places with his talent. We can only hope he uses it to the Glory of his Creator!
June 7th, 2005 at 12:00 am
What’s the difference between a clarinet and a trampoline?
You take off your shoes to jump on the trampoline! Ha ha!
The Baritone
June 7th, 2005 at 12:10 am
Yeah! Ha ha!
Rob, I did find that guys website, he is an established little guitar player. Japanese or something, I think.
June 7th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
“…But the rarest guitar ever, one you rarely come across, is the one that is played in tune!”
That is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.
June 7th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Tom, you are terrible. Darin’s gonna hurt you. Oh well, it’s probably good for him to have his precious, little piano spoken ill of, he spoke rudely of organs so a piano joke or two would be in order I do believe.
Ag
June 7th, 2005 at 3:27 pm
I am one of the unfortunates living out in the boonies with dial-up. Recently I downloaded the upgraded iTunes (20 MB) and it took over 2 hours. Our internet connection ties up our phone line so hopefully no one was calling throughout that time. LOL!
I generally do not like instrumentals. I’m an a cappella fanatic.
I’m the exact opposite. heh heh! (Those jokes did give me a smile though. :D) However, some friends told us about the AHQ. It was one of the very few times I actually enjoyed listening to a cappella so I had to order a couple CDs. Btw, I’m still impressed that you’d ship before receiving payment to Canada and that the shipping was VERY reasonable. :) Are their any plans to make another recording in the future?
~Lindsey
June 7th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Haha, Ag, I’m wondering which Tom would prefer: Me dropping my piano on his head, or me clobbering him over the head with my guitar.
It’s his choice.
June 7th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
I have a sugestion for those of you who can’t get any broadband where you live. Its time to pull up stakes and move to where you can! LOL. I am so hooked on my high speed connection that if we ever moved to a new location it would have to be available or I wouldn’t move there. We even have our home phone set up through VOIP now. The service is called Packet8 (a competitor to Vonage) and it gives us unlimited long dist, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding etc. for 20.00 per month. The local phone company is charging around 70-80 bucks for the same package. I guess you could say that broadband is starting to save us some money now.
June 7th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
You go, Rob! You gotcher priorities in the right place.
Darin — Looks like you’d better write a few posts on nonresistance!
Lindsey — Thanks a lot! You’re very kind. Unfortunately, no plans for any more albums at this time. AHQ is officially inactive.
June 7th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Good point on the guitars, Tom. Have you ever heard about the only way to get two flute players in tune? Ya gotta shoot one of ’em!
June 7th, 2005 at 11:18 pm
Ha ha! That’s good!
June 8th, 2005 at 10:17 pm
Tom, be assured that I most certainly do not visit your blog for the good jokes!
Puhlease……
Anita
June 8th, 2005 at 10:18 pm
Okay, now I know. I never signed my name in here and just wanted to see how it looks. I’ll stick to the Ag.
“Ag”. It could be “GAg” without the “G”. It could be “Hag” withotu the “h”. It could be a lot of things.
Ag
June 8th, 2005 at 10:20 pm
It could be “LAg” without the “L”, it could be “RAg” without the “r”.
June 8th, 2005 at 10:21 pm
It could be “Sag” without the “S”, it could be “Tag” without the “t”.
June 9th, 2005 at 8:49 pm
Tom, you say you can’t identify with the folks at yoderpianist, I can now understand why much better after reading this post!
Any way, did you hear about the guy that did not lock his car with his accordion in the back seat?
Some one tossed in another one before he got back to lock the door.
Just tryin’ to fit in. {:^)
June 10th, 2005 at 12:21 am
Ha ha!! Excellent!
Yeah, this post would explain matters, wouldn’t it!
June 11th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
So sad. I went early to The Baritone’s graduation on Thursday evening at LBCC, specifically so I could go wi-fi in the library there to download this famous or infamous guitar deal that you speak of on this blog. But no, it’s finals week and the library closed early. I had disassembled my computer stuff at home that morning–even though I was running late to work–left the office on the late side of 5:00, went and grabbed stuff at Taco Bell for supper, went to the college, and lugged my computer to the library–only to find the doors locked! So the download remains a mystery to me.
Lately all I have been granted is a 24 Kb/sec connection, and I am in no hurry (no pun intended) to do a download of that size on that connection. But no, I will not move somewhere else simply so I can experience greater bandwidth. I live in Utopia; in Utopia I shall remain. There are many locations in Utopia in which one can have all the bandwidth he/she needs, but they are not as Utopian as where I live… (I guess I could access that transmission from the top of Peterson’s Butte–but it’s pretty spendy… My present $8.95/mo. still takes care of my narrow-band needs).
Maybe one of you liberated Broadbanded Utopian ITF Constituents who has downloaded it would consider letting me access it with my flash drive sometime???? Then I would have the best of both worlds.
EG
June 12th, 2005 at 12:36 am
All you needed to do was sit on the bench outside the library, you could have accessed it there.
June 13th, 2005 at 1:16 am
Your posts make me laugh.
June 15th, 2005 at 11:57 am
The Post’s are funny but usually what makes it really funny are the comments from all the commenters out there especially the ones from Ag and those many Anon’s.
June 16th, 2005 at 7:37 pm
Tom: It looks like Darin took you seriously.
June 17th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
Yes, I noticed that!