Amazing Cellist Cover of Smooth Criminal

This thread delivers.

and they’re attractive too.

http://www.break.com/index/kid-gets-knocked-out-by-boobs.html

on the link train i found this. amuse yourselves

Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.

[quote]Brother Chris wrote:

/thread[/quote]

Liked the song, but never thought Johnny played quite good enough to best the devil…

Thing is, the devil, being the dude that he is, came back… and got rightly pwned.

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

I hope that was sarcasm, because if it wasn’t then that was the most blasphemous statement I’ve heard in quite some time.

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.[/quote]

Troling is a art

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.[/quote]

Troling is a art[/quote]

Thank you, Mak. I literally laughed out loud when the idea struck me to make that comment.

I’d long imagined Sweet Child O’ Mine on violin – it turns out it’s been done much better than I was doing in my head:

Getting back to cello: - YouTube

[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.[/quote]

Troling is a art[/quote]

Thank you, Mak. I literally laughed out loud when the idea struck me to make that comment.[/quote]

DAMN YOU!

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.[/quote]

Troling is a art[/quote]

Thank you, Mak. I literally laughed out loud when the idea struck me to make that comment.[/quote]

DAMN YOU![/quote]

No, sir. Thank YOU!

well as long as we’re talking about American classics being covered I’ll throw out this gem (although I’m sure most have seen it countless times by now)

(Skip to :25 seconds to start it)

[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:

[quote]Makavali wrote:

[quote]RSGZ wrote:

[quote]postholedigger wrote:
Wow, that cover pays great tribute to the original from Alien Ant Farm.[/quote]

You mean Michael Jackson.[/quote]

Troling is a art[/quote]

Thank you, Mak. I literally laughed out loud when the idea struck me to make that comment.[/quote]

DAMN YOU![/quote]

No, sir. Thank YOU!
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Well played.

Best. Rhythm. Guitar. Player. In. Universe.

Ever.

And, though ordinarily when someone picks up a guitar and starts playing Smoke On The Water nothing good is going to come of it, that’s not the case here:

Lastly, while the vocal is negligible, it’s a first and really enjoyable to hear this covered so well:

Of course Knopfler still is the king for delivering fills and solos with soul. But for rhythm guitar, now I’ve got to go with Presnyakov.

But omitting Knopfler himself would be a crime:

[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
Best. Rhythm. Guitar. Player. In. Universe.

Ever.

Amazing!