A friend sent a YouTube link to a Santana shredder video the other day, and I totally didn’t get it. I thought it was bad concert audio from an unfortunate attempt to play free jazz or something. Nope.

It turns out a Finnish guy, Santeri Ojala, has been overdubbing bad guitar playing (and other instruments) onto concert footage. He manages to sync pretty well with the video, but the playing and sounds are just awful. Hilarity ensues.

YouTube has removed the videos because of complaints about copyright violations, but Wired has reposted them. You can see all the videos and get the whole story here. Wired has an additional article here which includes video from the Jimmie Kimmel show where Ojala shreds and then is joined by Slash. Not to be missed.

For myself, after watching the Steve Vai solo video and the Iron Maiden video, I got the joke and that was enough (the circus theme near the end of the Iron Maiden video was priceless). But definitely check out those two. I laughed till I thought I was going to be sick.