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Those funny videos where Finnish artist Santeri Ojala dubbed videos of famous guitar performances with intentionally terrible shredding are gone from YouTube, according to the Onion A.V. Club, and they're disappearing from MySpace, but Wired has all nine clips. My favorite is the last one, of Yngwie Malmsteen with the New Japan Philharmonic, particularly funny after hearing the real concert; here it is below.

Delightfully, Ojala gave an interview to Guitar Player about his method and motivation. Sez he:

I pick artists who are considered great guitar players. Then I'm looking for facial expressions and lots of showing off. My favorite parts are when an artist is at his limits, and you can see it on his face. Then, when I overdub, I like to leave the licks unfinished, over-bend, come up with stupid arpeggios, and throw in a borrowed riff or two.