Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/the-heaviest-banjo-in-the-univ.html
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Interesting, although – as far as country/metal/rock hybrids go – I sense greater sincerity in Reverend Horton Heat’s “Eat A Steak” even given its mock-hawking for the Texas Beef Industry.
I felt a certain little bit of arousal while watching it.
Better pour yourself a big one @Papasan…because… you know…
Warping the genesis of bluegrass for me.
Apparently there’s dueling banjo country and their’s pillaging warband of banjos country.
metal sans distortion sounds puny and simplistic
Opening band for GWAR.
I have a sympathetic sore throat after watching that.
The fiddle player has some serious bow twirling prowess, but I was kind of hoping for a thrash fiddle solo. Nothing doing.
ETA: Turnabout is fair play:
I think it says something that even without the distortion I had an immediate positive reaction to every Slayer sample.
He’s picking a lot more in the video than in the recording.
Or all-bard adventuring group
But seriously, a fiddler and an old timey band is cabable of so much more than that.
Slayer:
Now with ukulele
Significantly better than the original o.O’.
Does Rob Scallon have a family member who compulsively makes straw hats or something? How does he get so many straw hats?
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