I am totally on the fence as to whether this is the saddest thing I've ever seen or pure genius. Any opinions?
Either way, he gets bonus points for the shirts.
[via The Official Star Wars Blog]
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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday November 01, 2008 at 12:15 AM
© 2008 SF Signal
It's close to genius. Think of it: he wrote all the lyrics, sung 4 parts, one at a time, synched it all together. Very, very good.
Posted by Scott Parker on Saturday November 01, 2008 at 9:19 AM
I'm saying, without reservation, genius.
Posted by Greg van Eekhout on Saturday November 01, 2008 at 2:29 PM
I'll go with genius. Very creative. The sad part is there can never be a "live" performance like this.
Posted by Dave on Saturday November 01, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Actually, this guy did nothing but make the video. The song was written, arranged and even recorded by an A Capella group called Moose Butter. He's lip-synching in the video. Here's Moose Butter's website, with a handy topical post concerning this very video! I knew my combined nerdery for SF and A Cappella would come in handy some day...
I guess he did it with their permission, so I can't be too grumpy about this guy absorbing credit for what I consider a work of sheer genius by one of my favorite musical groups. The good news is, there have been THOUSANDS of live performances of this song. Hooray! Go to the next one in your hometown!
Posted by Luke Shea on Saturday November 01, 2008 at 5:55 PM
And I was just going to throw in MY comment that the most impressive thing about this video was that the guy was singing ALL FOUR PARTS, which would require quite a vocal range...so, too bad that he isn't in fact singing any of them, but the song is still great.
Posted by dnaknitter on Saturday November 01, 2008 at 7:09 PM
"And I was just going to throw in MY comment that the most impressive thing about this video was that the guy was singing ALL FOUR PARTS, which would require quite a vocal range..."
If that sort of thing interests you, check out Bobby Mcferrin. Yeah, the Don't Worry, Be Happy guy. He's actually done several albums with nothing but his voice on them, multi-tracked many times over. And what a voice! People generally think of him as a one-hit-wonder from the eighties, but, in fact, he's still going strong and is, without exaggeration, the most talented vocalist I have ever heard. He has a range that has to be heard to be believed. Here's a really early video of him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNd1UcoUZek
The video itself is dorky as hell, but if you ignore that and just listen to the song, it's pretty impressive. All his voice, all unaltered.
Here's a VERY impresive live one. He actually sings harmonies with himself in real-time, I think by buzzing his lips. Again, completely unaltered and unaided by technology. Absolutely astounding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoLueOpRzs
Posted by Luke Shea on Sunday November 02, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Dammit - I was so impressed until the Moose Butter thing (that's something I've never said before). I was especially impressed with the whiny Luke impression.
Posted by Alan on Sunday November 02, 2008 at 5:17 PM
My favorite is
GEEEEET in there you biiiiiiig
fur
ry
oaf!
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII couldn't care lesssss
WHAT you smell!!
Posted by Luke Shea on Monday November 03, 2008 at 3:25 PM
The guy in moosebutter who does the whiny Luke impersonation also sang most of the songs on their album "udder won" all by himself, multi-tracked. You can listen to them online thru their website if you like to hear one guy with a big vocal range who does lots of stuff. He also wrote most of the songs, and he does perform "Star Wars" live as a solo song, with all the backing tracks recorded of his own voice. Just not the guy in the video, that's all. For what it's worth.
Posted by Becca J on Thursday November 06, 2008 at 1:28 AM