The consensus on the Gearslutz forums was that the overdubbing wasn't just bad – it was convincingly bad. Indeed, after links to the videos were posted on the forums of, a site dedicated to discussions of recording equipment and music production, even some musicians were caught criticizing the (as one poster put it) "insanely bad" stylings of Clapton and Van Halen – only to later laugh along with everyone else once properly informed of the gag. "Many musicians and studio personnel have been fooled too, I must add." "It was more like a 'Let's see who will be fooled?' kind of thought," Ojala wrote. (Steve Vai gets the StSanders treatment in Ojala's original "shreds" video.)Īlthough musicians tend to particularly appreciate the videos, Ojala, who has played guitar for 15 years, said he had no particular audience in mind when he first started making them. The Metallica clip has been viewed more than 140,000 times in the past few months. It wasn't until the Metallica parody that Ojala noticed the surprising amount of attention the videos were getting. The videos' titles are simple – after " Steve Vai shreds" came " Steve Vai shreds in Denver," both in April, with " Metallica shreds" a month later. Ojala, a media artist whose work has included large audio and video installations in highway underpasses and other public areas, said he creates the videos by playing along and editing, strumming "as long as needed to make it sound funny." The process takes at least a couple hours, depending on how many extra sounds are needed.
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