Welcome to the Sunday Funnies on Live Musician Central. Every Sunday we post up a video clip or funny music game that will tickle your funny bone.
Today I’m presenting a clip that could be a Saturday morning cartoon commercial. Remember those ‘Just For Kids’ commercials on Saturday? Well this one has a song that will stick in your brain and have you singing it all day. I hope you like waffles as much as I do! 🙂 (more…)
Everybody knows that any smoking at all is not good for your body. So it was a pretty major marketing blunder when someone got the bright idea to put famous cartoon characters on candy cigarettes. Having kids associate Spider-Man with smoking is maybe not the best thing for good ol’ Spidey’s image. Okay, they’re calling them “candy sticks” but we all know they’re just re-packaged candy cigarettes. (more…)
This stupid video cracked me up for one main reason. When I was about 12 years old, I got in some major trouble for teaching my 4-year old nephew how to say “Up your butt with a coconut”. Now I thought it was truly unfair that I had gotten busted by my Sister-In-Law for teaching my nephew a phrase that had been a playground put-down staple for years!!
Phil, if you’re reading this, I hope it brings back some memories! (more…)
Okay, it’s not fair to make fun of a live band trying to play a song so I want to point out a few positives here first. This song, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is difficult to play because the recording that we’re all used to is so full sounding. But when you try to cover it in a live band, it is really tough to make two notes on the guitar sound rich and full like the recording.
These poor kids don’t even have a bass player and the guitarist doesn’t have his guitar in tune for the two-note riff. So really, all is lost before the singer begins to sing. After the singer starts…well, I’ll let you see for yourself. I will say this though, the drummer has potential! (more…)
In honor of the new Star Trek movie we’re bringing you this fun little clip of classic Star Trek – The Original Series clips set to music from Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie. Now, when you see the new Star Trek movie you can imagine them growing up into the clowns seen in this clip. (more…)
Ahh yes, a classic metal tune by the crazy metal band Green Jelly. This was huge back in 1993 and we used to watch it on MTV all the time. My oldest son used to be scared to death of Rambo in it. He was so scared, all we had to do was say “Raaaambo!” to him and he’d run and hide. Of course he was only two years old at the time. (more…)
It’s sad but true that Kiss has been accused repeatedly of “selling out”. Remember the “Music From The Elder”? This performance of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” is an example of Kiss, yet again, breaking ground and trying out new material. It’s amazing how well Kiss can cover other artists and I had no idea that they could do so well playing standard pop music. I hope you enjoy watching Kiss bust out some killer stage moves to this excellent cover.
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You’ve got to give George Harrison credit for financing the wacked out move ‘Time Bandits’. This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie and I always get a good laugh out of it. There’s just something charming about the “little people” and Napoleon feels it too. Watch this clip and you’ll be singing “Me And My Shadow” all day long! (more…)
This week on Live Musician Central Sunday Funnies I found this clip from the Guitar Center Sessions. Guitar Center brings in world class guitarists and they get them up there with an interviewer, or sidekick and have them put on a demo of their particular instrument showing off their guitar technique. This clip features John Petrucci, the guitarist from Dream Theater who is truly a master of the instrument. He is demo’ing his custom Music Man guitar made by the Ernie Ball company. Up there on stage with him is Sterling Ball, who is the president and CEO of Ernie Ball. Now, Sterling is not a bad guitar player but I don’t think he realizes the caliber of guitarist that John Petrucci is. Most guitarists wouldn’t dare get up there and try to trade licks with John Petrucci. So it’s hilarious to watch Sterling Ball trying to do and say things that are relevant to what John is doing. I think it’s funny because it really comes off as a big sales pitch to buy Music Man guitars. I got some good laughs at Sterling’s expense. In all fairness, Sterling Ball runs a fantastic company with excellent products, but he may want to think twice about trading guitar licks with John Petrucci.
Today we have a clip of Larry The Cable guy showing off his guitar playing skills during his comedy act. Larry actually can’t sing to save his life, but he tells some pretty funny jokes during the process and has a bitchin’ looking confederate flag guitar. (more…)