{"id":32321,"date":"2022-07-16T02:05:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32321"},"modified":"2022-07-16T02:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T06:05:32","slug":"biab-youve-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/biab-youve-been\/","title":{"rendered":"BIAB: You&#8217;ve been&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t actually care if you&#8217;ve seen either or both of these videos before &#8211; they deserve another look if you have, and if you haven&#8217;t, I&#8217;m pleased to introduce you to them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"\/\/ok.ru\/videoembed\/48479210037\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/>Okay, the chances are fairly good that you&#8217;d already heard that one<strong>;<\/strong> I&#8217;ve known about it for a few years and I don&#8217;t even do the social media horseshit thing. It&#8217;s a duo (Stjepan Hauser and Luka \u0160uli&#263;) known as 2Cellos, and they&#8217;ve been doing rock and pop covers on cellos for most of their career &#8211; it&#8217;s probably safe to say it <em>is<\/em> their career.<\/p>\n<p>But then there&#8217;s this one<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/564u39PJfUI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/misscellania.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/thunderstuck-on-guzheng.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">H\/T Miss Cellania<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The artist&#8217;s name is Moyun, and I can&#8217;t tell you much about her except that the instrument is a guzheng, a type of 21-string Chinese zither and, according to my <a href=\"https:\/\/misscellania.blogspot.com\/2022\/07\/thunderstuck-on-guzheng.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>, she always appears with her face covered &#8211; her official YouTube channel is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBTFh3fPtiOoXSfTWz0cbPg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A small thing that I noticed<strong>:<\/strong> The handle that she uses at the beginning is simply a tuning wrench, and she&#8217;s re-tuning a particular string to get the tremolo down, solely because her other hand is so busy &#8211; you can see later on that she accomplishes the same thing with her left hand.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s impressive about both videos is that, not only do they play the notes provided by the <em>lyrics<\/em> in the original song (which, I guess I should say, is &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; by AC\/DC,) they also play the parts of several instruments<strong>:<\/strong> lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass (guitar,) and drums &#8211; that&#8217;s outstanding. Moyun also taps out a rhythm with the fingerpicks on the outside of the sound board.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the above artists chose this particular song because &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; is both recognizable and iconic. It&#8217;s been said that AC\/DC has been &#8220;playing the same song&#8221; for years &#8211; at least, most of their lineup is instantly recognizable as theirs &#8211; but everything came together extremely well for this track, and while Brian Johnson has a voice that sounds like someone doing a bad impression of Gonzo from <em>The Muppet Show<\/em>, he knows exactly how to use it to best effect. The lyrics, while not terribly poetic, nonetheless form a distinctive melody that&#8217;s just as much a riff as Angus Young&#8217;s lead guitar, necessitating their use in the above instrumental covers &#8211; it&#8217;s not &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; without being able to hear, &#8220;Broke all the rules, played all the fools,&#8221; in there.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to look up if &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; has been covered more times than &#8216;(I Can&#8217;t Get No) Satisfaction&#8217; by The Rolling Stones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t actually care if you&#8217;ve seen either or both of these videos before &#8211; they deserve another look if you have, and if you haven&#8217;t, I&#8217;m pleased to introduce you to them. Okay, the chances are fairly good that you&#8217;d already heard that one; I&#8217;ve known about it for a few years and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,12,46,3809],"tags":[6819,6821,6827,6826,6823,6824,6822,6825,6818,6820],"class_list":["post-32321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-random","category-too-cool","category-video","tag-2cellos","tag-ac-dc","tag-angus-young","tag-brian-johnson","tag-cellos","tag-guzheng","tag-luka-sulic","tag-moyun","tag-stjepan-hauser","tag-thunderstruck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}