http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpDZ3WotLXY

The guys playing these in the video look like complete douches. Especially the "rock" guy.

I seriously want to kill the guys in the video. It's pissing me off.

I would so compose epics on that.

But, yeah.

you know if you saw that in a store you'd be all over it.

except they could all probably beat the fuck out of you, including the little kid.

it's about time someone made a portable porn music generator

It looks pretty fun to mess around with for about an hour.

who the fuck invented this?

You can't control what note you're playing, only the timing. This is retarded. You're just triggering pre-set notes.

It's like one of those Sesame Street guitars for bald guys in black shirts.

Not even messing around or fucking with you, I think you have serious problems with the culturally-defined idea of masculinity.

yes, but I still want to try it

This is not an instrument, it's a high tech simon says, but without the simon.

This is an instrument

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WZExmtIJkI

Benjamin Franklin invented it, Mozart composed for it, and while it isn't as lame as that sharper image crap or the guys playing with it, it's still pretty lame.

from the thread title, I assumed that we were talking about a chapman stick.

also lame.

Because you can't play it.

I could get a good 5 minutes worth of fun out of that thing before boredom sets in.

You are incorrect, it's an incredibly simple instrument.

It's still lame.

EDIT: that's to say, i know a guy around chicago who worked at double door and a bunch of lame bands wanted him to gig with them. He ended up at Estelle's after work where i was working door, and we ended up jamming with a bunch of musicians at my practice space, where i proceeded to school him on his own Chapman grand stick (that's two extra strings bitches), and then we both hung our heads in shame and drank much more ferociously after that.

aka "The Sharper Image Principle."

See also: SkyMall.

oh and as a general rule, if it can be played, Phil can play it. Start with this assupmtion.

Haha, thanks kyle.

The hang drum was invented 5 or so years ago in switzerland, and i'm predicting that it will quickly appear at every hippie drum circle in america within the next ten to fifteen years.

Look out, those drum circles are about to get even MORE cacophonous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQ7ucHS ... re=related

now picture even three kids on acid playing these. now add a bunch of djembes and congas. Maybe 5 acoustic guitars or more...

Makes you shudder, doesn't it?

it looks like he stole the lid of a grill and plopped down in the middle of the street and started banging on it in the hopes of the cops passing him by.

Excellent. I'm now looking forward to Mayor of Simpleton schooling us on how we're too indie to appreciate the true artistry of the chapman stick, and how we can't recognize a real chapman stick virtuoso in much the same way as we can't recognize Neil Peart's wizardry on the gong.

Nope, you guys aren't even worth the trouble.