If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice.
The great Orsen Welles spring chickened out by only recording heavy metal tracks when he was 70. His excuse for not repeating that at 90 was dying not long after.
It doesn't bother me, it's fantastic that he did this, it was just objectively not very good. I'm glad his other contributions were better, and he's obviously had an illustrious career in general.
William Shatner has the most experimental, wild Spotify I've ever seen. If you haven't ever seen it, look at his discography. He does a lot of almost spoken-word poetry over soft rock, punk, etc. You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off.
He's also (to my knowledge) one of the only major Hollywood actors to ever star in a movie filmed entirely in esperanto. I've heard that the pronunciation is rather rough around the edges though I have no way of corroborating that.
> Native Esperanto speakers (Esperanto: denaskuloj [denasˈkuloi̯] or denaskaj esperantistoj [deˈnaskai̯ esperanˈtistoi̯]) are people who have acquired Esperanto as one of their native languages. As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers.[1][2] Estimates from associations indicate that there were around 1,000 Esperanto-speaking families, involving perhaps 2,000 children in 2004. ...
> some families have passed Esperanto on to their children over several generations.
My Esperanto teacher told me 'there are always a lot of marriages after Esperanto conventions '. It makes sense it would be the primary shared language of some couples
The Wikipedia article points out 'native speakers have limited opportunity to meet one another except where meetings are specially arranged. For that reason, many parents consider it important to bring their children regularly to Esperanto conventions'.
I'd heard of this movie before and had to check it out - the scene I watched where he was speaking to who I assume is the female lead sounded like an American and an Italian both speaking perfectly passable Esperanto. If I were to nitpick his i's were a little soft - Esperanto i's are canonically pronounced ee - but Esperanto was made to accommodate lots of different accents without losing comprehensibility and it did that here. I actually found his Esperanto easier to follow than the girl's, but that's probably because I learned Esperanto from people speaking it with Canadian accents.
When I watched Incubus I remember him sounding very much like he was trying to speak Italian. My only basis for comparison are some podcasts in Esperanto I've listened to, and completion of the duolingo course (I've forgotten everything).
Hand to heart honest, I had a listen to this, and this is the only version I know. This was a very popular song when I was in university in 15 years ago.
Ben Folds co-composing the album and songs featuring Henry Rollins, Lemon Jelly, etc, as well as having Nick Hornby (and I believe Aimee Mann?) on That's Me Trying is incredible, and also probably my favorite song on it.
Zarelli took Leonard Nimoy's 1975 audio recording of the disturbing short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” (The Martian Chronicles, 1950) and turned it into a song. I think you'll like it:
No mention of Shatner's music career is complete without listing Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner[1]. And, yes, it's exactly as -unique- as you'd imagine it might be.
William Shatner is someone I really wish I could dislike. I mean, he is certainly not a conventionally talented singer or actor. He's laughably, painfully bad sometimes.
But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world.
The Wrath of Khan has no business being as great a movie as it is, and his version of Common People is fantastic.
I'm sure this collaboration will be .... something else.
== Edit
I'm sure I am over-analyzing this - I do that with everything - but Common People is actually "perfect" Shatner.
When you start listening, you feel "OK, this is lame." After a bit it clicks and it becomes "Oh! I see what they are trying to do here." and by the end it becomes "Damn! This is awesome."
Shatner doesn't change throughout the performance, but everything just falls into place around him.
> But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world.
I still think him (of Star Trek) opening AFI's tribute to George Lucas (of Star Wars) was genius:
His acting is laughably, painfully bad and then suddenly incredibly poignant and for some reason for the whole time it's bad I'm subconsciously like "oh this part doesn't count". It's so easy to root for him
His style seems quite Shakespearean which was done in a slightly over the top way to entertain the live crowds at the time, rather than the realistic style popular nowadays with close up filming.
Alien 3 is my favourite in the Alien franchise, so I'm a chance to see it your way. But then I love American Psycho and the portrayal by Christian Bale, so maybe I'm already out of the running.
As I age, I look on these happy, productive seniors, people like Dick Van Dyke (100), David Attenborough (99), and Mel Brooks (99) and keep my fingers crossed.
I would never have expected that "Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting while Adrian Belew and Matt Chamberlain go absolutely wild on guitar and drums respectively" would be anywhere close to as good as it is.
Incidentally, Rollins talking about the recording[0] of it is freaking hilarious.
Well, thanks for cutting another one and a half hours from my already too short period of sleep at night and making me waste more time tomorrow at looking up more stand up shows from Henry if available.
I highly recommend watching his live show if he's ever in your area. Great experience. Henry is the epitome of intensity for 2 hours. He doesn't stop. He doesn't sit. He doesn't drink. I'm not even sure he breathes.
You wouldn't think someone just orating without singing is entertaining, but it worked. I'm sure Ben Folds did a lot of the heavy lifting to make it great though.
While most people cite Common People as their favorite song on the album, I also like "You'll Have Time" as one of the more philosophically important songs that I've ever heard.
Yeah, this is literally the sort of mainstream celebrity news that HN should flag without question, but pop culture nostalgia always means the rules don't count. Pretending you flew in a spaceship in the 1960s shouldn't count for "technical merit."
Meanwhile the story about an Israeli massacre of Gaza aid workers with actual technical content didn't last an hour before being flooded with complaints about being "off topic" then getting flagged.
From the HN guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Star Trek was wildly popular among the OG hackers before most of the people reading this were even born.
A lot of non-hackers also like Star Trek, and a lot of hackers don't like it. Liking Star Trek isn't indicative of or relevant to being a "good hacker".
By this logic being old and probably white and male is also what it takes to be a good hacker.
May I remind you that Hacker News generally values civil discourse and that ageist, racist, and sexist comments are not welcome here. Please take some time to review the HN guidelines that are linked at the bottom of the page.
I recall that he consulted for an unofficial (semi-official?) concept video by the Roddenberry Archive that was a finale/sendoff for Captain Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50 . If you're a fan of TOS, it's worth a watch.
Yup, I am a fan and watched that concept video when it came out.
I'm hoping he makes some sort of return, perhaps involving the
Star Trek Picard Season 3 reveal that Kirk's body is being kept
on ice at Section 31, on Daystrom Station. I would imagine that
there are many ways that Kirk could be brought back, perhaps
Kirk's body could have ended up being stored in a transporter's
buffer similar to how the episode "Relics" from Star Trek: The
Next Generation, Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is discovered
alive in a transporter buffer after being trapped for 75 years
on a Dyson sphere. The transporter has been rigged to sustain
two life signals, allowing Scott to survive by maintaining a
diagnostic cycle. His pattern remains intact, allowing him to
be rematerialized after being rescued by the USS Enterprise.
Another possibility is being back due to meddling from the Q
or an evolved V'Ger. There's been published a comic where some
of the old crew from multiple TV projects have been brought
back to help solve the killings of some of Star Trek's Gods
by an unknown figure. Emperor Kahless is eventually revealed
to be Star Trek’s god-killer. Among the many cameos in the
series are Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Worf,
Alexander Rozhenko, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, B'Elanna Torres,
Tom Paris, Ro Laren, and others like Q, Kahless (clone/Emperor),
and crossovers with Picard-era or TOS characters. It does not
have to be a TV series but could be a limited TV mini-series.
The Star Trek financial gods wasted big money on a badly done
Section 31 movie. I don't see why they don't do something more
similar to Star Trek comic and Television canon.
Hmm, that would be an interesting twist, but I'd be great if we could get some closure on V'Ger's fate as well. Heck even a BSG vs Star Trek multiversal crossover event would be good about now, considering the low-quality shows that are being put out ;)
Hell yeah! HM on HN!
I would like to do metal projects in my nineties!
After the Iron Maiden performance we need an album from Ralph Fiennes. How'z'dat?
If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?
If I had a nickel for each actor who recorded a heavy metal album after their 90th birthday then I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it's happened twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne:_The_Omens_of_Deat...
Impressive.
The great Orsen Welles spring chickened out by only recording heavy metal tracks when he was 70. His excuse for not repeating that at 90 was dying not long after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AMi-vCfAWw
Manowar are such a guilty pleasure of mine. They have a lot of very silly material, but hard to deny that Dark Avenger is anything but absolute art.
I knew about this, though I'd never listened to it. I gave it a shot now, and I wanted to like it, but... it's terrible, unfortunately.
He also did work with Rhapsody of Fire from 2004 to 2010, where his contributions were of much higher quality.
It doesn't bother me, it's fantastic that he did this, it was just objectively not very good. I'm glad his other contributions were better, and he's obviously had an illustrious career in general.
If you want to give it a listen, I'd recommend this album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arAgnVGFZbs
Excellent, I do love me some Rhapsody, thanks.
Phineas and Ferb had some of the best scripts ever written for TV, and I'll die on that hill.
That’s unfair to Sir Christopher. He was only 82 when he started working with Rhapsody.
Oh wow he looks incredible for being 94
William Shatner has the most experimental, wild Spotify I've ever seen. If you haven't ever seen it, look at his discography. He does a lot of almost spoken-word poetry over soft rock, punk, etc. You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off.
He's also (to my knowledge) one of the only major Hollywood actors to ever star in a movie filmed entirely in esperanto. I've heard that the pronunciation is rather rough around the edges though I have no way of corroborating that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film)
Shatner speaks Esperanto with a perfect native accent. Everyone else is pronouncing it wrong.
I know you were speaking tongue-in-cheek.
Esperanto has native speakers. Shatner is not one of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
> Native Esperanto speakers (Esperanto: denaskuloj [denasˈkuloi̯] or denaskaj esperantistoj [deˈnaskai̯ esperanˈtistoi̯]) are people who have acquired Esperanto as one of their native languages. As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers.[1][2] Estimates from associations indicate that there were around 1,000 Esperanto-speaking families, involving perhaps 2,000 children in 2004. ...
> some families have passed Esperanto on to their children over several generations.
My Esperanto teacher told me 'there are always a lot of marriages after Esperanto conventions '. It makes sense it would be the primary shared language of some couples
The Wikipedia article points out 'native speakers have limited opportunity to meet one another except where meetings are specially arranged. For that reason, many parents consider it important to bring their children regularly to Esperanto conventions'.
This has strong Chuck Norris facts vibes.
I'd heard of this movie before and had to check it out - the scene I watched where he was speaking to who I assume is the female lead sounded like an American and an Italian both speaking perfectly passable Esperanto. If I were to nitpick his i's were a little soft - Esperanto i's are canonically pronounced ee - but Esperanto was made to accommodate lots of different accents without losing comprehensibility and it did that here. I actually found his Esperanto easier to follow than the girl's, but that's probably because I learned Esperanto from people speaking it with Canadian accents.
When I watched Incubus I remember him sounding very much like he was trying to speak Italian. My only basis for comparison are some podcasts in Esperanto I've listened to, and completion of the duolingo course (I've forgotten everything).
His rendition of “Common People” is my favorite cover and I honestly prefer it to Pulps original.
Hand to heart honest, I had a listen to this, and this is the only version I know. This was a very popular song when I was in university in 15 years ago.
I did not realize it was shatner!
Ben Folds co-composing the album and songs featuring Henry Rollins, Lemon Jelly, etc, as well as having Nick Hornby (and I believe Aimee Mann?) on That's Me Trying is incredible, and also probably my favorite song on it.
Thank you. 100% agree. I would love to hear Shatner work with John Cooper Clarke
An interesting choice of words: "has the most experimental, wild Spotify" when referring to someone's discography :)
Is Spotify becoming the new Kleenex or Hoover when referring to music?
At one point he was huge into the paintball scene as well. Beyond hobby level
There's also the time he did spoken word Slim Shady for Futurama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf04PAeFnE
And Zapp's scene in the restaurant was a parody of Shatner's spoken word covers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfbsu1bbQE
Zarelli took Leonard Nimoy's 1975 audio recording of the disturbing short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” (The Martian Chronicles, 1950) and turned it into a song. I think you'll like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ekjpJWSvY&list=RD7_ekjpJWS...
> You get the sense that he views acting as his side hustle and is waiting for his musical career to take off.
Steve Martin paid the bills with stand-up comedy and acting until his banjo career finally took off.
If you’ve never heard it, his duet of the song Common People is pretty awesome:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXhWf0vE7c
He did an interesting cover[1] of Elton John's Rocket Man[2] back in 78.
That cover was later remixed into this[3] piece of internet gold (IMHO).
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wI4jMxveyI
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QZe8Z66x8
[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IffZh3V8oQ
And Shatner's cover was covered by Family Guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZL4pNtI9nM
Agreed, it fits well within his range and it's IMHO a really great cover of Common People.
I also really enjoy _That's Me Trying_: https://youtu.be/vjGaqFrF5Fw?si=eq_VSQXnxqXQ_Kyg
and _Real_: https://youtu.be/hsKfZ3wvLkE?si=l7FdbGCX_u8ep0Ie
Even better is the live version: https://vimeo.com/714215610
Thanks! That was actually really good. His performance matches the emotions underlying the song.
Something all the covers of Behind Blue Eyes by The Who seem to miss is the slowly rising anger and frustration.
Mr Tambourine Man is pretty epic too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCi_-9Shhg&list=RDXmCi_-9Sh...
I have to say, the brass arrangement is pretty good - would have loved to be there when they recorded that staccato part.
and only improved by adding the Star Trek cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWEM4gZhg4
This is very well done, thanks
I honestly thought his voice fit better for the theme of the song than the original
I'm amazed the guy is still ticking at all. He's 94! Seems he's also still driving... and eating his breakfast at traffic lights: https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/20/william-shatner-eating-cereal...
Only in earth’s frame of reference. He spent a long time at warp. So he’s really only 65
There's no time dilation at warp. What are they even teaching at Starfleet Academy these days?
The breakfast cereal thing was a commercial. A successful one, apparently.
Seem to be. Commercials here https://youtu.be/qN-uzwFYckg?t=3
I honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it. People around here eat plates of pasta in cars and throw them out the window.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner#/media/File:Wi...
For 93 that's amazing.
No mention of Shatner's music career is complete without listing Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner[1]. And, yes, it's exactly as -unique- as you'd imagine it might be.
1: https://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Leonard-William-Shatner/dp...
Bilbo, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, greatest little hobbit of them all ..
William Shatner is someone I really wish I could dislike. I mean, he is certainly not a conventionally talented singer or actor. He's laughably, painfully bad sometimes.
But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world.
The Wrath of Khan has no business being as great a movie as it is, and his version of Common People is fantastic.
I'm sure this collaboration will be .... something else.
== Edit I'm sure I am over-analyzing this - I do that with everything - but Common People is actually "perfect" Shatner.
When you start listening, you feel "OK, this is lame." After a bit it clicks and it becomes "Oh! I see what they are trying to do here." and by the end it becomes "Damn! This is awesome."
Shatner doesn't change throughout the performance, but everything just falls into place around him.
> But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working people in show business. He clearly takes his craft very seriously, even if he defines it a bit differently from the rest of world.
I still think him (of Star Trek) opening AFI's tribute to George Lucas (of Star Wars) was genius:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZVwQptvWw
(Also love Mike Myers' AFI for Sean Connery.)
His acting is laughably, painfully bad and then suddenly incredibly poignant and for some reason for the whole time it's bad I'm subconsciously like "oh this part doesn't count". It's so easy to root for him
His style seems quite Shakespearean which was done in a slightly over the top way to entertain the live crowds at the time, rather than the realistic style popular nowadays with close up filming.
Shatner singlehanded made American Psycho 2 better than the original. It's so awful it's great.
(I know no one else in the world feels this way.)
I didn't know there was even a sequel.
Alien 3 is my favourite in the Alien franchise, so I'm a chance to see it your way. But then I love American Psycho and the portrayal by Christian Bale, so maybe I'm already out of the running.
Maybe, it has a very different tone from the first movie. It's kind of like how Sleepaway Camp sequels went all goofy and campy.
I love shitty campy horror movies from the 80s/90s, so it works for me.
Denny Crane!
Shatner ... knows ... how to ... have fun ... in his 90s!
As I age, I look on these happy, productive seniors, people like Dick Van Dyke (100), David Attenborough (99), and Mel Brooks (99) and keep my fingers crossed.
Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge! That always blows me away. What a life's journey.
Like a stray bullet and his journey ends there but instead he’s still going strong at 99.
100 is the new 80... I hope!
And more power to him; he's enjoying himself and that's all that matters. We should all be so fortunate.
Exactly!
Whenever someone overuses ellipsis I imagine they talk like William Shatner.
Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ
If Will Shat would do a cover of Styx's “Come Sail Away” using AI SpaceX Starship imagery in the music video
I can't get behind this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWP9Oxdn9Q
His 2004 album “Has Been” is surprisingly good.
I would never have expected that "Shatner and Henry Rollins ranting while Adrian Belew and Matt Chamberlain go absolutely wild on guitar and drums respectively" would be anywhere close to as good as it is.
Incidentally, Rollins talking about the recording[0] of it is freaking hilarious.
[0]: https://youtu.be/8zL3wtNrq00?t=4616
Well, thanks for cutting another one and a half hours from my already too short period of sleep at night and making me waste more time tomorrow at looking up more stand up shows from Henry if available.
I highly recommend watching his live show if he's ever in your area. Great experience. Henry is the epitome of intensity for 2 hours. He doesn't stop. He doesn't sit. He doesn't drink. I'm not even sure he breathes.
You wouldn't think someone just orating without singing is entertaining, but it worked. I'm sure Ben Folds did a lot of the heavy lifting to make it great though.
While most people cite Common People as their favorite song on the album, I also like "You'll Have Time" as one of the more philosophically important songs that I've ever heard.
It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist.
I'm guessing the music will be much like this one (more about fun than having the best actual songs) but didn't know there was a track with both Chris Poland and Marty Friedman: https://open.spotify.com/track/7yDb6NVzvuUVuvLyTSfDhz?si=0c5...
In a thread full of attractive links, this was the one that got me to break discipline and click. Thanks!
HN: Flags anything politics adjacent because it's "not tech-related".
Also HN: Remember Star Trek?!?
Yeah, this is literally the sort of mainstream celebrity news that HN should flag without question, but pop culture nostalgia always means the rules don't count. Pretending you flew in a spaceship in the 1960s shouldn't count for "technical merit."
Meanwhile the story about an Israeli massacre of Gaza aid workers with actual technical content didn't last an hour before being flooded with complaints about being "off topic" then getting flagged.
C'est la vie, Hacker News will never change.
From the HN guidelines: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Star Trek was wildly popular among the OG hackers before most of the people reading this were even born.
A lot of non-hackers also like Star Trek, and a lot of hackers don't like it. Liking Star Trek isn't indicative of or relevant to being a "good hacker".
By this logic being old and probably white and male is also what it takes to be a good hacker.
May I remind you that Hacker News generally values civil discourse and that ageist, racist, and sexist comments are not welcome here. Please take some time to review the HN guidelines that are linked at the bottom of the page.
This is my all-time favourite from Shatner: "It hasn't happened yet"
https://youtu.be/7GnoLJIIS4w?si=zP_mlOxV1tKMMkQx
Sometimes I’m absolutely mystified by the items that appear at the top of HN.
That's not a bug, that's a feature
There are a lot of Trekkies here. Star Trek was popular among hackers and nerds all the way back to when it first aired in the late 1960s.
I am also confused as to how this is relevant to HN.
Apparently more than 100 registerd users with voting rights thought it interesting and few to none felt it flag worthy.
So, much the same bar was cleared as every other article that makes the "interesting to HN community" grade.
Rack that up to more Trekkie-adjacent and metal-heads than you might have expected.
Mystified by the fact that people on HN have interests outside of computers and shit?
A lot of those non-tech get flagged from the homepage. It’s interesting to see what is allowed to stay and what is not.
Do star trek and boston legal really fall outside of stereotypical HN interests?
...Yes. We're all fucking nerds.
/s
Don't know if true or not but I saw somewhere on the web that he is also in talks to return to Star Trek.
I recall that he consulted for an unofficial (semi-official?) concept video by the Roddenberry Archive that was a finale/sendoff for Captain Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgOZFny7F50 . If you're a fan of TOS, it's worth a watch.
Yup, I am a fan and watched that concept video when it came out. I'm hoping he makes some sort of return, perhaps involving the Star Trek Picard Season 3 reveal that Kirk's body is being kept on ice at Section 31, on Daystrom Station. I would imagine that there are many ways that Kirk could be brought back, perhaps Kirk's body could have ended up being stored in a transporter's buffer similar to how the episode "Relics" from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) is discovered alive in a transporter buffer after being trapped for 75 years on a Dyson sphere. The transporter has been rigged to sustain two life signals, allowing Scott to survive by maintaining a diagnostic cycle. His pattern remains intact, allowing him to be rematerialized after being rescued by the USS Enterprise. Another possibility is being back due to meddling from the Q or an evolved V'Ger. There's been published a comic where some of the old crew from multiple TV projects have been brought back to help solve the killings of some of Star Trek's Gods by an unknown figure. Emperor Kahless is eventually revealed to be Star Trek’s god-killer. Among the many cameos in the series are Benjamin Sisko, Jake Sisko, Kira Nerys, Odo, Worf, Alexander Rozhenko, Spock, Scotty, Uhura, B'Elanna Torres, Tom Paris, Ro Laren, and others like Q, Kahless (clone/Emperor), and crossovers with Picard-era or TOS characters. It does not have to be a TV series but could be a limited TV mini-series. The Star Trek financial gods wasted big money on a badly done Section 31 movie. I don't see why they don't do something more similar to Star Trek comic and Television canon.
Kirk is in the Nexus still, even though he left and died. He could leave it again.
Hmm, that would be an interesting twist, but I'd be great if we could get some closure on V'Ger's fate as well. Heck even a BSG vs Star Trek multiversal crossover event would be good about now, considering the low-quality shows that are being put out ;)
https://youtu.be/9HXz2oOlN0A
It won't hold a candle to Pat Boone's metal album! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Metal_Mood:_No_More_Mr._N...
Hell yeah! HM on HN! I would like to do metal projects in my nineties! After the Iron Maiden performance we need an album from Ralph Fiennes. How'z'dat?
If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU
"Please God, don't let him sing." is my immediate reaction after curiously hearing one of his previous works.
15 hours and 95 comments later and nobody mentions that he's holding the Les Paul backwards?
It’s possible for a standard right-handed player to throw a guitar over to that position while playing.
Anyway, see the pain on his face; he’s (obvs) just in the middle of an especially aggressive and passionate metal solo.
I do hope Gibson/Chibson make that guitar with the inlays at the 11th/13th positions.
The album he made with Ben Folds was worth a couple of listens. Only a couple.
A day.
Still waiting for his spoken word, rnb, julius caesar.
Guess the Beastie Boys were never in the running.
It's Shatner, he can score anything.
God speed, Metal Man.
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