Guitar + Voice Box Rendition of Beach Boys' "God Only Knows."

Posted by Xeni Jardin, May 11, 2009 3:13 PM | permalink

Video Link. YouTuber electricpony made this awesome video using a Stratocaster + Guyatone Micro Octaver + SRB808 Overdrive + EHX Voice Box (Shure SM57 Mic) + Epiphone Valve Junior. Here's more about the voice box gizmo, from Electro Harmonix -- who we've covered previously in a Boing Boing video episode. (thanks, Scott Matthews!)

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#1 posted by Anonymous, May 11, 2009 3:32 PM

My dude PDF Format did an 8bit cover of this song using a vocoder for the harmonies. If you dig this, you'll totally his version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVuv3yAibo&feature=channel_page

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#2 posted by grimc, May 11, 2009 3:35 PM

This raises the question: Do you feel like I do?

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#3 posted by Cementalicious, May 11, 2009 3:43 PM

This is awesome?

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#4 posted by Geoff Sebesta, May 11, 2009 4:42 PM

+1. I hate to be a jerk about somebody else's work, but I was pretty severely disappointed when I watched this. It was my fault for expecting something awesome, I suppose.

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#5 posted by manicbassman, May 11, 2009 10:54 PM

what really annoys me about these youtube videos is that they make no attempt to declutter and clean up the background surroundings. Who actually wants to see people's unmade beds and other horrors like discarded dirty undergarments?

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#6 posted by vytautasmalesh, May 11, 2009 11:13 PM

Did anyone else play a whole shitload of "Gorf" when they were a kid?

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#7 posted by nosehat, May 11, 2009 11:29 PM

@#5: what really annoys me about these youtube videos is that they make no attempt to declutter and clean up the background surroundings. Who actually wants to see people's unmade beds and other horrors like discarded dirty undergarments?

To each their own, ManicBassMan. For me, the unedited (we presume) slice-of-life clutter is the most interesting thing about this video.

Youtube gives us a kind of instant anthropology of the everyday, which I find delightful.