Face-Melting Guitar Solo

Ah, Baroque music, isn’t it about time? (Musical joke.  Baroque music is characteristically all about time.)

Seriously, “funtwo” as he is known in the common tongue can really play, and he hasn’t been playing for all that long. There are quite a number of people on YouTube that have uploaded songs he’s played, interviews he has done, and even a performance at YouTube Live.

Who is this capped musical wonder? Let’s ask Wikipedia:

Lim Jeong-hyun, also known by the online alias funtwo, is a South Korean guitarist known for his cover of the piece Canon Rock. The YouTube user with the alias “guitar90″ is not Lim Jeong-hyun, but an unknown person who just happened to upload Lim’s video. This has been cleared up in his latest interviews. Quoting from the video, the interview clarifies, “someone else called guitar90 who grabbed the video and put it on YouTube where it became a sensation”. Now he has an account on youtube called funtwohimself.

He played and recorded his cover of Canon Rock during 2005. He uploaded his video onto the popular Korean music site called Mule.co.kr. It was then uploaded to YouTube by a viewer nicknamed “guitar90″, under the title guitar. It was not long before the video gathered popularity and viewers speculated as to who was beneath the baseball cap.

His video is among the twenty most viewed and fifth most “favorited” video in YouTube history with over 58 million views and counting.
Lim’s cover of Canon Rock has been mentioned on CNN, 20/20, The New York Times, and National Public Radio, in addition to MBC news, CBC Radio, KBS news, and other Korean news stations.

Many viewers have speculated and thought the video as fake because the audio is not synchronized with the video. Lim later stated to The New York Times that this had to do with the fact that “he recorded the audio and video independently and then matched them inexactly.” The performance itself was recorded in two parts, and edited together. An image of a traffic light was used to make the transition.

Lim Jeong-hyun. (2009, April 30). In  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:14, May 4, 2009, from  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lim_Jeong-hyun&oldid=287145015

The “face-melting” bit is from “School of Rock.”