54 days ago · Music · hide · Fediverse post

I recently had family in town, and one of the things they came to see, besides me, was a ukelele festival in Torrance. At that festival, I saw the guy in this video play this arrangement of Billy Jean - the same preposterous one-ukelele version he plays in the video - live. It was extremely nuts. Feng E can actually make the ukelele make these sounds with his hands??? I don't even know too much about ukelele limitations, but I've absorbed enough from friends in college and from my ukelele-playing family member to know how fucking nuts this is: I was also really impressed by some of his original music, which was all on an electric ukelele and involved a lot of pedals and stuff. When his new album comes out I'll probably share it here. I do not watch a lot of live music! I used to play a lot of live music back in college - I was in a wind symphony, an orchestra, and a marching band - but I was playing timpani and xylophone, which are kind of hard to have in your apartment or to play…

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