My understanding is that it’s the Rickroll of the guitar-playing world.
It’s fairly straightforward for the novice to play, and is associated with the hipster who lugs a guitar everywhere as a fashion accessory rather than to develop any musical talent, where their repertoire is limited to two or three four-chord wonder songs.
In this instance, the guitarist has given the audience member the chance of a lifetime to shred in front of a crowd that most amateur band members will never see in a lifetime… and instead threw out the “so anyway here’s Wonderwall” meme and dropped a simple meme song.
I’m clearly out of the loop, I need this one explained to me.
My understanding is that it’s the Rickroll of the guitar-playing world.
It’s fairly straightforward for the novice to play, and is associated with the hipster who lugs a guitar everywhere as a fashion accessory rather than to develop any musical talent, where their repertoire is limited to two or three four-chord wonder songs.
In this instance, the guitarist has given the audience member the chance of a lifetime to shred in front of a crowd that most amateur band members will never see in a lifetime… and instead threw out the “so anyway here’s Wonderwall” meme and dropped a simple meme song.
Happy to be corrected.
You’re pretty much spot on here. No need for a correction.
OP, this is your answer.
Wonder what the intro (up to the start of the lyrics) to Nothing Else Matters would be seen as
I halfway suspect the audience member panicked and defaulted to the comfortable muscle memory song.
The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.
Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here’s more about it if you’re interested:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall
Full article: https://archive.is/8GyPF
Basically the fan tricked the band and he was stopped because he wasn’t playing the song he said he would play.
All in good fun I think, they seem very chill on stage