Meet the Beatnix!
If you’re old enough to remember seeing the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show, or if you’ve seen film of their performance, you’ll get a major kick out of this video. It’s not the Beatles, but the Beatnix, four Australian guys who have it down pat. The kicker is that they are not playing “She Loves You†or “I Want to Hold Your Hand.†Rather, with tongues planted firmly in their cheeks, they’re playing “Stairway to Heaven†as the Beatles would have done it back then.
I farookin’ love it.
Via Agent Bedhead
I farookin’ love it, too, even though it gives me that anti-dexterous numbness I typically feel when I try to simultaneously rotate my foot anti-clockwise, while patting my head, and rubbing my belly in a circular motion.
I think I’ll stick to A Shver a Tugehdikke Nacht by Di Beatlakh, instead.
Comment by Erica — December 21, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
That was farookin’ awesome.
Comment by Craig — December 21, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
That was awesome, farookingly so. 😉
Comment by RT — December 22, 2007 @ 12:34 am
Wooooooooooo . . . those moppy little hairdos shakin’ together at the mike. Cracks me up.
I’d like to hear what this band would do to an Ozzy tune.
Comment by dogette — December 22, 2007 @ 8:38 am
That was whoooo hillarious,
Comment by hoosierboy — December 22, 2007 @ 8:45 am
LOVED it – They rocked!
Comment by Kate — December 22, 2007 @ 9:36 am
Doze guys WOK!!!
Great Reader
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Comment by JihadGene — December 22, 2007 @ 11:39 am
No song deserved this more.
Seriously.
Comment by Joan of Argghh! — December 22, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
Actually, The Kid first heard this version in 1996 on a novelty album he has entitled “Stairways to Heaven”
http://www.amazon.com/Stairways-Heaven-Various-Artists/dp/B000005J65/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1198411305&sr=8-1
It’s really funny how the song can adapt so well to a Beatles-esque arrangement.
And of course, there is always: Dread Zeppelin…
Comment by Kid Various — December 23, 2007 @ 7:03 am
Stairway, again, from Zappa’s last tour, in ’88.
Comment by Ed Flinn — December 23, 2007 @ 8:38 am