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Jerry Chang Does Pachelbel’s Canon in D

Posted in Music, YouTube by Elliott Back on August 30th, 2006.

The New York Times has an article about the internet-famous guitar player JerryC who published a YouTube video of himself playing an electric rock version of Pachelbel’s Canon. The movie was an instant hit, and spawned a huge number of imitations, almost none as good as Jerry C’s original, which you can view below:

JerryC Canon Rock - JerryC
5 min 24 sec - Jan 1, 2004

Then, a guy only identified as Funtwo published his own version of the song, which was even better performed than the original:

Canon by Funtwo -

Naturally, the Times reporter did his best to track this newcomer down:

By following a series of clues on JerryC’s message board and various Canon Rock videos, I was able to trace funtwo’s video to Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old Korean who taught himself guitar over the course of the last six years. Now living in Seoul, he listens avidly to Bach and Vivaldi, and in 2000 he took a month of guitar lessons. He plays an ESP, an Alfee Custon SEC-28OTC with gold-colored detailing. A close analysis of his playing style and a comparison of his appearance in person with that of the figure in the video, left little doubt that Mr. Lim is the elusive funtwo.

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