Steve Vai talks on Frank Zappa

Steve Vai talks about his difficult audition for Frank Zappa.

Frank Zappa guitar duel with Steve Vai

Zappa and Vai trade licks in Rome, showing what each thinks is possible with guitar. Their personalities are expressed with their solos.

Bohemian Rhapsody made Classical

Edgar Cruz masterfully plays his classical guitar arrangement of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to show us that there are many ways to appreciate a good song.

Cobain: the style that launched a thousand clones

Though grunge has long been declared dead, "alternative" music is grunge rehashed as even simpler ripoffs and stupider lyrics. Where grunge's angst was the domain of teenagers and extended adolescence at least it qualified as some kind of feeling and potential energy. Today the ripoffs of Cobain devotedly steal his formula and apply it to idiotic babble and directionless cliches. The entertainment industry can be so disappointing in its tired promotion of clones.

Jose Feliciano rocks out in a funky style

Jose Feliciano shows blindness doesn't get in the way of rocking with his medley of the Flight of the Bumblebee and funky slam. Halfway through his jam, he loses his pick and keeps going.

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Yangtze

This Japanese band covers Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" and makes it their own.

Shadow Art

Australian puppeteer Raymond Crowe puts on an artistic performance of shadow art, with music, light, and frames of reference all coming together.