Fan guitarist slays Green Day
This is such a perfect rock-star-fantasy story that the video brings a sentimental tear to my eye. Yes, I know it's not the first time it's happened, but the combination of fan, band, and audience reaction is about as good as it gets.
And XX Factor captures the feminist angle: "Sorry, Courtney Cox-in-'Dancing in the Dark' -- as concert fantasies go, this one is way better."
Is it just me or does Billie Joe Armstrong appear to direct Stephanie -- the fan-turned-guitar-hero -- to get out of out of the spotlight in the middle of the song, before realizing the magnitude of star he has on his hands? To his credit, by the end he is appropriately bowing and scraping before her.
PS Additional gratuitous guitar-hero content here. (Talking Heads, "Crosseyed and Painless," Rome, Adrian Belew, 1980.) Yes, this is a poor excuse for a link, but, still, check it out.
