Well, now the joke really is on you

I'm going to pass out laughing.... help!

"Guitar George, he knows all the chords"

Did they say "Sultans of Swag"?



Someone will have to develop some sort of powerful vaccine to inject my brain with to make me decide this stuff isn't hilarious.

For your pure pleasure listening pleasure

say what the heck, say what the heck....

Rebellion, LRS style

Once again... hilarious.

Diamond in the rough

More Pure Pleasure from the Legion of Rock Stars. First we have "Cracklin' Rosie" featuring a mid-song coughing fit.

Store bought woman, indeed. Next we have the school bus version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

Legion of Rock Stars deconstructs Madonna

This version of Material Girl is so much better than the original. It sounds like it is being performed by the puppets from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

I simply revel in the glorious cartoonishness of it all.

The Traveling Dingleberries

Another one from LRS.

The Roy Orbison part causes laugh tears.

I think it's interesting how much this pure pleasure technique makes its practitioners sound like Tom Waits. I'm sure Kathleen won't disagree....

Here's another demonstration of how hard it is to play slide guitar without hearing faculties. Yeah--a Diarrhea Straits cover.

For your "pure pleasure"

I have to confess that I have just discovered this stuff, and I cannot stop laughing. These dudes are called Legion of Rock Stars and they have taken the annoying habit of "headphone soloists" (remember Eddie Murphy's "Roxanne" performance in 48 Hours?") and turned it loose on the hits we know and love. They do this via a process they call "pure pleasure". Their website briefly describes the process:

LEGION OF ROCK STARS has freed themselves from the shackles of practicing, instead perfecting a performance technique known as the Pure Pleasure Process.

Pure Pleasure.

While listening to songs on headphones equipped with 30dB sound blockers to blot out the outside world, the band plays and sing their hearts out, all while unable to hear themselves.

Brilliant. Here's the Legion's cover of the Police in their most over-the-top video. Sure leaves Sting looking like a complete ass. Well, he was lip-syncing anyway.


Here's Journey getting owned and Neil Diamond deservedly, you'll hopefully agree. Plus I think Guns & Roses's tour bus just got shorter,.

Here's the first one I happened upon. Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman is a song I've always loved, but I died laughing anyway. The piano part especially.

I don't know... YMMV, let me know what you think. I live for this kind of humor. Deep, deep parody and self-deprecation. Thank you, Mr. Crazed Poodle, for inventing the internets.