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January 23, 2008 | Guitar Shreds

Frustrated guitar players turned mandolinists are really going to enjoy this. These "Guitar Shred" YouTube videos are laugh-until-milk-comes-out-of-your-nose funny:

Eddie van Halen shreds

Paco De Lucia shreds

Eric Clapton shreds

Jaco Pastorius shreds

Michael Angelo Batio shreds

Carlos Santana shreds

First person to produce a quality "Mandolin Shred" YouTube with a popular current world premier mandolin player gets a free JazzMando T-shirt. Let us know!

Posted by Ted at January 23, 2008 05:19 AM

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