It seems that nobody can just leave well enough alone when they’ve got a guitar controller. Tricked out Xmas displays are so 2009; today’s nerdy tinkerer prefers to light up the night with raw, elemental fire.
We wish to hell the video was sharable, but the image below sets up the basic idea: using a secondary line to control sizable jets of flame as you work through classic Activision- or Harmonix-approved rock like, say, “War Pigs.”* Go check it out—the solo, just past the 2:00 mark, is a wonder.
- Chris Marion
- This is fire.
Detailed instructions follow the video. We want to see these on every block by the end of 2011.
* We have determined using science that there is nothing funnier than a 12-year-old girl who has never heard it before take a run through the vocals for “War Pigs” on Rock Band.
The Stranger Testing Department is Rob Lightner and Paul Hughes.
Awesome!!
The playa is full of cool shit like this.
War Pigs ftw!
altho I still like Cat-ac-a-clysm ….
Cool, but I was hoping it was going to be a fire breathing calliope.
That was quite the nerdalicious link.
Oh look, you discovered Burning Man.