There I was randomly watching SL machinima videos when suddenly my face got shredded off:
This is Ninja Do-Jo, a guitar duo from Japan, and they play live, epic, guitar god shows in Second Life. Their avatars are Akuma Millar and Sawa India, whose profile makes an even more amazing claim: These two perform in separate geographic locations in Japan. Yes:
In real life, I was in a band with Akuma about 15 years ago. He had to move to another region because of his work and this made our band activities difficult. While we were separated we had our own bands and we reconnected through SL. Due to SL we could have session together online.
If true this is mind-blowing, because it's difficult enough to sync basic live music from two locations, let alone world-class guitar shredding where every split second matters. (Or maybe just one plays while the provides the synth orchestrations, etc?) In any case, this is seriously impressive, some of the best live musicians I've heard performing in SL since Skye Galaxy. (Or maybe a better comparison, 87 year old blues guitarist Charles Bristol.) I've reached out to Ninja Do-Jo because I definitely want to know more from them directly. Until then, stay tuned, stay shredding.
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