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Everyone loves a good Fluffhead, so I was quite delighted when YouTube phenom silverchair97 posted this face-melting rendition of the tune from Phish's early set at the Fuji Rock Festival on July 31, 1999 in Japan.

A must listen to for phans who adore the tune, which is most.
— Jaime Lee

In case you were wondering, some of my other candidates for best Fluffhead ever include Red Rocks '94, the great Fluffhead at the Clifford Ball, and the last Fluffhead so far, Sep. 29, 2000 at the Phish / Kid Rock show in Vegas.

Meanwhile, one can only hope that with the impeding Phish reunion — and enough guys holding Fluffhead signs on ESPN — we haven't even heard the best Fluffhead yet!

What's your pick for best Fluffhead ever? Post a comment.
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Welcome to Vol. 5 of Face-Melting Kids, our semi-regular series on child prodigies who rock.

Sungha Jung is a pocket-sized reincarnation of Michael Hedges — not much bigger than his guitar but with fingerstyle chops that seem to be channeled from beyond.

Though he's composed some of his own tunes, the video here is something a little more familiar. It's an 11-year-old Sungha ripping up a mellifluous, heavily syncopated arrangement of Come Together by Michael Chapdelaine.

My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.

Pretty sure that dream will “come together” for you any day little man. Just don't stop doing what you're doing!

A little while back I discovered Tom Morello's alter-ego and put up a video of The Nightwatchman doing Jailbreak with Slash. Well I was sleuthing around for some more from The Nightwatchman and came across this gem, a rather loose interpretation of Tom Petty's Breakdown.

Like other Nightwatchman appearances in LA from this timeframe, it's basically an all out jam session. This one features Perry Farrell on vocals, Flea on bass, Carl Restivo and Jonny Polonsky on guitar, Stella Mozgawa on drums, and an unidentified horn player.

What do you call that dance anyway?

Welcome back for Vol. 3 of “Backstage Jams.”

In case you missed the past volumes, Vol. 2 found Jerry Garcia backstage playing Crazy Fingers while Vol. 1 featured Pete Townshend backstage doing a two song mini-set.

Today's Backstage Jam features yet another legend, Jimi Hendrix, doing a solo acoustic version of Hound Dog backstage at Royal Albert Hall on February 18, 1969.

She's thirsty. Get her some acid.
— Overheard in this video

Like most backstage jam videos, this one leaves you wanting more. But the good news is that in this video, the jam is followed up by an incredible Foxy Lady so you can take care of your jones right away.

And if you still need more Hendrix after that, you can always find plenty of Jimi Hendrix concert DVDs with the Jamtopia Concert DVD Finder.

Many thanks to buckelastard for posting this on YouTube.

It's been a while since I've posted a straight-up face-melting concert video here so in the spirit of getting back to my roots, I dug up a video of one of my favorite songs, Stranglehold by Ted Nugent.

Love him or hate him or love to hate him, there's no denying that The Nuge rips the Gibson Byrdland with a stage presence few can rival.

He gave you your moneys worth. Two hours of hard kick ass rock. Man he was so loud tiles were falling from the rafters.
— TVC17

Apparently I'm not the only one who loves Stranglehold. Here are some quick facts courtesy of Wikipedia…

• Stranglehold was ranked the 31st greatest guitar solo of all time on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos (You can listen to 87 of the greatest guitar solos on Rhapsody or watch the top 20 greatest guitar solos on YouTube)
• Stranglehold has been featured in the films Dazed and Confused, Rock Star, Invincible, Superbad, and Bad News Bears
• Stranglehold is the intro music for the Detroit Tigers and New York Jets placekicker Mike Nugent (no relation)
• Stranglehold was also used as entrance music by WCCW wrestler Kevin Von Erich
• And who could forget that Phish teased Stranglehold during Mike's Song at the Murat Theatre in '93

For what it's worth, this isn't my favorite Stranglehold on YouTube, but that one doesn't allow embedding and this one is still a tour de force of psychedelic rock & roll.

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Based on the number of YouTube views, I'm pretty much the last person on the entire Internet to see this video. But just in case there are a few of you out there who haven't seen it yet (and because I really wanted to use “toe jam” in a post title) I had to share it here.

Mark Goffeney is an inspirational and dedicated musician who, despite being born without arms, makes a living playing bass and guitar — with his feet. And he doesn't just play, he plays well.

thats fucking insane, hes even doin fuckin palm mutes, but on his fucking foot. insane.
— RippinSkullz

Mark's not just a busker either. He's the lead singer and bass player for his band Big Toe and has even performed in an an Emmy-nominated TV commercial. He's also a licensed driver, in case you were wondering.

As you can see in the YouTube comment thread, the jokes about Mark practically write themselves, but I think at the end of the day the guy making a living doing what he loves is almost certainly the one getting the last laugh. Props Mark.

Thanks to dhyrenz for posting this amazing video.