I find it very funny when there is a large discrepancy between a music video depicting people playing music and the actual music that is playing. For example, a song that features an electric guitar but only shows someone playing an acoustic one!
I was reminded of this when I looked up the video for "The Space Between" by Dave Mattews Band, as I am performing it tomorrow night at an open mic night. Here is the video:
This video definitely has the electric/acoustic mixup I just mentioned (pretty sure there's not a single note played on an acoustic on this song), but what's more glaring here is that the most prominent instrument in the chorus--the glossy piano--is not shown at all. We see the rest of the band jammin--a sax, a violin, Dave on guitar--but you can't really hear any of those things in the song! The thing you hear is the piano, and it's not shown. Funny. I can forgive DMB, though, because they are amazing musicians, and aren't some whatever-band that isn't actually good and has tracks recorded for them.
Another video that I found very funny in depicting an acoustic guitar with the implication that it is producing an electric guitar sound (and I'm quite certain the humor in this is intentional, but I'm curious as to how many people notice it) is, well, I'll just let you watch:
Does anyone else think about this stuff?
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