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FINANCIAL TIMES "BOWLED OVER, BEETHOVEN"
FEATURES THE GREAT KAT'S "BEETHOVEN'S GUITAR SHRED" DVD
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- "Bowled over,
Beethoven"
- In a
bizarre coda to my week of listening to
Beethoven, I received a DVD through the post
entitled “Beethoven’s Guitar Shred”, which
apparently tops the Tower Records music
instruction charts. Here was Beethoven’s
music performed by The Great Kat, aka
Swindon-born Katherine Thomas, a
Juilliard-trained musician and one of the
fastest “shredders” of all time
(“shredding”, for the uninitiated, is very
fast guitar playing, normally associated
with heavy metal and rarely with Beethoven).
There is indeed a part of Beethoven’s Fifth
on the DVD that is played with absurd
velocity on an electric guitar. What is
rather more striking is The Great Kat’s
uniform, a leather dominatrix outfit replete
with metal studs, and fishnet tights. Still
more notable are some of the other tracks,
which include “Torture Techniques”,
“Islamofascists” and “Blood”.
Beethoven can never have found himself in
odder company than that of The Great Kat,
and I amused myself thinking what he would
have made of it all. I like to imagine one
of his furious temper tantrums. But Mozart,
a more ribald soul, would surely have found
it hilarious.
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