The Foo Fighters are playing during the Grammys tonight, and sometime back they launched a YouTube competition for an accompanying instrumentalist for their chart topper song “The Pretender“. There were a bunch of really awesome (for want of a better word) submissions, of which some of my favorites are Asha Mevlana on Viper violin, Ann Marie Calhoun, Brian Fitzgerald, and Abigail Loving on violin, and Tara Klein on cello. But today I saw this violin piece by Aishwarya Venkataraman where she presents a Foo Fighter ala Carnatic. She won’t be playing tonight, but I think this was one of the most unique submissions (together with Asha Mevlana’s Viper violin).
This reminded me of the Channel [V] ad that bobbed up on the “series of tubes” a while back – a Hindustani classical rendition of “Sweet Child O’ Mine”.
I personally feel that the vocals kind of messed up the brilliant sitar duo, but it was salvaged to some extent by aunti-ji at the end 
What do you think?
Brilliant ad for Channel V!
Yeah, and some moron decided to force YouTube to remove it. I had to relink to a different version. When will they realize this cat and mouse game is futile? And what kind of moron shies away from free advertisement?