beer bottle band - holiday song

December 22, 2009 11:32 PM

cementing the link between beer and creativity cementing the link between beer and creativity, a group of actual grown-ups manage to make music together utilizing only their breath and beer bottles.
posted by TMezz (12 comments total)

drunj achieved
posted by Token Meme at 11:44 PM on December 22, 2009

This was a related video on YouTube: Drunk 4-year-old Steals Christmas Presents. The headline's great, but the story just gets better and better. This kid's destined for great things. Poor mother, though.
posted by Kattullus at 12:26 AM on December 23, 2009 [1 favorite]

It is also [the Persians'] general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved of, they act on it; if not, they set it aside.
— Herodotus, The History, Book 1, Chapter 133

posted by koeselitz at 1:00 AM on December 23, 2009 [2 favorites]

Here's how the pros do it. The piece is 'On the Bottle'
posted by woodblock100 at 1:13 AM on December 23, 2009

That's from Herodotus? I thought it was from Tacitus' Germania. Shows what I know.
posted by hattifattener at 1:48 AM on December 23, 2009

Chuck. Chuck. It's Marvin - your cousin, Marvin BERRY. You know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this.
posted by TwelveTwo at 1:58 AM on December 23, 2009 [1 favorite]

That must have been a magical moment, when all were drunk enough to think it was a good idea, but sober enough to organize and execute it.
posted by explosion at 4:07 AM on December 23, 2009

Beer -- it's not just a beverage. It's a muse!

(As was I.)

Cheers.
posted by Mike D at 9:20 AM on December 23, 2009

Does a stout produce a baritone?
posted by louieyak at 10:04 AM on December 23, 2009

Not bad, but me and my musician friends do this kind of crap practically every time there's more than a couple of us together. I think all music-type-people do. I just never thought to film any of it and put it on YouTube.
posted by DecemberBoy at 1:39 PM on December 23, 2009

I bet there's a lotta warm beer in that house.
posted by tybeet at 1:55 PM on December 23, 2009

wow. That's probably the quickest I've ever closed a YouTube link on here and yet still shuddered.
posted by mannequito at 1:56 PM on December 23, 2009