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When you get a chance, you take it.
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I'm clearly out of the loop, I need this one explained to me.
My understanding is that it's the Rickroll of the guitar-playing world.
It's fairly straightforward for the novice to play, and is associated with the hipster who lugs a guitar everywhere as a fashion accessory rather than to develop any musical talent, where their repertoire is limited to two or three four-chord wonder songs.
In this instance, the guitarist has given the audience member the chance of a lifetime to shred in front of a crowd that most amateur band members will never see in a lifetime... and instead threw out the "so anyway here's Wonderwall" meme and dropped a simple meme song.
Happy to be corrected.
Wonder what the intro (up to the start of the lyrics) to Nothing Else Matters would be seen as
Full article: https://archive.is/8GyPF
Basically the fan tricked the band and he was stopped because he wasn't playing the song he said he would play.
All in good fun I think, they seem very chill on stage
The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.
Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here's more about it if you're interested:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall
Freebird for Millennials.
the difference being, freebird is a nightmare and shouting "freebird!" at bands is more akin to "you suck" while wonderwall is an ironic "got you"