Tom Cruise Crazy Uke/Bass Duet

Jonathan Coulton and guest ukulele slinger Kristen Shirts perform "Tom Cruise Crazy," a song that was clearly written to be a uke/bass duet, at Union Hall, Brooklyn, 1/30/07

The instruments Jonathan and Kristen are playing are actually the same size. Kristen is just much, much larger than Jonathan is, and that messes with the perspective.

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• jonathan
• coulton
• tom
• cruise
• crazy
• bass
• ukulele
• uke
• kristen
• shirts

[jawboneradio]

Paul and Storm definitley need to sing Barbershop quartet behind this one. Paul? Storm?

[thedoifter]

Oh, goodness, how amazing would that be? Heads would explode.

[MrUnidyne]

How many Scientologists does it take to change a light bulb? It depends... How much money does the light bulb have?

[romanerdstrom]

"I hope that you find my floudering entertaining"

"We always do"

"You suck you son of a bitch, I'm gonna get you"

[ShamuLesbo]

VOICE CRACK

0:54

[tmgsk8r]

1:55 is when the song starts

[MrEarcheese]

the bass and the ukulele sound awesome together!

[raccoonlodger]

Kristen is sexy

[jdogface]

too cool.

[veronicadredd22]

ok i totally thought this was a molly song

[swingbossa]

Good combination, and nice job. I have the same Dean Playmate bass that JoCo is playing, and it sounds just like that, even if I don't use a pick. Actually, it's hard to make it sound better, but it was really inexpensive, so I can't complain.

Jay Leonhardt has a great song called "It's Impossible to Sing and Play the Bass" about exactly that.

[TheScarletInfector]

Yah its freaking hard most bass parts even forward ones are so far off from the melody you brain needs to split in two. But there are plenty of famous bassist that do it. Sting, Billy Idol Gene Simmons, Mark Hoppus, Paul McCartney, Lemmy, Les Claypool, Geddy Lee, Mark King.

And myself