Eddie Adcock plays banjo during brain surgery.

Eddie Adcock his banjo during his brain surgery whilst he's... still awake... which i suppose you imagined to be true as playing the banjo when you're asleep must be pretty hard.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• banjo
• brain
• surgery
• Nashville
• Tennesee

[cowboy6591]

can't hear anything soundtrack is almost toast

[Thinguns]

Yeh recording was literally that quiet.

[fernwood]

Good thing he wasn't a drummer.

[aleisterfiend]

Maybe his insurance ran out and he's performing to pay for them to finish.

[chandel77]

@CountyGolfer He could, he was a a very good banjo player, but he got a mild case of Parkinson's disease which caused him to not be able to paly very well and that is what they are fixing in the video, getting rid of his tremors from electrode stimulation :)

[chandel77]

He needed the surgery because he had a mild case of Parkinson's disease. They wanted to get rid of his pin rolling tremors. That is why he had the banjo, so they could figure out when the electrodes were planted/sending the right amount of current to fix the tremors. Pretty interesting if you ask me! We learnt about him in the cognitive neuroscience class I am in! Crazy what they can do these days..

[foolhou2e]

what'd he need his surgery for?

[InuvikPhil]

"excuse me, could you keep it down please, I'm trying to perform BRAIN SURGERY over here!" ha ha ha

[Firehose020]

So that's why I'm so good at playing banjo...it only requires part of the brain to operate it, I'm a shoe in....

[timpenfield5]

tough guy

[CountyGolfer]

Could he play the banjo before the op???!!

[badmuthahubbard]

@djangoshmango Any brain surgery that leaves a man able to play the banjo is a failure.

[djangoshmango]

Someone broke into my car and left a banjo.

[Phillyguy30]

Fuck microsoft!!!...The human brain is the best computer!!!