You can always count on YouTube guitar superstar Bernth to do something totally off-the-hook crazy. This is the guy who has drilled holes in his guitar, stung his guitar with rubber bands, submerged acoustic guitars in water tanks. But this time the Austrian guitarist/composer has really gone off the deep end and taken the plunge, performing his new single in its entirety while underwater.
Bernth has made no secret of his motivation for these acts of six-string radicalism; it is all to get people interested in the guitar who might not otherwise bother. And if the video for Farewell doesn’t drum up some interest in the instrument, well you can’t say that he didn’t try. He actually almost lose consciousness conducting what turned out to be – and by some degree – the toughest video shoot he has ever done.
