As far as instruments go, the keytar is certainly controversial and often maligned. It had its heyday back in the ’80s when it had a certain novel charm and everybody was on too many drugs and too much hairspray to figure out if it was actually lame or not.
We’re not quite sure what it is. After all, it’s basically a guitar, just with a keyboard instead of the actual guitar part. And yet somehow that slight change removes all of the coolness and sex appeal and replaces it with a daggyness factor we can’t get over.
Well, Aussie multi-instrumentalist Yeo just put an end to all that noise with his triple j Like A Version this morning. He took on Japanese Wallpaper’s collaboration with Airling, ‘Forces’, and brought the whole thing to a stunning conclusion with a blazing keytar solo.
As we’ve previously noted, this year’s Like A Version series has gotten off to an interesting start – we’ve seen a heart-wrenching David Bowie cover, an ambitious mash-up from this year’s Hottest 100 winners, a deeply divisive cover of a huge hit from 2015, and a cover that showed us what Like A Version is meant to be.
