Epiphone Wildkat Guitar Reviews Are All the Rage

My two sons have a band called Unorganized Hancock. They’ve been recording music videos for a couple of years, and they perform here and there around the state of Maine where we live. It’s interesting to see which of their YouTube music videos become more popular than others, and try to figure out why.

Unorganized Hancock: The Most Famous Band You Never Heard Of

Unorganized Hancock have almost reached 50,000 YouTube views for their YouTube channel. No matter what YouTube says, their algorithms don’t count all, or even a small minority of the views these videos generate. YouTube claims they count embedded views, but they don’t. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “embedded,” it means that you watch them directly on the website that features them, without going directly to YouTube first. YouTube might count them if you’re already logged into YouTube, which is uncommon when people are reading text-centric blogs and websites like mine. Actually, I doubt they count those, either.

Unorganized Hancock’s Grandmother Doesn’t Count, Apparently

I estimate that Unorganized Hancock has actually had well over 250,000 video views. It’s easy for me to tell, because I can see how many people watch them on my blog alone. Hell, their grandmother has watched their videos more than 50,000 times. The boys have been embedded on lots of other blogs besides mine, many with much more traffic than mine. YouTube fibs, for reasons of its own. They want people to use YouTube as a social media platform, and that’s that. If you’ve ever wondered why you find YouTube videos that say “embedding disabled by owner’s request,” that’s why. The account holder is tired of showing the video without getting YouTube hits on his counter.

They Did A Killer Version of Take Five

Unorganized Hancock recorded Dave Brubeck’s Take Five about two years ago. I re-posted it on Wednesday, a charming form of recycling, I hope. My little drummer boy was only nine when that video was made, and he was playing flawlessly in 5/4 Time with no metronome, a near impossibility at his age. His big brudder played two guitar parts, and the bass part too. The video was very well-received, and embedded at dozens of blogs and message boards. Their original dub of the song, which has a very cute joke at the beginning of it, has about 4600 views on the counter, and a hi-def upload that’s straight music has another 2600. That’s nonsense of course. Those videos got ten times that, easy, but let’s not quibble. A broken ruler makes the same, reliable mistake. Let’s go with it.

Minor Swing, By Minors, Swinging

The most popular video Unorganized Hancock has recorded, Take Five, is about to be eclipsed by their take on Minor Swing, made famous by gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. It’s a so-so take for the boys if you ask me. They were tired, and the big one had been sick, and though the audience wouldn’t notice so much, I can still see it wasn’t their lively best. It did OK when I posted it on this blog, and then it was forgotten. Here it is:

Epiphone Wildkat Guitar Reviews Are Now Unorganized Hancock’s Biggest Fans

Minor Swing is about to pass Take Five, even though it wasn’t that popular when it was posted, and we’ve done nothing to promote it. That’s because Unorganized Hancock’s version of Minor Swing made the list of the most prominent videos for people searching for: Epiphone Wildkat Guitar Reviews. It really isn’t a review, or it’s a far superior review than all the others, depending on your outlook on life. The Heir plays an Epiphone Wildkat Guitar that his mother and I gave him for Christmas a couple years back, using money that generous supporters of this blog put in our tipjar. The guitar is prominently displayed in the thumbnail of the video, completely by accident. That’s it. Every morning when they get up, their YouTube counter tells them that somewhere between 25 and 100 people watch that video while they were asleep, because they want to see a Epiphone Wildkat Review, and the thumbnail is irresistible.

Hell, they’ve played Minor Swing live and done a better job:

That second video doesn’t have the Epiphone Wildkat guitar in the thumbnail picture, so it has 384 views, no comments, and 10 Likes.

By this method — or lack of a method, just YouTube madness — Unorganized Hancock’s version of Minor Swing is watched more than any of their other videos, by people who have nothing to do with me, and nothing to do with them. You get an unvarnished opinion, straight from the world that Unorganized Hancock must enter if they are ultimately to be successful. Do strangers like you? The rest is applesauce. Strangers do.

A Busted Ruler Measures the Same Way, Every Time

Unorganized Hancock’s version of Minor Swing currently has 77 likes. [oops, while I was writing this, the counter turned to 78] There are more comments than any other video, and they’re full of enthusiastic swears in affirmation. That video has delivered more subscribers to their YouTube channel in the last month than they got in the previous year. People looking for Epiphone Wildkat reviews on YouTube are quickly becoming Unorganized Hancock’s biggest audience, if only because they’re the only ones that are being counted fully. It’s the way the Internet works. It doesn’t make a lick of sense, but no one asked us how to run it. The kids just play — play Minor Swing — along.