Conan Performs "Sweet Child O' Mine" With An Electric Violinist | Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan

What kind of music do you like to play? Pretty much everything. I mean, I was a classical violinist growing up, and then I also play fiddle, and Celtic, and country music, and gotten into jazz. And then I do everything all the way to playing rock, and electronic dance music, and things like that. Wait. You can play rock music on the--. You can play rock music on the violin. What kind of rock are we talking, Jesse? Yeah, yeah. The violin or what, what are? Pretty much anything, anything. Led Zeppelin.

They can play some Led Zeppelin on a violin. Christopher Cross? You're kidding. That's cool. (laughs) Christopher Cross. In my set here, I do Guns N' Roses. Oh. (Sona gasps). We do "Sweet Child O' Mine.". Can we hear that, please? Do you have one? Yeah, I do. Is there any way we could hear it? This is fantastic. This'll be a violin you've never seen before, but this is--. Oh, that's cool. Oh, my God. It's a Flying V violin. Yeah, it's the cool Flying V guitar, but it's the violin. That's so cool. Look at that. It goes over his shoulder between the V. And it straps to your body. It actually makes more sense as a violin. because the V makes a crook that goes into your neck.

That's fantastic. That's right. Yeah, it was invented. Do you know the Trans-Siberian Orchestra? They always have that big Christmas Rock Concert every year. Yes, I've heard them before. Yeah, they're great. So, the guy who was the original electric violinist of. that group invented this violin. Wow. To strap to your body. It looks like one half of a shoulder pad. that a Klingon would wear. (Sona laughing) (Jesse laughing). Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I should get one on the other side, and I can do the double thing. That's cool. I want to hear something, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, the way it can sound pretty much kind.

of like a normal violin, right? Like. (upbeat violin music). Wow. Wow, that's cool. Right. But then you can do all kinds of great stuff with. it as well as. (tense rock music). Wow.

That's so cool. Oh, my God. That's fantastic. Wait a minute, it's a fretted like a guitar. This is fretted. Yeah, yeah, this is a fretted one too. Oh, sweet. So, you can get them fretted or unfretted--. So, basically, you're not a violinist. You're a guitarist, who's pretending he's a violinist. (Sona laughing). Yeah, you're a shoulder guitarist. I'm a shoulder guitarist. You have no idea how many people say that on my videos. (Matt laughing) (Jesse laughing). Do you play any classic solos? In the hard rock style? Yeah, hard rock style. In hard rock style.

So, I mean, I told you, we do like. (classic rock music). Oh. Oh, wow. And you can do like Jimi Hendrix style. ♪ She got a smile, but it seems to me ♪. Oh, sorry. Oh no, do it. No, please. I'll do some Axl if you do your part, go ahead. All right, ready? Here we go. (classic rock music). ♪ She got a smile, but it seems to me ♪. ♪ Reminds of our childhood memories ♪. (Conan singing indistinctly).

That was perfect. Wow, all I heard in there was mammary. (Sona laughing). It's like Billy Gibbs doing Axl Rose. Yeah, I always I thought the lyric was--. Or, Barry Gibbs, Barry is it. I'm having a problem with my gland, it's my mammary. Yeah. I thought that's what it was. That's right. ♪ Have a problem with my gland, it's my mammary. ♪. (Sona laughing).