WATCH LIVE RIGHT NOW: A DUDE TRYING TO PLAY A GUITAR SOLO FOR 24 HOURS

David Didonato, an Austin, Texas guitarist and music teacher who has been in a bunch of bands with whom I’m not familiar (J Church, Rat King, Ultimate Dragons, and, currently, Modok), is trying to break the current Guinness Book of World Records, uh, record for playing the longest guitar solo of all time — right now. The current record stands at twenty-four hours and eighteen minutes, with a five-minute break allowed by Guinness once every hour; Didonato started playing last night (Sunday, May 13) ay 7 pm CST, and will have to keep going until 7 pm CST tonight if he wants to break that record.

The entire thing has been streaming live from Red 7 in Austin via Ustream, and, assuming he hasn’t given up as of the time you’re reading this, you can watch live after the jump. I’m writing this about an hour before it’s going to be published, meaning that Didonato is currently in hour fourteen of playing. He’s currently just strumming some shit, so I guess as long as he plays anything, it counts as a solo — in other words, this doesn’t have to be a shred-a-thon. So there’s nothing especially metal about this… unless you count having extreme drive and endurance as metal. Which it is.

Watch:

-AR

[via Badass Digest]