It’s no easy task to nail the tone and tenor – not to mention the notes – of Slash’s electric guitar solos, and it’s likely even more difficult to do with only one hand.
"I was born missing my left arm below the elbow," Gondorian says in the caption accompanying the video, "and play my guitar with a prosthetic arm using an attachment that holds a guitar pick."
As he explains further in a response to a commenter, “The prosthesis is model[ed] around a forearm shape (as I have my elbow but not much below it) and where the 'wrist' is there's a screw thread attachment.
“So the attachment onto the prosthesis is a ball and socket joint with a piece of metal on. In that piece of metal there's a slit cut out that can fit a guitar pick inside that is then secured with screws. I hope that makes sense haha it's difficult to describe it without showing in person.”
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door is just one of several solos Gondorian_tomatoes_ has mastered – he has also uploaded videos that show him nailing Tom Scholz’s harmonized lead in Boston’s More Than a Feeling, James Hetfield’s climaxing solo in Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters and Brian May’s iconic Bohemian Rhapsody six-string showcase, among others.
And next on his list is the solo from the Eagles' classic Hotel California.
As for his gear on the Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door performance? A Boss Katana-50 MkII amp, Garageband and, of course, a Les Paul Standard.
