Watch Tommy Emmanuel Duet with Young Ukulele Prodigy on “Classical Gas”

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The two performed together onstage in Taiwan.

Tommy Emmanuel has long included Mason Williams’ 1968 instrumental, “Classical Gas,” in his repertoire, and recently Feng E, a young ukulele player from Taiwan, went viral with his rendition of Emmanuel’s version of the tune, which he played on the street in Taipei. 

Feng E is a self-taught, virtuoso of the ukulele. Here he is playing Tommy Emmanuel's version of Mason Williams's "Classic Gas” in Taipei, Taiwan in June 2018. Dust-to-Digital

A photo posted by @dusttodigital on Oct 18, 2018 at 8:24am PDT

The exposure Feng received on Instagram led to an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and then, finally, to a duet with Emmanuel himself on the song when Emmanuel came to Taipei for a concert last month.

You can check out Emmanuel and Feng E’s performance of “Classical Gas” below.

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.