Wannabe funtwo (left) and the real funtwo (right)

A month ago, I posted a link to an incredible video of a guy playing Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major on his guitar wearing a baseball cap so you couldn’t see his face. As one of the top 10 viewed vids on YouTube, it generated a lot of questions as to who the guy was. Well, the New York Times figured it out.

Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last
EIGHT months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply “guitar.” A black-and-white title card gave the performer’s name as funtwo.

By following a series of clues on JerryC’s message board and various “Canon Rock” videos, I was able to trace funtwo’s video to Jeong-Hyun Lim, a 23-year-old Korean who taught himself guitar over the course of the last six years. Now living in Seoul, he listens avidly to Bach and Vivaldi, and in 2000 he took a month of guitar lessons. He plays an ESP, an Alfee Custon SEC-28OTC with gold-colored detailing.