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I'm clearly out of the loop, I need this one explained to me.
My understanding is that it's the Rickroll of the guitar-playing world.
It's fairly straightforward for the novice to play, and is associated with the hipster who lugs a guitar everywhere as a fashion accessory rather than to develop any musical talent, where their repertoire is limited to two or three four-chord wonder songs.
In this instance, the guitarist has given the audience member the chance of a lifetime to shred in front of a crowd that most amateur band members will never see in a lifetime... and instead threw out the "so anyway here's Wonderwall" meme and dropped a simple meme song.
Happy to be corrected.
You're pretty much spot on here. No need for a correction.
OP, this is your answer.
I halfway suspect the audience member panicked and defaulted to the comfortable muscle memory song.
Wonder what the intro (up to the start of the lyrics) to Nothing Else Matters would be seen as
The band Green Day invited a fan up on stage to play one of their songs, but he played the song Wonderwall instead as a joke.
Guitarists playing Wonderwall for people has been a meme since the 90s. Here's more about it if you're interested:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wonderwall
Freebird for Millennials.
the difference being, freebird is a nightmare and shouting "freebird!" at bands is more akin to "you suck" while wonderwall is an ironic "got you"
If a random band does play Freebird to those kind of requests, they'll often only play the first half with vocals. The second, more instrumental half is the Rock Band hard mode of hard mode.
Ah so that's why Otto plays it to Bart when he's learning to play the guitar.
Full article: https://archive.is/8GyPF
Basically the fan tricked the band and he was stopped because he wasn't playing the song he said he would play.
All in good fun I think, they seem very chill on stage