VIDEO: Lights+Guitar Hero = Christmas Light Hero

Oooh, pretty lights.

It's almost Christmas and, being a sucker for craptacular, tacky Christmas lights, I've already decked out my house with lights that flash so fast, they would give even the non-epileptic a seizure if they looked at them too long. I plan on leaving them up until April because I'm the only person on my street that seems to be drinking in the swill that is "Christmas Spirit" and I'm hoping that looking at my gaudy, vulgar lights will force them to change their ways.

Something tells me former Disney Imagineer and special effects specialist Ric Turner won't be leaving his decorations up until April. Turner has decked the halls with a fully functional, 21,268-bulb-strong Guitar Hero arrangement.

The Daily What today reports that Ric Turner has programmed his Christmas lights set-up to play Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover." The whole thing is played with a wireless guitar controller for the Wii.

Turner told the Daily What:

"When you play, you watch only the Christmas lights, but the audio you hear is from the Wii, so your flubs are broadcast for all to hear (people in cars can tune 99.1 and crank it up as loud as they want.) When we are not playing, a separate version of the program that has the audio from the recorded game plays with the lights as a loop."

Check out the video below. Turner does over the top displays every Christmas and even puts on displays at Halloween. Check them out on YouTube and let us know what your favorite is!

Imagine this guy was your neighbor. It'd be like living across the street from the SUN.

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