Karellen wrote at 2014-04-03 12:13:

I don't know if I should have been surprised or not when EJ said that he'd never even heard of cellists "rocking out" (or whatever phrase he used) before.

It's a pity he doesn't pay any attention to the music industry, or he might have heard of Apolcalyptica[0], who've been doing that sort of stuff for fricking *decades*.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptica

Rhonda wrote at 2014-04-05 08:28:

Right, Apocalyptica was there way before, and for sure an influence to 2CELLOS without any doubt. And once could consider Elton John ignorant of that. I guess it's connected to that 2CELLOS toured with Elton John and he might have found out about them through the booking agency that put them together and he might be ignorant in general (just guesswork).

Still, it doesn't change anything for me with respect to 2CELLOS, or that I used Elton's appreciation of them to emphasize on that they are worth checking out.