‘This is wild’: Florida man plays guitar during brain surgery to remove tumor

Guitarist Christian Nolen plays the Deftones and System of a Down on doctors’ instructions while undergoing awake craniotomy

A Florida man recently helped surgeons remove a tumor from his brain by playing 1980s and 90s rock music.

Christian Nolen, a professional guitarist in the south Florida community of Coral Gables, was instructed by doctors to play several songs on his guitar while undergoing an awake craniotomy meant to take a tumor out of the right side of his frontal lobe, WSVN Miami reported.