Members Ear Abuser Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 I snagged this from the LAB- too funny not to share; http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/jump-in-pitch/ Either the playback was off, or, as someone else theorized, EVH was using the wrong guitar (apparently he uses some different tunings) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members guitarharv52 Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 That was pretty rough.You are right, it would be interesting to know what went wrong.Playback or tuning.DOH!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lonotes Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 ouch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rbts Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 um then crowd didn't seem top mind??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 um then crowd didn't seem top mind??? Which is why some bands continue to do so. If there was really a crash & brun that the audience walked out on, it would stop. Audiences are pretty accepting of mediocrity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted October 18, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 Audiences are pretty accepting of mediocrity. Unfortunately, most haven't been exposed to anything but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ckcondon Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 I suddenly feel much better about all my on-stage clams! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ImpaledRound Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 That sounds worse than most of the 13-year old bands I've heard, shocking. And where can i pick up one of those giant sm58s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alan Roberts Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 That was definitely a trainwreck, but to their credit they did play through it as if nothing was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mogwix Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 That hurt to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Barryjam Posted October 18, 2007 Members Share Posted October 18, 2007 I heard it was a synth playback set to 48kHZ rather than 44.1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ezstep Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 ... Audiences are pretty accepting of mediocrity. Thank God for that...Which is why my band is still performing after all these years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sol-city Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 That was really, really painfull to watch. I think I will put it on my myspace page. The end of the solo sounded like really bad bagpipes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members J. Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 I bet Eddie Van Halen gave the responsible party half of a tongue lashing after the show! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bud B Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 WOW!There is no excuse for that, be it a Professional show or Weekend Warrior's.I am in the latter and our motto is always "Never Stop" play through the song, the best that you can and never never let the audience see it on your face!In a Bar full of drunken people Attitude can save you!It's like in the wild, don't let the animals see that you are scared! A Band knows at the end of the night any and every little mistake that they made but if performed well I doubt most people in the audience do, unless it is other musicians at the show!When I go see other Bands play I can pick out the slightest imperfection and I look around and see that people are dancing, drinking and it went right by them! They are lost in the moment, I sometimes wish that my ear was not so discerning.I can be having a beer with one of my band mates in a club on our night off (and usually checking it out for another gig) and hear a mistake by the Band playing and we look at each other at the exact same time and acknowledge that yep we both heard it, yet it was oblivious to the normal patrons drinking! I think that we as fans are more forgiving to our favorite Artists because this is "LIVE" and not the record, "S_ _ t Happens" and it is a True and Real Experience!If I want total perfection I will put on their CD!The VH shows have been getting great reviews, how can you really get on their case for one song and a song that is not even their fault!I'd like to think that WE are more forgiving than that!You paid all that Money and Time in Anticipation of the coming Concert night that people do not want to acknowledge that it was anything other than Great! Was "Jump" the very LAST song or did they come back for an Encore and could at least redeem themselves and the SoundCo? It will surely not happen at another of their shows after this blunder.I guess that you could say that that Audience got to experience the Realityin "Live Sound" and had a one of a kind show! Good or Bad!Maybe they were cheering in their appreciation that VH still tried to do their best for them, in a time that just had to be excruciating for them on stage! I bet Eddie was just fuming and beside himself!Like the poster said, there was not a fret on his Guitar that could save him!I wonder if there was a Pitch dial that the Sound Engineer could have turned slowly to bring it up to pitch, maybe that would have been worse than to just do what they did...get through it! Bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted October 19, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 Seems we just had a discussion about this very topic: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1754775&page=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1tallbassguy Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 Thats funny!!!Thanks for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Al Poulin Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 I heard they hired Ashlee Simpson to hold a press conference to explain what happened. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dravenzouk Posted October 19, 2007 Members Share Posted October 19, 2007 Actually VH accomplished an amazing thing. They took one of the two worst songs ever recorded (the other is "Hot Blooded"/Foreigner) and made it even more horrifyingly awful. Incredible. Then again, now that I think about it, they may have failed. I could manage to listen through the whole song (at least one time) - for the trainwreck aspect itself if nothing else. There's no way I could make it all the way through the original recording. So, in this way, perhaps they improved the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ThudMaker Posted October 19, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 19, 2007 I kind of wonder when things like this happen, why more performers don;t just stop the song, work it out with the techs, apologize to the crowd that they want to get it right for them, because they appreciate the fan support and then go back into the start of the song. It's not like live theater where the scene has to gone on regardless of a tech screw up, IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted October 19, 2007 CMS Author Share Posted October 19, 2007 I kind of wonder when things like this happen, why more performers don;t just stop the song, work it out with the techs, apologize to the crowd that they want to get it right for them, because they appreciate the fan support and then go back into the start of the song. It's not like live theater where the scene has to gone on regardless of a tech screw up, IMHO. Yup. That's a great time to break out the acoustic and a stool, and do a cover of something your audience has never heard from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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