[kj] was GEORDIE'S Tracks - VH & Police gigs

[fluw]

stopping and retuning would be a good idea, sometimes if necessary i 
tune between changes on stage while keeping a peddle note going to not 
loose momentum, but to do that you have to use a conventional bridge and 
tuners. unfortunately, eddie van halen uses locking tuners which makes 
tuning on the fly impossible. there is nothing wrong with stopping the 
song and saying, "hold up",  then fixing the glitch and coming back to 
the song. that would have been a much better option than the sound of a 
slaughtering of whales hovering over your flag waving singer and your 
number one hit.

Leigh Newton wrote:

> If I were stuck in that situation, I simply would have stopped playing and tuned my shit back up. He didn't even need to be playing in verses anyways. Weird.

>

> I remember there was one MTV Music Video Awards where White Zombie played and the drummer was SO fucking out-of-sync with the backing tracks. Trainwreck doesn't even begin to describe it. It was pretty awesome to see. 

>

> Leigh

>

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> ----- Original Message ----

> From: T.B. <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>

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> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:59:59 AM

> Subject: Re: [kj] was GEORDIE'S Tracks - VH & Police gigs

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> "Phillipps Marc" wrote:

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>

> Ouch!

>

> As far as I can hear that is about half a semitone out . . absolutely 

> nothing you can do about that in a live setting with guitars . .

>

> +++++++++

>

> Eddie banged the guitar's headstock on the stage during his solo and for 

> some dumb reason, stuck with the guitar instead of trading off for another 

> one from his tech for the last two songs of the set including "Jump."   Some 

> idiot's reasoning that the problem is a sample rate issue with the 

> pre-recorded synth track is completely off base.

>

> I've seen plenty of live bands actually have far worse fuckups onstage than 

> this.  In fact, I'd call U2 the onstage fuck-up kings, they have such 

> comically embarrasing screwups during songs.

>

> T.B. 

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