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[LoungeMachine]

See the video at:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/train-wreck/synth-glitch-creates-on+stage-disaster-for-van-halen-313005.php

Train wreck Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster for Van Halen



And now for a Friday musical interlude, we bring you Van Halen caught on its comeback tour, except there was one big problem and it involved gadgets. What happens when you play back a prerecorded synthesizer track at 48K instead of the intended 44.1K? The whole track plays back a little bit faster and at a slightly higher pitch, that's what. A dissonant musical mess ensues, trapping the guitarist and bassist in an on-stage musical hell with nowhere to go.

See Eddie Van Halen launch into his famous solo on "Jump," trying in vain to somehow transpose to this otherworldly key that is nowhere to be found. This travesty of a performance happened earlier this month (in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina), and the funny thing is, the crowd was delighted with it. I shutter to think that no one realized something was terribly amiss, but those hometown folks always were overly polite. [RW370, via BoingBoing] (Thanks, Joel Johnson!)

[HG012009]

Everyone knew something fucked up but we didn't care!
Just enjoyed the show.... Shit happens

[blueturk]

What the hell were we supposed to do? Boo the band off the fucking stage??!! Give me a fucking break.

[thome]

You can really sse Dave and Alex holding this DOWN it was about to fly away .

Rite the FuKK ON!!!

5 for dave keeping for his cool and delivering some smashing vocals.

5 for Alex for keeping it down with the brutal engineering of some of the finest percussion work I have ever heard.

5 for Ed for not blasting his guitar on the stage and kicking someones ass.

A big 5 for Wolf for making his brass balls a little bigger with handling of the conversion to faster time.


You say you don't know, you won't know
until we begin.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

Never surrender!

[thome]

The glass ain't half full my bruthas, It's have drank and i'm feelin fine.

Set -e'm UP!!

[Figs]

Ha, good link! well they got thru it i guess.....best they could

[chi-town324]

its a live performance....SHIT HAPPENS!!!

[VAiN]

I've had a few friends send me that same bullshit article... 1.I was at the show and it didn't fucking matter, 2.Who fucking cares? Why does this blog fuck have a hard-on for pointing this out??

[chi-town324]

they are trying to find anything negative on VH....believe me after seeing 2 shows...its going to be hard to do

[chi-town324]

Originally posted by VAiN
I've had a few friends send me that same bullshit article... 1.I was at the show and it didn't fucking matter, 2.Who fucking cares? Why does this blog fuck have a hard-on for pointing this out??

agreed 5 stars for ya!!

[HG012009]

Lounge must have been bored posting this shit. I'm with Vain - It didn't fucking matter. Killer show. JMO

[Nickdfresh]

BTW, you Lounge haterz, go fuck yourselves...

If this had happened on the 2004 Van Hagar tour, it would have resulted in a 300 response thread!

Spare me the "never post anything negative" shit you sheep biotches. It's a VALID, if dupe, topic..

Oh the hazards of prerecording...

[Warham]

Not a big deal.

[saint]

It saddens me that you take joy in this kind of mishap. What the FUCK did you expect! Sammy Gay Gar to come out and play the guitars so that Eddie could play keyboards? What a miserable FUCK you are!

[LoungeMachine]

Originally posted by saint
It saddens me that you take joy in this kind of mishap. What the FUCK did you expect! Sammy Gay Gar to come out and play the guitars so that Eddie could play keyboards? What a miserable FUCK you are!

Blow me, asshat.

For starters, dumbass, where did I "take joy"

Was I grining in my posts, LMAO, or making fun of them?

No, you stupid, knee-jerk twat.

But I've had similar situations happen, and I've seen them happen to others.

The point was, you're only as good as your crew, and if some fuckbag isn't paying attention BEHIND the scenes, you the band have to sufer the consequences.

But you wouldnt know anything about that, mensa.


You're the miserable fuck, douchetube.

I simple posted news, a link, and a good example of why you need to surround yourself with competent people and assume they're paying attention.

So fuck off, you little puke.