Bands having live 'ouch!' moments (and keeping them)

axisus

I'm off work today and faffing around on t'interweb right now. As usual I stick YouTube on and have some live music chugging away through the day.

Anyway, I have an FM concert on right now (Canadian prog band), and I physically winced just now as the violinist took a solo. Boy was it waaaayy off, note choice and intonation. It's official concert footage as well, not amateur stuff. Truly awful.

Also recently, I got out a Dream theater EP to play in the car going to work. There was some long live track on it that I fancied hearing again. It fires up and .... the notes are just too high for James La Brie! He does this horrible forced shouty thing that seemed to fall a tad short of the note every time. Couldn't bear it, had to switch off after about a minute.

I'm also reminded of a third: One of my favourite live albums is Thomas Blug live in Raalte. It's a superb album, but at one point the bassist takes a solo, all is cool and groovy but then he loses his timing! Sounds very poor for a moment. If that was my album I think I'd have definitely fixed that bit in the studio later.

Any that make you wince?

axisus

Bloody hell, the violinist is at it again, gonna have to turn it off!

bloodandtears

Angus young's first duckwalk was a result of falling over a cable...  the gimmick was kept, as well as uniform, which was as a result of going to band practice straight from school...

Paul_C

The solo @ 1:10 is "interesting".

Maynehead

Threads like this always make me feel better about the numerous times I've cocking up a live solo.

Still cringe when I think about it though.

dogload

bloodandtears said:

Angus young's first duckwalk was a result of falling over a cable...  the gimmick was kept, as well as uniform, which was as a result of going to band practice straight from school...

I read somewhere that the uniform thing is a myth. It is just a gimmick.

Elx

Ritchie Blackmore, Mistreated Live last year in Germany, I was there, it has just been officially released. At the end of the solo there is a big mistake and Ritchie decided he couldn't be bothered to fix it in the studio  

CHRISB50

Peter Green - Black Magic Woman, live at the Boston Tea Party. 

About half way through the solo, he fucks up, then proceeds to absolutely monster it, as he's Peter Green. 



Around 1 min 20 if you fancy it. 

digitalkettle

Paul_C said:

The solo @ 1:10 is "interesting".

If I ever played that song, that version is so ingrained that I'd drop the same clam

There's a horrific version of 'Beautiful Day' out there...couldn't find it.