Stolen from another forum

[Tone2TheBone]

I present to you the best reason for firing your guitar tech.

http://www.stereogum.com/archives/video/van-halen-needs-a-guitar-tech.html




















Spoiler! - That sounds so bad now I'm wondering if it wasn't recorded over. Made me cry and want to hide. Ok you urban legend types is this for real?

[Bloozcat]

That made me a little queezy....:puke:

[Big_Rob]

OUCH!!!!

That gives a new definition to what I call that song.

Junk

[SuperSwede]

Dont blame the guitar tech... EVH was probably loaded with various white substances.

[Big_Rob]

Dont blame the guitar tech... EVH was probably loaded with various white substances.

Hehehehe. She dont lie, She dont lie, She dont lie....

[Tone2TheBone]

If that's real what I'm wondering is why wouldn't he have stopped playing and ran to the side throwing the offending instrument into the face of the guitar tech and demanding a tuned one before the song got too far! If that video is real wouldn't you think he would have done that?

[Big_Rob]

If that's real what I'm wondering is why wouldn't he have stopped playing and ran to the side throwing the offending instrument into the face of the guitar tech and demanding a tuned one before the song got too far! If that video is real wouldn't you think he would have done that?

I dont know about that, It did sound like DLR singing.

[marnold]

Ummm . . . yikes? I'm wondering if the problem was in fact with the keyboard. The keyboard riff is a half-step sharper in the live version than on the recording. I was trying to play the bass line along with them (you can't actually hear Wolfie, but I was playing what it should be based on the keyboards) and the main bass progression on the recording is C, F, G. In the live version it is C#, F#, G#. Mayhaps that they need a keyboard tech.

Unless, of course, they're playing everything down a half-step. Then the riff would be played as D, G, A (although it would actually sound like C#, F#, G#). Then the problem would be that Eddie's guitar would be in standard tuning. Or Eddie's fallen off the wagon again. I hope not.

If that was somehow faked, they did a very good job of it.

[Tone2TheBone]

Ummm . . . yikes? I'm wondering if the problem was in fact with the keyboard. The keyboard riff is a half-step sharper in the live version than on the recording. I was trying to play the bass line along with them (you can't actually hear Wolfie, but I was playing what it should be based on the keyboards) and the main bass progression on the recording is C, F, G. In the live version it is C#, F#, G#. Mayhaps that they need a keyboard tech.

Unless, of course, they're playing everything down a half-step. Then the riff would be played as D, G, A (although it would actually sound like C#, F#, G#). Then the problem would be that Eddie's guitar would be in standard tuning. Or Eddie's fallen off the wagon again. I hope not.

If that was somehow faked, they did a very good job of it.

I also tried to hear the bass line to compare but I couldn't off the vid. What you're saying is also a reasonable possibility. The keys "key" from the intro is different than the intro to Jump and it did sound a step higher in pitch. I just winced listening to it and like Blooz it actually made me queasy.

[Spudman]

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LOL!


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