Saturday, October 20, 2007
Van Halen - Jump (Greensboro)
YouTube via almostsaved.
"Van Halen performs "Jump" in Greensboro, NC on September 29, 2007."
This one has been making its rounds. In case you missed it, word is the OB-Xa synth piece is a recording being incorrectly played back at a sample rate of 48k instead of 44.1k - completely out of tune against Eddie Van Halen's guitar. Don't miss David Lee Roth's baton performance after the horrendous guitar solo as well as him riding a huge inflatable microphone shortly after.
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What a bloody Joke ! - When the intro synth comes in its a bloody backing track and not live ! ! - Made worse by the fact that the guitars are Badly Out OF TUNE _ Bloody TERRIBLE !
ReplyDeleteBeer
This is what they get for using a friggin recording. They could have gotten any of us Matrixsynth readers to fly anywhere in the country to play "Jump." :o)
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why this is out of tune. What do you mean "48k instead of 41k"?
ReplyDeleteThe sample rate. I updated the post with another video explaining it.
ReplyDeleteDave, you definitely would have nailed it. You ever consider doing it. :)
Agreed, Dave would have nailed it.
ReplyDeleteyeah but if eddie was on top of his shit he would have changed his scale up one note to accomodate the incorrect tuning.
ReplyDeleteThe way they used to do it is that Eddie would play the keyboard part into a synth (Peavey for a while, then a Kurzweil) and they would play the sequence back for the show. Eddie would then play the part in again every few shows to keep it from getting stale.
ReplyDeleteDisappointing that they didn't do something similar here, especially since the part really isn't that challenging for a competent keyboardist.
It's definitely that one night, though, as the part is in tune in this performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDYW31QPEg
41k...? Good thing you weren't operating their backingtrack either Matrix ;-)
ReplyDeleteWow, that's out of tune guitar, not
ReplyDeletesample. Sample sounds the same on clip from a later show, but Eddies
ears seem to be functioning better. Eh. we're all getting old...
The irony is they could have played that backing track off an iPod, winamp, CD, etc. and they wouldn't have had any problems. Some gear head had to have his slick sequencer software and digi interfaces controlled by an external clock doo dad with a Monster interconnect to eliminate jitter blah, blah, blah. Too bad he doesn't know what the key of C is supposed to sound like.
ReplyDeletei hate when bands are too proud to stop and get a song right. if you watch the imogen heap live vids almost every one she she gets a few chords in and says oh shit and fixes something. i'd much sooner see that.
ReplyDeletei saw the walkmen once. the guitarist broke his g string on the second song. instead of grabbing another guitar or changing it he just kept going into the next song. he mudered the whole set. i got a g string from a local band and threw it at him. i should have thrown a whole guitar.
eddie hasn't lost his hearing or sense of pitch. he tried to transpose on the fly, but the song wasn't exactly a 1/2 step off or any multiple after. it was in between the pitches of a guitar, so he was screwed. even if he transposed, he had to get the bass player aboard, too.
ReplyDeletei agree--they should have A) used simpler equipment to play the track; there's really no need to hire a synth guy for that song in this day an age--and B) they should have just freekin' stopped as soon as they knew they were out of tune. they're frikin' VAN HALEN with David Lee Roth!!! the crowd won't care, plus VH could have kicked them right back up to speed and killed that song leaving the audience euphoric from an in-tune rendition of 'Jump.' either way, no one dies. the humanity of the entire situation is beautiful!