Rock and Roll Hall Of Lame
I am watching the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary trainwreck on TV right now. Whoever is mixing the sound for it needs to be fired because it's pretty fucking obvious that NOBODY can hear each other. It's just completely unacceptable because you know they have been setting this damn show up and sound checking for the last week. Most of the artists on here are supposedly seasoned pro's, and they are, but everyone, even the bands that are currently on tour are on here playing like they were dosed with Ketamine. It's embarrassing.
So far, Simon and Garfunkel we're pretty good and they got through at least half of one song without any fuck up's ......i said half of a song. They didn't even scratch each others eyes out.
Aretha Franklin was ......Aretha Franklin but I think she just woke up.
Metallica ......ahem ...well first of all, I know it's difficult to feel like "rocking" when what you hear is the sound of a faint buzz thats supposed to act as your guitar tone and LOTS OF VOCALS. Hopefully the drummer remembers the arrangements ....oh ...i guess not. But it's ok, were gonna play too fast and Kirk is gonna solo a bunch even though he can't hear the tempo. "Sweet Jane" "All Day and All Of The Night" and "Iron Man" were all played with the smoothness of Coral Reef.
Dear "The Edge" I just wanted to tell you how much I admired how you held your ground and forced Fergie and Mick Jagger to sing "Gimmie Shelter" around the wrong chord progression. I mean that bullshit you were playing instead of C major was really dissonant and brought a new unstable feel to an otherwise solid song. cheers mate!
Jeff beck wanked the blues while Sting channeled dead Jazz musicians ....but like fusion jazz ones that were big Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians fans who watched "Thirty Something" religiously. And then Billy Gibbons did Emphysema impressions.
Bruce Springsteen was pretty great and seemed to realize he was knee deep in song carnage. Unfortunately he let Tom Morrello (Rage Against The Machine) play guitar on "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" The guy made it through about four bars of a solo ok but then it became clear that the notes in an A-minor scale were not Morrellos strong point.... continuing for the next 20 bars. ....He did a little chimey thing with a Whammy pedal and some delay which lasted for a couple of bars and then he fell down some stairs. John Fogerty had to step over him to get on stage.
I don't know what it is about sound mixes for TV, they just always suck and TV engineers are really delicate. They always want guitars as quiet as possible, the drummer is asked to play quieter or is shoved behind 4 inches of plexi-glass. Anyway.....
I guess there is another night of it to watch.
So far, Simon and Garfunkel we're pretty good and they got through at least half of one song without any fuck up's ......i said half of a song. They didn't even scratch each others eyes out.
Aretha Franklin was ......Aretha Franklin but I think she just woke up.
Metallica ......ahem ...well first of all, I know it's difficult to feel like "rocking" when what you hear is the sound of a faint buzz thats supposed to act as your guitar tone and LOTS OF VOCALS. Hopefully the drummer remembers the arrangements ....oh ...i guess not. But it's ok, were gonna play too fast and Kirk is gonna solo a bunch even though he can't hear the tempo. "Sweet Jane" "All Day and All Of The Night" and "Iron Man" were all played with the smoothness of Coral Reef.
Dear "The Edge" I just wanted to tell you how much I admired how you held your ground and forced Fergie and Mick Jagger to sing "Gimmie Shelter" around the wrong chord progression. I mean that bullshit you were playing instead of C major was really dissonant and brought a new unstable feel to an otherwise solid song. cheers mate!
Jeff beck wanked the blues while Sting channeled dead Jazz musicians ....but like fusion jazz ones that were big Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians fans who watched "Thirty Something" religiously. And then Billy Gibbons did Emphysema impressions.
Bruce Springsteen was pretty great and seemed to realize he was knee deep in song carnage. Unfortunately he let Tom Morrello (Rage Against The Machine) play guitar on "The Ghost Of Tom Joad" The guy made it through about four bars of a solo ok but then it became clear that the notes in an A-minor scale were not Morrellos strong point.... continuing for the next 20 bars. ....He did a little chimey thing with a Whammy pedal and some delay which lasted for a couple of bars and then he fell down some stairs. John Fogerty had to step over him to get on stage.
I don't know what it is about sound mixes for TV, they just always suck and TV engineers are really delicate. They always want guitars as quiet as possible, the drummer is asked to play quieter or is shoved behind 4 inches of plexi-glass. Anyway.....
I guess there is another night of it to watch.