VH -North Carolina Nightmare -makes you wanna jump

[442w30]

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/18/onstage-tech-disasters-van-halen-goes-microtonal/

[OUTLAW1969]

I saw that posted on a few other forums. HORRIBLE!!!!


I was wondering what had happened in that clip, and was thinking that someone would lose their job over it.

[thetroy]

yikes

[MortenP]

I think DLR did a better job pulling it off than EVH did....And I'd like to think that EVH would do a better job doing the tune in a different note..(But I don't know how much the hertz-stuff will do to a tone so...)..

They still finished the tune..I'm looking forward to seeing more of the live-stuff!

[Robert Burns]

Could have had a real keyboard player in person on stage...but then
EVH would have to pay the guy!! Cant have that.. :ROTF:

[skorb]

wow that sounded so awful. if I were them I'd have stopped it and done something different.

[slash-ed]

You'd think the great EVH would know how to shift everything up half a step?!

[///MK]

Wow got to give it to Dave for roll roll rolling with the punches. I doubt Eddie could hear anything on that stage he seemed clueless to the obvious unintentional key change. could be worse they could have riverdanced on the stage as that that Ashlee simpson did

[thetroy]

I don't have that good of an ear, but chances are it was not shifted exactly a half step

[scotty]

WOW! I bet somebody got a ass chewing.

[AdRock]

I don't have that good of an ear, but chances are it was not shifted exactly a half step

I'm thinking the same thing. It was definitely a higher pitch but you can hear EVH hit the proper note it should be, then the note above what's playing. Then he tries to tune to the right pitch.

[slash-ed]

It was half a step almost exactly, I checked with a tuner.

[AfterForever]

lol at the comments:

"Van Halen actually did an impressive job of adapting his voice, while the guitarists wandered around stage wondering why their guitars suddenly sounded like shite."

[charveljunkie]

Van Halen Horror!!!!

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.

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

[Bengal65]

:ROTF: That is so bad, I had to turn it off after 20-30 seconds. It was hurting my ears. I wonder why they just didn't stop? Oh, well on with the show