JimboK Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 So I've seen where a band gets up and mimes to the recording (solid gold for instance) but I've never seen where the singer gets to sing live to a recording while the other band members have to clown around and pretend. Is this commonplace in the industry? Terribly obvious in this case. They're not even selling it. The Cure in 1987 doing Why Can't I Be You. Korg Kronos 2 61, Kronos 1 61, Dave Smith Mopho x4, 1954 Hammond C2, Wurlitzer 200A, Yamaha Motif 6, Casio CDP-100, Alesis Vortex Wireless, too much PA gear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Golly Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 (solid gold for instance) Cripes, but you're sure dating yourself with this reference. Is this commonplace in the industry? The clowning? Not commonplace, but a lot of bands that resent having to mime their parts with do it to varying degrees. Lots of examples to be found on YouTube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I can't remember who it was, but wasn't there a famous screw-up on Saturday Night Live about this? Where you saw the whole band on stage, but it was all pre-recorded except for the vocal, and they started the wrong backing track and the singer didn't know what to do? Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bridog6996 Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 You might be thinking of Ashley Simpson on SNL, but if I'm remembering correctly, that was a case of a live band with canned vocals. They had cued up the wrong song, realized it was wrong when the "vocals" started, and panicked. They quickly turned off the vocal track and the band kept playing, but the singer ran off stage. My YouTube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Bridog6996 is right. It was painful to watch, amature hour. How did she get on SNL anyway? oh wait, now I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 You might be thinking of Ashley Simpson on SNL, but if I'm remembering correctly, that was a case of a live band with canned vocals. They had cued up the wrong song, realized it was wrong when the "vocals" started, and panicked. They quickly turned off the vocal track and the band kept playing, but the singer ran off stage. Ah yes, that makes more sense! Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve LeBlanc Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 it's fairly common for TV, especially in Germany here's me pretending to play... I think even the singer was lipsyncing on this one but we also played a TV show in Zurich where the music was mime'd and she actually sang. the drummer and I got in a little bit of trouble for joking around too much but you couldn't see it in the video so it was no big deal http://www.youtube.com/notesleb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I sure hope Cygnus64 sees this thread. His story beats anything you could even imagine when it comes to this kind of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Golly Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I sure hope Cygnus64 sees this thread. His story beats anything you could even imagine when it comes to this kind of stuff. It wasn't a story, per se, but a link to an "orchestral performance" video of Il Divo that was 100% canned: Clonk here (about 2/3rds of the way down the first page). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsquatch Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Here's footage of Nirvana pretending to be pretending to play. (That's not a typo.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthoid Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Just out of curiosity and from a historical standpoint, does anyone know when lip-syncing was done for the first time on a televised performance? When an eel hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a Moray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Muscara Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 When was TV invented? "I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck "The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzzz Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Absolutely, since it has been done in movies ever since they invented "talkies." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Lip syncing and miming live performances has been commonplace for many decades. There are many excuses for using it. I have never seen or heard a canned performance that I could appreciate. Same goes for live performances that sounds exactly like the recording. IMO, lip syncing has diminished the integrity of "live" performance and by extension, the appreciation of it. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboK Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Thanks everyone for your thoughts and comments. I remembered the Nirvana thing as a true lampoon of the very concept but I could not put my finger on it. Brilliant find. Thanks. Sven: Yeah, I was gonna reference another source, like American Bandstand but Solid Gold was the show where I first discovered, "hey, they aren't really playing that shit" What shocked me the most was that I never realized, and I recognize this as sad; I never noticed that in many of these TV performances, the singer alone was allowed to be live. Talk about putting the singer FURTHER on a pedestal! On the topic of "old as dirt" performances: Did you ever see when Ozzy Osbourne did American Bandstand? That was some classic, albeit shitty stuff. Talk about aping a performance. Korg Kronos 2 61, Kronos 1 61, Dave Smith Mopho x4, 1954 Hammond C2, Wurlitzer 200A, Yamaha Motif 6, Casio CDP-100, Alesis Vortex Wireless, too much PA gear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therealvicz Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Classic "Just a tad more attack on the filter, Grandad!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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