Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster For VAN HALEN
October 20, 2007, 16 years ago
The following report is courtesy of Joel Johnson from Gizmodo.com:
"And now for a 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. See Eddie Van Halen launch into his famous solo on 'Jump', trying in vain to somehow transpose to this otherworldly key that is nowhere to be found. This travesty of a performance happened earlier this month (in Greensboro, North Carolina), and the funny thing is, the crowd was delighted with it. I shutter to think that no one realized something was terribly amiss, but those hometown folks always were overly polite."View the video here.
