Well, I’m finally going through the recordings I made of my students at the beginning of the summer, and I thought I’d show off some of my students.
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Obviously those kids could play their butts off… but in this video, they’re obviously older. I dunno if Michael woulda sung those notes at that age… maybe. But Jermaine at least would not sound like he was still 14! And he does. Also, notice how they cut the song off right before the talking part? Also, there are strings in the recording, and there are no string players in that studio. Nowadays you could attribute it to a backing track, but I have my doubts as to whether or not they did that back in the day. What do you think?
So after a long hiatus of not going to see huge concerts, I made it back to Nissan Pavillion on Sunday to see the No Doubt / Paramore concert. Traffic was atrocious both into and out of the concert. 30 minute ride turned into 1 1/2 hours making us miss the first 15 minutes of paramore’s set.
Leaving was even worse. We just sat in the parking lot for 2 freakin’ hours waiting to get out. Evan, that lucky bastard, made it out in no time at all.
The concert itself was quite excellent, I enjoyed myself thoroughly! No doubt definitely did their thing, playing I think ALL of their singles. I whipped out my iPhone for a couple well known songs. Doesn’t sound TOO horrible considering it was my iPhone in my pocket from a million miles away.
Speaking of being far away, it was really disorienting watching the drummer. Because we were seated so far away, it took a second for the sound to actually reach us. So i was watching him hit the snare and then hearing the actual hit a beat or two later. It was really really disorienting. Then the light show, which was synced up to the hits, was out of sync to us… I never thought about that happening before because I haven’t been to such a big show in such a long time (last one was Foo Fighters / Chili Peppers in 2000). And last time I was at Nissan i was definitely seated closer.
Anyway, I took a couple of bootleg recordings and here they are for your enjoyment!
Crush Crush Crush - Paramore
Don’t Speak - No Doubt
Well this is without a doubt awesome. No, it’s not some light show timed to the theme song, the tesla coils are actually producing the music. Pretty amazing!
These guys took news clips and autotuned the voice tracks. You can remove notes in auto-tune, adn what they did was only let the notes that would work with the chord through, and then sliced up the audio so the rhythm would fit. Katie Couric’s spot is pretty darn amazing. And it’s so awesome when they harmonize over them! I love it because it pokes fun at Kanye West and all them, but also because it’s creative and hilarious. Definitely watch @ 1:22.
Also, does that glasses guy’s head seem too big for his body? He’s like a bobble-head.