Well, with regard to the now defunct links, I have to say that to those of you who have seen the still of Goatse.cx, you ain’t seen nuthin’ compared to videos of Goatse in the flesh. No pun intended. :eek:
Well, if the wrong pre-recorded music was started, it would certainly screw up the band. Usually, the sound engineer responsible for the pre-recorded stuff is considered part of the band. Hip-hoppers give sound engineers star billing, but pop singers like to keep them off stage. And so, it would be the band’s fault. (It did look like the two guitarists were trying to get the drummer to ignore the pre-recorded track and play the correct song.)
That valid use of sound engineers is to recreate studio recording effects on stage, e.g., layered tracks and vocal echos and electronic instrumentation. (That, of course, if one is not a purist who demands only on stage performers to be performing everything live.)
What would be regarded as an invalid use of pre-recorded sound would be to fool the audience into thinking that one is performing something that one is not, IOW, lip synching. Everyone knows that when they hear a performer singing harmonies or descants, that those extra tracks were pre-recorded. But they expect the main vocal to be live. Lip synching the main vocal spits on that expectation.
Peace.
Not true at all.
Hey was her apology lip-synched? 
That…was…beautiful. Just beautiful. Yeah, I know that her style of pop is not intended to be art; it’s a manufactured product marketed to young kids who don’t know any better, but once upon a time, didn’t the music industry market the Beatles and Motown acts to that same audience? At least Pat Boone sang.
Hee…in an interview on MTV, Ashlee is asked which band she would reunite. She says that she would reenact the Pretenders because she loves Chrissie Heinz. Hee.
Goatse has far more artistic integrity.
I taped it and watched it sunday morning but when they came to her second song I fast forwarded so I didn’t even notice. I’ll have to re-watch it.
In other news Jude was great, especially the song and dance number during the opening monologue. Yum!
Her reaction was really weird. It’s like her inner voice went crazy: “what do I do now?” “find a toilet! shout obscenities! push! get a hose! build a barn! do a hoedown!” and she finally just said “YES THAT’S IT OK BRAIN I WILL DO WHAT YOU SAY JUST PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!” and then she did the hoedown.
Almost every act that appeared on American Bandstand from the 1950s through the 1970s lip-synched to their own recordings.
SNL is a special case. First, it has “live” in its name; the possibility of the actors or singers making a mistake is part of its appeal. Secondly, that stage has been the sie of Important Musical Events, like The Band’s very last song, Krist Novoselic knocking himself out with a bass, Eddie Vedder’s brief elegy to Kurt Cobain…
There’s a long line of people who [can sing who want a shot at that stage, and Sulky Pop Princess cut to the head of the line on the basis of no real merit. It makes me wonder what her precise contribution to the culrture is, and if she couldn’t make a better one as, say, the cashier at Tower Records. She can’t sing, dance or pander to my middle-aged sexual fantasies, so what exactly is she doing up there?
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Krist Novoselic knocking himself out with a bass, QUOTE]
I thought that happened at the MTV Awards?
I tought the band keeped on rocking cause if they stopped and the music kept going it would be more akward.
That’s almost what I was thinking.
Usually they don’t stage it that bad though.
Yeah, or said nothing. “Least said, soonest mended.”
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You are correct - that did NOT happen on SNL.
I saw the edited West Coast version, so I heard no vocals. But I had already spotted lip-syncing during the first song. I noticed double tracking early on (guide vocal and live vocal together?) and then thought the rest of it was suspiciously on-key, in tune, and eerily similar to the studio/radio version. As those of us who watched her MTV reality show know, she is just *not *a very good singer live.
Back on topic with the episode as a whole - Funniest sketch in a year? “The Adventures of Peter O’Toole and Michael Caine.” (“We must be hosting a talk show!”)
I assume she was wearing an earpiece (right?), so for a few moments, she was just clueless (as was everyone else) and started the monkey-dancing. Then someone in charge told her in her earpiece to skedaddle off stage, so that’s what she did.
Is that possible?
Sure, very easy. The engineer can do that in two seconds.
Well, it looks like Ashlee is going to sing again tonight on the Radio Music Awards. Should be fun to watch.
“The Adventures of Peter O’Toole and Michael Caine.” (“We must be hosting a talk show!”)
Totally agree. Damn funny stuff. That should be a recurring skit.
Earlier in the show, when she sang Pieces of Me, did the first two lines sound exactly like they did when we heard them at the start of her second “performance”?
You know, I also wanted to mention, beauty is a funny thing. Though I never thought Ashleigh could sing, I used to think she was kind of pretty. The first thing I thought when I saw her true self come out there and blame her band though, was this girl is ugly, inside and out.
That was one of the most selfish and dirty things I’ve seen a performer do in awhile, and I don’t care if she’s only 19.
Ok i watched it…ouch. What a shitty thing to do to the band. Just utterly class-less. I was impressed they kept playing though I wonder why it took SNL so long to cut to commercial.
Oh, the band had their revenge preemptively. Did you see the conpiratorial smirks on the bassit’s and guitarist’s faces? Smooth of them to keep playing the erroneous tune, as if they’d been cued. They knew damn well what they were doing. They probably can’t stand the little brat, so kudos to them.