bad moments onstage

[Dutchessy]

Ah guys, nice example is BIA during the SL tour in Amsterdam (2nd night). You might remember the beautiful arrangement by RB? (sh)it happens.

What happened?

Capo on wrong fret, so a completely wrong tuning in the first seconds of BIA (Richard's guitar, a cittern or something like that)

And during Sailing to Philadelphia that evening he made another mistake. Instead of singing the second verse, he started singing the words 'we are sailing' and than he corrected and changed to the second verse

That was my FIRST MK concert, 16 april 2005

[Love Expresso]

Yeah yeah, Amsterjam... Some good weed over there, I think Guy's "happy hour" was a little too happy that evening...

Wonder if you ever attended another MK show after that? That's true love....

LE

[Dutchessy]

Yeah yeah, Amsterjam... Some good weed over there, I think Guy's "happy hour" was a little too happy that evening...

Wonder if you ever attended another MK show after that? That's true love....

LE

Oh yes I almost cried during Sultans of Swing solo! It was awsome!

The next day was my second concert, 17 april Rotterdam
2006, with emmylou harris
2007: Lucky winner of 4 tickets for Showcase Melkweg Amsterdam (I shaked hands with Mark)
2008: 4 concerts
2010: 4 concerts

So... To be honest... I didn't noticed the mistakes during the concert! (I was blown away by the concert) When I listened the concert afterwards, i noticed

And as you know... True love never fade

[superval99]

Dutchessy,  That is the reason, IMO, that MK would rather the concerts weren't recorded.  We don't notice the mistakes at the time, but only on the recordings!    Enjoy the moment with no postmortems!   Just like most fans, though, I love to hear the recordings, especially those I attended.       I'm really glad you enjoyed all your concerts.  

[Dutchessy]

Dutchessy,  That is the reason, IMO, that MK would rather the concerts weren't recorded.  We don't notice the mistakes at the time, but only on the recordings!    Enjoy the moment with no postmortems!   Just like most fans, though, I love to hear the recordings, especially those I attended.      I'm really glad you enjoyed all your concerts.  

Yes! That's true But all the concerts where fantastic! He makes very few mistakes, so every concert is a highlight I'm really looking forward to this tour! Ofcourse... Everyone does!

[Simon]

The opening 2 songs at Newcastle in 2008. The sound engineer had got it badly wrong and the vocals couldn't be heard properly above the 'wail' of sound. I was getting seriously upset as I thought the whole gig would be like that. Fortunately it was sorted by the 3rd song.

Things like that should never happen, not ever. The amount of time and resources that are put into getting things just right and the fine detail that goes into the whole production are suddenly forgotten about when something really simple is goes wrong.

I wonder if this would have happened in the days before in-ear monitors - and the band heard almost exactly what the audience was hearing instead of their own individually tailored feeds.

[Dutchessy]

First gig in 2008 was the same! In the front we couldn't hear Mark singing during Cannibals. People started screaming: 'Mark, we can't hear you!' They fixed it before Why aye man

[superval99]

Then the vocals on the first few lines of "Sultans" was hard to hear on the first night!  

[Dutchessy]

What are we actually doing?

Why recall the bad moments? There are a lot more WONDERFUL moments! The tour is about to start

[superval99]

Roll on the tour - I can't wait!      

[Simon]

What are we actually doing?

Why recall the bad moments? There are a lot more WONDERFUL moments! The tour is about to start

I am hoping someone reads this and does a double, nay treble souncheck before the concerts.

[dustyvalentino]

I wonder if this would have happened in the days before in-ear monitors - and the band heard almost exactly what the audience was hearing instead of their own individually tailored feeds.

Not necessarily, more often than not the main PA was in front of the stage anyway and the performers had seperate "wedges" to hear what they were playing, so it still could have happened.

[Mossguitar]

The opening 2 songs at Newcastle in 2008. The sound engineer had got it badly wrong and the vocals couldn't be heard properly above the 'wail' of sound. I was getting seriously upset as I thought the whole gig would be like that. Fortunately it was sorted by the 3rd song.

Things like that should never happen, not ever. The amount of time and resources that are put into getting things just right and the fine detail that goes into the whole production are suddenly forgotten about when something really simple is goes wrong.

I wonder if this would have happened in the days before in-ear monitors - and the band heard almost exactly what the audience was hearing instead of their own individually tailored feeds.

As Dusty points out, a band doesn't hear what the audience hear. No difference between in-ear monitors or other monitors.

About the sound in the hall: The caracteristics of the hall normally change drastically when it's filled with people, so it's almost impossible to avoid sound problems during the first songs.   

[ingridswing]

The same happened in 2008 at the first gig at the RAH. On 2nd row we heard about ... nothing 
But a soundboy was running up and down and after some songs it was fixed. Second night RAH it didn't happen anymore 

[localhero1986]

The same happened in 2008 at the first gig at the RAH. On 2nd row we heard about ... nothing  
But a soundboy was running up and down and after some songs it was fixed. Second night RAH it didn't happen anymore  

Well, in fact it is the choice between a good seat or good sound, isn't it?

Just kidding, overall the sound during MK shows is good and especially from the 3rd song on. I've heard worse... (sorry, had to use this new smiley, it's awesome!)