Van Halen “Jump”s in pitch
Oh boy. Zook turned me onto this recording. It seems that at a recent Van Halen performance in North Carolina they had mistakenly played the keyboards back at a different sampling rate than recorded, which put the keyboards track higher in pitch.
Below is a link to a post and the video. BEWARE the recording is painful!
Oh how I love technology — It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving song. If only I had a dollar for every time some fellow junior high student got on the keys and played that. Ug.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Which was more painful, Said song or a certain Cultured drummer trying to play Low Spark on said keyboards?
October 20th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
For a moment there I think the crowd noticed.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Just another example of the level of musicianship needed to play live these days. Not much IMHO.
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
I’ve always kinda liked them, though their recordings are nothing but symbol wash.
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:52 pm
The most hilarious thing is that David Lee Roth (or whoever it is, this time) doesn’t even seem to be aware something is amiss. Nor do the majority of the audience. This is why I don’t attend concerts these days.
March 4th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Not correct actually. Check any other recent youtube vid of Jump and you can tell (especially if you have a keyboard handy) that the keyboard track is in C# in all of them as it’s supposed to be. Eddie was playing one of his detuned guitars on either his error or the error of his tech.
March 4th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Thanks for the correction. That does seem a might bit more plausible.