Not sure if this fits exactly, but it's hilarious. The trigger is at about 50 seconds.
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Favorite "mistakes" in great recordings
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Allman Brothers “One Way Out” live, coming out of the breakdown back in at 3:15
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I’d rather have all those clams than “pre-programmed electronic disco music” or whatever Ackroyd called it on the Blues Brothers recording.
As much as I love this song, I have always suspected that this was not the best take on the drum intro.
I've always gone back into that riff as an outro when I've played it live, and it works pretty well when the rest of the band follows!
Tim Commerford missing his distortion pedal near the end of Bulls On Parade also comes to mind.
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always loved this bit
A propeller-driven plane flew overhead as the recording reels were rolling for this song. At the beginning of the track, sound engineer Eddie Kramer can be heard saying, "Don't want to get this airplane on," to which Robert Plant replies "Nah, leave it, yeah."
A propeller-driven plane flew overhead as the recording reels were rolling for this song. At the beginning of the track, sound engineer Eddie Kramer can be heard saying, "Don't want to get this airplane on," to which Robert Plant replies "Nah, leave it, yeah."
My favorite f#%$ up is courtesy of Neil Smith, original Alice Cooper drummer on the album KILLER. I'd heard this mistake for years without knowing the back story, which I finally found reading Dennis Dunaways book.
Seems Neil had this habit of "twirling" his sticks constantly in the studio.
It drove Bob Ezrin crazy....
At the end of " Be my lover" there's a big ending note than a pause and another even bigger ending note.
Neil drops his sticks in the pause while doing one of his goofy twirls.
You can hear them clattering around off his kit and on the floor.
Bob Ezrin refused to let him re-record it. It caused a big fight in the studio.
But its still there.
Seems Neil had this habit of "twirling" his sticks constantly in the studio.
It drove Bob Ezrin crazy....
At the end of " Be my lover" there's a big ending note than a pause and another even bigger ending note.
Neil drops his sticks in the pause while doing one of his goofy twirls.
You can hear them clattering around off his kit and on the floor.
Bob Ezrin refused to let him re-record it. It caused a big fight in the studio.
But its still there.
A little somethin'-somethin' happens with the drums around 3:09 in Stevie Wonder's "It Ain't No Use" from Fulfillingness' First Finale...not quite a dropped or turned-around beat, but maybe a little late to hit a few pieces of the kit. Stevie played all instruments on this song, and from watching the making of Songs in the Key of Life I think he typically did keys first and then drums later. I hear it every time and it makes me smile, "Oh, yeah - Stevie is a mere mortal, too."
I've never heard Paul Shaffer make a mistake before but that one was a GOOD one. Watch Winwood's eyes when he hits that. That drummer was great though.
Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys. It sounds like they were goofing around (I think with Jan and Dean as uncredited vocals), laughing and cutting up and getting the words wrong. Leaving it just as it is makes it perfect.
For some reason, John Wetton yells out "You don't! " after the first verse.
Sounds like a stick hit or something right at about the 1:30 mark, I had to check about 6 or 7 different copies of this song on youtube, it's been edited out on most and on one original album version it was noticeably spliced right out.
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Please Please Me stereo album version Paul drops his bundle in the outro, completely misses a note or two on bass.
According to Hal Blaine he missed the snare hit on the 2 beat in the intro to The Ronettes Be My Baby, accidentally creating one of the most iconic intros ever.
Ella Fitzgerald starts cold on "Mack the Knife", blacks out on all the words after the first verse, and *then* proves why she's one of the best singers of all time.
The Who's "Eminence Front" at around 2:30... P. Townsend and R. Daltry sing the beginning of the first chorus out of sync...
My all time fav. mistake is on the Nirvana cover of the Bowie Classic “Man Who Sold The World”. The guitar bends up to cover one of the notes in the outro that gets picked a fret flat. It’s on the MTV Unplugged recording. It’s cool and has this edgy dissonance, which fits great, but I think it’s a cover up for an oops. It’s not on the Bowie version, and I don’t think I’ve heard a different Nirvana recording where it’s duplicated.
