- Joined
- Jul 22, 2013
- Messages
- 2,693
- Reaction score
- 1,350
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Independent
If you watch TV music shows, a lot of them over the past 60 years have insisted that bands lip sync over the recorded version of their popular songs. I'm honestly surprised more people haven't noticed that the "live" tv version sounded IDENTICAL in every way to the record.
A few years ago I was reading up on "Canned Heat", a 60s blues band who played Woodstock. I found a 1970 tv variety show performance of one of their hits, which was itself a cover of an older blues song. Apparently they were told to lip sync on tv, but were none too happy about it! So, Bob "the bear" Hite decided to make a show of it, at 0:55. In the background, you can see singer/guitarist Alan "blind owl" Wilson laughing it up....
Less than 1 year later, Alan was dead of a drug overdose while hanging out alone in a field near their home/party pad. 10 years later, in 1981, Bob Hite died of a heroin overdose, after a fan handed him a vial of it in between sets, and he snorted the whole vial...
A few years ago I was reading up on "Canned Heat", a 60s blues band who played Woodstock. I found a 1970 tv variety show performance of one of their hits, which was itself a cover of an older blues song. Apparently they were told to lip sync on tv, but were none too happy about it! So, Bob "the bear" Hite decided to make a show of it, at 0:55. In the background, you can see singer/guitarist Alan "blind owl" Wilson laughing it up....
Less than 1 year later, Alan was dead of a drug overdose while hanging out alone in a field near their home/party pad. 10 years later, in 1981, Bob Hite died of a heroin overdose, after a fan handed him a vial of it in between sets, and he snorted the whole vial...