![]() People have been doing this since the '80s. I'm, like, 'Why does this bother you?' It's the way it is. He told Rock Feed: "It bothers me that it bothers people. In March 2020, SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers said that "90 percent" of rock artists use at least some pre-recorded tracks during their live performances. Because everybody wants to hear everybody sing. When McGhee was asked to clarify if he was "actually saying there are backing tracks that singing to," Doc said: "He'll sing to tracks. Nobody wants to hear people do stuff that's not real, that's not what they came to hear." It's just part of the process to make sure that everybody hears the songs the way they should be sang to begin with. Last month, KISS's longtime manager Doc McGhee defended Stanley's vocal performance on "End Of The Road", explaining that the "Star Child" "fully sings to every song" at every concert. ![]() There's very few bands who don't use tracks." I can't even say that about U2 or THE STONES. "There's very few bands who do that now - AC/DC, METALLICA, us. "There's nobody with a synthesizer on our stage, there's no samples on the drums, there's nothing," Gene continued. It's not about backing tracks, it's about dishonesty. It should be on every ticket - you're paying $100, 30 to 50 percent of the show is backing tracks and they'll sing sometimes, sometimes they'll lip sync. If the first ingredient on the label is sugar, that's at least honest. "I have a problem when you charge $100 to see a live show and the artist uses backing tracks," Simmons said. KISS frontman Paul Stanley, who has been struggling to hit the high notes in many of the band's classic songs for a number of years, has been accused of singing to a backing tape on KISS's ongoing "End Of The Road" tour.īack in 2015, KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons slammed bands who used backing tapes for not being honest enough to include that fact on their concert tickets. I completely disagree with that concept." But certainly you wouldn't wanna be doing that at a real live performance. But it's close enough, and it's acceptable when you're watching a video. And that's the only way that it looks even remotely correct, as well as… You're never gonna get yourself syncing perfectly in time, so you can obviously tell that it's not really real. But in doing that, even when I do have to do that, I actually perform the song - I play it as if I'm actually playing. ![]() Of course, no amplifiers are plugged in, no guitars are plugged in, nothing is playing, and, of course, if you're singing at a microphone, the microphone isn't on, so it's not picking up what you're doing. So they've gotta keep your actual instruments. And so, of course, when the drummer is hitting the drums, they can't be too loud because otherwise you can't hear the actual track being played that you're playing to. And what you end up doing, and it's actually interesting, is they put deadeners on the drums so that they don't make noise. When you go do a video, they don't record the sound. "The only time that we've ever done that and ever had to do that was in creating videos. "Has ANVIL ever done that?" Lips continued. I can't even comprehend the idea that a backing track or something is doing the work for me. I am about giving what it takes and doing what it takes to put on a performance. And I don't say, 'Stay at home and don't perform.' That's your own business. I certainly don't subscribe to that school of… I mean, that's not properly playing that's not how you perform. Asked for his opinion on singers who use backing tracks for their lead vocals, the guitarist/vocalist said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I don't think much of 'em, I'll tell you that. Lips addressed some rock acts' reliance on pre-recorded tracks in a Cameo video message requested by the Syncin' Stanley YouTube channel. For better or worse, pre-recorded tracks are becoming increasingly common for touring artists of all levels and genres and they're not just used in pop music - many rock artists utilize playback tracks to varying degrees. In recent years, more and more artists have been given a pass for relying on pre-recorded tracks, drum triggers and other assorted technology that makes concerts more synthetic but also more consistent. ANVIL frontman Steve "Lips" Kudlow says that he "completely disagrees" with artists enhancing their show by using backing tracks during their concerts.
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