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The most METAL BOOMER take EVER - Nik Nocturnal shares his thoughts on the Ronnie Radke, Sebastian Bach and Eddie Trunk Twitter fued about bands using laptops live
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*What are your thoughts on bands using laptops live? Comment below*
IEMs are cheating. Put those monitors back on the stage
Yeah lose your hearing like a real man !!!!
But seriously IEMs are great for cutting out the crap you don’t want (the audience) and mixing in the shit you do want much quieter.
@@xx-----------xx873 100%. Fuck those "traditional" dumbasses
I think it's hilarious that Eddie trunk literally hosts a metal music festival "Rocklahoma" and doesn't know how live music works now a'days
I have to use a laptop. No one for a live band in my area. My drummer is in Australia!
"Bands use ELECTRICITY to play live. Wow! What a fucking SHOCK!" - Nik Nocturnal with the best accidental pun of 2022
@lolitmeg 😂🤣😂
This got me thinking, we REALLY need to see Lorna do one of those live performances featuring an actual orchestra at some point, it will be glorious
I would simply pass away. It would be the best thing ever
They would have to be at a BMTH/Architects scale for that to happen in any meaningful capacity. But LS, just speaking honestly, peaked with To The Hellfire from a popularity perspective. It's unlikely they get any bigger unless start leaning into a more accessible sound.
A set like BMTH did at Royal Albert Hall....would be fire from LS
@@icanmakeeverythingilovedie9861 Uhh did you not see how well Pain Remains 1 did?
@@jackthompson1544 By what metric? Any meaningful metric says that Pain Remains didn't do nearly as well. Maybe that's because it wasn't as flashy (breakdowns), or just didn't catch reactors/TikTok kids/clout chasers like To The Hellfire did.
Either way, my larger point was that Lorna Shore will never pull in the numbers to play something like BMTH did. It's not even close.
As a 50 year old, I am so often embarrassed by people my age who refuse to check a calendar and see what century we're in.
Oh crap sorry, 69 likes turned to 70 now. Not nice :(
@@tourettesonfiree "70 is just 69 with a finger in your ass" George Carlin
hey bro youre BASICALLY gen x its okay
@@kaiserofkush Basically? Gen X begins with 1965, currently as old as 58.
That's a nonsense argument. It's just "It's the current year!". We're not obliged to do things a certain way or believe certain things because of the era we live in. That sort of mandatory conformity would be a living hell, the stuff that your grandparents fought against.
Honestly, as long as they’re actually playing and singing their parts, that’s all that matters to me.
Exactly, if there doing what they can, nobody cares where the background effects and all of that come from
Couldn't agree more
100% true. Who gives a shit about a few effects, I wanna hear what you got!
Who cares if they’re even fully singing & playing their parts though, if they can pull off a good show, that’s good enough for most people
My previous band used electronics and samples and our whole set is clicked and I use in-ear monitors. We still played everything, instrument wise, organically. So when people saw us live it all sounded exactly as it does on the record. Which, I believe, fans appreciate very greatly.
Eddie and Sebastian need to learn more about today’s rock/metal side music industry. Laptops these days are for how the sound is on stage. But Eddie and Sebastian don’t see that. Whenever they see “laptop” and “music” in the same scenario, they will automatically think that the band is making nothing but fake drums blast out of the speakers
They’re both dated and irrelevant
@@soph8537 Cool, good for you. I like old-school metal too! But that’s not particularly relevant here.
Yep, seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the technology and its role in modern day music. Falling in reverse uses a lot of hip hop and 808's in conjunction with real musicianship which is kind of the whole point. There is no using a real kit to imitate an 808.
“Bands use electricity to play live, wow… what a f**king shock.”
I see what you did there Nik haha.
In my opinion, the real failing was not having those “shows” backed up to a desktop (or better still iCloud) so that new laptops can be loaded with their show and fedexed or couriered to the gig location. A band this big should have had those spare laptops on deck and ready to get to where they need to be.
Agreed, what's more, real pro bands all have redundancy rigs to backup the main rig in case of a failure. Like a guitarist has 2 guitars or drummer has more than 1 pair of sticks. I think it's mostly sad he canceled rather than perform anyway without the laptop. I don't give a damn if the backing tracks are on, example, Rush played in Brazil for the first time, it rained and soaked their stage and all their gear and all the midi gear stopped working, Did Rush say fuck it I can't perform now?! No they went on and crushed it without all the fancy midi and V-kit stuff.
@@myopicautisticmetal9035 to be fair, they did have a backup laptop. Both of them were sent to the wrong place. It can be argued that your backup gear should always be kept separate from your main gear and this could have been avoided had they done that but shit happens sometimes and I bet from this point on EVERY band will have extra fail safes put in place.
These guys were in a lose/lose situation though. Either they cancel the show and people bitch or they put on a completely different show than people thought they were getting when they bought their ticket (FIR is known for the production quality of their music and live shows) and people still bitch.
I just know that as a photographer, if I screw up during a shoot and the quality of work isn't up to my usual standards, I won't just give the clients the subpar work and call it good. They paid for my usual standard of work and if I have to redo the shoot to give it to them, that's what I'll do.
@@ECMKAD - Yeah, I totally agree with this. I mean, I’d have had a great deal of respect for them if dude decided to put on a solo acoustic effort with the promise to return soon with the whole band. But honestly, “shows” these days aren’t just some guys with guitars and amps and their high-school buddy at the mixer and lights. This is especially true with bands that have fully immersed into this way of doing things and is more akin to asking them to all play out of tune: the show itself just wouldn’t be right and they have the right to not want to half-ass something just to stay on the bill. Better to leave more space for the other groups, especially those coming up, to really get to shine. Appreciate your analogy to your work.
Well, if they aren't good enough to play live, why would we assume they are smart enough to back up a computer.
@@BockwinkleB Jesus what a take. If carpenter loses their electronical tools that he is used to working with, he could still do his job with a basic saw and hammer but the quality isn't going to be the same
At blue ridge a month ago Dayseeker had to switch to an acoustic set cause their laptop overheated. We live in a world with advanced technology that makes everyone’s lives easier. Watching this unfold has been hilarious.
That must have been awesome to be apart of. I'm so happy I get to see them in two months!
I was there too and it was still awesome show!
It’s really been a month huh
This is a great reason why missing a laptop shouldn't stop a show in my opinion. Lacking a laptop shouldn't be a reason to not play a show
@@kameronbailey4710 OK, so if you have all your effects changes programmed in with Midi, to a click, with all little intro bits, synths, sound effects, lights, ect ect, all on the laptop, you can't just play a show without the laptop. You can try, but you won't have time to reconfigure your entire rig for manually changing effects on the guitars, the bass and possibly vocals. Tap dancing on pedal boards is a major PITA and you have tons of points of failure. All it takes is one bad patch cable or one stuff up when stomping on a pedal while trying to sing, play and stay absolutely on with the performance, and you just screwed the performance. We've all seen it, and those of us who play also have experienced it. That's why they use laptops, because it's so much easier, more reliable and lets you focus on playing instead of worrying about pedals ect. Now of you suddenly don't have the laptop, you have to change your entire setup. You now need a midi switcher at your feet, and you need to program all the patch banks in an order that allows you to play the set without absolute chaos. That's a big undertaking. Depends on the type of music too. Some bands may only use one guitar sound most of the show, others might have all kinds of crazy stuff going on.
I want the people on stage play their instruments/do their vocals live. If they have songs with strings, synth, rap beats, etc of course I want them to use tracks live otherwise it wouldn't be the same song.
I love Ronnie going off on Twitter. He's hilarious 😂😂😂
Greetings from Germany
the comparison I usually make in these cases (and sometimes it even works) is with sewing machines: is using a sewing machine to sew some clothes "cheating" or those are "fake clothes" compared to hand-sewn ones? No because it still requires skills to do. You may put some already sewn clothes under an un-threaded machine and go through the moves of sewing (= playing the master file and lip synch) but that's a different thing than actually using a sewing machine (= using a laptop to aid during a show)
This whole thing is literally like saying Electric Guitars are cheating and only Acoustics are legit.
As long as it enhances the performance, not taking away from it, it should be fine
It’s took away the entire performance. So not fine.
@@csdarlington86 this is a 1/100,000 occurrence I don’t know who isn’t taking those odds
What I mean is musicians still playing the instruments, but using clicks and orchestral tracks
A friend of mines band supported Sebastian Bach at a show a few years ago. The show was delayed for over an hour because Sebastian Bach's road crew couldn't get the rented digital mixing board to work and they were unfamiliar with the older analog style board the venue had. If it wasn't for the sound engineer my mates band had hired who knew how to work the board its unlikely the show would've happened at all.
YO 😂
The masters of decrepitude don’t realize the Laptop is both Boards, and your friends Sound Engineer, all rolled into one. Only incapable of Food Poisoning or anything. Which is more predictable on average, even if this one time the backups failed. It’s literally the same as a damaged or stolen mixing board.
I'm 53 and have been listening to music for a long time. I'm fucking old too, but I understand the need for a laptop. You'd be surprised how many bands including boomer bands use laptops and backing tracks.
Yup. And KISS - who both Sebastian Bach and Eddie Trunk are huge personal fans of - has been caught actually lipsyncing and miming a whole concert
However the ppl starting shit don't seem to realize this and have the "things were better in the olden days"
I remember seeing Megadeth/Scorpions when they came through Toronto a few years back. Both bands had basically converted entirely over to digital processing for their amp sounds (Megadeth in particular uses Axe-Fx units last I remember, I think?) - no visible amps were ever on stage and they all used wireless units on their guitars - and they still sounded great. I'm sure both their techs and the FOH soundcrew appreciated being able to dial in the sound way more precisely than 4x12 cabs could ever produce.
@@BirdmanDeuce26 Kiko uses Quad Cortex. Dave probably does too
Queen played a tape track of the beginning overdubbed choir whenever they played "Bohemian Rhapsody" IN THE FREAKING 1970'S, so y'all can't tell me audio tracks during concerts is a recent thing, just saying... *sips tea*
I know a lot of people don’t like Ronnie and that’s fine but c’mon he’s actually hilarious 😂
I don't like Ronnie but I have to side with him on his one.
he can be hilairious sometimes but i side with him here.
Tbf this is like, the easiest win ever and hating on dumbass boomers will be funny no matter who’s doing it.
He lost his way again through the storm, through the wind.
Nah he's definitely a scumbag
Are we going to mention the genre bending Ronnie does? Like “laptop isn’t rock” but there isn’t just rock in FIR’s catalogue? Would you tell Dr Dre he can’t use a laptop?
i watched ronnie put everything on his instagram stories and i just couldn't stop laughing, he fucking went ham on them and it's fucking hilarious
Imagine, for example, Brand of Sacrifice going live and in addition to band members they would need several keyboardists, probably two mixer operators and full fkn orchestra to play their songs. Yeah, now THAT is a live performance
Awesome band
I think the main thing that got into the boomer bonnet is they felt they couldn't perform without it, and to be honest I *kinda* get that (heavy emphasis on kinda). Part of me feels that the guys in Falling should have adapted, overcame, and gone out to play something at least. Hell, it would've been pretty cool in a "the show must go on" kinda way But at the end of the day, I'm not in that band, and I don't know the full extent of how integral what that laptop contained is to their performance.
Lmao just realized Radke is 38, I am pretty sure he knew times before virtual reality lmao
hahaha I knew Nic was going to react to this hahaha Eddie Trunk is by definition the most Metal Boomer of all metal Boomers XD
I wouldn't call him Metal
@@andybarker5687 oh Eddie is most definitely metal.
@@randywissler9923 he plays no instruments in no bands
He's a radio host
@@andybarker5687 so you can't be metal just because you don't play an instrument? What kinda gen z bullshit is that? And I know exactly who Eddie Trunk is.
@@randywissler9923 these people don’t know about Eddie’s legacy, too young to know about it. I think both his and Ronnie’s takes were too strong, they should’ve had a backup show or acoustic set instead of just straight cancelling
Imagine Devin Townsend playing without his pedal board.
I didn't expect to laugh this hard.
Even if you don't like him, you can't say that Ronnie was not made for the internet, he is funny as hell.
If I was in a band that heavily relied on backing tracks via laptop and for whatever reason said tracks were unavailable, personally I would just prefer to perform a stripped down version of the night's setlist after explaining the situation to those in attendance. Hell, it'd probably become a much talked about show...a rare once-in-a-blue-moon-when-the-stars-aligned type of deal 🤘
Kinda depends on the music though. Stripped down rock would be nice, but stripped down death metal... eh, I'd pass.
imagine if the former members of Daft Punk ran across this beef. i feel like they'd be having a laughing fest to Eddie and Sebastian...
The first time I’ve ever sided with Radke on something lol
This reminds me of the days when people called synthesizers and drum machines in the 80s not real music, we're still there. Like man let me just record my local indie band with tape
As long as it’s not used to fake (not actually singing or not actually playing instruments) a performance, I don’t care if bands use technology. I do question a little bit why Falling In Reverse didn’t have backups for such a critical piece of equipment.
I also love how Nikki Sixx (of Motley Crue and Sixx:A.M.) publicly backed Ronnie up on this and he’s 64… 6 years older than Eddie Trunk (58) and a decade older than Sebastian Bach (54)… little ridiculous that these dudes are younger than he is and yet they’re the ones being the boomers 🤦♀️
Last month in Denver Black Veil Brides equipment didn’t show up, they didn’t specify what equipment, so they didn’t play. They weren’t the headliner, so the show went on. They invited everyone at the event to another show 2 nights later. Not sure if FIR schedule would allow a make up show, but I bet next time they go to that city they’ll do something special. It is a band, they tour, they’ll be back.
exactly
symphonic and power metal bands pretty much need to have computers on stage for their music.
Yeah its pretty much a war between them. I'm in a group on discord which is falling in reverse based and both ronnie and saraya does chat from time to time on what comes up, whether its shows, merchs, or in this case this situation. People may say they could perform without the laptops. The metaphor ronnie used may have been too far stretched on, but at the same time he makes a valid point. Of all their songs and performances, those laptops are what makes their performances pop more to what makes them Falling in Reverse. Even for quite some time now, old, current, and new bands now use laptops to enhance their music performances. Some may be able to adapt if worse case scenario occurs, but not everyone can and thats the problem with Eddie and sebastian. They think ronnie can adapt, but thats not the case because like I said before, not every band can adapt. To this day, laptops are used more frequently for live performances. We aren't in the old times anymore, this is 2022 and technology in the music industry evolves as time goes by.
Depending on the genre I am totally on board with people using technology to automate, simplify and reduce the cost of many aspects of their shows. Zero issues with that. But if I was in a band that did use a laptop in that way, I would have 20 extra laptops and turn everything I own into a USB stick with every file and software needed to turn a new laptop into a "show ready" laptop. My trousers, my wallet, the keys to my car, my car, my beard, everything would be a USB stick in disguise. My girlfriend would have a fingernail that is a USB stick.
Ok here's the thing though.
We were doing shows before laptops
If somehow your entire show hinges on that laptop..maybe have a back up plan.
Not always the biggest fan of Ronnie as a person but totally behind him on this one.
Hot take. I did FOH for a country band that relied on a laptop for click tracks, backing tracks, and triggered lighting ques. Rarely there was an issue but when there was the band would just play without it. The lesson here is learn to adapt or have a backup plan.
That's fair, but how important the laptop is also depends on then band and the type of music they play. There is immense pressure for bands to sound like the album now, in the old days bands didn't even try to sound like the record, think Led Zep basically turning the show into one big jam session. That stuff isn't what is expected now except in certain genres like blues or jazz. Certainly not metal.
Pretty much everyone here agrees though, they should have had a contingency plan, letting the fans down is not a great move.
and that's what it is is a lesson. it's just obnoxious for people to be like, mad that they made that mistake. like it devolved into threatening each other wtf
Tbf, a lot of FIRs stuff is production heavy. Tracks are more important to them than, like, punk bands that are more raw. It just depends on the music and how important technology is to the music
I'd like to post this quote from the song Spirit of Radio by a little band called Rush: "All this machinery making modern music
can still be open-hearted."
Ironically the saddest part about this whole drama is that these guys who've been in the music biz for decades now apparently don't know basic shit about how live setups work. Even if you don't use modern setups yourself you should at least know how that crap works or that it even exists. It's really embarrassing.
I’m just happy that people are still going to shows where there are actual instruments being played. Better than certain “DJs” that press a button and then mime fiddling with knobs on a mixer for 3 hours to a pre-programmed set. I just saw Roger Waters a month ago and just ONE of the mixing areas looked like a Best Buy retail outlet. Does he NEED a battalion of laptops? No. I’m sure he could play the show with an acoustic, a mic and a naked light bulb and it would be wonderful. Do I want to experience that for 3 hours? Probably not. Floyd was one of the first to tour with computers and that was what? 50 years ago? I see both sides on this. I guess it just comes down to buyer beware when shelling out money for concert tickets these days. Are you going to feel MORE like you got your money’s worth seeing a show that sounds “perfect” and pretty much like the recordings you’ve listened to a thousand times?Or a raw, possibly burnt out, winded performance with versions that are a struggle to get through? Is it a concert or is it a show? Is there a difference? Some artists can pull it off and others cannot. Either way, it’s not like you’re going to get a refund.
To preface - I started using Acid Pro in like 2004. lol and I literally used to play out with a band that used a laptop for drums. Whole ass shows with no drummer. I also ran sound for 5 band touring packages 2/3 days a week for a little over a year.
And quite honestly I still kinda sit on the fence about some of it.
I totally get how it works regarding midi programming and fx changes and backing layers/tracks.
But I grew up really admiring how bands like Pantera put on shows.
It is kind of off-putting to think of how many bands are crippled by not having the rails that a laptop provides to guide them constantly. Though I have seen a few drummers use dedicated modules for clicks so that if everything else does die, the drums still have a click.
I like to see live performances for what they are. Your favorite band is either going to sound 50% worse, or 10x better.
And I'm not bothered if I don't hear a perfect recreation of the sonics on the album.
I do think it would be cool if more bands were prepared to be like "laptop fried, we might be loose"
but I'm not about to fight anybody about it.
Agree with y'all. Honestly, I find it weird that so many people want the live performance to sound identical to the recording. What's the point of that? I guess perhaps people assume "not the same=always worse".
Ronnie with the straight heat the whole way through lmao
Queensryche used them in the 80's for the Operation:Mindcrime tour and it was epic. Without them, the concert wouldn't have been as good because there was so much to recreate, so I don't get it. I don't remember that being a big deal back then, so I have no idea why it's an issue now, and I'm 52 years old. As long as they're really playing and singing, I could care less if they had backing music tracks, vocal tracks to fill in the blanks or click tracks. As long as it's a good concert and people get their moneys worth, who cares. With that being said, you need backup after backup after backup for your laptops so you don't have to cancel shows. 2 obviously is not enough.
"I remember" - Operation mindcrime, 1988. Lol
There is just one thing i blame Falling in Reverse for : they had everything on just one laptop ???? No backup ???
they said their main AND their backup got stolen. 2 of them
Our first show our laptop dropped and got annihilated, with the help of staf we set up a new one (inhouse) and played a set.
My favorite band has 2 guitar players but sometimes have 3 different guitars lines in a song and so they use a track live for the 3rd line.
It didn't stop me from having the time of my life when I saw them live.
Ronnie Radke being on the right side of a controversy is enough of a win as it is, but man he dunked on them hard lmaoooo 😂
You need laptops to switch your effects nowadays. Metal boomers gonna gatekeep cuz that what they do
All you need is your foot to change effects.
@@BockwinkleB but what if I don‘t wanna use my foot, I got really sensitive feet
@@BockwinkleB what if the stage is small (like the size of Eddie's brain)? You hardly have any space with 4 other band members
Some bands use virtual amplifiers connected to the venu’s sound system instead of physical gear. It’s much easier to tour with and is a lot cheaper if idk… it gets stollen vs the gear getting stolen.. plus it’s easier to mix live and you can capture the live performance in an isolated mix.
Trunk was an ex-host of 'That Metal Show' that ran until 2015
I hope Ronnie brings a metronome the next time they perform on stage just for the fun of it
Dayseeker’s laptop was over heating at, Blue Ridge Rock festival in Virginia. So they had to play an acoustic set. Lots of new music has sounds and synths that are programmed. It adds to the music and it’s fine to have. It’s not the same as lip syncing.
Ngl, I’d pay to see 40 dudes in 1 stage trying to play 1 metal song.
Satyricon has done full orchestra shows, their line up is only 2 dudes but they have played live with an actual orchestra.
So Metallica’s S&M
If you were playing a live show and you are:
- miming over a pre-recorded track
- using Auto tune to fix your vocals
- piping in pre-recorded crowd cheers through FOH
Yeah, *beep* that. For everything else, the computer is just a tool to help you get the job done the best you can. Just like your effects chain, amp, and 10,000 lb of other gear that makes it a good show.
Even the auto tune thing is a bit boomer. Sometimes it's a stylistic thing, sometimes it's just to round off the vocals by a really narrow margin, and most vocalists don't exactly "crutch" on it the way the public seems to think. They're usually decent, and there's nothing really wrong with that little bit that's usually applied live.
We don't use backing tracks or click track live with my band, and even then, there are still laptops around. ( and I do understand and respect bands that do use backing and such, as a band they're the one to decide what their show should be like).
Every time I hear the name Sebastian Bach, I think of his appearances on Trailer Park Boys and he’s never been anything more to me than the meme he is in that show😂 didn’t realize he was an actual musician.
The way I see it is FIR definitely could’ve played the concert but knowing how Ronnie is he cancelled because he doesn’t want a half assed show. Ronnie is one of those guys that takes his craft so fucking serious that it makes sense to cancel instead of screwing over the fans.
Imagine wanting to go head to head with Ronnie on media
And imagine, being a hypocrite, loses the battle and still throwing angry spit.
Even some of us older metal heads know that in the day of plug ins, impulse responses and midi, you can have your rig on a laptop to front of house, no different than say an axe fx or quad cortex.
i recently bought a omega by epica cd. i was looking at the credits at the end of the booklet and was surprised to see that to record that studio album they actually hired a full orchestra, then they had a full choir, and a full children's choir. If they were to play those songs like without and backing tracks they would have to have hundreds of people on stage.
FIR played yesterday at aftershock and joked about the laptop situation by singing the intro to popular monster acapella
Well, to be honest - as a band, I wouldn’t state something like our laptops got missing and we can’t play live.
Like you said, upgrade your wooden processors to 2022, there’s external hard drives, cloud drives etc to store everything necessary for your live.
If you have stored your files only on A laptop without any backups and it dies in between the shows or it falls, breaks, accindetally gets soaked - you’re fucked in the middle of the tour and it means you haven’t prepared well enough.
There have been bands that lost their gear in fires or it just gets stolen - I get it, you physically can’t play, because it wouldn’t be the same with some random borrowed gear, I mean pre-production takes time, but if you lose your laptop or it gets stolen and you can’t play the show just because you don’t have backups - come on guys, that’s just lame in my eyes.
12 years ago my singer learned the hard way, that if you store EVERYTHING on your laptop but don’t have backups, you’re screwed.
After his laptop got stolen by an ex-con, whom he met at a bar, dude backups EVERYTHING on cloud drives, external hard drives, so he wouldn’t lose any of his data or the losses would be minimal.
backing tracks, click, drum triggers, all of it makes the show experience better! simply put.
You know what else works for a backing track?
A drummer
And a bass player.
I get both sides of the arguement, as a guitarrist in his late 20's I get that most of modern metal shows are runned by laptops and it's not for backing vocal track... more like if you record a triple guitar harmony or something and youra 2 guitarrist band, but you don't wanna lose the strength of the rhythm track or whatever and I get that....
However I'm also a believer of that "the show must go on" they could've done a 30 minute acoustic set just to please the fans and give them something for the money they paid and promise to return once the issues are fixed like I'm sure he did....
To quote you "the show would be shitty" and it most likely would be, but IDK it's giving the fans something at least.
PS: I don't agree with Trunk and Bachs point of view.
Me, playing in a symphonic metal band is laughing at this conversation. We have a keyboard player, wich is using VST instruments. So she needs a laptop anyhow. And yeah, it dose the vst changes, and some parts she couldn’t play because she only have two hands.
It’s shocking, I know! But all the rest is playing live. So at least we are kinda worthy for Sebastian Bach.
I understand the whole situation and have no problems with bands using laptops at their shows. But let's be real for a bit, first, you should have backup plans. A new laptop, an external drive, a cloud file, one drive, whatever. That's just poor organisation on behalf of the band. Secondly, you should still be able to play without your laptop. I find it hard to believe that their whole show could not have gone on with just them using their instruments. If you can't do that, prepare an acoustic set or whatever. There are countless solutions out of it. If none of that is possible, do what BVB did and offer a free show at a later date.
i understand that during the times we live in now everybody uses laptops i just went to the stadium 🏟 tour with Def Leppard and other 80’s metal bands and i’m sure they were using laptops with either backing tracks and metronome and for guitar tones,but what i think is the complaint is couldn’t falling in reverse or any other band play a show without all that and use just their instruments? and i understand that for a lot of them that’s not possible now and it’s nothing wrong to use technology to enhance your show and performance in the “old days” it was different but i think we’ve become a little too dependent on it just a 51 year old metal heads opinion 🤘🏼🎸
Pretty much every local band now is using backing tracks or metronomes for shows, and it’s making for better, tighter, and more entertaining shows at even just a LOCAL level. My band is able to play live while we search for a 2nd guitarist and bassist and because of “laptops”. That’s a big deal, and we’re able to put on good shows with just 3 members.
Pretty sure periphery said (probably misha or jake) that every single guitar tone change during a concert is on a macbook so they dont have to press pedals all the time and its done for them. Honestly, it's kinda efficient/consistent as long as the laptop works.
Well. It's pretty common these days to use backing tracks. But with a band this size, I find it very surprising to not have a back-up plan. All of my bands are small and unknown and yet we've had enough gigging experience to understand the importance of having a backup plan B... C and D. For instance: no one REALLY needs multi-tracks for playback. Or even stereo tracks. It's nice and all, giving FOH more wiggle room. But as a back-up plan, it's pretty simple to just have a stereo track on a phone (& cloud backup of your fucking tracks!) with clicktracks + backing on one side and just the playback on the other. Doing automatic switching and shit? Then don't. Make sure you can still step through all of your sounds on the Kemper, QC and whatsnot manually. You can make it work if you plan for failure, as you always should. Especially as a professional touring musician. Hopefully they'll learn from that and come prepared next time.
Tankthetech breaks this down beautifully lol totally agree with you Nik 👊🏻
My only point to this, if you show relies on having a laptop for any purpose, you don't have a backup laptop with a copy of your setup in another back pack somewhere? Don't you have more than one mic or guitar in the event of a malfunction?
I don't mind bands using laptops. I'm a bit worried about their setup in regards to backups, as I would assume their important data is on cloud storage and it should be as simple as buying a new laptop in whatever town they are at and go perform.
I have been informed using anything other than instruments in their most basic forms isn’t real…
Honestly if your show is good I’m in! Don’t care how old or new, just give me a great show I can cheer at! Everyone have a great weekend!
Nine Inch Nails uses this plugin that basically can copy all your FX chains into tracks to load one by one so you can have your Guitar sounds and your keyboard sounds presaved in advance and if you use logic you can save fx you've made into new racks.
So the presets are all named after each song and you just load them when you need them without wasting time. I think its called MainStage. Not sure though.
Haven't watched the full vid yet but also a great use for laptops on stage is AMP SIMS
I get the importance of the laptops, but I still think they should have just gone on stage and said “fuck it, we doing it the old ways”. Like the metronomes important but Slayer used to do 9/8 time signatures without laptops and nail it, you at least go up there and do a guitar heavy show and do what you can without the laptops instead of cancelling last minute.
Dude I work for an IT help desk for a furniture, flooring, electronics and appliances store. I do not understand how in 2022 people do not understand basic functions of a fucking computer it is insane
So I used to be in the anti computer/tracks camp until I got hired by a church band that used a metronome and ableton. The tracks help and fill in sound, but they don’t play for you. The actual playing and singing is real, it just helps with tempos and lights. And that’s for a church band that played for like 100 people. It’d be almost impossible to do a show without that stuff, especially with the massive effects chains most bands deal with. Unless you’re AC/DC you need it
Yeah, I don't think NIN wants to go back to the 90s live show work of needing to take pictures, for every different song, of the analog synth settings...
Love how Ronnie totally trolls Bach in his new video/song watch the world burn
OK, the metronome tweet got me.
When Luke Holland (who is touring with FIR atm) was with The Word Alive, he’s said in a few interviews the only thing going in his in-ears is the metronome. I don’t think that wooden one would be able to be heard during a festival 😂
1:25 that ad 😭😭
Im old I guess since I remember Eddie trunk and his metal music show on tv.. it was a cool show… thought more people in a “metal community” would know who he is
im totes on ronnies side, but the real question is, if your WHOLE fucking show is on your laptop, how could you let that go missing. id literally have that shit around me 24/7
This just reverts to the debate about whether or not it's fine to use a laptop for live shows. That's not the issue here. It's not that the show is "fake"...but there may be an issue if you can't play your own songs w/o the laptop. FOH can give you a metronome...they can automate tempo changes...they can choreograph lights. All that shit was done before bands relied on laptops. It does make it easier and enhance the creative process, so I'm not against them being used, but if you didn't have a backup plan in case of a stolen or broken laptop, then just play the show without it. I would much rather a band come out and say "our laptop was stolen, so bare w us and we'll give you the best show we can" than just have them cancel.
The funniest thing that came out of all this happened when Jason Richardson made a joke about hiring an orchestra to be able to play his stuff "live" and some guy hit him with a "and who the hell are you?" to which Jason Richardson replied with a link to a "greatest guitar players of our generation" article
Where did that happen? Instagram or UA-cam? I wanna see it
This whole thing is hilarious but the last one killed me
I mostly shocked about the peasantry of not having backups. Be it at least configurations or even full disk images so you can be up and running within a few hours at most.
They had backup laptops but they had gone to the wrong city as well with the other ones. And even if they had everything backed up on the cloud they most likely would not have had the time to buy new laptops, set it all up and test it to make sure everything works.
This debacle is freaking hilarious, I've got to admit.
FIR fucked up by not having any contingency plan, but c`mon man, it's easier to conduct an amazing show with modern technology and it doesn't diminish musicianship of people on stage if they aren't straight up miming, which happened back in the day too.
Also synth music exists, fucking hell.
In a festival situation not having something with all your cues on it can be a show stopper. From someone that works in the industry
Chester was the engine of Linkin Park and yet Mike still managed to do a show that turned out incredible.
I'll bet he used laptops lol
@@zaczimmerman7780 yeah?
Can't believe that in 2022, we're still having this debate. As long as it's not lip-syncing and pretend playing parts to a backing track (looking at you, Kiss), it's okay. If it's something that can't be recreated live, then a backing track is perfectly fine to use (the horn at the beginning of The Unforgiven by Metallica comes to mind).
Something else just came to mind. When AC/DC played It's a Long Way to the Top when Bon Scott was still around, they'd sometimes use a backing track for the bagpipe parts, due to Bon not being an experienced piper. Even back in the 1970s, they were not afraid to use backing tracks. I believe it's also the same story with Hells Bells, with the tolling bell at the beginning being a recording.
How about that, boomers? One of your most beloved bands from your youth, during your youth, used backing tracks when needed.
(Just to be clear, I love AC/DC. Just wanted to poke fun at the boomers.)
I got the chance to see Falling in Reverse at Inkcarceration. The show sounded pretty live to me. 😅
Most fans don't play instruments or play live, so I'm not surprised people would take it as it being fake. Hopefully, this does show how much they rely on that gear, and how much they need to have a backup.
Does Trunk realize that Falling In Reverse would go bankrupt if they hired a person to run everything? Every sound effect. Every effect change. The lights. Tickets would have to cost $1000 for the nose bleeds. What a fool
Ronnie’s memes cracked me up