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Thursday, October 12, 2023
What really happened during Metallica's Lady Gaga performance
guitar.com: Metallica‘s guitar tech has explained what really happened during the band’s infamous 2017 Grammy Awards performance with Lady Gaga, in which James Hetfield‘s microphone was cut off.
2 comments:
Julia Adilman
said...
I had no idea about this performance. I think that it is kind of funny that all of this is being brought up right now, so many years later. But, it is an interesting experience to learn from. This seems like it was a really big and exciting performance with a lot of pressure riding on it. It’s unfortunate that Matellica’s guitar tech, Chad Zaemisch, is kind of the one responsible to explain it all. I guess the night already started off not so great with another crew having to be used. I wonder what would have caused this to occur. It seems like something really would have to have gone wrong for them to have to use a different crew than usual. That must have been a really stressful start to the night. It also probably was upsetting for the crew to then find out that there were extra people on the stage, jumping around. I feel like I would have been really stressed out and I feel bad for all the crew members involved.
I hadn’t heard of this performance until now and reading this article is both interesting and also surprising as we don’t often think of the common issues happening to the large-scale performers. Something as simple as stepping on a wire connection and thus unplugging it is something anyone who’s worked an event with people walking over where wires are run will tell you is far more common than it would seem. Preventing it isn’t exactly possible in many scenarios, you can do the classic tying of the two cables together so they don’t immediately separate although they can still break and or get pulled out just enough to create noise. As more and more things move to wireless people often criticize the unreliability of wireless that supposedly isn’t there for wired connections, and while a lot of the inconsistency is eliminated with wired connections it also has its own failures that people oft forget due to its prevalence and how simply used to them we are.
2 comments:
I had no idea about this performance. I think that it is kind of funny that all of this is being brought up right now, so many years later. But, it is an interesting experience to learn from. This seems like it was a really big and exciting performance with a lot of pressure riding on it. It’s unfortunate that Matellica’s guitar tech, Chad Zaemisch, is kind of the one responsible to explain it all. I guess the night already started off not so great with another crew having to be used. I wonder what would have caused this to occur. It seems like something really would have to have gone wrong for them to have to use a different crew than usual. That must have been a really stressful start to the night. It also probably was upsetting for the crew to then find out that there were extra people on the stage, jumping around. I feel like I would have been really stressed out and I feel bad for all the crew members involved.
I hadn’t heard of this performance until now and reading this article is both interesting and also surprising as we don’t often think of the common issues happening to the large-scale performers. Something as simple as stepping on a wire connection and thus unplugging it is something anyone who’s worked an event with people walking over where wires are run will tell you is far more common than it would seem. Preventing it isn’t exactly possible in many scenarios, you can do the classic tying of the two cables together so they don’t immediately separate although they can still break and or get pulled out just enough to create noise. As more and more things move to wireless people often criticize the unreliability of wireless that supposedly isn’t there for wired connections, and while a lot of the inconsistency is eliminated with wired connections it also has its own failures that people oft forget due to its prevalence and how simply used to them we are.
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