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Cee Lo Green not live on Jools?
Posted by Eamonn O Donnell on 15 April 2011 - 12:33pm.
Did anyone else notice the lack of visable backing singers in Cee Lo's performance on Wednesday night? The vocals were there but no live humans on stage to provide them. You would have to wonder were the rest of the band playing live?
Isn't this a new low for "Later..."? And not a peep of protest from any quarter.
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A bigger issue for me
was that it looked like the singer from Glasvegas was miming his vocals. It would've been nice it Cee-Lo's backing singers were actually there, but at least he was clearly live. Your man from Glasvegas, though, I'm not so sure.
I've heard stories he's been miming on their current UK tour. Can anyone shed any light on this?
A friend of mine saw Glasvegas a couple of weeks ago
A friend of mine saw them a couple of weeks ago and immediately after the gig was reporting that miming was going on. He was positioned side-on to the stage and could see there were moments where the singer wasn't even bothering to mouth it. He said the crowd started to notice and react to it, which resulted in them cutting the backing track for one song, then they switched back to miming again. Pretty poor, I'd say.
Glasvegas miming?
That surprises me. I was very close up (in the photo pit) for their Forum gig last week and saw no evidence of miming. It's one man's word against another. So innocent until proven guilty? Or maybe he had a cough that night and was indeed miming then, but wasn't the night I was there. Great OTT show by the way.
Miming ...
and not very good at it.
Shiny lights on his microphone lead did not hide it either.
Use Of Pre-recorded Bits
I didn't notice that but I -did- notice at some point in the show there was an invisible horn section. Can't recall who the artist was at the time without watching back.
A lot of musicians use pre-recorded bits to supplement live performances. This used to be widely done "on the quiet" but at Pugwash's Word gig at the Lexington, Thomas Walsh made a point of pointing out that he was using pre-recorded keyboards. I think in this day and age it's not greatly important for -everything- to be performed there and then on stage.
Cee Lo and his band did appear to my non-muso eyes and ears to be actually doing it live. Normally on the Friday show Jools' band are on hand for any additional instrumentation or vocals but I don't think any of his band were there for Tuesday's live recording.
I'm sure if Cee Lo's backing -was- entirely pre-recorded, the rather weak drumming (IMO) on the first of his songs would have been made better for the broadcast.
Actually, this brings me to something I was cogitating about during and after the show. It's perfectly acceptable for male musos in a major artist's band to be absolutely butt-ugly as long as they can play, but female backing musos are generally expected to be lookers as well as players.
I enjoyed most of the show, by the way, except Glasvegas who I thought were a bit of a landfill-indie yawn, and that beardy solo American bloke whose song I thought was totally incoherent and incomprehensible tosh. Looking forward to hearing Bootsy play on Friday's show.
All of Macca's
horns and sundry other instruments from his back catalogue are provided by Wix and his amazing keyboards and have been for about twenty years. No shelling out for extra players from Mr Tightarse.
How great would Got To Get You Into My Life be with a proper horn section funking it up?
Very great, that's how.
I'm Pretty Certain that Cee-L0's Backing Band,
Either individually or collectively, have not found their careers to have been hampered by their appearance. And I'm looking at you, Ms Guitar-Player. Frequently, on pause and on rewind. Cor, and indeed, phew, etc.
I did a Google on the Guitarist and apparently she's a hot-shot session player and much in demand. Must be her rapid shredding. And Look! Here she is, talking about playing the guitar! It really is very interesting and is recommended to all aspiring guitar players.
And there's more here! She uses Rotosound strings, apparently.
http://community.allhiphop.com/showthread.php?113097-Cee-Lo-Green-s-lead-guitar-player-(Sharon-Aguilar)-Fine-and-Talented!!!!!
GlasVegas were shite, weren't they. As was beardy bloke, who looked almost as uncomfortable as Ray LaF had done during the happy-clappy intro, all those months ago.
Wasn't that Dick Green sitting next to Alan McGhee? I shared a student house with him during our first year at Lanchester Polytechnic.
Bits are one thing, voices another
I can understand some enhancements to the sound being pre-recorded but very prominant backing vocals as in the Cee Lo performance should be seen to eminate from some source. It's as if you didn't bother bringing a drummer.
I know the word pedant will soon be pointed at me but there is the matter of what it says on the tin- Later Live.
I don't think...
you'll be criticised for being a pedant. Surely this blog is the home of internet pedantry?
"the home of internet pedantry"
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Watching Jools now
and glasvegas are definitely miming, it's embarrassing to watch.
I didn't like them because...
...I accidentally found myself turning into a 1970s parent watching TOTP.
Luckily I was on my own and only thought it, but if somebody else had been there I would have said "is that drummer a boy or a girl?"
Seriously, I wasn't sure.
At least it distracted me from the gimmicky microphone.
absolutely
and the songs are fucking shit as well.Saw this lot live last year and he couldn't sing then either.Why oh why...
well
that seal love green was definitely singing but were his pig ugly backing group? I hope not..
I watched or rather whizzed
I watched or rather whizzed through Later on my sky+ box and I also wondered where his backing singers where. And yes - he's a lump unlike his band.
Most interesting bit was the bling - talk about wear your wealth - did you see the rocks on his watch ?
Cee Lo Green did have backing singers
but they only appear once and are somewhere off stage. They appear on the the iplayer download at 4.08, wearing a tie dye mini skirt bikini top ensemble and are never seen again.