"That Mic was On?!"...Major Label Mistakes

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There were a lot of Jimi Page solos that where overdubbed rather loosely. The same melodic line starting out on one pickup and then suddenly changing to another after the dub. Also completely different guitars on the same solo, pre and post dub.
 
In the original version of I'm Your Captain by Grand Funk Railroad, I can hear talking in the background between lines in the first verse. I hear the words, "all right". It sounds like it does not belong there. It occurs just after the second time Mark sings "I'm Your Captain."

Ha Ha! I caught `em.
 
Wow... suprised no one has mentioned Louie Louie (unless I missed it!) when the drummer drops a stick and says FUCK really loud and also where the vocalist starts early, stops and comes in where he's supposed to.

And then there's Grand Funk's "Good Singin' Good Playin'" album with the intro of "Can You Do It." The song was supposed to start with Mark Farner singer the first word acapella and holding it for 4 beats. But Don Brewer started this HUGE drum beat and then Craig Frost came in with a little piano riff and it built up to this huge crescendo. Mark hit the first note and everybody just stopped. You can hear laughing in the background, a few sniffs, somebody says "LSD duckblind" and then they do a normal count into Marks intro and then into the actual song. You have to remember though that this album was produced by Frank Zappa so you have to expect some zaniness SOMEWHERE!!!!
 
No where near Major label, but on my band's first album (before I joined) there is a strange pop noise on the funk-rock song "Go 2 Me".

Major Label - On Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, the song Oh Daddy, Christine is playing the organ or ARP. and around 3:30 she is just banging a few notes repeditively. I have heard that she was doing that as to say "Cut that out!" or something of that effect, and that it wasn't intended to keep it in, but it was kept in.
 
If I remember right you can hear AXL comes in early right before the first "my hands are tied.." on Civil War. It's very low so you have to turn it up a bit to hear it.
 
Everytime I hear "I can't drive 55" (which is as infrequently as possible) I hear a horrendous vocal overdub of the line "it took me 16 hours to get to L.A." I've heard two versions, one with the line started a beat or two early then ended abruptly, and another version where it seems they've covered it up with a Sammy signature "HUNH!"
 
Not a music CD, but there's a famous gaffe on an audiobook. At one point you can hear the narrator say "Is it time for a break? I need a cigarette!"
 
On Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill" there are *tons* of examples of the mixer getting overloaded by the vocals that don't sound good at all.

On U2's "War" you can hear the snare rattling almost all the time... especially on songs like "Seconds".

Metallica's "Garage Days Re-Revisited" has tons of that stuff on it--of course, that was the point.
 
On Neil Young's Buffalo Springfield Again from the Silver and Gold CD halfway through the song the drums are punched in by someone obviously drunk or with no drumming skills.
 
I can't remember exactly which one, but there's a song on Collective Soul's Dosage CD that I swear you can hear the click track bleeding through someone's headphones.
Also, on I heard a interview with Billy Corgan where he said they tried their darnest to get rid of the feedback squeal during the pauses in "Mayonnaise," of course that squeal ended up being an integral part of the song.
 
Cloneboy Studio said:
Metallica's "Garage Days Re-Revisited" has tons of that stuff on it--of course, that was the point.
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I am glad they kept it that way as this is Metallica's most "fun" album, wish they only made more of those. Could probably make one of those each month :D

Eddie
 
At the beginning of Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign" from the album Wednesday Night in San Francisco, you can hear the reverb springs in the amp. I know when I accidentally knock my amp with the reverb turned up it makes this same noise.
 
I found these studying the bass lines for covers. They're more like performance errors that are easily overlooked.

Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild - Coming out of one of the verses the bassist has a lapse and doesn't quite make the change.

Led Zeppelin, Communications Breakdown (I think) - Another bass lapse during a change.

Allman Bros, One Way Out - Bass comes in a beat or two too early after the drum solo. Both drummers recover admirably and find the new downbeat.
 
As long as we're mentioning mistakes, Ronnie Wood is all over the place on his bass in "Maggie Mae".
 
BentRabbit said:
Pretty much every recording where John let Yoko sing backup...

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OMG, that reminds me of a tape I have of Linda McCartney's vocal mic being soloed during a concert (I think it may have been Knebworth) for the song "Hey Jude." She is way off key, and every now and then it sounds like she's singing "Hey, Dude!"
 
MadAudio said:
OMG, that reminds me of a tape I have of Linda McCartney's vocal mic being soloed during a concert (I think it may have been Knebworth) for the song "Hey Jude." She is way off key, and every now and then it sounds like she's singing "Hey, Dude!"
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That was a fake tape made by a radio announcer in LA or New York, I forget which. It drifted through many other stations (including one I was working at) too and outraged Paul and Linda. It was funny as hell though!
 
Led Zeppelin - All of My Love

JPJ makes a couple of keyboard flubs in this song that were left in, especially on the synth trumpet solo. It's a cool solo still. :D
 
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