http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH2sGkcKeI
EDIT: Link fixed

Last night Dead By Sunrise played in Gelsenkirchen, Germany at the Veltins-Arena as a part of the Stock Car Crash Challenge. Check out the video, it seems the organizers had the band pull a "Top Of The Pops" and had Chester & Ryan sing over a backing instrumental of 'Crawl Back In'.

Interesting. I'm not insulting the band or anything (I have no idea if it was their decision or not), of course. To my knowledge, though, this is the first time any LP-related act has done this on a performance. First time for everything!

Thoughts? Hopefully we'll get an HD source / better source for it soon. I'll also update the Dead By Sunrise pages later today...

EDIT by LESTAT:
People, read closely. Chester and Ryan sang live. It was not lip-syncing. The instruments were playback.

yo mark.. the show is still on.. this wasn't last night
there is no HD.. pro7 is not aired in HD as far as I know


BUT all bands tonight did playback, DBS was the only with LIVE vocals!
the rest did full playback

...:S

i failed on recording -.-

Nice *_*

Haha. Nice to hear.

pro7 doesn't air in hd....

great job chester.... at least one that can sing live... lol

That's never a smart move for a band to do. Let's just hope there was some hardcore editing done!

I'm recording the show (still not done yet) I'll dl my recording tomorrow
cut it and upload it for you

so what was the purpose of this event? I know Nickelback played as well and some other band... did DBS only play one song?

wtf why are you all saying that Pro7 does not air in HD, all such tv total events are in HD, at least 720p. Like even all normal TV total episodes are in HD.

This happens FAR more frequently than you probably realize. Tons of bands use backing tracks for televised performances, sometimes fully lip-synced, sometimes with live vocals over a canned instrumental.

There are a variety of reasons that this can happen, sometimes the locations where televised performances are recorded aren't set up to handle a full live band setup (they don't have a large PA system/board that can handle very many inputs, stuff like that), sometimes the station just wants the band's performance to be better than usual (both by sounding better and the band being able to put more energy into their performance since they don't have to worry about playing their parts correctly - win/win situation for the TV station), and sometimes it's almost a form of censorship - they don't want a band to "sabatoge" the performance. Nirvana was notorious for doing this, when they played Top of the Pops, they were forced to play to a backing track, but Kurt convinced the station to let them do live vocals...and this was the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtehDIWrX5U

Its a stockcar crash challenge with "celebreties" of Germany So they drive in a circle and crash each other for points and so on....its an event by one of the best moderators in Germany (Stefan Raab) and of course there are music acts there was DBS ...yes they did play ONE song...the video was uploaded sooo quick...the show ends in a few minutes I think...im still watching...nice work

I know how often that happens thank you. I've already seen that Nirvana video... saw it years ago. I stand by my statement. It's never a smart move for a band to do. I don't understand how that translates to "Hmm... that doesn't happen very often."

muse did the same
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6FkwyjIik

Why is it "not a smart move" if it's something so commonplace that virtually every band that's ever been big enough to be on a televised performance in the first place has done it at some point? It's no worse than fixing mistakes in the DSPs, really.

I'm not sure if i'm allowed to put a download link here so if you wanna have the link just PM me or give me the permission to put it here

Greetz


Edit:

Got the permission... here it is *click* have fun

You can put a download link Sure, no problem.

I just came back from the event and I guess their amp's couldn't make a good sound for this huge arena. I just saw the guys didn't even have their pedals and noone tuned the guitars on stage. They just checked the microphone.
The other acts had instrumentals as well, therefore I think it wasn't their decision.
ah, and I don't know how the tv recording is yet, but the vocals were awful in the arena. Ryans background vox was way too loud... I'll watch what you saw tomorrow... Going to bed now, as it's 1.45 AM in Germany right now.

I think I could have found a better way to spend my money...

Because they're standing there jamming on their instruments like something's actually happening. They're basically acting. On the DSPs, yes they did edit them and correct them to make them sound better but at least they had the decency to actually perform instead of act like they're filming a music video.

High Quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv3Jzb6CamU

Shit well thats just rediculous...

Absolutely agree. It's acting. It's fake. It's not really happening.

Its not that its not a smart move and i can understand why they do it. I have friends who say they would rather listen to the polished album version then have a band mess around with their song on stage. and the live sound is raw and rough and many people dont like it. and mass media wants everything nice and clean. it just takes away from the actual "performance aspect that we love" which sux.

You say that like it was their decision. It most clearly was not, and almost never is in these kind of situations. They probably had a choice of playing to a backing track, or not playing at all.

1. Pro7 does NOT air in HD, no German Private chanel do.
2.

Venom Record the track in HQ

http://rapidshare.com/files/291288023/DBS_...Pro7_.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/291291665/DBS_...Pro7_.part2.rar

PW: by_venom

this video is SYNC, not like the youtube one

p.s Nickelback didnt sing playback, just the poor german band called "PUR" did.

The latter would have been the more respectful thing to do IMO.

It wasn't DBS's decision. Every band which ever played at this show (one show every year) had playback!

Not necessarily. If they hadn't been informed of what they'd have to do before hand, then maybe they just didn't want to disappoint the fans that had paid to see them perform by backing out, as it was only one song anyway. If that's the case then great move by DBS.

I dislike the fact that they used a backing track but it was just for this event so it doesn't really matter.

Nono,

THIS is what happens when you do it to Muse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn2qKraB1lQ

lmfao i saw that when it came out! Idk the idea of DBS doing this kinda bothers me. But i did like the camerawork in this video. Looked cool!

so they just lip synced a performance?That's pretty lame of chester to go through with that.

I wouldn't blame them for performing that song there half-playbacked.
I mean, there were 45000 people in the arena, more than 5million watched the show. It would habe been very stupid not to play this show after getting to know that there will be a playback. How would it have looked like if they hadn't been on stage after all? That's promotion and that's how the music business works. I don't like bands doing that, but at least the vocals were not playbacked.
Furthermore, there were people only because of dbs (including me) and we would have been very disappointed (well, I was due to the playback, but okay...) I also guess not all of them realized what happened yesterday as the guys were better in acting than "Pur", it just looked more than funny.

Oh, and one last thing: You won't cancel a show hosted by Stefan Raab in Germany...He's just too famous. I already gave the numbers. I believe it's an honor for music acts to be chosen to perform there. CBI even was the title song they always played in ads for the show. You cannot do better promotion...

edit: I forgot: It would have been really expensive for dbs to come there and say: nope, we won't play...

Check out the video, it seems the organizers had the band pull a "Top Of The Pops" and had Chester & Ryan sing over a backing instrumental of 'Crawl Back In'.

Chester and Ryan sang LIVE.

And can another fayloobmennik upload?

Hey guys,

i was there yesterday,... at the moment i´m uploading Crawl back In !

i also have some videos from BEFOR and AFTER the song !

here is a picture




befor the act the guys from DBS were watching "Raab in Gefahr bim Kunstflug" -> FUN xD

been stretched !


check out the videos under

www.youtube.com/deko2603

soon !

I remember Chester once saying in an interview that "I might not always be on key, but I will never do a lip sync-performance."

They actually SANG live....

here the video in HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jH2sGkcKeI

i was there,... it was LIVE !!

watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbfEYltq8kI

you can hear ryan sing as loud as chaz

Edited first post:
People, read closely. Chester and Ryan sang live. It was not lip-syncing. The instruments were playback.

That's what i mean, I know they did.

Just for info to the news poster
the video is NOT HD....PRO7 does NOT air in HD quality, who ever upload the video on youtube have no idea whats the diffrent between HD and HQ....
Best quality you can get is uploaded on rapidshare here on page 2
Record via satelite reciver.

fixed

I actually find it pretty cool that this happened.

Edit: Download Audio Here.

I edited the beginning to get rid of the cheering.

Fixed as in removed the link? Mark said links are allowed.

I think people seems to care less because it isn´t Linkin Park.

If was Linkin Park I have no doubt that everyone was going to criticize.

I don´t like the idea of playback instrumentals or the actually singing part.

They don´t need to playback anything IMO

By the way...Ryan is horrible singing!!!

ryans microfone had wrong settings, it was too loud


videos from BEFORE and AFTER the act you can watch here

chaz @ "warum up" ... DBS watching "Raab in Gefahr" ...

Nothing to say about it...

but I've got a question: why do the bands used playback?