I have always despised this song.

[Fire Walk With Me]

But I'm not enjoying my moment of victory.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/train-wreck/synth-glitch-creates-onstage-disaster-for-van-halen-313005.php?autoplay=true

It's not a synth glitch; it's a playback speed glitch on their recorder. The wrong sample playback rate... Not quite a semitone off, what a nightmare.

I've experienced total technological disasters when performing live; the answer is to mock the situation and have fun. If you must crash, crash and BURN.

[Frank Cannon]

1. Got to give Diamond Dave and Eddie some credit

for weathering this travesty by attempting to play and sing in two different keys simultaneously.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Points for toughing it out, but points removed for pretending it wasn't happening.

A band that I was in was once faced with an irreparable timing misalignment, and we just started being silly in response. At least I did... Peter Gabriel, before he got huge, put on killer concerts (haven't seen him live after "So"). Once, faced with a similar song-stopping problem, he stopped the song, and to fill dead air, told the audience that he'd been to art college specifically to deal with "technical fuck-up".

Van Halen handled it well, but ignored the audience's needs. I would have been on the ground rolling around holding my ears, screaming, and would have appreciated a break.

That's the problem with multiple clocks in digital devices. Sometimes they jump to settings you weren't looking for. I encountered a mismatch once while recording, but left it in as it was actually interesting. You deal with this stuff in different ways.

[Monk06]

3. Nice Spinal Tap cover. n/t