music groups who ruined playbacks on purpose, they prefer live
Forcing a real band to play backing vocals is like forcing a kid to eat spinach: he doesn't like it. And, in the same way, that a kid in front of his plate of spinach will do anything to annoy you, the music groups that are forced to play lip service sometimes pay the heads of TV shows, record companies, and producers who got them in this situation. The result is often great. Quand Nirvana a massacré "Smell Like Teen Spirit" dans l'émission Top Of The Pops From 1964 to the early 2000s, the British show Top of the Pops was a must for artists at the top, an almost obligatory point of passage. Only, it had a tricky rule: the groups that performed there had to play backing tracks. In 1991, it was Nirvana who had to oblige, with one exception: Kurt Cobain had the right to sing live, only the instruments being playback. The Aberdeen guys didn't like having to "play" in these conditions, so they ruined their visit. Kurt Cobain sang like an idiot, half...