Legendary Guitarists Making Mistakes Live
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- They're human after all! 9 Legendary guitarists prove that everyone makes mistakes every once in awhile. Some funny and lighthearted reactions here...
0:00 Kirk Hammett
0:35 John Mayer
1:03 Slash
1:29 Eric Clapton
1:55 Jimmy Page
2:44 Carlos Santana
3:15 Keith Richards
3:57 Steve Vai
4:23 Eddie Van Halen
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'To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without feeling is unforgivable' - Beethoven
He also said there are no wrong notes , some just sound better.
@@Crawdini He didint say that. Not AT ALL.
‘You’re a douche’-me rn
Really?😮🎼👌🎹
Hmmmm...well ..there ya go ..some aweful playing ..omg
To be honest I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. Just shows how dedicated most successful guitarists are.
In all my gigs and festivals, I have never seen anyone hit a bum note. Where as I hit at least one per song 😂
I play/sing full-time, just small stuff, but doing it every day, I rarely mess up now. However, just a couple days ago I started this song I know really well three times wrong and then gave up lol. It doesn’t surprise me that the famous guys occasionally do the same. Thankfully I was in front of an audience that knows and loves me 😅
I have been playing guitar for around 14 years and I only make mistakes when I consciously think about the stuff I'm playing. If you're a musician yourself then you already know what I'm talking about.
@@mokshmeditation Understanding that is one of the biggest keys to success as a musician I think.
Not to mention, drinking makes playing way harder. So it really is amazing they don’t mess up more. But honestly, they probably do but no one really notices because the whole band is playing loud af- unlike most of these clips.
Even when Clapton makes a mistake it sounds awesome.
I think he was immediately aware he hit the wrong note and he just bend it even more :D
What song is Clapton playing?
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@@Caroledonaldgmail I don't htink it is
the trick is knowing how to recover from mistakes. Most mistakes made by good musicians usually go unnoticed
When Steve Vai plays a wrong note, the note immediately apologises to him.
that got me good... cheers!
Slash loves the drink. Remember reading the story on him saying to his manager he was looking forward to playing the gig that night and the manager told him he already played it last night.
He used to, not anymore. Almost 20 years sober.
Clapton masked it quite succesfully 😂
Did he fuck up? Didn't notice!
@@andreashoppe1969I was gonna say I didn’t hear a Clapton mess up
@@andreashoppe19691:49-1:51 sounds flat
Sounded out of key to me.
@@nealatthecrossfishing it was , he started to low and then he bended it back in key
Most of them just laughed and shrugged it off, which was funny. But the *really* funny one was when Santana didn't acknowledge it, and the keyboard player was just shaking his head.! 😆
"There are no wrong notes, only wrong resolutions" -- Bill Evans
Or as they say in jazz, "you're always a semitone from salvation". There are no mistakes, only poor recoveries.
Rolling Stones, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland, 60,000 crowd, hit the stage with "Start Me Up" and Keith hit the opening chord like a kid on their first guitar lesson. Just kept playing.
What year was that concert?
@@philipp9288 2018
He's aways been a poor guitarist...May have written great riffs but he is not a good guitarist
June, 2018
I have been to many Stones-shows
Keith made mistakes at each of them
I guess he makes mistakes at every show
Sometimes he makes really terrible mistakes,
when he messes up (or even forgets) the intros
of Start Me Up, Satisfaction or Brown Sugar
But without any doubt he was, is and
always will be the greatest guitar player
of all time
John Mayer is so legend that he didn't even mistaked the note. He was just in other tone
Another key
@@bobbydoodle6257 Yes. Thank you
Yes he didn’t play the song wrong he just played it in the wrong key
I think it was the original key actually from the recorded version
What is the song?
As lead guitarist in my Santana Tribute band I've studied hundreds of Santana Live videos and Carlos actually often makes mistakes. But he taught me a very important lesson. Never express or show you made a mistake but learn how to always finds a way to make them work out. Meaning mistakes arent mistakes.....they're just interesting side steps from original intended path that find their way to the place you want to be.
The thing is this....people do not want to buy a ticket, seeing and hearing you, trying to find the "path". People expect for you to have found your path, when they come to see you.
Find your fuckin "path" on your own time and dime. Carlos is just not the best of players.
Old trick....
If you make a mistake, do it a couple more times...then it sounds intentional.
@@MeAndTheBoys_ You have practiced speaking for your entire life and I guarantee you still mess up, stutter and speak incorrectly frequently. Guitar is no different. You have a lot to learn.
@@MeAndTheBoys_ The thing is.... If you want 100% perfection stay the fuck home and listen to a cd. It will save you money and there will be 1 less asshole in the crowd. Win Win
Stay away from concerts with humans then, Mr. Perfect.
Vai doesnt make mistakes his guitars do 💯
Nothing ever messed with my head more than when my guitar was out of tune, I fondly remember a gig in 1976 when my guitar stayed in perfect tune for the whole gig, other than that, it was uneventful.
It’s so hard when you’re in a tribute act because the audience knows every note.
When Clapton plays the wrong note it’s still the right note.
Clapton only started to play bum notes when he changed over to that horrible Fender Stratocaster. With Gibsons, he WAS. God! I have seen Cream many times in my long life. Hendrix was the Stratomaster by the way.
We’ve all had moments like these. Nobody’s perfect.
Yep. One night, I broke a string on a guitar with a floating bridge during a completely solo moment, no band accompanyment at that moment. The guitar went badly out of tune - boy, did I look like a schmuck in front of everybody!
Always feels good to see that my heros are human. A very short highlight video is me NOT making a mistake.
Feel free to use my old line…”Mistake? Mistake? It’s supposed to sound like that! It’s my interpretation of the song! You cretins just aren’t advanced enough to appreciate my musical genius!”
The guys I played with started calling me “Tone.” It was sarcasm. I dodged more shrapnel at band practice, back in the day, than I did during the Gulf War. Coins, shoes, mike stands, drumsticks😏🤣
@@tonyjones1560I just call the mistakes "jazz notes". 🤣
@@bripslag I wish that had occurred to me at the time. Now, if asked about my sound, I say, “In my head, I hear hard rock but coming through the amp, it sounds like jazz. Very BAD jazz…”
"I've been copied so much they even copy my mistakes" Hendrix.
I never met a player who didn’t make mistakes…. We all do, even the greats.
Wah Wah Hammet. I want to thank you for burning me completely out on that tone and playing.
My bandmates drink too much and often lose it. Mistakes are part of reality, i just roll with it and keep going. Sometimes a little lack of concentration will derail a song.
Sounds like you might need some new bandmates.
@@CaptHiltz Yep. Drinking or drugs during rehearsal or especially LIVE is NO-NO. I'd fire the ones who did that.
I loved the approach of Steve Vai:” you deserve better!”.
High class!!!!
Legend!
Love these, makes it all the more real and humanizing and helps me appreciate the good.
Clapton Mastering & Class
That's what makes them legends, they were always just a heartbeat away from making a mistake.
This is the Difference between robots and human players
Lifelong player.....it's always embarrassing but it doesn't matter how many times you've played the song you can still get distracted or maybe something going on with your overall sound that's bugging you.. people must always keep in mind... musicians or any other performers are just people and at times are just simply not going to be at their best..lots of reasons..
At least they are playing live! This is rare nowadays
'rare' lol
Fun fact about Gary Moore: I saw him severeal times live - he never made a mistake. But his most popular Video of “Still got the…” has a big mistake in the beginning of the solo
Steve Vai is such a class act
After watching this video, I feel a lot better
We all waited for Garcia to make a mistake....everyone would roar! Good fun! Proves that these "heros" are human too!
When AI takes over music, we’ll be longing for these mistakes
We are several huge leaps in multiple fields of development (ie robotics, cybernetics, programming, processing power) from having anything created by humans that can play an instrument and sing for a live audience, and read a crowd, let alone a synchronized band of them. By the time we get to that technological point it's fairly likely that everyone reading this thread will be dead.
@@RonBaker456 just like the technological point of the 'internet'? it didn't take that long..
Steve Vai, now that was class act!
Yeah id usually say dont ever stop but in that situation that's all he could do, handled it well
Vai's reaction was perfect. I'll do that next time
I can't remember where I heard it way way back but .. if you make a mistake do it twice so people think you meant to do it! The second time around you find a way to wiggle (bends, chromatic scales, etc) the bad note back into key like it's a resolution.
B. B. King said something like that.
Clapton masterclass on recovery.
A friend of mine once said if you play a wrong note play it again lol. Nice to see everyone drops a clam every now & then!
people who don't play live don't understand that there are a million distractions, way more than in your bedroom at least.
Diddums
I'm a tribute band guitarist. Make a mistake just carry on, nobody notices not even the band manager ( the Mrs) however my son over on sax glares at me 😂
Also worry or think you're gonna make a mistake and you will.
The cool part of what you just wrote is that you are in a band with your son!!!
I feel like I can’t get through a single song without making a mistake
I usually fret over making a mistake in a particularly tricky part then don't make that mistake, relax and make a mistake in an easy bit!
Happens a lot with even big name veteran bands now, they'll have one of their kids in the band. @@blessedwithchallenges9917
I love this - it shows they're human. The best goof I've ever heard was actually a band goof on a Zeppelin boot. They're in the middle of Kashmir, things start to sound not right, then hesitant and out of sync. You could tell they were all looking at each other while thinking "WTF?"
You can make a 2 hours video of Kirk Hammett making live mistakes
You mean 2 days ?😮
I always liked Eddie’s blooper at the beginning of Unchained from back in the day.
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That wasnt even a mistake mdump. If you are referring to when eddie played the intro twice,,its because roth missed his que. Eddie made very few mistakes for decades. Good ,luck finding some that were before the 2004 tour.
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@@user-qm6xy6ie6rthere are plenty mistakes in the studio records, the most notable being in the keyboard track for Jump. There’s quite a few in there. I love EVH and Van Halen, in their 2004 tour, he was a wreck, quite glad he became sober after that
mistakes thats what makes live so good
Great humble reaction from Mayer
A good backing band is a great help. I had a drummer that would actually stop, mid-performance when he, or someone else made a mistake. He couldn't get it through his Neanderthal brain that the average listener wouldn't even notice!
Oy, that's awful! That's the 100% worst thing to do, lol. Like Dora the fish...Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. That's the key. Move on, right away. Give it no thought at all.
I saw Tom Petty on his final tour in 2017 in Houston before he died and on the last song he says "we're gonna leave you with this one" tries to play D, the opening of American Girl, but his fingers are on the first fret (so its Db) He strums \\\\ and quickly stops and says "Not that one" laughs and plays it right and jams the night away!!!!
It's encouraging to realize that even the greats make mistakes, but I still realize the difference because it's so rare that it's newsworthy when they goof. For me, it's a special event when I get the whole song right.
If I would be a famous guitarist the video would be ten hours long. Just after one concert
Same here. Everyone makes mistakes. How we deal with them in a live situation is what separates the good players from the great players. And I'd still rather hear a player who's got good feeling and a few mistakes than a technically perfect player with no feeling.
After watching this video, i feel a little better about myself 🤣. I believe I'll subscribe now 😆
To be fair to Keith Richards, basically every song he plays live he plays with mistakes. LOL!
Keith’s weird intro actually sounded pretty cool (when the band came in) haha
They are often forgotten, except on video!
Clapton's mistake, if handled a little differently, would sound splendid as a jazzy solo.
Coming from the club level I’ve always approached mistakes as part of the night . Better players get better at covering them up or even utilizing them on the fly.
Damn straight hoss.
Bury them and keep goin....
Like carpenters! The really good ones can cover up a mistake perfectly!
The only guitar players who don’t make mistakes are the ones who have never played guitar.
I actually like seeing one of these.. Their human side compared to their machine side
I like how they act like it's part of the show. Most people believe them, so it's all good.
That Sweet Child of Mine intro kinda has to be on autopilot. It’s quick and linear, has subtle accents, and everyone knows every note so there’s no place to hide. Gotta do everything all at once and not think about it. Tough unless you’re totally on your game, even if you’re Slash.
I taught myself how to play that when I was a kid and worked on it so long that I had it down for a few years. Every now and then when I play that intro, I mess up after the second bar. A few years ago, I tried one whole afternoon and wouldn’t stop until I nailed it. I felt good for about 5 seconds and I realized it was sheer luck.
Hah! I learned it to mess with my bandmates (punk band). Tearing into that intro in the middle of rehearsal was a good time. I could maybe get two notes of it these days.
And Slash personally hates that riff. It was just something he was messing around with in the studio as a warm up, the rest of them insisted it was recorded for the song.
I play it at gigs a lot. If I actually think about what I'm doing, I'll mess it up. You do need to be on autopilot for that one.
santana doing a chromatic lick after a wrong note is so relatable lmao
goes to show.. they are all human and acknowledge the fact that mistakes do happen to the best of us. How they recover from it is the most important.
Nothing wrong with guitarist making mistakes, it’s art, not science!!!!
And we've seen science making plenty of mistakes...
I think it's usually best to keep going. If you stop, and the band stops, it's a train wreck. If you keep going most people will not notice, or think much of it.
Is normal and not bad at all. That graces the live gig. We are all human and sometimes you lose everything for a moment on stage.
John Mayer's reaction when he starts to play in the right key is priceless.
They are human too! 😮
It is absolutely human. When our heads are else where it can happen easily.
Motivation: "be so good untill your mistake become entertainment" 😂
Robert Plant has on many occasions said Jimmy WTF are you playing 🤦🏻♂️
It can happen to anyone, and does!
I like Kirk Hammett more after seeing that. He's cool. I love it when people make mistakes live. If I wanted perfection, I'd listen to the record. Steve Vai's always a class act. This video is good for the egos of us mere mortals.
This is like a video of all the GOATs being human ! I don't know why I am shocked ? The idea of EVH/Steve Vai etc making mistakes just seems impossible ! Yet here we are. 🙂
There’s no such thing as a “wrong” note. It’s the note you play after it is what’s right or wrong in the context of the music.
- Miles Davis.
By the way Keith Richards is doing nothing wrong, the Devils telecommunication line is a bit crackly and he’s waiting for instructions!
Well if you are just performing a written song you can’t always just freestyle your way out of a different note than you meant to play.
Saw John Entwistle play a wrong un in 1989 at Birmingham NEC ~ even he looked surprised.
I like when they make mistakes. Makes it real
They make a mistake, they accept,smile, move on and play their asses off. True pros.
I remember a few decades ago, watching an ensemble of guitar players on TV (can't recall the individuals) playing a typical 12 bar shuffle jam finale in the key of A, when it was the turn of one of the guys to solo, he played in A flat for much of the time, smiling from ear to ear. I guess the stage sound was deafening or the monitors were not loud enough. In a later similar guitar ensemble telecast, I do remember Carlos Santana participating, but when it was his turn to solo, he accidently stepped on his audio cable as he was walking forward, unplugging his guitar, it was funny because he was really into it and ready to WAIL, but there was no sound.
Eric Clapton is so good I didn’t even notice the mistake 😂
he was playing in the wrong key, he realized it during the bend, and continued to bend the string another half step to be in the right key.
Honorary mention here for my personal guitar hero, Mark Knopfler, in Munich 2019:
The Eddie Van Halen clip was just sad. He was completely out of it and he wasn’t the same player in later life that he was in 1980. Henry Rollins nailed it on when he first saw Eddie rip Eruption. His jaw clearly has a scar from hitting the floor same as me and you.
But, this happened for a reason , and I believe this was a breaking point for his son. Eddie was in the hospital after this show,,then went to rehab. Wolf said he wont play with him
Drinking so eddie quit. I saw him his last 2 tours, and he definitely regained his powers. The 2012 truth tour was awesome. They were great.
"If you play a wrong note,the next time you play that song,play that note again,& everybody will think it's the right note"-B.B. King.
4:27 That's me at my best 🤣
So good to know they are humans.
It's understandable fatigue can set in on a long tour we have heard that stated in many interviews musicians have given
where is lil wayne ?
Couldn’t really tell Clapton or Vai mistakes. Don’t know Vai’s music much. I have 1 CD of his.
It was hard to watch Eddie at the end. I was playing the little guitars intro the other day on the Frankie and it’s a fun tune to kinda warm up on. Seeing Eddie play all rough like that is hard. He was a phenomenal guitarist/musician/human being. Rip Eddie.
One of the hardest things to learn playing music is to keep playing when you make a mistake. It's human nature to stop and start over again but doing that live is catastrophic
Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Joe Satriani,John Petrucci,Santana-guitar gods shows-they not robots they are humans. Mistakes is normal but they made it a very very few for all carrer. Great video!
Even though they are great, it does not make it easy to do. Can't phone it in. As soon as I hit the record button, things go South quickly.
I messed up the intro to Sweet Child O’ Mine back in the 80’s once at a local bar. Now I feel better even Slash has messed it up too.
Where is Lil Wayne?
They say it was impossible for Django Reinhardt to play a wrong note. But even if he played a note that sounded a bit off. its what you play immediately after that determine if the note is out of contex and Django had a lightning quick musical mind so he could always resolve it and get out of jail
I think the Zep clip was from their infamous Arizona concert.
Mistakes are normal and natural. However, comparing all of the above, you could make a 3-hour video of just Kirk failing to play the simplest riffs. (Love Metallica!)
knew it had to be something weird with Vai haha
I wouldn't call Santana's a mistake, just a variation of expression. But I would call the last sad clip of Eddie tweakin' more a debacle than a mistake. I was at that show and he was an absolute mess all night -- looked like he was on the 3rd or 4th maybe even 5th day of a bad speed binge. Was hoooorrific
Santana's was definitely a mistake lol
Clapton did the best out of all these.. He made it work.
No it was a mistake, he went way off key.... Period....
Santana's was a mistake, you can even see the keyboard player shake his head
Santana could have made it work. The note he played actually sounded kind of cool, but then he tried to correct his mistake by playing the note that he meant to play, and it made the first note sound wrong. Then he tried to mask the mistake by playing a random chromatic run. Of course it wasn't that bad - it was a decent attempt at hiding the mistake, but I don't think it worked.
Kirk is funny.
Steve Vai is so kind he wanted to make sure fans deserved what they paid for.
Clapton not very obvious he is the master.
John Mayer just laugh and let jam.
Clapton's mistake was glaringly obvious to a guitar player. He's essentially the same pentatonic 'box' player he was 50 years ago. Here he moves to the wrong 'position' and goes out of key. It wouldn't happen to a player who learnt playing scales.
@@jokermaan1Learning playing scale is one thing. Learning playing with all your emotions and being able to transcribe it from your instrument is another thing, and thats what Clapton do since 50yo. I mean its common nowadays for guitarist to do some bashing about Clapton because he is not an educated or technical guitarist, he cant shred, he cant sweep, he dont play out of boxes and so what ? I mean you just have to listen to his younger era with John Mayall or even with Cream to understand how important he was for the music and the guitar world.
Are you telling me keith actually plays live, holy shit
Damn I thought I would see all of Kirk Hammett's live