Back in 1991 (22 years ago yesterday), Nirvana was asked to perform on England’s Top of the Pops. Problem was, they were told they had to play off a backing track (pre-recorded instrumentals) with live vocals. As you might expect, Kurt Cobain and the band did not take things as seriously as the show would have liked. Watch for the not-so-subtle fake guitar-work, vocal mugging, and Dave Grohl’s wildly off-beat fake drumming. Love this.
Nirvana live performance, miming the instruments and mugging the vocal
Haha, this is awesome! Thanks for posting this, Dave.
TOTP was full of this – some bands took it VERY seriously, and some were even less interested than Nirvana. It all made for entertaining TV.
A lot of bands resent miming/lip-syncing to backing tracks for tV. Iron Maiden had fun with it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzqGQkLMo9o