drakula63 wrote:Hank seems to make a few mistakes. If these were intended, then they don't really work... to my ears anyway. Bruce seems to forget the choreography at one point too.
This was ATV, who were very stingy with studio time. If it was live, so much the better. If it was recorded, you did it "as live" and they wouldn't do retakes unless they had to. "Emergency Ward 10" was (initially) done live. "Crossroads" was recorded "as live", hence the notorious wobbling sets! Actors fluffing their lines knew the only way they could force a retake was to swear!
A minor mistake by a guitarist wouldn't be enough! Anyway, Jet did say of Hank, "the man was a genius - even his mistakes were in tune!"
Incidentally, EMI were much the same. There are plenty of mistakes in the early Shads recordings: as soon as a take was "good enough", the studio moved on regardless.