Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall doesn’t support the use of backing tracks during live shows. He recently told Musicfeeds.com.au:
“You hear the most amazing record in the world, and you watch them and they can’t even play it live. It’s all recorded guitars. The amount of big bands that we’ve played with that…are pretty much karaoke bands is shocking. The only live sound you hear is the drums and even that’s triggered to hell.
- Advertisement -I’m not going to say names but they know who they are. And the thing is, they watched us laughing at them on stage and looked embarrassed as hell…I watched the mic turned the wrong way and yet the singing coming out absolutely perfect and the guitarist dropping the guitar. You sit on side of stage and think, ‘Why are you even doing this? Are you stoked? Is this fun? Is this creative?’ It’s just bizarre. I don’t know why you’d want to bother.”
He continued:
“That’s where you see that person’s involved in it because they get to ride on a bus and have thousands of people screaming along, but that’s what being a popstar is – go on fucking ‘X Factor’!”
McCall also shared some Australian pride during the chat, stating:
“The Australian bands, especially in this crop, are very good, very inventive, and can play their music and can play as well as – if not better than – ninety-nine per cent of the big bands you hear about from overseas that are getting pushed and have massive labels behind them and all the hype and stuff. You play with them and then you realise that Australian locals leave most people for dead.’
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