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Originally Posted by Elspode
Hmmm...I didn't catch the lip-sync at all, and I was really looking for it. SM? Can your buddy answer this one, do you think, or is it too sensitive these days?
I am certain that the mics were heavily gated, and it is possible that if he pulled back slightly or did not achieve a certain volume threshold, that the gate was simply closed from time to time and didn't pick up a given "whoo" or something.
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Well, now that you mention it, he did pull back slightly from the mic when he did that one "Whoo" that wasn't picked up. Wasn't more than a foot or so that he pulled back. The out-of-synch singing that I saw was only for a split second shot. There really were not enough close-ups of him for me to catch anything else. I got the feeling early on that he was out of synch and then I saw the whoo later.
I'd like to believe that he did it all live and that the 60+ year old guy can still do it after all these years. But I've heard a bunch of live stuff by him from the past (Wings Over America, Beatles concert footage, etc.) that I was amazed by the "studio" quality of the sound during this performance. It didn't sound live to me. Maybe it was live. But Tom Shales thought he lip-synched too.