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These musicians are convinced that somebody deliberately wrecked their set.

One of the many fears musicians have when performing in front of thousands of people is that when something goes wrong during their set. Be it faulty audio,  or poor sync; these things will make musicians go nuts. And that’s understandably so. When something goes wrong, it will affect the musician’s performance. It will also be in the headlines the next day.

Some artists blame the production crew for setting up a really poor gig. Here are artists who are convinced their gigs were sabotaged deliberately.

DJ Khaled

Last weekend, the mega-producer was besieged with what appeared to be technical difficulties during his set at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. Although he was the top billed performer that night, the festival organizers cut him off after his set went off the rails and the crowd booed him offstage.

Khaled blamed the sound crew at EDC. “They tried to sabotage my sound so many times,” he wrote on Instagram. This prompted fellow producer Deadmau5 to mock him for it.

Mariah Carey

Would you ever forget this? Mariah Carey performed at the 2016 New Year’s Eve Times Square party. It was live and millions of people tuned it to watch. Millions of people also saw her set burn. Carey belived that the producers of the Dick Clark Productions ‘set her up to fail” in order to gain ratings. . “Defamatory” and “outrageous and frankly absurd” came the official reply. Carey herself flapped the whole disaster away with a flurry of sad face emojis.

The Who

The legendary 70’s rock band delivered what they described as “one of the very worst [shows] the Who has ever played” at Glastonbury Festival in 2015. They performed at the festival as last-minute replacements for Prince. The band allegedly arrived onstage and found that someone had been “fiddling with their carefully-attuned equipment” before they went on.

“We found someone had sabotaged the carefully tested audio connections for much of our gear,” wrote a crew member. “We’ve never seen that before, but we’re good at plugging things in, so all damage was repaired in time. Was it Lionel [Richie], no way. Dalai Lama – hmmm … he did steal the show already.”

Bruce Springsteen

This one’s different. Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band believed that rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berrymost definitely sabotaged”  the E Street band when they agreed to be his backing band at the Concert For The Rock’n’Roll Hall Of Fame in 1995

After a seven hour set, the closing song was due to be ‘Rock And Roll Music’ – the song started fine, but as E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren remembers, “somehow, a minute or two in, he like … shifts the song in gears and a key without talking to us. Now, we all … okay, we’re pros, right? So, we’re all like … trying not to make a train wreck, and it’s tricky. Okay, what key is he in? Let’s start playing there.”

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