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DOH! Thanks for catching that!
The live shows are mostly live. They are all filmed at about 3 in the afternoon. What you see during the show segments is actually live, but the segments are not recorded in that same order. The music is always recorded first, the interview segments are recorded based on the schedule of the celebrity, and the opening monologue is frequently recorded twice, once at the beginning of the taping, and then again at the end, with edits to make it fit the time remaining after then know how long the interviews took.
It's a very hard setup for performing music. The room itself, the TV studio, is totally dead. There are speakers for the studio audience, but they are turned WAAAAY down so that they don't interfere with the broadcast recording. As a result, the room has zero energy. We're on the stage, just rocking as hard as we can, trying to get people into it, and most of the time it's just blanks stares coming back at you.
About a third of the time, we're not really playing. Any time it was an awards show, it was fake to tape (the jargon for it is "stunt" - did you play on the grammys? yeah, but it was just a stunt gig). In those cases, the only thing that's actually going out live are the artist's lead vocals, and the drummer's cymbals. Everything else is tape.
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