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Location: Michigan | i often think of when i was a youngster buying a jimi hendrix albulm and hearing all along the watchtower and thinking how cool it sounded.than i heard the live version of it,what a disappointment
i know that the equipment and the acoustic arenas have changed
but what song by what artist do you think sounds totally different (good or bad) from a studio version vrs. a live version? GWB |
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| George Thorogood & the Destroyers - fair studio, great live
Little Feat - very good studio, superb live
Pink Floyd - incredible studio, mind-boggling live
on the other end, Led Zeppelin - great studio, suck wax live |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | A coupla years back I saw Savoy Brown and the Animals at the Waterfront Blues Festival...
The Animals suct!
Granted, they are all Grandparents now...
But their sound and show was not good.
But, Savoy Brown was good!
Their sound was good, their show was good. (They are all Grandparents, too)
Kim Simmons played a $97 First Act guitar that he got from Wal-mart, and it was good.*
So, Maybe the Animals just suck live.
*[He did a musical number about his first 6#(UK) mail-order guitar, and he had bought that FA at Wally-world in a moment of Nostalgia! And it sounded good!] |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
So, Maybe the Animals just suck live. I saw them locally back in '64. Great show, but the music was not near as good as the studio... Could have cared less at the time though... :D |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | So , CANNED is BETTER than the ORIGINAL .. line-up in rows of four ..
Vic
.. tweakin` the radio .. |
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Location: Novi, MI | I am not a rap fan, but I got free tickets to Akon and it was horrible live. At least on the radio he has catchy tunes, live he is not a good singer. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Many singers do the Asley Simpson.....
Live isn't always live. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | PEZ, I haven't actually Paid for many concerts in my life... (Cool, huh? :D )
But I could never understand people wanting the concert to be EXACTLY like the album.
Yeah, I want the sound to be good and all...
But they shouldn't have to play every song exactly the same way, note-for-note, every night of a 100 city tour!
I would get suspicious if they did.
There is room for improvisation.
"Play it pretty for (name your city)" |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I saw Van Morrison back in the '80s and he was absolutely horrible. He was falling down drunk and basically incapacitated. It could've been a one off - I never saw him again. Needless to say, the recorded stuff was WAY better. |
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Location: Novi, MI | Honestly, that's my project's thing. We never do the same set, the same songs etc... we are always doing something different. We do focus on covers, but we are about songs that you really don't see us playing... We twist the songs to make the fit our style while entertaining.
I have seen some shows that BLOW out the record. A couple of bands are actually better live than recorded.
Not saying it should be JUST like the record, but they need to sound good. I saw Everclear back in the 90s and they were night and day record vs album... but Sugar Ray was Awesome live! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...sometimes a band is so good that the "Live" performance easily becomes the recorded Cd:
AKUS Live |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | So much cut-and-paste sound engineering goes into a studio recording that the final master is pretty much blemish free. Live performances are rarely close to the level of perfection attainable from the clean environment of a studio. There are too many variables that cannot be controlled in a live performance. On the other hand, live performances provide opportunities for audience interaction and spontaneity not possible from the studio. Songs are not time-sensitive, and lead licks can extend two, three or five-fold in length. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | One of my favorite LPs is "Body & Soul" by Joe Jackson. I don't know if you'd call it live or studio, but what they did was just set up a 2 track DAT in a room and recorded the entire thing "live". There was no audience and they did numerous "takes" until they got it right. But what you hear on the LP is absolutely the band playing it "live". It's pure musicianship. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
One of my favorite LPs is "Body & Soul" by Joe Jackson. I love that album. It's one of the few that I still listen to on vinyl. The CD just doesn't do it justice.
I did see him live at Radio City and it was a fabulous show. I think it was around the time that Jumpin' Jive came out. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Berto
1. welcome
2. rap is not music. the "C" is silent. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I'll take live over studio anyday! I like the audience interaction over spot on perfect/studio magic.
One of the top 10 "live" shows of all time - "The Allman Brothers Band, Live at the Fillmore East" I can't even imagine trying to record that in a studio.
Also, +1 to George Thorogood & Destroyers - own all the albums, a lot of bootlegs and have see them live more than a dozen times, their shows absolutely kicks #ss! They feed off the energy of the crowds :) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've only been to one concert recently where the sound wasn't so loud that everything was distorted, there was some ass or asses behind me that wouldn't stop talking through the whole concert, or there were drunk chicks standing the whole time in front of me blocking the view. I'll take a recording any day over those conditions. Audience participation is crap when the audience insists on talking about leg waxing (honest to God), singing off key or sloshing beer on you.
The only recent concert where none of those things happened was Adrian Legg's and unfortunately we only had a few people come to listen to him. |
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how much different can a band sound from the studio vrs. live???