quoted 9 lines DAT is fine but there is no substitute for watching some one play>>> DAT is fine but there is no substitute for watching some one play
>>
>> WHY would you want to watch someone "play"? At best, it's a series of
>> mechanical movements; at worst, it's mechanical movements plus theatrical
>> wanking. Does it convey ANY useful information?
>
> If I'm not going to get either a musical interaction with the audience or
> some kind of theatrical experience, I really don't see the point in shelling
> out the bucks and spending the evening going to a "live performance".
Well, I do. The best "live performance" in the Techno realm I've ever seen was
seeing Richard James hunched over a mixing board doing live remixing of his own
material. I got to hear unreleased music and familiar music in an altered
format, and since the realm of the Rave is that of the DJ doing mixing, it made
absolutely perfect sense in that context.
He was then followed by Messiah doing the silly
costumes/mime-over-the-keyboards/hey-everybody-raise-your-hands-in-the-air
shtick, thus providing the virtual antithesis and thereby the canonical case of
What Not To Do For "Live Performance" In A Techno Setting.
I also suspect that at the Mixmaster Morris/Pete Namlook show in San Francisco,
there might not have been much "musical interaction with the audience" or
"theatrical experience", but I have yet to hear from anyone that went who
didn't think that they had an absolutely wonderful time.
quoted 2 lines If all an artist is going to do is plug in the DAT deck and mime over their> If all an artist is going to do is plug in the DAT deck and mime over their
> keyboards, hell, I could have just bought the CD and listened to it at home.
Hey! Leave Moby out of this :-) (Now this I agree with.)
- Greg