19 wrote:
quoted 7 lines I've passed up the comp with the Orbital live CD -- saw it for US$25. I>I've passed up the comp with the Orbital live CD -- saw it for US$25. I
>appreciate techno acts who take it on the road, but I just don't understand
>the need for live releases. I mean, the Orb's _Live '93_ is OK, but the
>studio stuff blows it to bits. Still, to actually see LX and crew, the
>Hartnolls, Mixmaster Morris, Plastikman, et al., I'd personally pay for all
>accommodations to bring these folks to Nashville. Anyone care to go in on it
>with me?
It seems to me that who the act was would make a pretty big difference
as to whether I would want to hear a live recording of them. I haven't
heard the live Orb album, but I've heard a tape of some live Eat
Static, and I really liked it. The main problem is of course the low
fidelity and the extraneous noise, but if the performers are the kind
of people who get more creative in front of a crowd (like Eat Static)
it's really worth hearing. From some of the descriptions that people
have given on this list of some live performances (Black Dog, Locust)
I'd love to have good live recordings of these shows.
I suppose it always comes down to the issue of whether recordings are
more interesting if they're the perfect, edited product of a
musician's ideas or the accurate record of what an improviser
played in a good performance. Which is always a matter of taste.
David