On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Lazlo Nibble wrote:
quoted 7 lines Personally, I don't see much point in paying big bucks to (essentially)> Personally, I don't see much point in paying big bucks to (essentially)
> just be in the same room as an artist, if that artist isn't doing much of
> anything but playing a DAT of his or her music. Either get up there and
> actually perform some music or come down and hobnob with the proles, but
> please don't take my hard-earned money and proceed to spend forty-five
> minutes pretending you're a member of Grand Funk Railroad lip-syncing
> "Closer To Home" on American Bandstand...
I like music that can't be "played" by human beings, so uh, wots the
point in the artist "playing" the music live if "playing" it means
watering it down?
Maybe someone out there knows a Buddy Rich type who can "play" drumNbass
for two hours at a time? I don't think so. Anyway, the timing wouldn't
be precise enough.
Playing "live" is increasingly loozing its meaning. So what if the
"artist" plays a DAT, so long as it's something that you haven't heard
before and the bass is orders of magnitude louder than you can get at
home and you're dancing w/ people who are also enjoying the music? Is
there some sort of majickal aura about a person placing their hands on a
keyboard and playing "live"? What if its a mixingboard? Is one more
important than the other? Who even cares if someones on stage if the
light show is cool? Why, oh why Lazlo, are you comparing today's music
to Grand Funk Railroad? That was 20 years ago - as I said, it's 1996.
Quit applying these 1976 attitudes.
Che
Hope this is substantive enough for you Lazlo, and apologies to those who
find the spelling out of the obvious to be tedious.