Live Music

[Miranda]

Does anyone else despise it? I mean as recorded live music, not a concert.

[LuluVox]

It really depends on the recording. If it's a crappy bootleg, then yes, I despise it, because it's basically teasing me by letting me hear the songs, but letting me hear them in a horrible, crappy, sometimes traumatizingly bad way.

If it's a live album, then there are so many factors going in to whether or not I'm going to like it. The sound quality is usually bearable, but if the recording has been edited to death, then it loses its allure for me. I prefer a nice, thorough reproduction of a show, not some cut up juxtaposed mess.

What do you find annoying about live recordings, Miranda?

[Soulrev]

Ehh it depends. I have heard some really bad and some really good live albums. I thought Rammstein's Live in Berlin was pretty good.

The only thing I don't like about most live performances/recordings in general is when they change the sound of a song. I've heard some pretty terrible live performances of songs in my time. For instance I have a live video of VNV Nation that has to be their worst performance ever. The difference between the studio and live version is night and day.

[Der Nister]

Absolutely not! As a musician I love hearing live recordings of bands. It allows me to hear how songs can be performed live and how those artists reproduce their ideas in front of an audiance.

[Soulrev]

except when the songs become an excuse to put on some kind of show and they don't even sound right. Like out of breath, not hitting the notes right, etc.

[Steven]

Absolutely not! As a musician I love hearing live recordings of bands. It allows me to hear how songs can be performed live and how those artists reproduce their ideas in front of an audiance.

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exactly.

[Hellheart]

I love live recordings for metal, in particular, if they're done well. It's nice to be sure that the very technical metal is actually successfully played in concert where there's just a wee bit less leeway for mistakes XD

[CatsEyeOfTheWiccan]

A Live Recording, is nice if you have got good sound board enginer/recording enginer doing the recording right in the first place. When you usaly buy a recording from a live recording, check out the qualty and some of the bootleg stuff I used come across when lived in Albany, NY...was sometimes total garbage with realy bad White Noise(No Dolby). So, it has it pros and cons I have to say about sound recording. I should know because do live sound recording, sound board enginering and recording enginering as part of my bussines that dose that.

-CatsEye