rickcr42
Fully Modded
Rest in peace my good friend.
Posts: 4,514
|
Post by rickcr42 on May 12, 2006 18:59:58 GMT
|
|
|
Post by PinkFloyd on May 12, 2006 23:01:05 GMT
Word! recorded music sounds pure shite compared to the real thing (ie: LIVE) and I totally agree with that paragraph. You can get as much enjoyment (maybe more) from a car radio than you can from a £10,000 system but you'll NEVER manage to recreate the live event however much you spend......... many of these "audiophiles" have lost the plot and are listening to the system and not the music. Been there, done that, and have come round full circle and am now listening to the "music" and feeling the "emotion" again There's a big difference in listening to the music (and absorbing it) and listening to the system. You'll only drive yourself bonkers if you listen to the electronics.
|
|
xerxes
Been here a while!
Posts: 1,115
|
Post by xerxes on May 13, 2006 12:09:16 GMT
I'll go along with that. I will also listen to and really enjoy music played live that I wouldn't buy a recording of. I once went to a party in a village hall that had a jazz-swing band. Normally I don't like Jazz, but these guys were really enjoying themself and it was comunicated to the audience to such an extent that you couldn't help but go along with it. The band was completely acoustic, no amplification at all, and it sounded absolutely fantastic.
Incidentally, I've been to see a few big concerts in stadiums and arenas, I've seen Pink Floyd 3 times, but I reckon you can't beat a band in a small venue where you're no more than ten or twenty feet away. Pink Floyd are great live, fantastic light show, lasers, the works, but ultimately the guys are tiny dots on the stage and you are listening through a giant PA system.
|
|
rickcr42
Fully Modded
Rest in peace my good friend.
Posts: 4,514
|
Post by rickcr42 on May 13, 2006 15:03:48 GMT
Why I have taken to going only to small venue peformances over the last ten years or so. There was a time when I would go to a concert at least once a month and while I seen/heard some great ones more often than not the sheer size of the venua meant there was no good seat soundwise in the entire arena. The sound was more "we will assault you will gobs of volume because we now the acoustics suck big time here but here you are and here we are so let's make the best of it" than anything resembling a gratifying musical experience. My thought on the reason is that is as a band/performer increases in popularity more folks need to be accomodated per performance in order to satisfy the payroll but that as you increase the size of the venue you lose any shot at good acoustics after a certain point and it becomes more "I can say i was there" than it does "great fkn performance,I damn near shit myself." Then as years passed and my taste matured I began to realise a great rock band in a mid sized club or tiny outdoor arena sounds EXACTLY how they sounded when they were local bands that got noticed and what gained them their original reputation.there small amp stack and close proximity was pure right in your guts music and not "wall of sound" like a major concert with 50,000 in the audience,going to local blues clubs and being so blown away I can't get up and go to take a piss because my legs are weak from the performance or seeing Johhny winter play a slide guitar from ten feet away with a "cocktail" and thinking "this guy can fkn PLAY dammit !" BB king from 25 feet away sweat rolling down his face,"lucille" glowing/blinding and he throwing gold chains at the audience or Buddy Guy jumping into the audience and walking up to my lawn chair ripping chords from his guitar 9thought the fkn thing was gonna melt from the ferocity !) as I drink a cold Sam Adams or being able to take my then 10 year old son to see Jethro tull and KNOW he was going to get pure music rather than all show so he too would become appreciative of the pure instrumental talent of those guys and not only know them by the recrdings to him "old" and outof date,the Kinks,Santana,Kansas,Johnny Lang,Molley Hatchet,Littel Feat,George Thorogood,Tower of Power and many many more, ALL local,ALL up close and personal ALL sounding like musicians rather than "stars" and would not trade any of the experiences to see ANY super group or "star performer" just to do it but in a venue that is about " look at me" over "check out this cut f**kweed,gonna blow your head right the fk off your neck and you are gonna thank me for it !"No more super groups for the rickmonster untless I can hear them in their natural state and that precludes any big arenas because I personally would rather attend a great performance than a great "event" which is OK for the star struck youth but as we get older we,or at least I need more and that more is the opure in your guts bar band raw music that made thse pricks great to begin with before they (many) lost their way and started reading their own press clippings.when you lose contact with the audience it becomes about you and not about the music. The local summer outdoor concert season is about to start and I am already getting my "concert kit" ready ( coolers,folding chairs,flashlight,blankets,day packs with rain gear and sweaters in case the weather go nut boy) in anticipation of hearing my boyhood heroes play some real damn music unlike anything heard on either album or concert in my previous experience mixed in with some "local legend" acts that are the equal of anything known outside the area and that for one reason or another just did not hit it big enough to fill an arena at $75 per ticket ( ). Just talking about it is getting ampped up Rant over ,you may now continue with your regularly scheduled programming............
|
|
rickcr42
Fully Modded
Rest in peace my good friend.
Posts: 4,514
|
Post by rickcr42 on May 13, 2006 19:07:57 GMT
|
|