RE: Expectations, artifice, and a hell of a can of worms

["Liebig, Steuart A." <Steuart.Liebig@maritz.com>]

Title: RE: Expectations, artifice, and a hell of a can of worms

[on the NiN/Madonna "canned music" thing...]
> nevertheless,
> the audience doesn't *care* to know how the music is achieved --- however the
> quality of the music's effect might be judged, *that* seems to be the
> audience's primary concern.

** after having done two nights of playing behind an oldies act that basically did the same show (including patter and and "spontaneous" commentary) for three sets - - and knowing that this act does the same show year-in-year-out for something like 10-20 years . . . and seeing people sitting through two shows and loving them both (WHATEVER!!!), suffice it to say that i don't think that many audience members care much about how the music is manifested - - or often what it is. they are there for the show, the spectacle. now if you wanna talk about famous jazz artists who allegedly make "live albums" but cobbling together a "live tune" from 300 edits . . .

> >or Jaco's looping solo in the middle of Joni Mitchell gigs.
> jaco did that?

** while this shows how early people were doing this sort of thing with tape echoplexes, i want to reiterate that les mccann used to do this with a 4-channel tape echoplex (custom in think) on many sets in the early to mid-'70s. (his bass player jimmy rowser used to do his solo feature doing the same thing with a single-channel as well.) it wasn't just "cutting-edge" people like jaco who did this stuff . . . 

stig

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