OT: live music

Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:51:45 +0100
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.ironmaiden,alt.music.black-metal
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I'm a bit on the late side here I know, but I could scarcely believe what I
was reading: How can you not like live music?
I can understand your not liking a seething mass of sweaty bodies, or badly
done distorted sound, but do you not feel the energy and power of the music
live? It has nothing to do with volume (having volume and bass overblown is
a mistake made in far too many places), but there are very,very few
recordings that manage to capture the essence of live music properly.
That's why people still go to concerts, be they metal, rock, classical,
whatever, even if they have a decent hi-fi and CDs a plenty at home. Bands of little talent can sound worse live than on record, but well
trained musicians should be able to make a live experience something
special. A lot of recordings sound stale. Precise and technically spot on
maybe, but there's no life. This appies to Iron Maiden recordings quite a
lot, probably because Steve makes everyone go over things again and again to
get one little bit "perfect" - but in the process drains all life from it.
Rant over methinks - but surely most of you must feel the difference-and I
mean feel, not necessarily hear.
Oh, Danny, how do you go about blagging free tickets?
Will