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Re: Whatever happened to JP and that CD thing for squeezers

Thanks for the explanation.

Since I posted I've been thinking about this and fairly quickly came up with the point that if there's only one benefit it means you'll learn to play at a steady tempo, not slowing down for the hard parts and speeding up for the easy parts. That's so easy to do and hard to get rid of.

For me though playing in public would be another matter although I can see that just a singel box on its lonesome could get pretty wearing for the audience. If I were to go down this route I'd want the band recorded "live" hopefully giving it that immediacy of a performance if front of an audience. Perhaps the ones I've seen have lacked that soul and that's what puts me off.

I guess I'm lucky to live in an area with plenty of musicians to jam with and no real restrictions on numbers of boxes (thank god!)

I hope you get what you're after.

Likes it LIVE .. vs. Studio stuff... wiggling or stuffed... which is it ?

Orson .... I am with you on that one pal.

I like stuff that is LIVE as well.
Anything recorded live, has a better vibe and allows more of a "here's what we are all about" sensation to the delivery. I use to get promos all the time (others on this board do also) and it is sooo hard to gauge a band based on studio created material. Those that sent just a mere cassette of something live, gave me more to evaluate than the majority of studio polished goods. I want the idiosyncracy (that how ya spell it?) of the real deal... I want the dialog in the back ground, the hoots whistles and frivolity of the scene so that I can close my eyes and visualize the setting. Hell I am getting to be an old dog, give me that one and I am a happy man. Doubt that would be possible for that band in a can thing however.

But, there are those that want that POLISH for what a studio created, edited, take and re-take masterfully engineered arrangement of tunes represent when bubble wrapped and mass replicated.

So here is the Question(s):

Live CD or Sudio created....
Which do you gravitate towards more??
What live CD's do you have/dont have?
What's your favorite for listening?
What gets you jumping out'a the chair to grab a box and start squeezing along with the cd?


Nonc D

Re: Likes it LIVE .. vs. Studio stuff... wiggling or stuffed... which is it ?

Yup, to me it aint hardly cajun music without the sound of beer cans opening, yelling kids, and closing porch doors in the background. Those are accompanying sounds.

Live in the Studio!

Kind of reminds me of some of those R&B recordings were they brought people into the studio to make the recording sound like a party was going on.
(Because there was! :)

Re: Live in the Studio!


You know there musta been jugs upon jugs of bali hi wine an a whole lotta mojo going on. Too funny!

Re: Live in the Studio!

Yes - I have always had best luck when recording live in the studio.

My first efforts at recording were VERY difficult and stressful, because you are searching for perfection, and inevitably you mess up playing something that you have played perfectly live a hundred times.

Then I switched to the mode of having the band in the studio, and just doing our live thing the way we always do. It is so much easier. Most of the time you can get a tune down in a single take, with maybe an occasional false start.

Of course, you have to have enough live gigs under your belt for this to work. But if you have it together live, you can take that into the studio and do it the same way (more or less).

-David



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