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

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.

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! :)

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

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