Originally Posted by: snojonesI love Tedeschi Trucks!! Great live band!!
The gig I was speaking of was a "small venue" performance. It was a local band and they are not the first I have had this deflating experience with.
While the big international stars of disco may have performed live, my experience at the local level was mostly a guy with a record player. I always thought that the disco lable refered to the records which replaced live performers. At least DJs didn't pretend to be musicians. That is the disco I was refering to.
I have alway thought that the height of Live Performace was an organic interplay between the band on stage, their musical skill, and the audience. That feedback loop always determined who was a great, not who had the biggest kereoke machine. That human symbiosis was critical from the local level to the international level. Developing that kind of skill took tallent and years of practice.... pushing buttons and turning knobs does not. That is called Recording. It is a diffrent thing, and it is definatly not live performing.
Point taken. It is dejecting when you expect to see someone perform but that's not really what they're doing. I can't say I've seen an artist that's guilty of it (that I know...). Some of the greatest concerts you'll ever see are when a band is cookin' it up. Though I was long a metalhead back in the day, I was able to see the Christmas Eve kick-off concert of Prince's Purple Rain tour. Best concert I've ever seen. That band SMOKED. Other than the odd electronic sounds Prince used, that band was totally live and totally tight. For the record, Sheila E was the warm up, hard to beat on her own.
So, yep. Good point. Nothing better than a great band.
And to share, here's a TTB concert pic I took..it was kinda close:
