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I think audiences are getting lazier and lazier by being served up pristine, produced performances all the time.
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Exact same thing goes for recording. Many people think it is easy to get a polished sound, it really isn’t otherwise every Youtube demo would sound like a pro album track and well clearly most don’t.
I hate this, I want to see a band play live, if you don't have the musicians to cover the parts (or can't justify them for say 2 songs) adapt the song, this is what makes live music live, playing to a click to allow for backing tracks, may as well just have a backing track and singer.
For me - be live and use what you've got, if a song is really that bad without the extra parts, don't play it, chose another.
Tried it in rehearsal a few times - nothing that fancy, just the organ sounds for a couple of Kinks songs and piano for hard to handle by the black crowes.
Our drummer just couldn't get the hang of playing to a click and despite trying all evening it sounded total shite
I think partially it's a "new toy syndrome" where the drummer has the fancy kit and wants to use it on everything. I can see where he's coming from of course as I've suggested stuff in the past based on a new pedal purchase ;-)
This x100
In most of the bands I play in, we can react to the crowd at a moment's notice. I don't just mean adding an extra chorus or solo at the end - I mean extending a pause for effect, milking a bit of banter or humour based on something going on in the room, throwing in extra musical interludes spontaneously, etc etc. This is the difference between really engaging a crowd and just playing to a pre-determined, rigid script. Try doing that with backing tracks.
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Acoustic/Electric Guitarist
LeFunk! Wedding and Function Band
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I'm not sure that punters don't notice as such - I guess some do, some don't. My sister came to see my band and still thinks I'm the bassist, for example, so knowledge of what people do in bands can be a bit limited. Maybe it's more that they don't care or are just accepting of it and it's also horses for courses.
At my nephew's wedding there was a trio ( vocals, guitar, sax) plus backing tapes and they went down well and I shuffled around to Mustang Sally. We just wanted something fun to dance to, bit more presence than a DJ. If I went to a blues club I wouldn't have expected the same thing, I'd want musicians interacting. It would be silly to apply the same set of values.
Ooh, relevant example: at a friend's wedding he had Mike Sanchez do a short solo set . Mike's gift to them as a friend. If you don't know Mike he is an experienced muso, talented pianist who has worked with Jeff Beck, Bill Wyman,etc. Went down like a lead balloon. People didn't get it. I've seen Mike play in a club and tear the roof off with a similar set.
Edit: that's probably not a good example about backing tracks ,just the horses thing
Acoustic/Electric Guitarist
LeFunk! Wedding and Function Band
www.lefunk.co.uk
www.facebook.com/lefunkuk
www.twitter.com/lefunk_band
www.soundcloud.com/lefunk-3
I ended up helping with a lot of the recording of the backing tracks and got paid to do it, which was where I had my big learning curve with Reaper.
It was interesting playing with backing tracks and allowed us to do some smaller, lower paid gigs, but far from ideal.