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In reply to the discussion: What you "young turds" are missing about halftime show [View all]Atman
(31,464 posts)Seriously. Good vocal mixing. We encouraged him along the way by buying him an eight track mixing board for his Mac, and he plugged in his keyboard, his mic, his guitar, and layered it with loops from GarageBand. It's as good as anything I've heard on "college radio." But how do you make a living now? He's going on tour with his MacBook?
It reminds me of long ago, going to see World Party at Stowe Vermont. WP consistent of Mark Wallinger of The Waterboys. That was it. He played every instrument, sang every vocal. And this was long before the MacBook or GarageBand. Old fashioned tape loops. So when he play "live," he had to hire session musicians to re-create the stuff that he had originally recorded. It sounded perfect. Too perfect. Between the loops and the session musicians sticking to script, there was no life to the concert. I could have sat in a field and listened to a big loud amp playing one of World Party's CD's.
That's why Beyonce has to do a million-dollar stage show, and what "the kids" don't understand. Bands used to rely on their talent, and cheap shit like a cherry picker (to hover Mick Jagger over the crowd with a wireless mic!) or some douche like David Lee Roth, drunk off his ass, jumping off the drum set onto a tumbling mat. It was lo-rent, but the music was always REAL. Super real. They make up for it now with pyrotechnics, a hundred dancers, and lip syncing. And they charge $140 a ticket.
BTW, the last major show I saw was Peter Gabriel's New Blood Orchestra...call me an old fart, but it was one of the finest concerts I've ever seen. He had the giant JumboTron screens all over the place. Many of the same effects and lighting features Beyonce used...but he had a REAL 46 piece orchestra, plus a band that played real music while he sang real songs. I know that is not what the SB halftime show is for, but it saddens on of my boys has only been dragged to a Hillary Duff arena show by his girlfriend, while my other son has at least camped in a soggy field for a weekend for a multi-stage rock-fest with twenty bands. But shit...I used to see three or four major arena shows a summer. Now, no one can afford one, and if you do, you're seeing pre-packaged pap. It's just sad. That's all I'm saying.
These damned kids think they know music -- GET OFF MY LAWN!