Re: (TV) issues (nonTV)

[Sam Inglis <sam@sospubs.co.uk>]

I think it's a bit insulting to the audience, especially when your songs
are as simple as the Stereophonics'. If I go to see a gig like that, I
don't do so because I want to hear the record played back with minimal
variation. I'd rather hear them take a few risks and really go for it.
If you're Fat Boy Slim, fair enough, but if you're a band with as much
live experience as the Stereophonics, live chemistry ought to be what
you're paying for when you buy a ticket. Playing along to backing tapes
is playing it too safe. I'd rather see them do something a bit
dangerous. And if you must fill out the sound, why not just hire a
couple of session players?
Are you sure they were tapes, and not just a couple of extra musicians
off the side of the stage or something?
Sam

AndrewMFC@aol.com wrote:
> 
> OK - I've got a question for y'all.  Backing tapes - friend or foe?
> I just saw the Stereophonics and Charlatans (UK) last night and I got into a
> row with a friend of mine.  It was our second time seeing the 'phonics in the
> last couple of months and at both shows they used backing tapes to embellish
> their live sound.  We're talking not only Hammond B3 organ parts, but guitar
> parts too -- even some lead guitar parts.  Now, I quite like the
> Stereophonics -- I mean, they're not reinventing the wheel or anything, but
> the songs are good and that VOICE!  But the use of the tapes was too cavalier
> for my taste --  I was truly disappointed.  My friend on the other hand was
> not at all bothered.  He said I was a hypocrite, since I can enjoy acts like
> Fatboy Slim or the Chemical Brothers where practically nothing is played
> live.  He sees no difference.  I on the other hand believe that part of being
> a musician is playing your songs live, and that using tapes is dishonest.  If
> you've recorded songs that for practical reasons can't be played live as they
> were in the studio, I say you should re-arrange the songs and play them
> acoustically or something, or else not play certain songs at all.   This
> argument went on for hours...
> Any thoughts kids?
> Just wondering,
> Andrew
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