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Posted by Bill on 12/04/06 17:28
Ashley Simpson's use of tape was clearly not approved of by SNL
management, which tells you that they don't, normally, permit lip-synching.
There is a limited but persistent market for what I refer to, for lack
of a better term, as "authentic" music, and a good number of artists who
work it, and who would never use sync.
And no, I don't go to a concert expecting to hear the song exactly as it
was on the CD. What would be the point of that?
Just saw Dylan in London, Ontario. I don't think he performed a single
song the way it was originally recorded. He reinvented everything. His
is an extreme case, but it was certainly more stimulating and
provocative than performance by rote. Sometimes it was brilliant.
Cheating with performances advertised as "live" is much like genetically
re-engineered food. It is always defended as "people don't mind", "the
quality of the performance is better", "it's too hard to play live
anyway", etc.. If they really believed that, they would be up front
with the fact: Come see our musical-- performed with PRE-RECORDED
music! None of our singers use their actual voices! And the orchestra
has been replaced with a digital processor!
And people would flock to these shows and brag to their friends that
they saw a computer perform at a show. Right...?
Obviously not, and everyone knows it.
Mike Rivers wrote:
> Bill wrote:
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>>Incidentally, throughout my life, I have always associated real, live
>>performance with superior artists, and lip-synching with corporate
>>drones and "products" of an "industry".
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> I associate live performance with musicians and singers who have to
> work for a living. Those who lip-sync are working for someone else's
> living.
>
> But really, haven't we all faked it? How real is a CD on which one
> person plays all the instruments? Can he possibly do that live? Well,
> some do - they bring along backing tracks and maybe sing and play the
> guitar live. But then you know what's going oni. Is it more impressive
> if he has a rack of computer equipment on stage with him, or just a CD
> player on which he presses a "start" button? Or someone off stage does
> it?
>
> Why do you go to a live show of a famous performer anyway? You expect
> the show to sound just like the CD, and the staging to look just like
> the DVD. And they darn well make sure it does. Do you go to a show
> hoping that you'll hear a mistake that you can comment on? Or maybe a
> new song that hasn't been released on a recording yet that you can hear
> before someone else? What's the big deal?
>
> I like live shows where the players are working hard. They're the ones
> who need my support, so they get it. Why go to see Christina Aguilera?
> If you want to support her artistry, just buy the DVD. That's what
> they're trying to get you to do anyway.
>
>
>>Ed Sullivan, bless his heart, used to feature genuine, live
>>performances. Saturday Night Live does.
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> Wasn't there an Ashley Simpson "cue malfunction" on SNL? Or was that
> another show?
>
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