Rob wrote:
I think it's just a matter of taste, but live recordings are a weak sister to "the real thing" as far as I'm concerned.
I, on the other hand, think that live is the "real thing" and studio recordings the "fake". The musician can spend days endlessly recording and recording, until they've got every single note exactly right, and splice all the "right" notes together into the "right" phrase. Or they can do like a number of famous musicians are known to do - hire a studio musician to get the sound right for them in a lot fewer tries - then go out and study up how to play the same lick on stage as if it was their own.
I especially loathe the massively-overproduced crap that dribbles from the mindless lips of things like whomever the current reigning pop queen might be. They're interchangeable. The fact that at least some of them lip-synch their music on stage simply confirms (to me) that studio stuff is fake.
But as someone who'd even rather hear a Mellotron string section than an actual string section, I guess I'm probably in the minority.
There's a time and place for both a Mellotron (which to me was an instrument in it's own right, not a so-so attempt at imitating a real string section) and a real string section. I use keyboard string sounds in the band I'm in, but I'd much rather listen to our violinist play!
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