Thick As A Brick

Posted by Mike Porper (A) on June 13, 2012 at 08:05:27

In Reply to: RE: OK - Starting To Get Tired of This posted by Analog Scott on June 12, 2012 at 22:39:06:

It's impossible to get through to you. You seem to be one of those people who never stop unless you have the upper hand, at all costs, right or wrong.

Here's something that should make you proud and satisfied:

All pop/rock music played in live performance in 100% live. That One Hundred Percent live. Always, everywhere, at all times. It's always heen that way. It'll always be that way. Sound checks prove it, because there's never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever a mixing of live plus computer hard drive pre-recorded sounds. Ever. That never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happens. It's fiction, "pulled out of somebody's ass". Rock is all live, always, everywhere, at all times.

When you hear a singer's voice sing harmony in three or four parts with him or herself and sound just like the studio recording - that's live too! It's all live. Rock singers have the ability to single in many voices, simultaneously. They can double, triple, and quad their voices [an old studio trick]. It's all live. It's in the sound check. There it is. Always live. 110%.

That's right. 100% + 10%, live. Better than live. Super live. So live, we're not worthy of it.

I stood on a street corner in Phoenix, in an area saturated with nightclubs. A jazz guitarist was playing on the corner. He was pretty good. He was playing an electric guitar. He went through his "sound check", strumming, turning knobs, adjusting this and that, more strumming, adjusting reverb, EQ, delay, etc. Sound check.

Then, he started to play. From his speakers, the moment he started playing, a full jazz combo played also. Tenor sax, piano, bass, drums. Vibes, on some pieces.

I knew that they were all live. Yes. Yes, YES YES YES. All of those musicians were right there, live, playing in person, right there, on the street corner. The Bass, the drummer, the sax, the piano, the vibraphone. Live live live live live live. I just couldn't see them, and nobody else could, either. But, they were live. I know they were. All music is always live, always, everywhere, at all times. 100% live. 110% live. Oh, professional wrestling - that's real, too.

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Forget Vanilli- 95% of All Pop-Rock-Techo-Etc is Lip Sync/Played - Mike Porper 12:18:33 06/04/12 (28)

You are just makin this stuff up - Analog Scott 04:06:47 06/07/12 (25)

Yep - David Smith 20:02:16 06/07/12 (0)

I Really Wish I Were - Mike Porper 08:45:01 06/07/12 (23)

Running and playing the violin. - J.R. 11:20:12 06/09/12 (6)

OK - Starting To Get Tired of This - Mike Porper 08:19:21 06/12/12 (5)

RE: OK - Starting To Get Tired of This - Analog Scott 22:39:06 06/12/12 (3)

Thick As A Brick - Mike Porper 08:05:27 06/13/12 (2)

Sarcasm is not a super power. - J.R. 09:08:59 06/13/12 (1)

So True - Mike Porper 09:39:49 06/13/12 (0)

The Eastern European music I like is tradition oriented. - J.R. 09:03:45 06/12/12 (0)

RE: I Really Wish I Were - Analog Scott 14:06:54 06/07/12 (15)

People Hear What They See - Mike Porper 14:26:49 06/07/12 (14)

RE: People Hear What They See - Analog Scott 05:36:09 06/08/12 (13)

You've Actually Supported My Point - Mike Porper 14:08:44 06/08/12 (12)

Then your "point" and your assertions are two very different things - Analog Scott 09:28:31 06/09/12 (11)

CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 22:18:18 06/11/12 (10)

Since when is 95% a distortion of 95%? - Analog Scott 22:35:12 06/12/12 (4)

When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Todd Krieger 17:26:10 06/13/12 (2)

RE: When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Analog Scott 20:58:13 06/13/12 (1)

Fine - Whatever - Time To Move On [nt] - Mike Porper 08:29:15 06/14/12 (0)

115% - Mike Porper 08:07:29 06/13/12 (0)

RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/12/12 (4)

RE: CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 17:34:39 06/13/12 (1)

RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/13/12 (0)

Switch between live singing and lip-synching during the performance of a single song - Mike Porper 09:52:23 06/13/12 (1)

So can we agree that you are changing your claim from "95%" to "some"? - David Smith 11:09:25 06/13/12 (0)

Way to go Mike Porper! - Timbo in Oz 00:04:56 06/07/12 (0)

I'm With You Here.............. - Todd Krieger 20:47:40 06/06/12 (0)

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Thick As A Brick - Mike Porper 08:05:27 06/13/12 (2)

Sarcasm is not a super power. - J.R. 09:08:59 06/13/12 (1)

So True - Mike Porper 09:39:49 06/13/12 (0)

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