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is that you become a musical "snob". Tonight I found myself being more
or less forced to listen - endure would be a far better term - a
bluegrass band composed of a bunch of rank amateurs. And I do mean rank.
It was awful. Awful. The fiddler at least knew the tunes, and he took
up most of the solo space, but he couldn't keep time, couldn't keep in
tune, and had no real idea how to work with other members of the band.
The banjo player seemed semi-competent, but was drowned out by the
fiddler. The 2 guitar players stayed completely in the background so
you could not hear them. The bass player could not be heard at all.
Mercifully, I only had to "listen" for 30 minutes. No wonder I don't
go to hear acts with which I am unfamiliar.
MK
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Had I been forced to endure the whole evening, I'd have been searching
everywhere for some!
MK
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In most cases, the people are playing their hearts out...... When I hear a lesser performance, it just makes me appreciate the good ones even more...... And with some work, those performing might eventually get there.
And once in a while, you might stumble across a sublime performance from the most-unexpected of places............
Never thought I would agree with you anything, but I too always use bad performances as a measure of how good so many musicians truly are, I might cringe but it makes me better appreciate how high production standards have become over the years.
That applies to both live performances and listening to a lot of older recordings also.
Same thing happened to me last night and this was at a Jazz festival.
The first band (quartet) trumpet, piano, bass, drums, must have been the most boring jazz set I attended in years, all capable musicians but they played all their own compositions that where just so weak and monotonous,
looking around I could see that most of the audience was on the verge of falling asleep, after 1 hour or so (too long) the organiser of the evening asked them to call it a day as they wanted to carry on.
Then a young jazz singer came on, accompanied by a well known pianist, the first song "I tought about you" was swinging a definetely a change of mood, but it quickly became very apparent that the singer was just scatting too much, he obviously never heard of "Less is more" thus again the music became boring. Anyway I left at the interval, got home, had a glass of red wine and listened to some great jazz cd's (What a pleasure)
Edits: 03/19/11
I generally prefer listening at home too . However imo there's something to say for attending certain types of live presentations . For example , no matter how good an audio system is , it's impossible to accurately reproduce and convey the sound of a large symphony orchestra at home . Same thing with a large choir . Opera too is good to attend because seeing as well as hearing is vital to the full enjoyment .
Sure live classical does sound better, but I never go to a concert with the purpose of hearing better sound, I go to hear or wirness a performance, and unfortunately especially with jazz you have to be there at the right time and the right place, I would say that 50% of the time
I tend to be disapointed with the performance, and even the sound.
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