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It pleases me to be able to throw out a topic to the members of this list and get such varying opinions and experiences. I've gained much food for thought as I continue to shape the way I present my music in a live situation. LD truely rules. This discussion has jogged my memory of a recent experience I had as a spectator to someone else's performance. I recently saw the Ambient Brunch Tour in San Francisco. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring show (By the way, I highly recommend the new Banco De Gaia CD). I arrived at the show early and got a table seat in front of the stage. Pre-recorded music by the various performers was playing through the PA while visual images flashed on screens behind the stage. About a 1/2 hour later, two gentlemen who I thought were roadies started milling around the stage. The pre-recorded music, which was, at this point, a subtly rythmic ambient piece, was still playing through the PA. The two guys talked amongst themselves, plugged in various equipment, lit incense, and looked very unassuming. Much of the crowd seemed oblivious to what was happening onstage. Then the two "roadies" sat down behind some keyboards and sequencers and starting playing along with the pre-recorded music. It was only when the music began to morph into something else that I realized that the two guys were Dogon, the 1st act of the night. At first, I thought this was a very anti-climatic way to start the show but after reflection, I came to feel that Dogon's entry was rather appropriate for the evening. It was quite clear that they were performing live. Yet, they had the sonic capability to take the pre-recorded music, which I must assume was theres, and use that as a launching pad for their sonic presentation. The emphasis of the entire evening was on the music with augmentation by visual graphics. The physical presence of the artist was not presented as the point of emphasis for the night, which I thought was rather cool. It was a live experience but the personalities on stage was almost incidental. There was something ego-less that I liked very much.