Re: Integrity of Performance and the Sample

["Gary Lehmann" <relayonemanband@cts.com>]

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Subject: OT: Integrity of Performance and the Sample


> Ok, guys/gals, a dilemma:
> My collaborator and I have been recording together for a while now
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> However, we've been given the opportunity to play live at a fairly cool
gig
> (North by Northgate--for any of you Aggies) and are now faced with the
> grueling task of adapting our recorded material for live performance.
> Other than finding a drummer, bass player, keyboardist and DJ, how do we
> best approach this?

Depending on your equipment and amount of time available, you could:

1.  Just use a drum machine
2.  Sequence MIDI
3.  Record digital audio to augment the MIDI
4.  Use all digital audio

I want to share an anecdote from around 1991--I was entertaining in a 
lounge
in Chula Vista (near the Mexican border) with option 3, and I had a
complaints from customers.  One was so bold as to say, "Turn all that s**t
off!  I can't tell if you're good or not!"  When I spoke to the bartender
about it, her words were that people were used to a "good old-fashioned 
drum
machine".  Folks like to see what they are listening to--even musicians 
look
at the speakers when they are concentrating on music.
Gary