Cheating (was: Turn All That S**t Off)

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

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From: "rich" <rich@nuvisionsca.com>

> >When people go to see their favorite dance/pop artist and they use
prepared
> audio (lip sync, MIDI/sampled background, et al), are they disappointed?
>
> Nah, no one seemed all that upset when Rob and Fab were discovered...:)
>
> rich

OK, so it's fraud if the artist is not actually responsible for the initial
performance--Like Martha Wash's "Everybody Dance Now" lick from "Gonna Make
You Sweat"--if an attempt is made to depict the artist simulating the
performance (Like Paul Simon's video for "Call Me Al"--although this
performance is tongue in cheek).  But not Moby's "Play", with all its
African American samples, because he's not lip syncing.

This, then, has to do with the impact on the audience of audio generated by
the performing artist.
My question is this:
Do you think the audience can discriminate between multilayer audio
generated onstage thru the use of delay and that which is prepared
beforehand?
I think that with the Repeater being able to store samples on the CRCs, 
it's
going to be awfully tempting to include prepared audio--in fact, isn't that
how this thread got started?
Gary