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Published: September 1, 2006
Picture this: your favorite band is finally coming to town. You have saved your money, bought the tickets and now you are going to see their concert. When you get there, however, the band sounds nowhere near as good performing live music as they did on their CD recordings. What went wrong?
Unfortunately, creating an amazing CD does not mean your favorite band will be nearly as captivating live.
The quality of live music depends on many factors. If there is a malfunction with the sound system, for example, the band cannot be heard at its full potential. Sometimes bands, however, just do not perform well live. Members have not collectively smoothed through all of the music's kinks before attempting to perform it live.
Like most music fans, I have been to some concerts where the artist's rendition of live music was phenomenal, sounding strikingly similar to- if not better than- the way they sound on CD. I have also been to a few concerts where the artist has not sounded at all like he or she does on CD.
From my experience, I have noticed country singers generally perform better live than any other genre of music I have witnessed. This is partially because country performers are used to playing acoustic guitars, which resonate well without creating whining feedback. The last concert I went to was country musician Keith Urban's show and he was a great live music performer. One of my friends recently said she went to a concert with many rap and R&B performances. We noticed sometimes, in rap and R&B performances, the choreography is significantly better and more entertaining than the musical performance.
Ashlee Simpson's 2004 performance on Saturday Night Live is an example of a live music performance going horribly wrong. Simpson thought she had gotten away with pretending to sing live, when she was really utilizing a pre-recorded vocal track. Immediately prior to her final performance of the evening, the vocal track started playing in the background. Simpson was visibly surprised to hear the sound of her own voice being played over the theater's stereo without being properly cued. Simpson's band lifted their instruments and played along with the music.
Simpson, who was supposed to be singing a different song than her vocal track indicated, started dancing in a vain attempt to cover up the mistake. After the incident, Simpson and her manager father tried to cover up the story, saying it was a bad case of acid reflux causing her to utilize a vocal track rather than performing live music. They insisted she always sang her performances live, but was too ill this one time when she happened to get caught.
Media outlets were continually replaying the fiasco and the general public was talking about the incident for a long time. Many were even saying Simpson's career was ruined because she was caught lip syncing.
Bad performances can be embarrassing to an artist. Sometimes they cannot be faulted, though. A sick artist may not want to disappoint fans by cancelling a show, so they will utilize a vocal track instead of worsening their already-weak voice. Sometimes the sound systems really do malfunction. Sometimes, in the cases of many rap and R&B performances, artists can even make up for the band's inability to perform live music well by creating elaborate choreography.
Unfortunately, creating an amazing CD does not mean your favorite band will be nearly as captivating live.
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Like most music fans, I have been to some concerts where the artist's rendition of live music was phenomenal, sounding strikingly similar to- if not better than- the way they sound on CD. I have also been to a few concerts where the artist has not sounded at all like he or she does on CD.
From my experience, I have noticed country singers generally perform better live than any other genre of music I have witnessed. This is partially because country performers are used to playing acoustic guitars, which resonate well without creating whining feedback. The last concert I went to was country musician Keith Urban's show and he was a great live music performer. One of my friends recently said she went to a concert with many rap and R&B performances. We noticed sometimes, in rap and R&B performances, the choreography is significantly better and more entertaining than the musical performance.
Ashlee Simpson's 2004 performance on Saturday Night Live is an example of a live music performance going horribly wrong. Simpson thought she had gotten away with pretending to sing live, when she was really utilizing a pre-recorded vocal track. Immediately prior to her final performance of the evening, the vocal track started playing in the background. Simpson was visibly surprised to hear the sound of her own voice being played over the theater's stereo without being properly cued. Simpson's band lifted their instruments and played along with the music.
Simpson, who was supposed to be singing a different song than her vocal track indicated, started dancing in a vain attempt to cover up the mistake. After the incident, Simpson and her manager father tried to cover up the story, saying it was a bad case of acid reflux causing her to utilize a vocal track rather than performing live music. They insisted she always sang her performances live, but was too ill this one time when she happened to get caught.
Media outlets were continually replaying the fiasco and the general public was talking about the incident for a long time. Many were even saying Simpson's career was ruined because she was caught lip syncing.
Bad performances can be embarrassing to an artist. Sometimes they cannot be faulted, though. A sick artist may not want to disappoint fans by cancelling a show, so they will utilize a vocal track instead of worsening their already-weak voice. Sometimes the sound systems really do malfunction. Sometimes, in the cases of many rap and R&B performances, artists can even make up for the band's inability to perform live music well by creating elaborate choreography.
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