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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Do you prefer live music?
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 12:01:28 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 12:01:28 1984
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  I certainly do. In fact, the relatively easy availability of bootleg live
Grateful Dead tapes is one of the reasons I am such a DeadHead. I sort of make
collecting these live tapes (and from other bands too, when I can get them)
my hobby. I really do prefer the live versions, even when Jerry forgets the
words or Bobby plays the wrong chord. Studio albums these days sound too
"slick" for my taste, and that even includes albums like "Dead Set". It may
be live, but it was mixed in a studio, and I like my bootleg tapes of the
15th Anniversary shows (around the same time-frame) a whole lot better.
Of course, I apply these same arguments to other bands that I like as well,
such as the Stones (maybe especially them!), Little Feat, Jethro Tull and
Dire Straits, to name a few. 
  I feel the live bootlegs are the way the music is really played, and these
over-produced studio albums are, in a sense, fakes. I'm glad to see someone
else agrees with me about *something* in this newsgroup! :-)

			GREG
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