Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Do you prefer live music? Message-ID: <832@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 12:01:28 EST Article-I.D.: hao.832 Posted: Mon Feb 6 12:01:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:45:35 EST References: <115@CS-Mordred> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 20 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 -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods