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I'm almost 35, and have never been to a concert...

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Fin D, Apr 6, 2009.

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  1. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    Wrong. Completely and totally, and I find it funny that a guy who's never been to a concert is telling someone who's been to over 300 that it's the same thing! :lol:

    No offense bro, but how could you know? That would be like me telling Tom Brady how good Giselle is in bed. :lol:

    Ever hear of jamming bro? Bands add things to the songs, jam different passages. Tempo changes. You name it.

    What do you think would happen if you went to see Macbeth live and the actor decided to say "Alas, poor Hermie."
     
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  2. TrueDolFan

    TrueDolFan Minion of Satan

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    I feel bad for you that you cannot understand that what happens at a concert is larger than the sum of it's parts. Music is more than a series of notes, more than verses and choruses, more than just a band playing songs, and a crowd cheering.

    The real problem with you is this:
    You just can't comprehend the magical qualities of music.
     
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  3. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    I disagree. A stage can never replicate what is done in a movie, just like a live play that is made into a movie often loses some of what made it great.

    I like live music, even if it's a halfway decent bar band playing old Jimmy Buffet songs while I knock back some cold beers in the sun. You never get the same 'quality' of music when it's live, the overdubbed chorus is often gone, the studio musicians that helped beef up the tune aren't always there to play their part, but there's something unexplainable, an energy almost, that feeds off the crowd and the band making it a unique experience.
     
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  4. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    And just to let you know Finacious...I've personally played live more times than I can remember, and no two shows were the same.
     
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  5. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Im actually not a huge concert guy, although I have been to quite a few. I prefer smaller venues like 'The Revolution' here in Ft. Lauderdale.
     
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  6. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Its not like that at all. We are talking about live art compared to recorded art.

    Anything can happen in a play, I've been in plenty of them. The show is NEVER the same twice. By the way, I prefer watching movies to plays as well.

    We aren't talking about being in a concert. Performance is totally different. The response to your work is immediate as it is for an actor on stage. We are talking about attending a show.

    Now, you clearly don't get the same rush from going to a play as you do a concert, which is great all power to you. I don't however think that means the concepts are different. I think that means you prefer one over the other. It is no more silly of me to prefer a recorded song over a live one than it is for you to prefer a movie over a play. That's all.
     
  7. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Of course a play can't. But isn't that exactly the same as a concert vs. studio recording? You can't recreate a live performance in the studio and you can't recreate the perfection of the studio in a concert.
     
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  8. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    No one is saying it's silly, all I'm saying is that it's clear - all due respect - that you have no idea of what you're talking about! The difference between movies and plays and live music and recorded is NIGHT and day!

    I've seen songs that were 5 minutes on an album stretched out to 12 live.

    Singers routinely get the audience to sing parts of songs with the band.

    Bands will do medleys of a bunch of their hits, taking a minute or two from each song and putting them together to make one long one.

    Can you do that in a play?
     
  9. anlgp

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    :lol:

    When I say "TO BE" you say "OR NOT TO BE"

    TO BE!
     
  10. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    You've never seen Dream Theater or Symphony X live then. :wink2:
     
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  11. anlgp

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    King Crimson are much the same way.
     
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  12. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    OR NOT TO HAVE FRIED CHICKEN!

    See...doesn't work that way. :wink2:
     
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  13. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    Fripp is god.
     
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  14. anlgp

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    Damn straight. He does things with the guitar that make me want to quit when I've been past that level in my brain for years.
     
  15. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    Saw Fripp live with David Bowie at the Garden in 1978. Perfect example of how a live show rules. The showmanship of Bowie mixed with the playing of Fripp.

    It was ****ing magical.
     
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  16. anlgp

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    That's something a lot of people don't know just because they don't know who Fripp is. He has played on tons of Bowie songs. Him and Tony Levin.

    I want a Champman Stick!
     
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  17. Jt0323

    Jt0323 Fins Up! Luxury Box

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    I agree with you 100%. Live music is better then Studio music. The atmosphere is amazing!
     
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  18. Rocky Raccoon

    Rocky Raccoon Greasepaint Ghost Staff Member

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    I can only go to a concert if it's a band or musician I REALLY like. I've only been to 5 concerts all over the past 5 years. Paul McCartney, Allman Brothers, The Who, The Police, and Bruce Springsteen. They're all in my top 10.

    I'm the same way, with one exception. Miami 2017 by Billy Joel is much better on the live album than on the studio album. That's the only one though.

    I mean, I love a lot of live stuff, but I've never liked it more than the studio version.
     
  19. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    You just reminded me of another example.

    "Goodnight Saigon" live.

    Billy playing the song and bringing a truckload of Viet Nam vets onstage with him to sing the background vocals with their arms around each other.

    If that didn't raise goosebumps and bring a tear to your eye, you're not human.

    Let's see a record recreate that.
     
  20. Dol-Fan Dupree

    Dol-Fan Dupree Tank? Who is Tank? I am Guy Incognito.

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    If you never been to a concert then you have never heard a live song.

    A recording of a live song is completely different than hearing the song live. It is like watching a play on DVD.

    Also going to a concert is about the experience. Like professional sports. I rather watch a game on television than live. Still the experience of a live game is amazing and it is something I like to do from time to time.
     
  21. TJamesW_Phinfan

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    Some great bands can sound like crap live some so so bands can sound amazing live it varies. For the most part with a good band be it a good local band or top bill headline super stars the live show is a whole world beyond the studio version. With improvisation and musicians working off each others and the crowds energy a very special thing happens. Good live music specially rock can be magical. An experience you will remember all your life.

    Yes there can be hassle. Late start, asses in the crowd, traffic, bad show, it happens. More often than not, though, you get hell of a ride and priceless memories. Just as example compare this video to the studio version. keep in mind it's extremely compressed so the sound quality is nothing like the original show. And sound is another point. A well engineered show small or big with good gear will blow your socks off and I don't just mean volume. It may sound mystical and is hard to put in words but live music can have a power and energy that is, as of yet, impossible to capture in todays various audio, video technologies.

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jt7MH9UpMU"]YouTube - Van Halen - LIVE - "Best Of Both Worlds'[/ame]
     
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  22. anlgp

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    this is a bad thing how :shifty:

    :lol:
     
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  23. unluckyluciano

    unluckyluciano For My Hero JetsSuck

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    dude you're missing out, I went to this ashley simpson concert, and she did this insane remix of the song where it was just the same part over and over, very quickly, I don't know how she can sing that fast but man............
     
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  24. Dolphinsfan69

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    I love concerts. Just the atmosphere is great. I could seriously go to a Kelly Clarkson concert and have a blast. I have been to probably 20 or so concerts and i'm only 21. Not a whole lot of huge names because we don't get a lot of big name concerts in South Carolina. If you include seeing bands at bars/festivals/other venues the total is well over 40 or so.
     
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  25. PMZQ

    PMZQ Banned

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    Geeesh its been a while but I have seen dozens, starting with the Beatles in 1964 !
     
  26. Lt Dan

    Lt Dan Season Ticket Holder

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    your loss
     
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  27. Pagan

    Pagan Metal & a Mustang

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    You saw the Beatles when you were three years old? :lol:
     
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  28. DOLPHAN1

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    If you are going by just a recording then you are doing the music an injustice. It's not just the song, it's the experience. It's the band playing and the audience grooving. It's about the moment. One of the best live shows I saw, believe it or not, was a Great White/Whitesnake show in the Spectrum in Philly. The moment that defined the show was when Whitesnake played "Still Of The Night". The Audience was singing along so loud you could barely hear the band! Gave me goose bumps. They weren't even the best band/s I have seen but that moment just was awesome! Seeing Black Sabbath reunited, Awesome! Judas Priest reunited...Awesome!:up:
     
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  29. Nappy Roots

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    i listen to hip hop music only, never anything else. but even i love going to the bar and seeing a band perform, whether it be a cover band singing older hits, to local rock bands, to reggae bands(last night there was one at the club/bar i was at, it was a great time)...i wont listen to this stuff other then that.
     
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  30. DOLPHAN1

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    Yes. It would be Mili Vanili.:no:
     
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  31. TJamesW_Phinfan

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    Oops more specific drunken guy doofusses are a bad thing.

    The other kind you're referring too (I hope) make for a better show. :lol:
     
  32. DOLPHAN1

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    how old were you in '73? :shifty:
     
  33. PMZQ

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    Yep....went with my cousin Sylvia and my older brother. I was 3½ ! I don't remember it much though. It was over on Miami Beach, when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show.
     
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    he's 47 now

    2009-1973 =?
     
  35. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    One of the better shows I saw was David Lee Roth when he had Steve Vai and Billy Sheehan with him. The man can put on a show and when you add a cool as hell duel between Vai and Sheehan it was golden. Great classic VH songs plus some of DLR's stuff it was fantastic.
     
  36. anlgp

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    or you could look on the previous page and find out where he says he's 12 :shifty:
     
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  37. rafael

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    I'm going to go back to the football example b/c it seems appropriate in this venue.

    If I just want to watch football then it's better on TV. I have replays. I can pause whenever I want. I have more angles. I control the menu. I don't have to wait in line for the bathroom. There are no crowds or parking hassles. Etc. But sometimes I like to go to the games live. Why? It's not as much about the football as it is about everything else. There's energy and emotion which can't be matched in my home environment. It's about the experience.

    Now there are some football advantages to being at the game. I can watch the play develop with an overhead view or focus on individual players which may not be on the screen all the time on TV.

    I like watching football both ways. If I had equal access to both methods, I'd watch games on TV more often. But I still enjoy the experience of being at the game.

    IMO most of the same comparisons can be applied to a live concert. So if you ever go to a concert and you spend the whole time thinking about how it's not like home then you're going to hate it. But if you go expecting to enjoy a different experience then you may enjoy it.

    One difference that I would like to point out is that unlike football, you can listen to live music in smaller venues. While I'm not a big concert goer myself (I've been to maybe half a dozen big concerts) I do really enjoy listening to live music at a bar. I think there's a connection in those smaller environs between the band or musician and the audience that you just can't feel through a recording. And those smaller venues also avoid many of the annoyances often associated with large crowds.
     
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  38. FinSane

    FinSane Cynical Dolphins Fan

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    smoke pot when you go

    youll forget all the crowds, ect.

    plus it makes the music sound better and the concert food taste better
     
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  39. DOLPHAN1

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    Don't forget Rush. Another awesome show!
     
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  40. opfinistic

    opfinistic Braaaaains!

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    It's true, any concert is better

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    ON WEED MAN!
     
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