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Originally Posted by s.d.finley  This should be called FRAUD!! Is it LIVE or is it Memeorex? When you PAY for a LIve performance, that is what you should get.
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It's BS to say it isn't!
Take a singer/songwriter who records complex material in the studio, building track upon track to get a big sound. He or she plays all of the instruments,sing all the vocals and writes the all the material. Then he or she uses a bunch of thoses tracks to augment the live shows, playing perhaps only with an electric guitarist while he or she sings lead vocals and is very clarismatic on stage, pulling the audience in while putting on the performance of their lives.
Why is that wrong? Would it sound the same with just an acoustic guitar...no way. How could they re-create distorted drum loops, mellotrons, string sections, multiple types of keyboard sounds etc, etc without a vast numbers of live musicians...they couldn't.
What's fraudulent about doing things this way...it's who they are, it's their material and it's their signature sound. It's all art and it's all a performance that shouldn't be dissed by the oh-so-superior "purists" that sound like crap half the time. I do live sound as well as engineer and produce so I hear it all.