[Derek]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

No offence Derek, but I'm confused by your views on downloading and now gigs. If most of the bands that play in your area are crap, according to your taste, does it mean that they shouldn't expect a paying audience? Did I get this right?

I mean terrible by anyone's taste.

You're forgetting what age I am and the age of the bands here.

[EVOLghost]

If I'm "stealing" an artists musics, then the least I can do is see 'em live.

[Glice]

I have to say, I can only go to so many gigs with rock amplification. Annoys the fuck out of me when you have jangly c86 bollocks at Napalm Death volumes. But there's plenty of stuff about that's not offensively loud. Plenty. Oh yes.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Nefeli

one of my favourate smells is beer and sweat

We need to meet

[hipster_bebop_junkie]

Very randomly i came across this:

“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner."
-Glenn Gould

It makes sense, doesn't it?

[truncated]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

Very randomly i came across this:

“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner."
-Glenn Gould

It makes sense, doesn't it?

It does indeed.

My consciousness is far too fuzzy at this hour to address points from both Derek and Glice, so I will do so at a later time, but I will say that the concept of an album only seems cheap or stylized because of inaccurate perception and/or expectations, not because of the concept itself or the album as an object. A recording is meant for repetitive enjoyment, and "stylized" studio recordings are meant to serve the same purpose as a live recording - a product of the band capturing its sound that can be listened to as often as desired. It is no fault of the album (or its concept) that many end up defining the band's sound by a recording and come to expect a precise reproduction of that sound. Those that do so and are disappointed by the variations in a live show are listening for all the wrong reasons, and fail to truly appreciate all the band has to offer.

Unless of course, the band performs terribly live, which happens on occasion. That band/artist likely ought to be decimated. I equate it to chicks who wear too much makeup.

[The Watcher]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

Very randomly i came across this:

“A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner."
-Glenn Gould

It makes sense, doesn't it?

Did you know glenn Gould was once arrested in Florida for vagrancy because he was sitting in a park in the middle of summer in a coat and mittens........

[Genteel Death]

I admire him even more because of that, now.

[Glice]

Gould talks to the animals

[The Watcher]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

I admire him even more because of that, now.

Yeah he's great. I love reading stories about him......