In message , Graeme Wall
writes
On 18/11/2017 08:23, Graeme wrote:

With 'popular' (including pop/rock/country/whatever) music is not
the opposite true?* Whether we are discussing a recording made last
week or the Crystals in 1963, it is the live artist trying to
reproduce the sound record buyers hear on the LP/CD.

That won't work with Sgt Pepper and the many albums that followed it.

Surely that is exactly where it works? Sgt Pepper was an engineer
produced album, and the Beatles could never have played it live, to
sound like the album the public knew. Perhaps we are at cross purposes,
but I struggle to see how any live band could reproduce, on stage, the
same sound that had been created on a record by Phil Spector, George
Martin etc. Having said that, does it matter? People still love
hearing the Beatles thumping out Get Back on a roof, but it isn't the
same as track as released. Then again, does it matter? How many times
has Queen at Live Aid been played via YouTube? Fans love to listen to
their favourites whether live or as presented on disc, the fact that the
music will never be quite the same is irrelevant.
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Graeme