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Post by petertherock on Oct 29, 2022 23:04:46 GMT -5
I hate to tell the guy in the video…it’s not just Dream On that Aerosmith uses backing track on 😂 But it’s still a good video and probably explains why Aerosmith’s set list don’t change a lot…everything has to be pre programmed into lap tops and when I say everything, it’s guitar parts, piano parts (in the case of Dream On) other instrumentals, every detail down to the lighting effects are controlled by lap tops.
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Post by VoodooMedicineMan on Oct 30, 2022 20:39:16 GMT -5
The use of backtracks, laptops, autotune and other technology is a slippery slope. I'd prefer live acts avoid them all together, but get why they feel the need to add certain sounds in the studio to make their songs stand out, and then need to reproduce those live. Beato mentions the Who's Baba O'Reilly as an early example of it. I get that they couldn't omit that intro from the live shows. In Aero's case Dude Looks Like a Lady is an obvious example where additional sounds are piped in. These days I'd think the saxophone player could replicate those parts, but they didn't always have the extra musicians.
With today's lighting and video systems, an act can certainly add to the show by syncing up with those. This is where things can get a bit dicey. If they are already syncing up with a video\lighting feed, why not add some harmonies\background vocals and or other effects? Hopefully that would be the extent of it, but who knows.
For the pop acts, lip syncing isn't anything new. Ashley Simpson having the wrong song queue up on SNL was funny, but hardly the first instance of a lip sync fail caught on tape.
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Post by petertherock on Oct 30, 2022 21:17:30 GMT -5
The use of backtracks, laptops, autotune and other technology is a slippery slope. I'd prefer live acts avoid them all together, but get why they feel the need to add certain sounds in the studio to make their songs stand out, and then need to reproduce those live. Beato mentions the Who's Baba O'Reilly as an early example of it. I get that they couldn't omit that intro from the live shows. In Aero's case Dude Looks Like a Lady is an obvious example where additional sounds are piped in. These days I'd think the saxophone player could replicate those parts, but they didn't always have the extra musicians. With today's lighting and video systems, an act can certainly add to the show by syncing up with those. This is where things can get a bit dicey. If they are already syncing up with a video\lighting feed, why not add some harmonies\background vocals and or other effects? Hopefully that would be the extent of it, but who knows. For the pop acts, lip syncing isn't anything new. Ashley Simpson having the wrong song queue up on SNL was funny, but hardly the first instance of a lip sync fail caught on tape. If anything the way the Ashlee Simpson thing happened lends credibility to her story that she only did it because she was sick and unable to sing. That performance wasn’t her first show and if she had been doing that during every show, she would have been an expert at it…as would her drummer. The thing that made that performance worse was the way she handled it by just walking off stage. She should have either kept going with the song…or told the drummer to start over. Sure, people would have known she was lip synching, but she was hardly the first to do it and it would be better than doing an awkward dance and walking off stage.
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Post by jj on Oct 31, 2022 15:48:50 GMT -5
I watched that video as well. Thought my mind was made up before I clicked on it. I do prefer a true live show, but was thinking how would Rush have put on shows without laptops? I know the three members are credited with triggering most if not all sound effects, but it is all digitized. And we wouldn't have had the amazing back screen show--which I always thought detracted from shows, but when I attended the tour they played Moving Pictures in the middle of the set, I quite enjoyed the whole production. So, I waffle, preferring to hear the raw sound, but recognize the benefit of digital inserts.
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