Do you attend performances of live music?
Do you attend performances of live music?
Was the live music performance the main focus of the event or background.
If you went out specifically to hear live music, why did you choose to do that instead of staying at home and listening to recordings?
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Ali S
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Hi..."S".
I'm a classically trained musician. So when people like myself go to a concert to see an orchestra or group playing, we're looking for someone we know or a piece we've played before. It's sort of a game really - who you recognise in the orchestra, who you've actually met and so on.
And nothing really beats the visual aspect of a live performance - plus the sound systems effect on ones eardrums.
You can't talk about a recording to your friends the next day and be "cool". You have to tell a great story about how you went to see the gig and got your shirt signed or you crowd surfed or you got in a moshpit. Experience is everything!
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Ali
Hi,
I used to think that I was a musician a long, long time ago. Did some shows and even recorded a CD.
Although I stoped playing, I never gave up going to concerts. It's the purest form of listening to music. Unreplaceble by a CD.
Tina M
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Absolutely! There is nothing better than watching talented musicians perform live. The music is pure and untouched. I go for the musical entertainment factor. However, crowd interaction at these events is also an art in itself!
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Yes, I enjoy that a lot!
The last live performance I enjoyed was David Gilmour in London. Will I ever attend a better concert than his one? It was truly amazing and of course, his performance was the main focus. It was just one night with David Gilmour where he presented his DVD and we also got a chance to meet him in person. It was definitely great.
I don't go that often to live performances though; I only see the musicians/artists I really like and that are, in my opinion, really special.
On Bayswater Road there is this pub where the unknown musicians play. They do a great job, too and deserve a chance to become widely known and sell their work nationwide or worldwide. Some of them are so very talented and do a much better job than the published artists. I mean, Britney Spears - you don't take that serious, do you?
Anyway, I enjoy live performances, but most of the time I like being at home at night, on weekdays and in the weekends, and play my cd's or watch a great movie.
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I love live music but I've found that I'm attending fewer and fewer shows as time goes on. It's a combination of lack of free time and an unwillingness to spend hundreds of dollars for a seat that's far from the band.
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Yes, I go, but sparingly. Many of the artists that I go see must have a body of work where I can sit and listen to for a few hours. Very few are really on tour. The last one I saw was Genesis -- I flew to LA to catch the last show. I learned not to wait to see someone, but go and have an experience. I am awaiting Fleetwood Mac in 2009.
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P
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Absolutely! Nothing compares to watching the musicians play their instruments and understand the various instruments that make up the entire composition you hear on a recording. Yes, most are obvious but not all.
I do have many friends who don't feel the need to actually see the music played...I'm just not one of them.
Moving to Chicago has been my first real exposure to live music. NOTHING beats a beautiful summer evening at Millennium Park listening to live jazz, classical or world music...FREE. Except for an occasional ambulance siren, you forget you are in the midst of a large city. And on Wednesdays and Saturdays, the added touch of a finish by fireworks at nearby Navy Pier which you can watch while listening.
Speaking of...I'm off to do just that. Enjoy!
Clarification added August 14, 2008:
S T,
I just noticed where you work. You might be happy to know that the speakers across Millennium Park's concert lawn and seats are Bose!
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When I was young, single and childless I went to a lot of concerts and live venues. Now I am married and have two young children. We are lucky to get out at all! As my kids get a little older I'd like to go see live music in a smaller venue rather than a full blown concert. Live blues at a New Orleans style restaurant sounds very appealing.
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I love to see/hear live music. There is more a sense of connectedness to the music, and seeing and hearing it with others who enjoy it brings a great energy with it that you don't get listening to a cd. When I go hear music, it is virtually always the main focus of my attendance.
I have stopped seeing big name concerts. I don't want to pay tons of money to sit and watch the concert on a screen! I go hear local bands (plentiful in the Bay Area) and have a number of friends in bands I like to support.
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I do not attend as many live performances as I used to but when I do it is because of the added energy of being part of audience experience.
I have seen Santana, James Taylor, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, regional bands, etc.
There is more of a feeling of immersion in the music at a live performance versus the solitary enjoyment of recorded music.
I have recently rediscovered my vinyl album collection as I convert them to digital recordings on my computer. Listening to digital devices like iPods provide easy access but a more distant experience of the music.
Picking up a vinyl album, putting it on a turntable, placing the tone arm on the record and then having to flip it to play the other side became a more engaged experience than listening to my iPod.
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Hello Toonz,
There is nothing like the experience of a live performance. No matter how polished a recording is, to see the engagement of the musicians and how they respond to each, to the audience members, can never be duplicated on a tape; or for that matter on a recording.
There is something mezmorizing about a live performance. Years ago, Jane Alexander, as then head of the NEA, spoke at an Americans for the Arts Conference in Los Angeles. She relayed a story where she had taken her grandson to a theatrical performance on Broadway. The 10 year old child looked up at her shortly after it began and wondered. "Gramma, is this performance really real?"
That, Toonz my friend, is what propels people to attend live performances. Technology is a wonderful tool, but it will never replace the interaction of a live reading, a multi-media event, where a visual artist interprets a performance of live musicians, or a musical.
Stay at home and listen to recordings? Tsk, tsk. Give me tickets or a blanket at the park, any day. Rain, or snow, heat or just perfect weather. It doesn't matter. Live is best and can never be duplicated.
I made choices to go live because I can.
Respectfully,
Kayte
