alt Hacker NewsWell you’re not just listening to music, you’re also watching a performance. Seeing someone’s fingers on the guitar, touching the keyboard, gripping the drumsticks, watching the expressions on their face and their body posture - none of that adds to the art for you? It’s performance art, and seeing it live gives you something visceral that you can at best imagine or recieve second-hand from a recording.
So yeah I guess a little controversial, haha
Honestly if you’re not into it you’re not into it and that’s fine - but for sure, if you’re going to a concert expecting a pitch-perfect recital of studio-produced tracks, then… you’re kind of just setting yourself up for disappointment. That’s the wrong expectation to go into it with, imo.
> Well you’re not just listening to music, you’re also watching a performance. Seeing someone’s fingers on the guitar, touching the keyboard, gripping the drumsticks, watching the expressions on their face and their body posture - none of that adds to the art for you?
I can see that in a music video. At a live performance, I see a bunch of people in front of me and maybe some distant figures onstage. I definitely can’t see the drummer doing drummer things or anyone’s fingers on a guitar. And some performers just sound like dogshit live.
IMO, live performances are about the atmosphere, which can be hit or miss depending on the performer and the crowd. I’d probably like Rammstein live, but I’d also probably hate the crowd.
A studio recording is also a performance, just not a live one. Movies are similar: we don’t watch “the first take of the day”; we watch the result put together from the best takes.