> 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.