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Hector, if some musicians did not break some rules and not
cow tow to the "crowd"  your beloved trance music would never 
have come about in the first place! Try thinking about this, and try 
realising how similar your ideas are to that of the current right 
wing.
  thanks
   john

--- In logic-ot@y..., "Hector" <hector@n...> wrote:
> John wrote:
> >In my experience in europe, the
> > average punter did not know that almost everything they were
> > seeing when they went to see a "live" gig, was faked!
> > Why not advertise it truthfully?
> 
> Because once again there is that middle-ground grey area in 
which most bands
> reside.  As has already been discussed in some detail,  it is 
very hard to
> judge just how 'live' a lot of them are.     One could try to put a 
figure
> on it, advertising band X as 40% live but that is obviously a 
ridiculous
> thing to do.   These days most bands make an effort to run at 
least a little
> midi gear from a sequencer, backed up by bounced audio 
tracks.  Few rely
> entirely on a dat.   It is my opinion that no band that needs a 
sequencer to
> process and use performance information is 100% live.
> 
> It really isn't as clear cut as you think.   For that reason, 
accusations of
> fraud toward these bands, from certain minorities, are pretty 
much
> unavoidable.
> 
> Regards Hector.