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Originally Posted by CarylB
And some people may well be able to consider they can judge a performance from a distorted video .. some may even be able to. Some in my view cannot. I have been to shows where Meat has sounded great, and seen bootlegs in which you could barely hear him, or were so distorted his voice sounded woolly or cracked .. but I know it was not, because I was there.
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I will grant you that there are some poor quality recordings out there, but there are also some that are good enough, and I like to think that I'm able to separate quality of a recording versus performance. There are some people on another board which I frequent who have argued that you can NOT in fact judge a performance totally fairly when you are there because of the emotion involved and the experience of being there. I'm not saying I agree totally, because I mostly don't, but I think there is some amount of merit in it.
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Originally Posted by CarylB
And I know his voice is not always perfect, he occasionally fluffs a note, is not quite on pitch for a moment or two. As of course does he, without any added help from me. I simply don't spend time concentrating on that, but rather on the vast majority of his performance which was without fault. Those who hear it live and want to concentrate on or highlight the few imperfections, that's their choice.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I don't stand there at a show with a scorecard either, and frankly, I'm a little insulted that you think some of us are that shallow. I tend to go with my overall impressions and gut feelings, and even those I don't feel free to share, because honestly, I think some people here really don't want to read them, no matter how well-intentioned or carefully I word them.