I read the first half of the first page, then stopped caring because it was dissolving into the standard "what makes a real fan?" argument. So if I'm derailing the argument, I'm sorry.
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Originally Posted by TheDoode
I'm sorry, I just can't buy into this camera phone idea. I love Meat and that's why I'm here, but you CAN judge a performance based on most youtube clips, and that goes for most artists. If it's a bassy, distorted clip with little there on the upper end of the spectrum, and you can hardly hear the vocals, then no. But with 90% of clips, yes, you can hear enough to make your own mind up. Check out recent stuff by Sammy Hagar, Edguy, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, etc. There's so much camera-phone material of gigs over the past few months and some of these bands sound great, and some don't. On other nights, they might sound a bit better. Some sound worse. The point is, you CAN hear it, and you CAN tell the difference between the performance (basically), and the medium it was captured on.
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THIS is exactly true. Saying that you can't judge a performance from a YouTube video is complete crap. A dodgy camera
can't mask the fact that a singer may or may not be singing out of tune. It's an all or nothing thing, not "well, it sounds bad...but maybe it's the video!" No, it's not the video. It's the performance, and if you think otherwise than you're far more optimistic than you have the right to be. Will the sound be distorted? Probably. What WON'T happen is that it won't seem as if the singer is singing out of tune if they're not. This is really common sense.
Just as an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFR-JEe7qyE
The quality of this audio is absolute crap. It's a dodgy audience recording from 1987. And yet you can still hear that Meat sounds ~~~~ing brilliant, and so does the band. You can very easily make a judgement from this...and the only reason you people are up in arms about the other videos which were posted recently (which were of a similar quality) is because the person dared to make a post that wasn't overly positive. Can't you see how ridiculous that is? Having some sort of convoluted rule that bans YouTube from here is just stupid, because
it's not the videos that are the problem. It's the people.
Accept that some people may not be 100% positive. As long as they're respectful, they have every right to mention to it.
ALSO, one more example. Go to the Everything is Permitted rating thread in the TTBH forum (it's on the front page of it), and read the top two comments, particularly the second one. That's the perfect template for how you should react to a negative post.