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When the song is fire, but they don't play drrrt drrrt live

152 sats \ 6 comments \ @ek 19 Apr Music

I really like this song currently:

I mentioned in #946659 that I really like the drrrt drrrt, so I wanted to see them playing it live:

THEY DON'T PLAY IT LIVE. Now I feel cheated :(

In fact, I feel so cheated that I had to create this post to express my disapproval.

Is it common that parts of the instrument that a band does play live, they don't play live? Or am I missing something here why the drummer doesn't just not play the drrrt drrrt, but also doesn't play other parts of the drums?

I don't know what to make out of this. How should I feel??

I want to like this new band so hard but WTF. AT LEAST FUCKING TRY.

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64 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 19 Apr

Old rock fans are used to this. When I first started going to concerts I was disappointed when bands didn't re-create the exact sounds I heard on the recording. Of course a live band doesn't have all the special effects, remix technology, etc. Beyond that, if you want to hear a song created exactly like the recording, just listen to the recording. I'm a big fan of the Grateful Dead. Their recordings were known to just be the beginning of the growth stage of a song. It would evolve over the years on the road, and most of us learned to enjoy the spontaneity of the live performance more than the processed, and sometimes lifeless studio product.

I'm not saying that's the case here. I just don't go to a concert expecting to hear every song to be an identical copy of a recording. That's ultimately boring.

36 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 19 Apr

I don’t want to hear the exact recording, but I expect that parts of the drums that they could play live, they also (at least try to) play live.

Imagine a band plays a song live and then they skip the guitar solo and just play the recording of it. That’s how I feel.

So the problem even is that I hear the exact recording. I do not want to hear the recording, I want to hear whatever they can play live but they are just skipping the hard parts of the instrument they are already playing live and relying on the recording for them. That’s indeed ultimately boring.

I don’t know, maybe I’m acting entitled.

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 19 Apr

I can't listen to the video without logging in. Just to be clear- is the recorded portion played during the live performance, or is the drum sequence just missing?

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 19 Apr

I can't listen to the video without logging in.

Oh sorry, didn’t know that’s one of those videos! Will try to download and upload here.

Just to be clear- is the recorded portion played during the live performance, or is the drum sequence just missing?

There is a drummer that plays live, but he stops playing when it gets harder and then we only hear the recorded portion of the drums.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 19 Apr

Oh. That's different. I agree. That's terrible. The only time I ever remember that happening was at a who concert in the late 1970s during Baba O'reilly. It really annoyed me. It was a keyboard tape loop.

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 19 Apr

I keep thinking I have listened to these guys but I think im getting mixed up with Sleep Token, who I also think I have listened but I’m not sure. I don’t think I’ve listened to either.

Anyway yes that can be quite the heartbreaking experience to go through, and the longer a band exists and puts out new material the greater the chance becomes that the next time they tour you won’t get to hear that one song you really, really want to hear, in fact they will play everything else including the popular singles that probably aren’t nearly as good as the song you want to hear is.

From what I can see they only have singles and EPs at this stage and they are due to release their first album, which I might have to check out as this sort of thing is typically my jam, so perhaps given their smallish catalog of songs it may be that they simply don’t rehearse or perform the one song you want to hear to live audiences, in which case you may never hear it. I hope this made you feel better.