Wondering mind, do we take live music for granted?

Its that time again for me to come and ramble my findings from the preceeding month!

So i have been feeling a bit under the weather recently, with coldsores the size of apples and headaches that could kill cows!(maybe i need more cola?)  Nevertheless they havnt stopped my mind wondering the endless opportunities of music production.

Here comes the rambling! 

I started working on a project around a fortnight ago, where i was only going to use instruments avoiding synthesisers and effects. This thought sparked, as i peered in the making of my favourite artist Mike Skinners creation of his 4th album "Everthing is borrowed" (including "we all have our runnings" otherwise 3rd album for all you Streets fans reading this). When he created the album he wanted to use as many live instruments as possible to create an authentic sounding album. Which he did, with his outstanding performance at the BBC Proms in 2008. But what im trying to get at is i, really, do think that we take live performances for granted these days. Just trying to sequence sampled instruments was hard enough!

Think; next time you are watching a live performance, even if it is just a local pub band, think of the work that has actually gone into creating what they are performing. Each member of the band (even if its only one) has to remember the exact sequence of their insturment for the enitire length of the song! It may seem like just learning a sequence of notes, but its much more than that keeping in time, fighting nerves, contributing to solos, helping cover others mistakes. There is alot to think about, and even more if you have actually produced the song.

I hope i have made some people realise how much effort has actually gone into creating live performances, and how much patience is needed!

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