In Reply to: People Hear What They See posted by Mike Porper on June 7, 2012 at 14:26:49:
>> Also, I didn't say that musicians must be immobile the entire time they're on stage. What I said was that it's impossible to run AND play a violin at the same time.>>
I will take your word on the matter. However I have yet, in all my concert going, to see anyone running and playing a violin.
So I don't see how this is a point in support of your numbers. It is your numbers that I find completely contrived.
"Rebecca Pidgeon, Rocco Deluca, Sasha Masakowsky, Marny Herald"
Jazz and jazz influenced musicians tend to play live.
Rebecca Pidgeon and Marny Herald are much more folk than anything else. Rocco DeLuca is more blues.
>> But they and their numbers are vastly swamped by the sheer quantity of what's popular today: Rap, techno, and R&B. There, "live" is a rare thing.>>
Yeah ya keep sayin it but so far what you have is Whitney Houston at the superbowl and some Celtic chick running around playing a violin. You just aren't making a case for your numbers which I still say are completely made up. On our TV show we had several rappers and they all played live. absolutely no lip syncing. We have had R&B artists and again no lip syncing. The only acts that actually faked it on our show were Tatu, Bon Jovi (yep they lip synced) Jessica Simpson. And she didn't know she was lip syncing. She sang live but was fed a guide track in her headset so she could follow. She was having trouble doing the singing and dancing at the same time. They cut half the dance and thought they had everything under control. The live audience heard a mix of her live singing and the vocal guide track. The broadcast went out only with the prerecorded vocal guide track so it ultimately was lip syncing even though that was not the intent. the thirty some odd other acts that came on the show all sang live.
>> Finally, you don't seem to be familiar with Celtic Woman. They're quite popular. Check here:>>
I have not seen them live and am not interested. OTOH I have seen Clannad live and they did play their own music live in concert. It's easy to tell the difference.
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Follow Ups
- RE: People Hear What They See - Analog Scott 05:36:09 06/08/12 (13)
- You've Actually Supported My Point - Mike Porper 14:08:44 06/08/12 (12)
- Then your "point" and your assertions are two very different things - Analog Scott 09:28:31 06/09/12 (11)
- CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 22:18:18 06/11/12 (10)
- Since when is 95% a distortion of 95%? - Analog Scott 22:35:12 06/12/12 (4)
- When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Todd Krieger 17:26:10 06/13/12 (2)
- RE: When the Context Is Changed.............................. - Analog Scott 20:58:13 06/13/12 (1)
- Fine - Whatever - Time To Move On [nt] - Mike Porper 08:29:15 06/14/12 (0)
- 115% - Mike Porper 08:07:29 06/13/12 (0)
- RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/12/12 (4)
- RE: CUT........................... - Todd Krieger 17:34:39 06/13/12 (1)
- RE: CUT........................... - David Smith 18:02:43 06/13/12 (0)
- Switch between live singing and lip-synching during the performance of a single song - Mike Porper 09:52:23 06/13/12 (1)
- So can we agree that you are changing your claim from "95%" to "some"? - David Smith 11:09:25 06/13/12 (0)