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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark F. Vita)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Videos, in general (really Boston)
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Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:05:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 13 16:05:41 1985
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> 
> >Many, but not all, of those "live" concerts were truly live concerts
> >when they were filmed. They then overdub the film with the album.
> 
>      Are you sure about that or just guessing?  I've only  seen a few
> groups  that  were  tight  enough  in  concert and  followed an album
> closely enough to make that work, and NONE of those are heavy metal.
> 
>      Don't get me wrong, I like metal  (among lots  of other things),
> but I have few illusions about it.   The only  band I  have seen that
> played that close to the sound  of their  album was  Boston, and that
> simple fact made their concert incredibly boring  (to me  anyway).  I
> know of other groups that are good  enough to  do it,  but in general
> the live performance differs somewhat from the  album (classic Kansas
> comes to mind, for instance).  


    I find this contention that live Boston sounded close to the album
version(s) surprising.  I don't see how they could do it--there's so much
overdubbed guitar, etc.  And didn't Delp do all his own backing vocals?  How did
they handle this in concert?
    BTW, where/when did you see them in concert?  Have you heard
any more about rumors that there will be a third Boston album?

-- 

                                Mark Vita
                                Dartmouth College

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