Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!dartvax!markv From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark F. Vita) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Videos, in general (really Boston) Message-ID: <3346@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:05:41 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3346 Posted: Sat Jul 13 16:05:41 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 04:14:28 EDT References: <1584@dciem.UUCP> <1000003@ndm20> Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 32 > > >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 USENET: {decvax,cornell,linus,astrovax}!dartvax!markv ARPA: markv%dartmouth@csnet-relay CSNET: markv@dartmouth