[Dixielandjazz] Recording techniques/Morality of

[Patrick Cooke]

>Having a second or third `take` for any reason, musical >or technical is of
>course acceptable but swapping a good break for a not >so good one is
getting
>close to misrepresentation.
>Comments anyone?

OK...I'll comment.
As someone mentioned earlier, a good writer always revises, rewrites,
deletes, inserts and makes changes to achieve the finished manuscript.  Why
would not musicians be permitted the same privilege?
When I buy a CD, I don't want to hear the fluffs...I want all of that
removed.  The squeaks, missed notes, and whatever do nothing to improve the
music.
I have CDs with bad intonation....I avoid playing those tracks.  When I make
a copy of the CD, I leave those tracks out.
No...I say the product isn't finished till it's cleaned up.  Your customer
deserves that much if you're going to charge him $15 for it.
Pat Cooke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PJ Ladd" <pj.ladd at btopenworld.com>
To: "James Kashishian" <kash at ran.es>
Cc: "jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Recording techniques/Morality of


> That is not how it was recorded live.  We
> both played separate solos which were rather unspectacular, so I chopped
> 'em up and moved them around, >
>
> Does anyone else, like me, get an uneasy feeling that somehow all this
> `cleaning up, etc.` is wrong.
>
> I remember that long, long ago there was a Record Programme Presenter,(
DJ`s
> had not been invented) on the BBC who railed endlessly about this
> practice.He maintained that customers bought tickets for live performances
> on the basis of records which they bought and records played on air by
> Presenters and the bands could not deliver that performance in the flesh.
> Eventually I believe that his protestations cost him his job.
> A few years later when TV organised programmes such as Top of the Pops the
> bands featured ALWAYS mimed to their records and to my mind he was
> vindicated.
>
> Having a second or third `take` for any reason, musical or technical is of
> course acceptable but swapping a good break for a not so good one is
getting
> close to misrepresentation.
>
> Comments anyone?
>
> Cheers
>
> Pat
>
>
>
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