[Dixielandjazz] Recording techniques/Morality of

[Russ Guarino]

The great masters of paint, water colors and oils, spend a lot of time
correcting and upgrading their masterpieces before they present them to the
public.  It seems to me music should be allowed  the same options.

Russ Guarino

Patrick Cooke wrote:

> >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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