[Dixielandjazz] FAKING IT TO RECORDED OR SYNTHESIZED MUSIC

[Steve barbone]

Dave Richoux posted a neat piece about Frank Zappa, Art Jarvinen and a
Synclavier whereby the instrumental parts were all done on the Synclavier
and the band with fingers hidden from the audience faked it while the
Synclavier produced the concert.

And even though there was a noticeable hiss on the machine, nobody in the
audience noticed that the musos were not actually playing.

Reminds me of a time I went into a North Beach topless joint, on Broadway in
San Francisco circa 1967 (lived there for 5 years) to see an all girl jazz
quartet play . . . topless.

In pursuit of art mind you. :-) VBG

These wonderfully endowed, beautiful young ladies we swinging like crazy on
a modern jazz tune and the group of jazz fans I was with was absolutely
enthralled, including me. Wow, these girls were good players. Why, we
wondered were they working topless?

Then, all of a sudden, there was a short passage that started playing over
and over. Which flustered the girls to no end. They all blushed from head to
waistline. Cracked us all up. We were musicians and we hadn't noticed that
they were faking it to a recording until the glitch. Too busy staring at
their personal equipment. ;-) VBG.

Oh my, when "Topless" hit SF, there were some good shows as Wiggins can
attest.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone