02-04-2011, 18:00
I was lucky enough to see a bunch of the greats, and it's hard to find a lot of live albums because they didn't make many. And yet, across the board the blues bands would complain about having to record in a studio, where there was no audience, no feel, no nuthin that they were used to, and the albums sometimes came out flat.
The difference between Muddy at Montreaux, or in some backwoods club, was huge. There's only a few minutes footage somewhere on youtube praps, that is just crazily intense Muddy live, right off the wall, and that's how it was every show, as long as it was in a good room.
If a lot of those shows had been recorded, rock musicians may have never got off the ground, because the shows were almost always better than the studio recording, which is the opposite of most rock music, with many exceptions.
Live Hooker at Cafeau Go~Go, but other tracks scattered. He could be great anywhere.
The difference between Muddy at Montreaux, or in some backwoods club, was huge. There's only a few minutes footage somewhere on youtube praps, that is just crazily intense Muddy live, right off the wall, and that's how it was every show, as long as it was in a good room.
If a lot of those shows had been recorded, rock musicians may have never got off the ground, because the shows were almost always better than the studio recording, which is the opposite of most rock music, with many exceptions.
Live Hooker at Cafeau Go~Go, but other tracks scattered. He could be great anywhere.