Bassman62 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 WOW....this has turned into who can be the most high and mighty about music....get a grip.Festivals used to be about the best not false acts who perform to backing tracks witha stage full of pretend musicians, pretenting with the aim to kid people that it's live like it should be and not karaoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Festivals used to be about the best not false acts who perform to backing tracks witha stage full of pretend musicians, pretenting with the aim to kid people that it's live like it should be and not karaoke. You seem very sure that Beyonce's band weren't live... any proof to your claim? I won't argue your claim about performing to a backing track, almost every single artist on the main stages will have had some form of backing track playing at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 You seem very sure that Beyonce's band weren't live... any proof to your claim? I know for a fact as an experienced musician that those stage fillers pretending to play the white saxes/trumpets were pretending/acting. I won't argue your claim about performing to a backing track, almost every single artist on the main stages will have had some form of backing track playing at some point. You're now answereing your own point, are you happy to be conned due to the depths that the festival has sunk to? Maybe next time the performers will just send along videos with you no doubt saying "Almost every single artist" does it these days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosxuk Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I know for a fact as an experienced musician that those stage fillers pretending to play the white saxes/trumpets were pretending/acting. How do you know for a fact? The fact that one of the saxes wasn't faded up in the broadcast mix the first time the played solo, and the guitar pickup which gave up and started distorting heavily both indicate the opposite. On top of that was the vamping by the band, and the slightly odd mixing at times of the drum kit. You're now answereing your own point, are you happy to be conned due to the depths that the festival has sunk to? Yes I am. I don't see someone performing with some backing tracks which add to their performance things which can't be done live easily as a bad thing. Backing tracks is not by any means a Glasto only thing. Every major band (along with a large number of the minor ones who've had studio time) brings a rack full of backing track kit with them to every gig. The tracks may only have a couple of things on them (one gig I worked recently had two tracks, one of some backing vocal effects and one of some sub bass drops, both of which were basically impossible to recreate live), but they are part of those songs, and the music sounds off without them. As far as I'm concerned, backing tracks should be used by bands, for everything that they can't perform reliably live. Maybe next time the performers will just send along videos with you no doubt saying "Almost every single artist" does it these days There is a complete difference between having some backing tracks and just playing the studio recorded version. I'm referring to the use of individual tracks being used, not the entire instrumental part of a song. The entire live music business is there to entertain, and while I recognise where you're coming from, I think that the people paying for tickets are happier with spending that amount of money by getting to hear the songs they love as they are supposed to sound rather than being able to claim "well it sounded rubbish, but at least we know it was all live". You can't honestly claim that the 100,000+ people who saw Beyonce last night were not entertained? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitch_1980 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Festivals used to be about the best not false acts who perform to backing tracks witha stage full of pretend musicians, pretenting with the aim to kid people that it's live like it should be and not karaoke. I take it you missed bands such as mumford and sons, the streets, queens of the stone age, laura marling etc, or the small acoustic sets being played by lesser known performers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uptowngirl Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 You seem very sure that Beyonce's band weren't live... any proof to your claim? I won't argue your claim about performing to a backing track, almost every single artist on the main stages will have had some form of backing track playing at some point. The band looked as though they were playing live to me. It was Beyonce who was clearly miming to most of the songs as they are nearly all reverb and multi-track. But I had to make do with watching it live and didn't have the advantage of a recorded TV programme to help form an opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I take it you missed bands such as mumford and sons, the streets, queens of the stone age, laura marling etc, or the small acoustic sets being played by lesser known performers. So why have a karaoke act headlining, hardly a compliment to the live performers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The band looked as though they were playing live to me.That's what they're paid to do just as Wham's backing musicians were paid to do. didn't a certain top Shefffield guitarist walk off Wham's tour due to having to pretend. Those prancers messing about with the White plastic instruments (Trumpets/saxes) weren't playing they were just bobbing about. To me that is conning the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman62 Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I take it you missed bands such as mumford and sons, the streets, queens of the stone age, laura marling etc, or the small acoustic sets being played by lesser known performers.actualy one of my sons and his family have just returned from glastonbury and said how much they enjoyed it, also a relative was playing at Glastonbury (don't ask me who with). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristow Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Bang out of order by Beyonce when she dedicated "Single Ladys" to the dead MP`s wife. Couldn`t believe it when I heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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