Agreed. I'd bother to ramble on but this pretty much says it all.

I like the original Zep mixes over the remasters and the same for The Wall. No matter how you slice it, taking out all the hiss on analog recordings means reducing the high-end. I think the old analog recordings from the 70's or so are still the finest hi-fi ever achieved (except for hiphop stuff).

As everyone knows, that has been around long enough....I am one with Vinyl and Analog.


Yeah, they overkill on the No Noise reduction. Most engineers today, have no clue what they're doing.


What I really hate is when they remix something, especially a clasic. It's one thing to correct something like half of Kind of Blue being in the wrong pitch, but remixing just makes it a different record.

I do like a lot of the analog recordings, but I still am going to pick up the digital re-master over the analog sound. I enjoy records, but I don't like to play them. I'd rather listen to the more replaceable digital stuff.

While I do prefer studio stuff in some genres my overall preference is to see a band live. I guess coming from the opinion that a band under controlled conditions is one thing. I want to see them get out there and show me how much they are into the music. I want some guitar face!!!

Tom Petty is amazing live

I agree, I've only seen him once but is was during the Full Moon Fever tour. I would also say that I like his studio stuff just fine as well. However I much prefer to see a band live.

For alot of bands, playing live is where the money is so i would assume they spend at least a fair amount of time preping and working on live shows. Some bands do it beautifully, and other bands fall on their faces. More often than not i would say most bands, at least that i've seen, have been able to pull of a good show. I've never walked out of a show before and usually my complaints are over bad sound quality.

In my opinion, studio and live music are two entirely different entities. In my screwed up Utopia, musicians wouldn't feel obligated to attempt to reproduce their studio releases live.

They would write completely different material better suited to live performance.

I rather they spent more time making studio recordings and less time touring. With the way things are set up nowadays, you can't get away with that sort of thing.

Touring is a bizarre ritual I never understood.

Considering most musicians/groups make most of their money from touring and all the merchandise sales....that won't be happening.

I know. Oh, well. Not everyone can be Glenn Gould or The Beatles!