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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
1. That a human voice is making those last noises is beyond belief. I truly wish she would give this much in her current guise.
2. CM 's voice and La Nicks' voice were sheer bliss. They played off of each other and the result was great.
3. This is a five member band with four playing instruments. Yet, the sound is huge. Sadly, it takes three other guitarists, tracks, and four or five backups to get the same sound that is, IMO, not as good.
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1. It's quite possible the vocal track may have had some studio tinkering.
2. I agree...their harmonies were in fact sheer bliss (along with any harmonies with Lindsey too!) The travesty is that they rarely capitalized on those harmonies, especially as time went on.
3. The thing about this -- the Mirage tour was the last time they played without a backing band (except for an occasional acoustic guitar). I saw them then, and the show was amazingly good --a big full sound. While they didn't attempt recreate sound-for-sound the studio versions of songs, they reinterpreted them for a live setting with minimal instrumentation. I was always excited to see how they would achieve this.
Fast forward to the heavy corporatization and Vegas style approach to concert scene these days, there has been a mass culture shift in that approach. Now instead of going to a concert with the excitement of not knowing what could happen....we know exactly what's going to happen, with everything highly calibrated and tightly canned. Vegas style!
It certainly seems to be the unfortunate trend. The roll has been taking out of rock. Plus you have a new generation of fans that expect performances to be a carbon copy of the record...what's the point of that? I wonder how many bands feel that pressure. One trend I've noticed --as bands get older they seem to add more and more backup players to the roster, filling in the sound and adding every nuance from the recorded verision. Is it old age? A diminished lack of confidence? The pressure to be perfect? To protect their legacy?
With regard to the bootlegs -- I'll take the sometimes thin, scrappy, rough and out-of-tune performances from 1975-1982, over any shows they did since then.