Was Don't Stop a recorded track for the Inaugural Ball in 1993?

[Josh2003]

Another reason they probably pre-recorded the music: There are only five of them on stage. When was the last time this band has/had performed with just the five members? They would have needed all the other backing musicians to recreate the sound they probably wanted, and that would have been super inefficient for that one-off performance, not to mention the "who are those other people?" question that would have ruined was was, for the most part, just one big photo op.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by Josh2003

Another reason they probably pre-recorded the music: There are only five of them on stage. When was the last time this band has/had performed with just the five members? They would have needed all the other backing musicians to recreate the sound they probably wanted, and that would have been super inefficient for that one-off performance, not to mention the "who are those other people?" question that would have ruined was was, for the most part, just one big photo op.

At that time the full 5 line up had never played with all the other musicians on stage with them so it should have been quite natural. The backing musicians came later.

[olive]

Originally Posted by Josh2003

Another reason they probably pre-recorded the music: There are only five of them on stage. When was the last time this band has/had performed with just the five members? They would have needed all the other backing musicians to recreate the sound they probably wanted, and that would have been super inefficient for that one-off performance, not to mention the "who are those other people?" question that would have ruined was was, for the most part, just one big photo op.

even with full orchestra they would not be playing live on a live television
broadcast it's just not done except for P!NK and on snL