Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!internet!Deryk Barker From: Deryk Barker Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Live albums Message-ID: <5787@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 08:44:50 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5787 Posted: Thu Nov 15 08:44:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 05:22:41 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 11 Surely no "live" album is really live? They're all touched up in the studio later, duff vocals and playing overdubbed etc. Check on the credits and you'll invariably find "rerecording facility..." or some such. The only exceptions of which I am aware are Dire Straits "Alchemy" and The Who's new (final) live LP. On Mike Nesmith's "Live at the Palais" recorded in Australia he discusses this on the sleeve notes and admits to only two places where he felt he could not let the original stand; one where he sang a quarter-tone flat and one where "my thumb mutinied against my fingers consequently playing something totally unauthorised by me". A little more of the Nesmith-type honesty would not go amiss with many other "artists".