Re: recording with a live audience

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

I was surprised to learn from an old (CBS-TV) documentary about Sinatra that 
he preferred, at least sometimes, to record with a live (invited) audience.

--Robert Cohen


Live albums
>have more energy because the musicians have been playing take after take of
>the same tune. Your first couple of takes in a studio will be the freshest,
>live album will for the most part have this freshness. For those of you 
>that
>have had the pleasure of listening to Acetate recordings know this feeling,
>it is directly from the artist to the end result. This is the same thing at 
>a
>concert.
>     Now this isn't always true, some bands you go hear live and say that 
>they
>weren't as good as the album. At least my experience in playing and seeing
>Jewish acts live is that they are better live than in the studio. Their is 
>an
>energy level that can get lost in the studio.  I don't know how many of you
>saw the documentary on "Q"uincy Jones on PBS a couple of months ago. He was
>recording a big band album in two days, and for the last part of the second
>day they bring in a live studio audience, you can hear the way the 
>musicians
>change how they play.  Their isn't this feeling that if I make a mistake we
>can go back and make another mistake, or that just the guys will know about
>it. You have an audience that you have to play for.


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