>>39 But it IS different. Preparing a program to do a show is very much unlike a group performing live. The two are very similar in preparation for sure, for everyone has work tirelessly to ensure that everything is in working order, that the performance is in peak condition, that all the necessary effects are in place but from the moment the real thing begins, all that changes.
In a recorded performance, assuming you prepared everything correctly, everything will either go correctly or not at all. By comparison, for a live group it doesn't matter how much you've prepared for the event, the sound and the appearance that is created can be something completely unique from every other time it was attempted, for better or worse.
I mean, think of it this way. Sure anyone could ride a bike, but how well does someone ride a bike when the world is watching you, waiting for you to swivel so much as an eighth of an inch so they can mock you. These recorded hologram performers always seemed more to me like someone plugging an ipod into a stereo while the crowd gaped in awe at how impressive it was that technology could do something...that it's been doing for years already? It just doesn't make sense to me.
Of course, I suppose much of this is simply my opinion. I've always loved the skill and talent it took for someone to create beauty under pressure and I'm rather biased against many synthetic illusions of the same. In the same sense, I'm open-minded, and if someone could express it in a way I could better respect, I'd become as much of a fan as anyone else.
