RE: circus animals? (Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promomaterial? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial)

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

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> From: Krispen Hartung [mailto:khartung@cableone.net]
> 
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> 
> > When someone comes backstage after a gig to say "your show was so
> > impressing" my immediate reaction is distrust.
> 
> Me too, Per! It's just a ploy to get us in the sack and steal our
> limelight.
> Damn looping groupies, anway. :)
> 
> Kris


What a relief to find out that others have this problem too! It gets so I
can hardly walk down the street without being mobbed sometimes...

I'm not as contemptuous of audience relations as some others here. A
performance is a social interaction. Applause is part of that interaction,
and part of the context. I can play terrific music as background in a
restaurant and have 2 people nod at me with satisfaction and feel good 
about
it. If I'm totally ignored it feels a bit frustrating. If I'm playing with 
a
singer and there's no applause after a piece it feels weird. I take none of
these as a reflection on the quality of the music.

Someone "earns" my applause, or inner approval, or repeat business by doing
something interesting and perhaps beautiful on stage (or on recording). As 
a
guitarist, I am sometimes envious of people with more facility than I, but
only if they're using it to accomplish the above. And, in fact, I usually
admire the knowledge, ear and taste far more than the facility - but
sometimes the facility is integral to it (to take a single random example,
say, in the case of Leo Kottke).

Warren