Live Bands

[camelot_one]

I thought the idea behind switching from live concerts to lip-synced prerecorded "entertainment" was to eliminate issues with the performance. 
If you are going to run a "live" show from tape, make sure the tape sounds good! Levels should be perfect. Lights should be perfect. It is not ok to screw these things up when you are not live.

Blue Man

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[kiza_s0ze]

Really?

Spears I expect, but blue man group I have always heard good things.

[camelot_one]

When I saw them a year ago (or was it two) everything was fine. And by normal standards, last nights wasn't that bad. But when you play the same show for atleast 3 years straight, same show that you put out on DVD, and one so obviously not live....it should be perfect. When the Blue Men stop playing a particular instrument....that instrument should stop making sound. When a guitarist is just holding his guitar, you shouldn't hear a solo. And when a blue man hits a piano with a hammer....you should hear something!
Lights kept getting out of sync too, but I noticed only because I've seen the DVD a few times.
The biggest issue I had though was that they didn't bring their own mains, they ran the whole thing through the house system, which just wasn't meant to handle that type of music. Anytime things got heavy, everything got distorted. And not just a little, imagine running vocals through a fuzz box.