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In article vMIZc.3880$3Q5.2900@trndny06 writes:
Is there anyone here who knows anything about the "Live to 2-track" Joe
Jackson shows in NYC? Sometime in the '80s or early '90s . . . Someone
who was there told me it was much like a TV taping, with perhaps twenty
minutes of tweaking onstage between songs, followed by one or two takes
where the audience was encouraged to applaud by a floor runner.
I have the Joe Jackson "Big World" CD which was recorded straight to
2-track. The notes say:
This record, however, was made in three days. ALthough we did prepare
for it in rehearsals and sixteen club gigs, several of these also
served as the trial runs for the producer and engineer outside in a
mobile recording truck. As the band played, they practiced getting the
right sounds, balances, and echo effects for each song, that is,
translating what the audiences were hearing onto tape. In a way, that
makes this album probalby the first to be mixed before it was
recorded.
The final live recordings were made direct to two-trackk digital
master, and since no overdubbing or mixing were possible after the
event, what you hear is an exact reproduction of the performances
which took place. To help us in trying to make something superior to a
typical live recording, the audience was asked to keep as quiet as
possible and to hold applause until songs were abosluetely finished.
However, we believe their presence is reflected in performances more
spontaneous and committed than what is normally possible in a studio.
Recordings were at the Roundabout Theater East in New York on January
23, 24, and 25 except for one song which was a recording of a
rehearsal on January 22. The notes don't say what year, but the
copyright date on the disk and liner notes is 1986.
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