Skitch
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I had an interesting discussion with a guitar player during a break at a rehearsal. It seems the guitar you hear on Sweet Child O' Mine isn't Slash; it's Steve Lukather (Toto). And nothing much leaves L.A. without his playing on it. Also, Def Leppard didn't play on any of the albums after High and Dry. It was all Mutt Lange writing the songs, playing all the instruments (drums were a LinnDrum) and the band came in and sang the vocals. This is the band Frank Zappa was talking about in his autobiography.
Also, in the 1980s, you didn't have sequences live for Def Leppard to sing and play along to; you had a keyboard player backstage playing samples along to the band so that the band would sound just like the record, as far as the vocals go. I'm not saying that every band did this; I don't think Rush did it as there were noticable differences between live and the recording (A Passsage to Bankok is one). However, most of the hair bands did this sort of thing............UNTIL a band from Seattle (Nirvana) came along and showed that a band of three people could actual produce music which was marketable.
Then the hair bands went back and tried to show everyone that they didn't need the samples. I was told those were some really hard concerts to not get up and walk out of.
Mike
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Also, in the 1980s, you didn't have sequences live for Def Leppard to sing and play along to; you had a keyboard player backstage playing samples along to the band so that the band would sound just like the record, as far as the vocals go. I'm not saying that every band did this; I don't think Rush did it as there were noticable differences between live and the recording (A Passsage to Bankok is one). However, most of the hair bands did this sort of thing............UNTIL a band from Seattle (Nirvana) came along and showed that a band of three people could actual produce music which was marketable.
Then the hair bands went back and tried to show everyone that they didn't need the samples. I was told those were some really hard concerts to not get up and walk out of.
Mike
http://www.mikemccraw.com
http://www.dominoretroplate.com
http://www.patentcoachmike.com
http://www.youtube.com/drummermikemccraw
http://www.myspace.com/drummermikemccraw
http://www.facebook.com/mike.mccraw
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemccraw
http://twitter.com/mikemccraw