1) recording and amplification technology has tremendously changed how we treat, play, and listen to music. this time period is well within the lifetimes of people who had grown up knowing music to be a live, acoustic art, and nothing else.
2) i dunno what the cost of cutting a master was in that time, but if the cost of a take was high, there might have been *tremendous* pressure on the musicians to get it right the first time. there was a time when, if your take was bad, you didn't press rewind-- you threw it out and did a new one.
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1) recording and amplification technology has tremendously changed how we treat, play, and listen to music. this time period is well within the lifetimes of people who had grown up knowing music to be a live, acoustic art, and nothing else.
2) i dunno what the cost of cutting a master was in that time, but if the cost of a take was high, there might have been *tremendous* pressure on the musicians to get it right the first time. there was a time when, if your take was bad, you didn't press rewind-- you threw it out and did a new one.