Live Music Verses Recorded Music

How important is recorded music to you? You probably automatically thought “It is very important”. Yes this is true, it is important, to an extent however. You might be listening to music now and you probably have a stack of CDs or recordings in your computer. Recordings however are a poor substitute for Live Music. Recordings do take us away from our current environment. We get involved in the music and think of happier times. We remember songs we have heard before and we can usually remember special times related to the song. We usually have a song that reminds of us an ex or something like that. But the exact time and place we first heard that song or the excitement we felt tend to fade over time.


Now think about when you attended a concert. Music we enjoy Live, leaves a bigger impression on us. A concert is a visual as well as an audio experience. I bet when you think of a concert you were at you remember the excitement of the concert, the surroundings, the other concert goers and how they acted, you know what songs were sang and how you felt each time you heard “that song”, if it was an outdoor concert you probably can even remember how the weather was that day, if it was a holiday concert you remember the holiday. You remember how the musician entertained the audience, how they involved the audience in the show.

Live Music is more then just an auditory experience. Live Music is something that uses all of our senses in one way or another. We see and hear the musician, we can feel the excitement in the air, maybe you got to shake the artists hand, hug them or just talk to them and tell them how much you admire them. You interact with the other concert goers.

A recorded song is usually altered in some way to try and create perfection. New sounds are added or the voice is given something technical to give the voice a different sound. With Live music you get the real deal. You get the real voice and as a plus you see the artist in all their glory interacting with the audience, putting on a show that will forever stay in your mind.

Musicians playing Live Music create a sense of excitement that turns an ordinary evening into something special. A recording can not do that. Any thoughts of Live verses Recordings lease feel free to leave them.