Suspected fake live recordings
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Suspected fake live recordings
Surface - Race the night(1986) It has the crowd in the backround with people whistiling, cheering etc, and states on metal archives it was recorded live, but i have a few problems with that. To start, the crowd seems pre-recorded making the same noises over and over, as if they are syncronizing their cheering, that stops exactly as the song starts. Also, the amount of people they seem to be playing for sounds like a packed arena, and although i really like the album, i dont think Race the night being their only recording would be enough to sell out an arena. At the end, when they leave the crowd, they dont name the city either Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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Never heard this album.
But this reminds me of bonus tracks to Railway II CD. These are allegedly live recordings, but the crowd sounds just too artificial to be true.
Oh, and wasn`t "Roadkill" a bit "amended" in the studio to sound like a gig in front of a few thousand people and not a few hundred?
But this reminds me of bonus tracks to Railway II CD. These are allegedly live recordings, but the crowd sounds just too artificial to be true.
Oh, and wasn`t "Roadkill" a bit "amended" in the studio to sound like a gig in front of a few thousand people and not a few hundred?
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Didn't Metallica also do this with the "live" tracks on the "Jump In The Fire" 12"?
I'm sure i read someplace that they took "No Life 'til Leather" demo recordings and added crowd noises.
And that Surface record does indeed sound as if it's been "tampered" with.
I'm sure i read someplace that they took "No Life 'til Leather" demo recordings and added crowd noises.
And that Surface record does indeed sound as if it's been "tampered" with.
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Heard those on the Whiplash twelver. They seem to be re-recordings with dubbed crowd noise rather than demos.bigfootkit wrote:Didn't Metallica also do this with the "live" tracks on the "Jump In The Fire" 12"?
I'm sure i read someplace that they took "No Life 'til Leather" demo recordings and added crowd noises.
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The UK Rock press snidely referred to that Priest live album as "Unleashed In The Studio", at every opportunity they got for many years.
I think, especially in the 70s & 80s, it was common practice to "fix" mistakes on live recordings by overdubbing studio parts.
Thin Lizzy's "Live & Dangerous", is another one which isn't entirely as it "went down", as is Kiss' "Alive!"
The knowledge that these recordings have been fixed doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the albums however.
I think, especially in the 70s & 80s, it was common practice to "fix" mistakes on live recordings by overdubbing studio parts.
Thin Lizzy's "Live & Dangerous", is another one which isn't entirely as it "went down", as is Kiss' "Alive!"
The knowledge that these recordings have been fixed doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the albums however.
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