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I can get the idea though that it's not quite the same online. I had tickets for Van der Graaf Generator in April, and this is moved to September now. I am pretty confident that seeing them properly live in September (if it happens, obviously there's some uncertainty in this) will be much more of an experience than following a home gig by Peter Hammill online. Which I'd do as well of course. I do think though that some wouldn't like to pay for that and think, well, we can see old gigs on youtube and DVD that we don't know yet, how much better is it to see them just "online live" in a home environment?

I also had a ticket for a Banco concert and there's no new date yet - surely I'd prefer an online gig to not seeing them at all this year. However, it's not the same. Rock music is physical, and much of this is lost over the net.

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I think this is when/where times have to change, and the bonus in all this, should be that the artist is much more the direct benefactor than the company that is bringing them to you, or the commercial group, and that is when you know that the corporate side has taken over and now you gonna get all the top ten live streams of everything from bathrooms to kitchens and less music all around, unless it matters to you how many cars and bikes the Boss has in his garage! That kind of stuff instead of the music!

(And here is the issue that starts the commercial everything ... which is why I would like to see the bands get control immediately before it's too late!!!!!)

All music is "physical" to a great degree ... however, our feeling has been the an IMAGE has been created from the "concert" about many bands, some of which do not need that "physical" thing ... for example, yeah it made sense to catch Led Zeppelin in their golden years ... but nowadays, it would look stupid and pathetic. Same for PF, that even though their quality would not come down, at the very least it would sound stale and not as good.

In the end, seeing something like this in your own theater at home, is something that you can't imagine because nowadays, in all reality, the wife likes it when she can go play with the girls (even bridge!!! of which I was a pro and can't play with them!!!), and I like the idea of smelling the roses and seeing a different place ... but it has nothing to do with the music ... ALL OF THE CONCERTS BY TD ON THE TUBE, ARE JUST AS EXCITING AND EMOTIONAL FOR ME, as the 5 times I saw them in person, which in reality ... we were apart from them too much ... and could not really see details or much of anything ... and a stream, well directed and put together, would resolve this quickly, and give you a much better and more emotional show that most venues. 

For us "progressive folks", thinking that we must have this "physical" release to see Tangerine Dream, or Klaus Schulze or Peter Hammill. For us, it is also a major intellectual enjoyment ... the kind that we probably do not have every day ... and so on.

Yesterday was "physical" ... for me, tomorrow, is about it being AESTHETIC, not physical or ideal.

And I think that streaming will help us with that a lot more ... 

 

It would be ok for a solo artist.

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I got the whiff ... you're not gonna listen to find out! Shame ... what can be done with music, completely ignored even by fans!

Sorry if this was already mentioned somewhere else, but there was some kind of online concert called Prog From Home last weekend which can be rewatched on Youtube and lasts roughly 3 hours.

Participants list was/is quite impressive with the likes of Steve Hackett, Kansas, Neal Morse, Carl Palmer just to name a few

Yea a digitally created concert with no crowd.......might as well watch reruns of American Idol.