Cancelled Tours

Hi,

Gotta love some idealism ... it's always impossible ... but no one is thinking ... hmmmm ... now what ... ??? .... do I really want to do something or just sit there ... I am betting dollars in Las Vegas that ENO would have a rave up with that latency and packet stuff ... and I know for a fact that folks like Cisco are not sitting on their bumms happy with the latency ... however, we might or not agree/disagree, the main problem is the equipment that some folks use, and some ISP's have old/cheap equipment ... but generally, I would not exactly expect to hear KC to be playing 21st Century Paranoid Visionary ... maybe even find new music in the whole process and the 1,500 KM all of a sudden become some sort of feedback, or loop that can be made fun with ... but we're shutting down the options, instead of thinking forward with positive and possible ideas.

It might not be possible across the oceans, but it could be in 5 places in England, or 5 in France or 5 in Germany (probably the best system?) ... a place where you know the latency might be minimized, but I am already aware of how "regressive" the majority of technology folks really are ... it's only about the money ... not the technology!

If there is one thing in my life I do not want to miss ... is the music ... and LIVE ... not Memorex (as the old commercial went ... and ... "do you have any Great Poupon?") ...because of its value, not idealism. However, the GREATNESS of the music was not always in the performance, and it was not because it was not the same or it was different, better or worse, it was because I am a VISUALIST, and as such I do not need to make a "physical/direct" connection to the "music" to verify that it is true ... I know it is true, and the personal touch is not as important as the music itself was ... and it was Mr. Fripp that said ... close your eyes and enjoy the music ... and I did ... so I did not have to feel the flashes going off all around. 

What you, and many folks want, is a piece of something that validates your feelings for that band or some of its songs ... I don't need that ... I already got it from the music, and I trust ITS SOURCE ... and I would expect a lot of the possible streaming thing to be NEW MUSIC ... which would at the start make use of the "problems" of the connection ... but no ... already it is being shut down!

The best remembered artists in the history of the arts are the ones that changed the vision of the world and work ... and I certainly do not wish to sit here and be a part of the past ... I would rather work on the future and its ability to come alive ... now, instead of mentioning the "realities" of some problems, how about trying to see how some music could be done around those elements ... or perhaps music/vision/art/literature is not what your heart is really all about?

Hi,

Chopper ... your comment, as well intended as it was, had more to do with the lack of ability and the closing down of all options to get something like this done. As such, you had to have the "physical" answer to the issue, and not a suggestion (however fun it could be!!!) as to what might be done with that latency, if it could be "recovered" and not be a "lost packet" which would create music missing bits and pieces ... ohhh boy, I can hear it now ... the melody just took a poop!

Regardless of the "realities" in this, there is always a side of things that folks will create something out of it, and then ditch it for something else much better designed and work'able.

The answer to your "quest", sadly, is not a possible answer ... I should say HOPE ... that many of those cancelled tours could work with ... instead of all of them being completely shut down, which I think is going to hurt a lot of the music that is more experimental, and in the proverbial left field, than the top of the pops ... but then, it feels like saying this in a place where the commercial idea rules and mandates a lot of the thinking that many folks have. is kinda weird ... but unlike your comment ... all this cancelled music is something I would like to help with and solve, and right now a Model T of internet services is way better than a supposed Rolls Royce that is going to be over priced because it is a Rolls Royce!

Please ... stand up for the musicians ... they are not stupid, and many of them will gladly try a lot of things ... that we can't even consider. The "idea" and eventual resolution of a complete STREAMING experience is yet to come, and might not be here during our lives ... but you know that experience is closer to reality than it was before! That latency and a lost packet will be changed into something that helps the whole process, but I think, and trust, that these "connections" will improve significantly ... but it won't happen if we don't give a shib!