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Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:11 pm
by Squirrelygirl
Like you, Hardware Store is my favorite Al song on the album. In fact, I think it's
between that and "I Was Only Kidding" as my all time favorite Al song.
From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), Al was working with something called "Pro Tools" which (among many other things), can take out micro pauses between words so they can be compressed into a shorter time frame without making the words intelligible.
There are also a multitude of "layers" in the song (about 35-40) which cannot be recreated live. I'm sure you can tell that from the "richness" of the song... it's a veritable woven carpet of finely textured sounds.
Ultimately, the song is just too technically complex to be done live. But it is a brilliant song
sg
Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:15 pm
by stupidsurgeon27
That song is way too complex for Al to do live. Plus, if was possible, we would probably have Al passed out on the ground after listing everything in the store. I sure wouldn't want that.
-CindyBob
Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:42 pm
by doggans
We'll, we got "Albuquerque" live at an Albuquerque concert. Maybe if you're lucky, he'll do a show in the middle of a Home Depot.
Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:48 pm
by AlsGal27
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:01 am
by Manda
Dang, I couldn't do that. But only two breaths isn't bad.
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:12 am
by weirdojace
Arrrgh!! I wanna hear it though!!!
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:20 am
by Teh Dingo
Just look at it this way: If you were him, would you want to sing it live?
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 1:08 am
by apotheosis
Squirrelygirl @ May 5 2004, 11:11 PM wrote:
Like you, Hardware Store is my favorite Al song on the album. In fact, I think it's
between that and "I Was Only Kidding" as my all time favorite Al song.
From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), Al was working with something called "Pro Tools" which (among many other things), can take out micro pauses between words so they can be compressed into a shorter time frame without making the words intelligible.
There are also a multitude of "layers" in the song (about 35-40) which cannot be recreated live. I'm sure you can tell that from the "richness" of the song... it's a veritable woven carpet of finely textured sounds.
Ultimately, the song is just too technically complex to be done live. But it is a brilliant song
sg
thank you. finally an intelligent answer and I agree with you.
Thanks
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 4:41 am
by algonacchick
I think you're being just a bit harsh on the rest of us. You insulted Al by saying not everything was live at the concert you went to. I think my answer was plenty intelligent. He said it would be hard to perform the song live. I'm glad sg elaborated about Protools, but, you shouldn't have said what you did about Al.
Patti
Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 4:55 am
by Driew_La_27
algonacchick @ May 5 2004, 07:41 PM wrote:
I think you're being just a bit harsh on the rest of us. You insulted Al by saying not everything was live at the concert you went to. I think my answer was plenty intelligent. He said it would be hard to perform the song live. I'm glad sg elaborated about Protools, but, you shouldn't have said what you did about Al.
Patti
What she said.
