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Title: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Prpavi on June 24, 2013, 07:31:32 am
I love summer and hte music festivals it brings, went to Exit festival in Serbia for years but now I have a great one last few years in my home town, practically in my neighborhood and the Exit unfortunatley fell off.

Ti starts today, looking forward to it, pretty hyped

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What festivals are you checking this summer?
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Everkistus on June 24, 2013, 09:31:14 am
None really. I don't like live music festivals.

Why would I want to go outside in the rain to get surrounded by drunk people and listen to the band play, when I can sit comfortably at home and listen to the perfectly mixed studio versions.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Teeth on June 24, 2013, 09:42:05 am
Quote from: Everkistus on June 24, 2013, 09:31:14 am
Why would I want to go outside in the rain to get surrounded by drunk people and listen to the band play, when I can sit comfortably at home and listen to the perfectly mixed studio versions.
I don't know what kind of performances you have visited, but if listening to the studio version at home was better than being at a live performance, there is something either very wrong with the band or with your appreciation of music.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Panos on June 24, 2013, 09:52:10 am
Quote from: Everkistus on June 24, 2013, 09:31:14 am
None really. I don't like live music festivals.

Why would I want to go outside in the rain to get surrounded by drunk people and listen to the band play, when I can sit comfortably at home and listen to the perfectly mixed studio versions.

I had the same opinion like you, until 4 years ago I went to rockwave festival that happens here in Greece each summer.

I banged a Swedish chick in here tent , and I found a 200 euros bill laying on the ground near my tent at the last day of the festival   :mrgreen:


http://www.rockwavefestival.gr/site/

Ska-p
Kreator
Saxon
Iced Earth
At the Gates
Suicidal Tendencies

FUCK THAT SHIT MAN!!!


Also I hope one day I`ll be able to be in Wacken Festival in Germany, they always get the coolest bands..



http://www.wacken.com/en/woa2013/main-bands/



LOOK AT THOSE BANDS NERDS! fuck!
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Overdriven on June 24, 2013, 10:47:35 am
Festivals are ok but I'd rather pay to go to individual bands. Unless the line up is truly awesome at a festival then it's rarely worth the money.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Everkistus on June 24, 2013, 01:36:39 pm
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy listening to music. It's just that at festivals the music is often obnoxiously loud and the acoustics suck. Add that to the mass of people along with the drunken idiots.

On the other hand, I could just sit comfortably at home and listen to music with my fiancee. I don't know about you guys, but I don't really give a rats ass how the performance is or what the band members look like. The music is the important part.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Kafein on June 24, 2013, 01:41:11 pm
Quote from: Teeth on June 24, 2013, 09:42:05 am
I don't know what kind of performances you have visited, but if listening to the studio version at home was better than being at a live performance, there is something either very wrong with the band or with your appreciation of music.

Listening to it in the best possible conditions is appreciating music. Going to concerts and festivals and such is something else, that you can also appreciate on its own, but it is certainly not the same thing as music.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: SixThumbs on June 24, 2013, 02:27:04 pm
I haven't been to a festival since I got hospitalized twice and then arrested and thrown in an over-night jail for "indecent conduct". All in all it was a good 3-days I'd say.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Leshma on June 24, 2013, 03:12:22 pm
Quote from: Teeth on June 24, 2013, 09:42:05 am
I don't know what kind of performances you have visited, but if listening to the studio version at home was better than being at a live performance, there is something either very wrong with the band or with your appreciation of music.

Very few bands are good on stage. But people who visit live performances (in the open space) are usually wasted, so they don't mind.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Prpavi on June 24, 2013, 04:06:59 pm
Music is all about energy and emotion not hitting every note perfectly or a studio polished sound. I believe you absolutley need to see the artist live, his stage presence, looks/style, attitude and energy that go with the music to full understand and feel him/her/them.

The best lives i've seen were on festivals where preformres are equally wasted as the crowd and the energy was insane.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Prpavi on June 26, 2013, 05:20:18 pm
visitors can't see pics , please register or login


Chilling, smoking nargilas Persian style between main acts on the festival   :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Son Of Odin on June 27, 2013, 02:25:03 am
Quote from: Everkistus on June 24, 2013, 09:31:14 am
None really. I don't like live music festivals.

Why would I want to go outside in the rain to get surrounded by drunk people and listen to the band play, when I can sit comfortably at home and listen to the perfectly mixed studio versions.

Because sometimes magic happens in the live performances:

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Then try to imagine being in the crowd when Amon Amarth blasts out the Victorious March! (I've seen them live couple years ago in a club and that was legen... wait for it... DARY!)
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Live music just brings force, intensity and dynamics to the songs. Studio albums are great, but it's different. Imo a band is a real band after they really deliver their music in live performances. It's not about hitting all the exact same notes as in the studio album. Everyone has heard the album already ;). Still I prefer smaller club gigs over festivals. Clubs have better atmosphere (just my opinion) and acoustics.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Christo on June 27, 2013, 02:40:09 am
Quote from: Son Of Odin on June 27, 2013, 02:25:03 am
Then try to imagine being in the crowd when Amon Amarth blasts out the Victorious March! (I've seen them live couple years ago in a club and that was legen... wait for it... DARY!)
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Nothing beats the Rejkjavik recorded audio.

The raw quality of the whole gig is just awesome, there is a recorded audio only version of the whole concert somewhere on the internet.
It's so much better than the studio ones.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Son Of Odin on June 27, 2013, 02:52:38 am
Quote from: Christo on June 27, 2013, 02:40:09 am
Nothing beats the Rejkjavik recorded audio.
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The raw quality of the whole gig is just awesome, there is a recorded audio only version of the whole concert somewhere on the internet.
It's so much better than the studio ones.

That's one thing about Amon Amarth. They don't need to over produce their albums because they actually sound better with "bad" quality :D. I love the raw power their earlier albums had. "Twilight of the thundergod" is too polished for them soundwise... I just didn't like that one too much. Couple earlier ones are borderline. Can't really make my mind if "With Oden on our side" and "Fate of Norns" are a bit too polished or not. I like those two records though so it doesn't really matter :D.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Overdriven on June 27, 2013, 11:21:15 am
Quote from: Son Of Odin on June 27, 2013, 02:25:03 am
Live music just brings force, intensity and dynamics to the songs. Studio albums are great, but it's different. Imo a band is a real band after they really deliver their music in live performances. It's not about hitting all the exact same notes as in the studio album. Everyone has heard the album already ;). Still I prefer smaller club gigs over festivals. Clubs have better atmosphere (just my opinion) and acoustics.

I disagree. I think you can have great studio bands who produce amazing albums but really aren't all that fantastic live. But then you have bands who produce average studio albums but when you see them live they blow you away. Neither is preferable as they both have their merits.

There are some bands who I now never listen to their studio albums because they were simply too good live. Like Muse for example. I always buy their albums but their live performance just blows those away. Another I was very surprised by was Maroon 5. I took a girlfriend to see them thinking in my eyes they'd be appalling. They now rate as the second best (after muse) band I've ever seen. Their stage presence and skill on instruments was amazing. But then there are bands like Paramore. They do an ok live show. But their studio album is always much better. The same goes with Pendulum. They kicked ass live but I still prefer listening to their album. But there's nothing wrong with that at all as it takes a different kind of skill.

I definitely agree on the smaller venues though. Some of the best gigs I've been to were at my local arena with Enter Shikari who are a local band for me. 200 people in a small town arena. Nothing really beats it. Even on a different scale, I much preferred Muse when they played Wembley arena. When they moved to the Stadium the sound quality dramatically dropped (as with most open air music events), although the scale increased of course.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: [ptx] on June 27, 2013, 11:50:47 am

Seeing this live would be... nice.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Teeth on June 27, 2013, 12:20:44 pm
Quote from: Kafein on June 24, 2013, 01:41:11 pm
Listening to it in the best possible conditions is appreciating music.
Guess the opinions differ about what the best possible conditions are for listening music. I think listening to a band produce their music live and blasting it through high class equipment are the best possible conditions, granted open air festival performances are not the best conditions compared to small venue performances.

Quote from: Leshma on June 24, 2013, 03:12:22 pm
Very few bands are good on stage. But people who visit live performances (in the open space) are usually wasted, so they don't mind.
Depends on your selection of bands, I find that most of the bands I really listen to are just quality musicians who can produce similar quality live.
Title: Re: Summer Music Festivals
Post by: Son Of Odin on June 27, 2013, 03:56:39 pm
Quote from: Overdriven on June 27, 2013, 11:21:15 am
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Yeh true, playing live is a bit different kind of skillset compared to studio recording. I just still disagree. There is not that many bands out there who are fucking horrible live and make good records (which I could possible think myself listening to). To me it's a test of real musician to perform live. Then you can see the music isn't just some protools shit made by their godly producer. Even a monkey with half a hand can make something sound somewhat decent with modern recording technology and enough money to buy a producer who jerks off to autotune sounds. I just don't appreciate bands that don't deliver on the stage. They don't need to be mind blowing or super awesome every time. Just have to have some balls to do it and get really good at it over time.