rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (05/03/84)
> YO! I beg to add that when I drove 70 miles to see FM open for RUSH > in Binghampton, N.Y. for the Moving Pictures tour, I was dismayed to notice > that neither Lifeson, Peart, or Lee were near any synthesizer during > any part of the concert! And yet there was always some unmistakeable > synthetic riff playing along with the band. > So either they were accompanied by a sequencer, or more likely, > they played along to a tape as so many other bands do these days. So much for the amazing sound of three pieces. > That's one winning point that jazz will always have over Rock, > Jazz performers always, ALWAYS cut it live before they cut it into wax. This is a value judgment. It is akin to saying that the only good photographs are "straight" pictures of real things and that processed photos using special photographic effects are not "good". Using the studio as an instrument is a vital part of much of today's truly progressive music, and to denigrate it because "it wasn't performed live" is to miss the point---the vinyl product (PUN!) does not necessarily have to be a pure rendition of a live performance. To say that it must be is the same as saying that the only good photographs are portraits and landscapes. > Does anyone out there have any information on what became of FM, who > were originally from Toronto? After their last album, City of Fear, > I have heard absolutely nothing about their activities. I can only > assume that they went back to giving music lessons or whatever. Nash the Slash, formerly of FM, has been performing and recording as a solo artist. He, in fact, is known to use tape in performance, but he's rather upfront about it (he's just one guy alone on stage with violin, mandolin, keyboards, and tape). I saw him open for Gary Numan in 1979/80. Interesting show. Nash the Slash is now on Ralph Records, with a new album The Million Year Picnic. -- "You are not SAM. You are not ISAM!!!" Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr