Rocket Queen Live Era

[michaelvincent]

Short of buying a bootleg you are going to be hard pressed to find any officially released live album that isn't doctored up in the studio. Live Era is nothing new in that respect. They may or may not have parts rerecorded, but a vocal track might get smoothed out with auto-tune, or a guitar part that has a bad sound might get reamped through an amplifier in the studio and rerecorded with a better sound and put back into the track (if the band has a decent multitrack of the show anyway).

The king of doctoring and editing live tracks was Frank Zappa. There are live albums that might have most of the song from one night and the solo lifted from a totally different night and put into it. That's a LOT of work! Other times the first half might be one version of his band (as it changed many times through the years), with a totally different band from a show recorded three years later. He also used a lot of live band tracks for studio albums. But Zappa was the first person I had ever heard of that would take live guitar tracks, reamp them and put them back into the song.

[DoubleTalkingJive]

Thanks for the replies...I guess it's pretty common then.   Short of not hearing a solo or vocal..I think it should just be left alone..imo.  We all love watching tokyo and other live GNR concerts...it's great to hear or see any band live but I guess in releasing live albums in the past or cd's today they all do it.

Oh and Hanna I used to really like Dokken too I didn't get their live album but I have seen them live in Cali.

[The Dog]

Oh and Hanna I used to really like Dokken too I didn't get their live album but I have seen them live in Cali.

Hey, you know what they say, Dokken rhymes with Rockin' hahah    I was DEVASTATED when I heard they broke up...I don't think I went to school the next day hahaha.

Beast from the East is actually still a decent disc even today.  I really can't put on an old dokken CD now b/c the production quality of them is just pretty bad and the songs sound really outdated.  But any music LIVE to me is a differnet story.  I'd check it out if you ever find it in a bargain bin.  The last track was an unreleased studio track (I think it was called Walk Away??) pretty good ballad.

Hearing George Lynch live is cool no matter what the decade was  

Ok, no more Dokken posts for me hahahah  ....uh, how can I make this relevant......um...GNR F'ing RULES! haha