dwum machines awe not wazy

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Little as I like machines of any kind in music, I never like to see people call bands lazy for using them.

From the perspective of the person deciding whether to use a machine or a person for drummin, after all, a machine entails more work. It's like a song in itself. In that it's a part of songs.

― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

That should close the discussion, anyway.

― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 04:29 (twenty-three years ago)

lazy, no... wazy, yes indeed.

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the machines that are lazy/wazy, not the bands - those idle robots should learn to *play* proper instruments, dammit!

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 06:37 (twenty-three years ago)

It's just that drum machines don't talk back.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 07:52 (twenty-three years ago)

You only have the beat the information into a drum machine once.

Dum tisch

― tigerclawskank, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Drum machines can't take off thier shirt, or yell in a really high pitch voice "1,2,3,4" before each song.

So, i would say: live=dud, but on recording you can use them for a lot of good (this is for rock music, of course they are great in electronic music). So, recording=classic.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't care when bands use digital shit live, but I do very much dislike it when you see somebody spend 80% of their allotted time dicking around with machines that have stopped working, trying to find the correct patch/sample etc. Actually, sometimes it's fun watching them get more and more frustrated, standing under intense bright lights in front of a crowd (soon-to-be-lynch-mob)desperately trying to get an LED signal out of some gear that was "working fine during the soundcheck, honest!"

― dave q, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

drum machines don't sleep with your girlfriend etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Timbuk 3, to say nothing of Blue Man Group.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Blue Man Group doesn't use drum machines, they just use seven drum kits at once.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

..i was just imaging the comment regarding "sleeping with girlfriends" -- and, i guess, it's still not appropriate.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 18 February 2003 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

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