earlofsodbury
Wastrel.
I don’t expect or want a studio album to sound like a live performance and vice versa.
This. This. This.
Went to a BBQ and gig at our local last night, both were excellent (cloudburst notwithstanding), thoroughly enjoyable - but if my hifi, or a studio album, or even a live-in-concert album by that band sounded anything like last night, I would hire a skip and be rid of it immediately.
There was nothing technically wrong with the rig they were using - it wasn't cheap Maplins-tier garbage - and the band were passionate and technically proficient, they even had a decent little sound-desk and someone who knew what he was doing tweaking the sound for some time before they played. It's just not the same, nor should it be, and nor would most of us want it to be.