When the Song Becomes a Performance
When does a song stop being a fixed recording and become a performance? In today's episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave continues The Art of Listening with The Allman Brothers Band’s At Fillmore East. A familiar studio recording can become the version of a song we carry in our heads: the guitar enters here, the solo lasts this long, the ending happens there. But a great live performance reminds us that the recording is only one possibility. Dave listens for the conversation inside the band — guitars, bass, organ and drums reacting to one another — and asks why extended performances work when the…
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