[Lincoln] I think one of the challenges with this
is that they’re relatively new. I struggle with the
approach because when you’re an attendee
and you come to church you want a good
experience. In some extreme cases you go, “Is
it better to have all live players, no tracks, but
it doesn’t sound good? Or is it better to just
have a ton of tracks and it sounds way better?”
Which one is better for the attendee?
But then I think there is sort of a third component
to that, which is not just this weekend, but what
about the future? What are we trying to build
long term and invest in, and why does this
matter, and I think without a doubt there are
dangers in the track culture. We are forgetting
to mentor people in the art of musicianship,
the need to really practice and really nail your
parts. It’s funny, some of the team and I have
been talking about this lately. We’ve got a setup
where if you’re not playing drums, bass, or in
my case, guitar, you can kind of just walk out
on stage and hang out.
To me it’s probably a “both and” solution. For
example, groups like The Eagles have a massive
loop rig that they use. They have two matching
Digital Performer 24-track rigs. Everybody’s
doing it, basically. And I have less of an issue
with it when all of the people on stage can
actually do it or when they’ve made their own
loops, when its used to accommodate an
album that has a hundred tracks on it. That’s
hard to duplicate live unless you have a ton of
people onstage, so in those types of settings I
totally get it and don’t have a problem with it.
It is when it makes untalented people sound
talented, it basically lets people run the bases
backwards, and that I don’t like. Guys like
you or me, Norm, and Zoro, we’ve got our
ten thousand hours in, and then some. There
is something that comes with that in terms of they don’t appreciate it like you would have, platform, always be committed to doing the
discipline, respect, responsibility, you have to had they had to really work for it. work, and always be ready to work hard. As
work for it and so I do think you approach your
Paul says, “Help me to live a life worthy of the
gift a little differently because you realize that So that’s a whole three-hour conversation in you’ve put the time in and worked at something and of itself, which we need to have at some that God’s given you. But its human nature that point. But I think everyone needs to manage [WM] Most everybody knows that you got
anybody who takes the shortcut on that path, themselves well. If you want to stand on a your big break in showbiz by playing in Steve
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calling that you’ve given to me.”
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