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Is It Wrong to Mime?

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  • #32
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,169 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Rush is an example of a band whose stage show is now so choreographed and scripted that it's pushing the definition of "live". Geddy doesn't mime, but on recent tours his voice was definitely suffering, and I found myself semi-seriously wondering whether he might consider miming!

    That's where the line is, I think - are you listening to a band, or are you watching a show? If I went to see Fiddler On The Roof on stage, I wouldn't be concerned about miming at all. Contrast that with where I was last night, listening to The Aristocrats: completely instrumental, so no worries about vocal miming there... :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #33
    stateofflux
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    Miming would be anathema to a band like Rush. AFAIK literally every sound they play live is manually played or triggered in real time with their hands or feet..usually at the same time.


  • #34
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭Motley Crue


    That's interesting. Especially when you consider bands like KISS and The Rolling Stones. Are you watching the show or the artist? Do you really care about how powerful Jagger's voice is or do you just want to hear the Greatest Hits and see him strut in the flesh?


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