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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
hmmm, but then you're talking, on your own estimates, of good bands.
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What you say about Black Flag's decline has some substance, but I really don't think if a remarkable live band weren't ever captured appropriately on record that would make them any less of a great band.
Back to my earliest example - Rocket from the Tombs. They've yet to actually put out a major album and yet rank as one of the most important proto-punk and rock bands of all time. Certainly some of this has to do with the two groups they splintered into carrying the torch and the songs into history, but I've seen them live and they were fucking awesome for reals. The fact they didn't connect with the right studio guy back when they wrote "Final Solution" and "Sonic Reducer" in no way diminishes their vast relevance.
Meanwhile, I don't think Auetechre and Brian Eno are only "good" and not "great" at all. They just don't create music that is particularly meant to be experienced in a from the stage to the crowd setting. In Autechre's case they are apparently forced by industry conventions to tour and present their music in this way that doesn't really work for them, but it doesn't make their music any less great for what it is. Their records
are amazing.
All music does not need to be dealt out from musician standing above crowd and creating for them on the spot and this is not the definition of "great" music. It's one, albeit one very popular, form of presentation. Eno's installations are just as valid, though not at all what people consider live music, and I don't think it would work well for Lightning Bolt to present their music in that way.