
Saturday Aug 9th
The headliners are Ozzy Osbourne and Maroon 5, if anyone's interested!
The unique history of Iceland as a country surely accounts for any noticeable difference observed in your example. I don't think Korea has such been subjected to such geological isolation...jack white wrote:Did any footage/recording of this surface? Interested to hear how the s. Korean voices blended w/the band - kinda like the Icelandic acoustic mainlines girls brought something different...???
While what you say is true from a technical point of view (kinda) there was very definitely a marked difference in flavour between the 2008 US Acoustic Mainline shows - on bootleg evidence alone! The West Coast shows featured singers more in the, I quote: "Leonard Cohen 'So Long Marianne'" style, or the back up on Ray Charles 'I Can't Stop Loving You', while the East Coast singers were drawn from pure gospel singers and sounded more like the Raelettes.mojo filters wrote:Even if there were a local flavour at the gig, by the time it gets distilled down to recordings - there are so many uncontrollable variables introduced, it would be naive to expect any difference of note, unless you had a pro recording taken direct from a split off the stage boxes - which potentially could highlight some minor local characteristics - but is more likely to highlight a mixture of the difference in local reading of sheet music, plus the characteristics of whatever mics were used on the backing vox (plus the rest of the ensemble to varying different degrees) and how much bleed from stage monitors got fed back, plus bleed from FOH as well as many other variables one cannot account for, and so on and so forth...
BzaInSpace wrote: Definitely curious to hear what the Seoul singers sounded like.