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Paul Williams, Will the art of studio recording suffer as artists are marginalized by the constraints of time and money? Lest we forget The Beatles and Brian Wilson created legendary recordings while completely omitting the distractions pertained to live performance.
Asked by JohnDuffy on Nov 02 2007 3:01:01 PM and supported by 29 members
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Not necessarily. Certainly now most of an artist’s income comes from live revenues. The Beatles and The Beach Boys spent hours in the recording studio, but only in their later careers. Over the past thirty years or so the recording process has slowed down, partly because there’s much better equipment now so people can indulge themselves with technology. Also the issuing of albums has slowed down; the pattern now tends to be to release an album every three years. MORE!

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