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Message: [QUOTE="Jeremykeys, post: 190808, member: 9650"] One of my favorite things about live shows is that they ARE live! No rules! I very much prefer to hear the band do a live version rather than an exact duplicate of the album version. In one of my bands they are adamant about replicating the recording. It's a bit of a bone of contention because that's not at all the way I play. I'm a "flying by the seat of my pants" player. With my other band, Wednesday, we pretty much run a tightly loose show if that makes any sense at all. Our songs run mostly one right after another with not much space in between and not very much verbal nonsensical banter. If I'm starting the song I sometimes just start right after the final last hit of the previous song. However, we often do the big concert ending of a song. Because, well, we generally only play big concerts and we like the big concert endings! Solos can be extended if the soloist wants to and the solos are often variations of the records. I just love doing it that way.As far as I'm concerned, the recording was merely a capture of the way the band felt that exact day. Tomorrow is another day. The Who never really ever played a song the same way twice so why should we? [/QUOTE]