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Phish, Round Room.(Sound Recording Review)
(Elektra)
There is a phenomenon in pop performance that I call the "studio trap." For some reason, no matter how great a live act a band is, someone gets it into their head--sometimes it's even the band--that the dulcet sheen of a studio with proper acoustics, a 64-track soundboard, and the opportunity to retake clinkers is the next step in the band's natural progression. The Grateful Dead often fell into it as did Little Feat and to a lesser extent the Allman Brothers. The Dead's studio efforts, with rare exceptions (Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, In The Dark), were routinely lackluster compared to their live ...
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