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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Ugh - I may be revealing my Luddite roots here, but what happened to getting to know bands by listening to their music?

Nothing I've ever seen on YouTube can compare to seeing something live, something live that you're familiar with, that the stranger next to you is familiar with, and energy fills the room, and the band plays off of it.

Not just YouTube, but ANY televised/DVD/etc. footage of a live performance does not capture the essence of the performance. I've even seen footage of shows I have been to and it just does not come close to the same experience.

Even if you are one of 100,000 people in the LA Coliseum watching Bruce Springsteen (this was like 1984 I believe), you are still a part of the experience, not just a voyeur. Every sight, every nuance is by your own choice, not the person editing the broadcast and deciding which camera angle to show on this cut.

My first experience with Ursula1000 was a live show. I knew nothing about him when I went - it was on complete blind faith (thanks to the LoT!). In retrospect, going to a live "show" of just a DJ seems weird - what is there to experience besides the music? One can hear a great deal of the show in one of his Mega Mixes. But it something completely different when one is in the right environment, sharing the collective experience with others.