"Thank You Very Much" album and video: overdubbing?

[humdrum]

Overdubbing a live album sounds like cheating to me. it should be released as the audience heard it.

As a frequent 'repairer' of fluffs in concert recordings I see things rather differently. If a recording is going to be released to the public then a guitarist's wrong note or a singer going flat on a top note are going to (possibly) haunt them forever. It's not just the sales of the packaged recording on CD or DVD - think what happens if a Youtube clip goes viral.

My repairs and overdubs are done for the sake of the artist. The buyer benefits, too, because their listening experience is consistant, rather than being disturbed by 'that awful clanger that sticks out like a sore thumb on track 5'.

There are exceptions, of course. Sometimes I am asked to make 'archive recordings', usually of plays or musicals. In those cases the result will not be issued to the public. They are made so that the producer or the management company can review the production and then they obviously want to see it 'warts and all'.

Ray

I am sure the repairs ARE done for the sake of the artist but being a hugh fan of Cliff/shads I also want to hear them in a real live situation warts n all. It won't lessen my admiration for them, in fact quite the opposite.....it makes them human. Listen to some of the early shadows tracks like "man of misery" Kon Tiki" etc where missing & fluffed notes were left intact.....I for one love those singles even more because of their ""flaws".

[iefje]

I now have a feeling the 'overdubbing' only applies to the live tracks of Cliff Richard with his own band: "Please Don't Tease", "Miss You Nights", "Devil Woman" and "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?". The only things 'corrected' on or rather added to these tracks are probably the backing vocals and harmonies. Listening to the Cliff Richard & The Shadows and The Shadows' tracks, they sound rather spare, just like they were played, so I don't think any overdubbed or correction has been applied to those. Maybe only the backing vocals at the end of "Move It" and "Willie And The Hand Jive".

[iefje]

I heard that all the 2004 DVD had been through the process of repair where needed.

What I understand, is that Bruce's rhythm guitar has been corrected for "Mountains Of The Moon". During the mid passage, you can see on the DVD (and BluRay) that he stops playing very briefly to adjust the knobs on his guitar, but you can hear his rhythm guitar sound throughout.