LCD Soundsystem: the rules
“Nobody onstage can hear anything the audience can’t hear. No click
tracks, no guides, nothing can be heard onstage that isn’t going to
the front of the house.”“If it’s a synthesizer you have to make that sound happen onstage with a synth.
“If it’s an organic sound it absolutely cannot be put on a sampler.
“No ‘feeling it’
“No sunglasses.
“No rocking out.
“No improvising.
“No noodling.
“No psyching up the crowd.
“No pretending you’re cool. I understand that if someone’s going to
make me his idea of cool I can’t control that. But no wearing the
rock-and-roll hat.“Volume. Volume. Volume. Volume onstage. We like it to sound uniform,
even and loud as fuck.”
— James Murphy (via lifecaughtupwithme)
