NAMM Clinics with Steve,Dave, Tony,Blues, Travis, and Jennifer

[PugNinjas]

It is amazing to me that people are so caught up in capturing a moment that they end up losing the feeling of the real experience. A few years ago I caught Guthrie Govan at the Cornford booth doing a demo. No one was there, Guthrie was playing to me for about 30 minutes. The experience was incredible. To have the opportunity to watch an master musician create and get into that "zone' is something that I will carry with me forever. The need to record and document these kind of events is lost on me, seeing it and experiencing in person is something that no one can take away from you....having a proof seems silly to me.

 

[projectapollo]

I believe that these are the same people who urinate on the toilet seat in public bathrooms.

I've always wondered who these people were.

 

[Air-Time]

AIr Time Ebverybody accepts it. Trust me. They prepare and expect the down side. One of them is no matter how well you sound it will suck on you tube..

True, true...
Most of the pros still have their own facebook page or homesite to put out good quality audios/videos available for those who are genuinly interested. In this case Youtube has some similarities with Guitar Hero - some say it's good for the instrument others say it's bad, but it still generates/preserves interest towards guitar amongst peeps and that's all good.

In one of the clinics I started by saying that if it doesnt sound good today it is because we recalibrated the sound for you tube. Everybody was kind of shaking their head in agreement like "That makes sense" and then I told them I was kidding...The next clinic I pretended that we were debuting the auto eq machine that automatically maximizes your sound to Flip video....they didnt know it was a joke either.

Not giving it a second thought, (being a layman when it comes to interwebs related stuff) and like some of the people must have done at the clinic - Why immediately doubt it?
You are Sterling, authority to many and respected by them.
Heck, I'm amazed how the team at EBMM even came up with the Game Changer idea let alone made it work, so why wouldn't it be possible for you guys to manipulate the sound on your behalf so that it'd suite better for youtube...

Point is - haters are gonna hate. If one has a prejudice towards something, he or she will find just the kind of information from the interwebs that'll support that view - whether it makes justice or not.
It takes pain to grow out of narrowmindness and that's not that joyous ride to take.

 

[Big Poppa]

Air Time I was smiling winking and Steve and Dave couldnt stop laughing...it was light hearted and not a mean joke.

 

[OU812]

Yea you see this all the time, people just don't enjoy the shows anymore for what they are. They all gotta stand there like lemmings holding up their iPhones trying to record the performance. Its like the crowd does a better job at a light show then the band themselves
Watching those videos gives me a headache anyways, as the camera bounces around so much you can't really see anything clearly and of course the sound is terrible. Then they make the claim that they were only recording it for themselves. Uhh really, so why end up putting it on YT
Haters gonna hate but hey you guys got the award that matters most...Best In Show.

 

[TNT]

they ought to do a "reality" series on NAMM.

 

[whitestrat]

I said in the Steve Morse Clinic yesterday that I had been doing clinics with Steve since 1986 and it used to be guys in black t shirts with their arms folded with the expression "I could do that, you suck!" pasted on their face. Now it is someone wearing a reissue of the same tee shirt to show he is hip with one arm folded with the same look but with his cellphone in the other hand.

Hahaha!!!!!!