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The big problem is when you cannot reproduce anything close to that performance live. There was this one band I used to like and on the album the singer had this deep, powerful, voice that really projected. Then I went to see them live and singer had a weak reedy voice the barely carried. It was a depressing and terrible show.

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I had a recording of Paul Galbraith playing Bach on the guitar, and it was stunning. I went to a festival to hear him play live, and he really could barely struggle through the same works. He seemed on the verge of rage-quitting the performance, so maybe it wasn't going as he expected either? Hard to say, because I never went out of my way to hear him again.

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