Rehearsals are over — here in NY anyway. By the end of this afternoon we could play the stuff with some real feeling and with not too many mistakes.
Video synch works, after a fair amount of fiddling and messing around. But it could have been worse, and it usually is. When it works, seeing the images, text and edits that obviously cue to lyrics and beats is a pleasure, and somehow much more surprising that when it happens on a monitor to prerecorded music. It somehow seems amazing that a live band is actually in synch with picture edits. That we hit our final chord and the picture slowly fades. It’s like magic. We know how it’s done but it’s always slightly amazing when it works.
