Shawn Drover Talks About The Rise Of Rock Musicians Using Backing Tracks In Concerts

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JAKARTA - Former Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover commented on the widespread use of the pre-recording track during live performances.

In recent years, more and more artists have been given permission to rely on pre-record tracks, drum triggers, and various other technologies that make concerts more synthetic but also more consistent.

Good or bad, pre-record tracks are becoming increasingly common for tour artists of all levels and genres and are not only used in pop music many rock artists use playback tracks to various levels.

Speaking to the YouTube channel Syncing Stanley about the dependence of certain actions on previously recorded tracks, Shawn said.

"Will I personally do it? I've never really been in a situation where I have to do it, so I might say no," Shawn opened up.

"But as a collective, see, some bands that record music, to replicate live it will require a 20-person orchestra or band to justify or try to imitate what they did in the studio," he continued.

"So in my opinion in some cases it's okay. There must be some band that has been doing it for years with a keyboard. If you hear a keyboard in a live background in a song and you don't see a keyboard player, he's probably backstage or they're playing a keyboard song that's been recorded before, which, once again, depends on the band, it's all subjective, right?

"If it makes the band sound better or whatever, it doesn't offend me at all. But all these online people get caught up in all that nonsense, there's a better thing to do than worry about what a certain band does or doesn't do live. "Go there and have fun at the concert. That's my whole opinion. So have fun with that, man. Don't worry about that. Don't worry about small things, you know what I mean? If a band uses a backing track, who cares? I don't have a problem with that. But it's just me."